Online lottery
Online lotto is the online version of the traditional lotto . Online lotteries make it possible for players to purchase their lottery tickets over the internet. In addition to lottery ticket sales, online lotteries provide players with the latest results, stories about previous winners and statistics with lottery odds.
species
There are three different types of online providers: state and state licensed providers and private, unlicensed betting providers. Private, non-state-licensed providers do not offer real participation in the state lottery, only bets on the results. The legal basis is the State Treaty on Gaming, also known as the State Treaty on Gaming (GlüStV).
In Germany, participation in a lottery provider without a license counts as illegal gambling. The Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Sport has published a white list of the gaming supervisory authorities of the federal states on its website . In this white list , gambling providers with a permit from Germany are listed.
providers
Among others, the following private companies have a state-licensed online offer for lotteries in Germany:
- Braun Lotto-System-Service GmbH & Co. KG
- Burda Direct GmbH
- Dr. Leise GmbH & Co. KG
- FABER Lotto GmbH & Co. KG
- Faber Lotto-Service GmbH
- G Connect GmbH
- Lotterie.de GmbH & Co. KG
- Lotto24 AG
- Lottobay GmbH
- Lottowelt AG
- NeoLotto Limited
- Netlotto GmbH
- Next Lotto GmbH
- OnGoingMedia GmbH
- Pegasus Direkt GmbH
- Xotto Lottovermittlungsgesellschaft mbH
Development of the online lottery market in Germany
Due to the increasing online affinity of players and the increasing attractiveness of the products, which are highly diversified and tailored to the needs of those interested in the lottery, the German gaming market is growing steadily. Private providers in particular benefit from this.
In comparison, the state lottery also offers an online offer, which has not been further diversified, but reflects the regular offline offer.
The gaming market can be divided into the regulated and the unregulated market
- All activities that may be offered in a completely secure manner under German law are referred to as a regulated market. This includes, for example, all offers from the German Lotto and Totoblock, class and television lotteries.
- The term unregulated market includes all private products in the gaming market whose legal status has not been clearly clarified or is even prohibited. This includes many online offers such as online lottery, online betting, online casino and online poker. These offers can operate legally and regularly with the help of European licenses or licenses from other European countries. German case law currently contradicts European law with regard to the legal status of gaming offers from abroad. In Germany, however, the legal status of these offers has not been conclusively clarified.
Share of online offering in total sales
The online share of the gaming industry, in the unregulated sense, is around 50% of total sales, depending on the market segment (lottery, casino, betting). This shows a trend towards online offers. A closer look at the lottery segment reveals that online lottery has a special position, as this market was regulated until the end of 2008 and has only been assigned to the unregulated market since then. The online lottery sector developed completely differently than other gambling branches. In 2009 the state lottery companies withdrew their online offerings completely, thereby covering around 50% of the market. At the same time, private providers grew continuously. For example, sales commission in 2005 was 26.1 million euros, while in 2009 gross gaming revenues were already 89.6 million euros.
The widespread use of the Internet and the everyday use of many applications mean that online lottery games are also becoming more and more widespread. The high attractiveness of the foreign lottery offers, in contrast to the public, domestic offers, has led to more and more young lottery players, i.e. the future generation, increasingly playing on the Internet and thus turning their backs on public providers. The regulated market is currently still benefiting from lock-in effects that prevent older players from switching to private providers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Treaty on Gambling in Germany (State Treaty on Gambling - GlüStV). Saxon State Chancellery, accessed on December 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Consumer Center of Saarland e. V. (Ed.): LOTTO on the Internet - what should you watch out for? Saarbrücken June 24, 2016 ( vz-saar.de [accessed December 1, 2016] press release).
- ↑ White List of the gambling supervisory authorities of the countries . (PDF)
- ↑ White List of the gaming supervisory authorities of the federal states: Gaming providers with a permit from Germany. (PDF) Hessian Ministry of the Interior and for Sport, December 10, 2015, accessed on December 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Gambling Market Germany - Key Facts on the Study, 2010, pp. 3–4
- ↑ Deutscher Lottoverband: Forecast of the German lottery market up to 2016 ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) accessed on September 2, 2014
- ↑ The Gambling Market in Germany - On the Legitimation of Liberalization, Jean Maurice Port, 2010, pp. 13–15
- ↑ Research Center for Gambling, Hohenheim: The German Gambling Market 2008, 2008 pp. 2–3
- ↑ Online gambling . Tuesday, 6th August 2019
