UK.- The British Gambling Commission has released new data showing that online gaming in Great Britain continued to grow in Q1 of the 2025 fiscal year, despite the introduction of new stake limits on slots.
For the quarter ending June 30, 2025, online gross gambling yield (GGY) reached £1.49bn, up 2 per cent compared to Q1 2024. The total number of online bets and spins climbed 6 per cent year-on-year to 26.1bn, although average monthly active accounts dropped 10 per cent to 12.7m.
The standout performer was online slots. Slots GGY rose 14 per cent to £745m, while the number of spins hit a new peak of 24.4bn (up 8 per cent). Average monthly active accounts for slots remained steady at 4.4m. The dataset also showed improvements in safer gambling indicators: slots sessions lasting more than an hour fell 9 per cent to 8.8m, while the average session length decreased by one minute to 16 minutes. Around 5 per cent of sessions lasted over an hour, down from 6 per cent last year.
By contrast, real event betting GGY fell 9 per cent to £570m, with the number of bets down 7 per cent and active accounts down 16 per cent.
Retail betting premises also saw a decline. GGY dropped 5 per cent to £552m, while the number of bets and spins decreased 3 per cent to 3.2bn.
The new stake limits—£5 per spin for all adults from April 9 and £2 for players aged 18 to 24 from May 21—appear to have had only a limited impact, slowing growth rather than reversing it.
The Commission cautioned that this dataset should not be directly compared with its wider industry statistics, since it excludes some operators and may count free bets and bonuses.
