• ares35@kbin.social
      232·
      10 months ago

      every mention of the odds, or over/under, or the ‘spread’, etc. during the broadcast is also references to gambling.

      • 5oap10116@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        I hate this shit. It’s not even just ads. It’s announcers, shoutcasters…intersecting with this bullshit. I sooo don’t fucking care. I doooont care about the odds. I’m watching my team and rooting for them. Tell me who needs to sports harder and why. I don’t care about over unders…were losing potentially valuable content to gambling.

        • 5oap10116@lemmy.world
          7·
          10 months ago

          Ahh the fine blurry memories of middle school football where I (maybe 4.75ft tall 125lbs) went against a (~6ft tall 250lbs) lineman who I can only imagine had the plan: I am going to hit his head with my head harder than he can hit my head with his head.

          I was dazed after the first down, blacked out momentarily after the 2nd down, then told my coach I felt dizzy and wanted to sit out to which he responded “Get back in there and actually block for your quarter back or I’m going to run you until you puke on Monday”. I went back in and just pancakes myself so I didn’t die. Quit after that game.

          I’m pretty sure that’s child abuse but I was 12 so who knows.

        • bionicjoey
          3·
          10 months ago

          It also is necessary to enjoy watching the game. Kinda a chicken and egg situation.

  • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net
    10·
    10 months ago

    About half the ads I see while watching Star Trek are for gambling, I think this surge will lead to them getting banned

  • vinylshrapnel@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    112·
    10 months ago

    Not if you watch soccer. 45 minutes of non stop game time followed by five minutes of commercials, five minutes of halftime analysis, five more minutes of commercials, then 45 minutes of more uninterrupted game time. Even with added time regular games don’t take more than two hours and only ten minutes of it is commercials. Even if every commercial at halftime was a gambling commercial, it would only take up 10.5% of the airtime at most. Half time bathroom break could take care of most of those ads. Plus you still have most of the day to enjoy something else.

  • Rentlar
    9·
    10 months ago

    “It’s like they can’t watch a hockey game or football game without constantly being reminded of opportunities to gamble.”

    That’s the whole point of gambling advertising. The spokespeople saying “just our logo on the court isn’t that harmful, it shouldn’t count” but they know it’s really about getting people the impulse to gamble and from their site, and the more they show it the more it will imprint on people. If it didn’t work like that they wouldn’t be showing those.

    • Rentlar
      11·
      10 months ago

      Gambling ads are a massive problem in Ontario specifically. Since the industry was de-regulated by the conservatives there’s been a massive explosion in marketing. Think that those 20% exposure now was like 1-2% a couple years ago with OLG/Lottomax ads only.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Wheaton, Rossi and their colleagues did similar work counting gambling advertisements during the opening weekend of English Premier League soccer games in the U.K. this past August.

    Deirdre Querney, an addiction counsellor at Alcohol, Drug & Gambling Services in Hamilton, Ont., has seen a rise in calls for help since the launch of Ontario’s regulated market.

    Querney describes a shift in recent years, from people trying to control their betting habits in physical casinos to struggling with the pull of internet gambling.

    Burns said operators in Ontario are now required to hit “a minimum level of spend on responsible gaming,” a policy he said they put in place after the first year of the regulated market.

    CBC, which aired two of the Hockey Night in Canada games included in the analysis, said Rogers Sportsnet holds the national NHL rights and controls the advertising.

    One stakeholder, who did not want to be named, told Marketplace that the findings appear to be overstated, and that counting each logo is not the right way to think about how you limit advertising overexposure in this space.

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