Casino Review of 2023

 In 2023, Egamingmonitor.com scanned more than 10,000 game-page URLs from 2,400 online casinos, identifying nearly 28,000 games from 621 unique studios (belonging to 496 supplier groups). How does this compare to 2021 and what are the implications for operators, platforms and studios alike?

The supply side of our industry grew by 8% or 100 companies in 2022 vs 2023. There are now 1,405 suppliers in the gaming world, categorised at the top level into: studios, studio/aggregators, aggregators and others.

The relative percentage by type has remained fairly constant and so just under 50 new studios, for example, were launched last year – or nearly 70 if you include the hybrid studio/aggregators. A further 24 new aggregators or platform providers entered the market too, including platforms that were spun out as B2B businesses from existing operators.

In total, we found games from 621 unique studios over the 12 months (slightly more than the December 2022 figure below as some studios may have closed or amalgamated during the period).

When we look at which studios have the best game distribution across all pages of all operator sites in 2022, the top 10 groups take up more than half of all game tiles on operator game pages. Evolution Gaming tops the list with all its subsidiaries contributing to a massive 14% of all game space across casino sites globally.

Note that on the “% of game tiles” metric, the big groups Novomatic, IGT and 1X2Network sit just outside the top 10.

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If you were to rank studio groups instead by the unique number of casino sites each studio has access to, then the rankings would be similar except that Novomatic, IGT and 1X2Network would replace Inspired, Betsoft and Playson in the top 10. The difference is down to the penetration across sites: some studios may have access to more sites but others have more games per site and / or more games across multiple subpages on sites.

Evolution Gaming tops the board on this second KPI too, with gaming content from the group found across 2,081/2,459, or 85% of all casino sites globally.