About Rough Gambling
Rough Gambling was born in 2026 with a simple conviction: the regulated gambling industry deserved more honest coverage. No more press releases disguised as news. No more headlines designed to please advertisers. No more red-carpet journalism in a sector that moves billions of dollars and yet is rarely analyzed with the depth it deserves.
The Origin
Rough Gambling’s founder had spent years working inside the iGaming ecosystem — as an operator, as a consultant, as a front-row observer of a permanently transforming industry. He witnessed the regulatory explosion across Latin America, the boom in sports betting across the United States, the consolidation of major European operators, the opening of markets in Africa and Asia. And he also witnessed something more uncomfortable: the informational poverty surrounding all that movement. Media covering press releases without questioning them. Analysts repeating data without contextualizing it. A massive, global, and complex industry, always seen from the same angle.
Rough Gambling was the answer to that discomfort.
What We Do
We cover the regulated gambling industry in all its dimensions: regulation, mergers and acquisitions, technology, payments, marketing, financial results, executive appointments. From Las Vegas to São Paulo, from Manila to Lagos.
Our coverage is global because the industry is. But we never lose focus on what truly matters: the real impact of every regulatory decision, every deal between operators, every new license granted or revoked.
We write for industry professionals — operators, regulators, investors, technology providers — who need accurate, fast, and noise-free information.
Our Editorial Philosophy
At Rough Gambling we don’t believe in public relations journalism. We believe in trade journalism: rigorous, informed, independent. That means calling things by their name. It means covering both successes and failures. It means providing context when the numbers don't speak for themselves. And it means, above all, treating our readers as what they are: professionals who don't need the basics explained to them, but do need someone to do the hard work of separating signal from noise. The name says it all. This industry is not soft. Neither are we.