Until recently, gambling adverts were plastered across broadcasts to a captive audience. Even since the whistle to whistle ban, if you atching a game, you could have one team that's got a gambling sponsor on their shirt. And there's some research that says that gambling locos can feature 700 times during a 90 minute match. So they've become so intrinsically linked now that seems almost impossible to unpick the two from one another. Now, i mean, we may get to a point where that happens by legislation, and that's something we can potentially come on to. But it didn't use to be that way, iye, and i dont think.
Rob Davies is an investigative journalist for The Guardian and his new book, Jackpot, tells the story of how Britain came to be one of the largest gambling markets in the world. The book describes how the mainstreaming of gambling advertising in the early 2000s combined with high-tech microtargeting of online gamblers has meant that the industry today is profiting from preying on the most vulnerable in society. Joining Rob to discuss the book is Joey D'Urso, investigations writer at The Athletic UK.
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