Online Betting Companies Are Kicking Off a Super Bowl Ad Blitz

It's not just the office pool anymore. More than half of U.S. states now allow legalized sports betting, and in many cases it's as easy as opening an app on your smartphone and making a wager. From a report: A whopping 17.6 million people are expected to place a bet on Sunday's Super Bowl online or in person at a sportsbook, according to the American Gaming Association. It's not all profits for the operators, though. Sportsbooks are putting up their own money in the form of a massive advertising campaign targeting the millions of sports fans who will be glued to their TVs for the matchup between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. "TV sportsbook advertising has grown exponentially this year and in the last couple of years overall," Adam Candee, managing editor of the trade publication Legal Sports Report, told NPR.

Candee said the sudden growth of legalized gambling in states across the country has sportsbook operators jockeying for a piece of the huge new customer base -- and the Super Bowl is their latest opportunity to sell themselves to potential bettors. "It is happening in the here and now, moment to moment, as they compete for customers. That is because this is essentially a new industry that is rising up from the ground," he said. Sports gambling could become a $37 billion industry by 2025, according to the investment management company ARK.

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[i'm probably drunk]

I get plenty of entertainment watching friends gamble. I'm literally that weirdo when we're out at the casinos.

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[LostMyBeaver]

Consider the cost of a human to a country. Let's suggest that each person has a cost to be educated when they're young, then there's trash pickup, roads and infrastructure, power lines, communication lines and so forth.

It would be absolutely impossible to calculate the average cost to a nation for a single human occupant as there are simply too many variables and it would be impossible to identify what portion of which service each human depends on is their share.

Let's try and figure that the typical cost o

So many Scam ads.

[jellomizer]

Make money fast, without any doing anything the benefit society.

For a minute there

[wakeboarder]

I thought they were talking about crypto, but nope. Sports betting.

Stupid.

[Gravis Zero]

Gambling should be illegal, not because I care about idiots who choose to ruin their lives but due to the fact that it's correlated with increased crime rates. So in the end, what really happens is more crime happens, more criminals get arrested and we have to pay for more people to be locked up.

Too many politicians are getting bought off by gambling companies and it's really distressing.

Armchair quarterbacks of the world

[nospam007]

...rejoice!

You know it better, now put some money on that.

Libertarian here

[lamer01]

I've always thought that gambling should be ok. Then I started seeing these fantasy sports & betting ads on tv. Many of them are owned or co-owned by mega corps. and the ads make it sound like you will be 'gaming'. First, that is deceiving advertising. It's gambling. Secondly, most of them allow people to bet with credit cards. That is a bigger issue. We will create another huge credit issue that the rest of us will have to bailout.

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[MarkKennedy]

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