{"id":381402,"date":"2026-04-08T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/381402\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:22:10","slug":"why-third-party-sports-gambling-ads-are-a-major-problem-in-british-columbia-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/381402\/","title":{"rendered":"Why third-party sports gambling ads are a major problem in British Columbia \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nTuesday, April 7, 2026 8:35 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"no-lazy\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Vancouver-Canucks-fan-British-Columbia-1000x600.jpg\"  \/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cbc.ca.jpg\"\/>Akshay Kulkarni, CBC News\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>As the Stanley Cup playoffs approach and the Major League Baseball season kicks off, British Columbians watching sports on TV are now used to the sight of regular sports gambling advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>But a number of those advertisements are for betting platforms that aren\u2019t legal in B.C. \u2014 where the only place to legally bet on sports is the B.C. Lottery Corporation\u2019s online platform, PlayNow.<\/p>\n<p>The prevalence of third-party gambling ads \u2014 which the BCLC plainly attributes to Ontario allowing the practice in 2022 \u2014 is so overwhelming, the lottery corporation cites illegal operators as the biggest factor in its online gambling revenue plateauing in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/bc-lottery-corporation-third-party-gambling-ads-9.7152652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on CBC News\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/bc-lottery-corporation-third-party-gambling-ads-9.7152652\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/out\/14557\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"QCI-web-220301-7.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/QCI-web-220301-7.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"720\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, April 7, 2026 8:35 PM Akshay Kulkarni, CBC News Email, LinkedIn, and more As the Stanley Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-381402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}