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of travelers want to manage their stay from their phone: check-in, payment, ordering (Oracle Hospitality and Skift, 5,266 consumers, 9 countries).
THE OPPORTUNITY
The audience moved to the phone. The revenue followed.
Independent data on where gaming revenue is going, and why the people already on your property are the ones who matter.
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US online casino (iGaming) revenue in 2025, up 27.6%, three times the industry's growth rate
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US tribal gaming gross revenue in FY2024, an all-time high, up 4.6%, with growth in all eight NIGC regions
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US adults who visited a casino in the past year, 53% of the population, the highest on record
Sources: AGA State of the States 2026; NIGC FY2024 GGR report; AGA American Attitudes 2025
Online is now the growth engine
Online casino is the fastest-growing segment of US gaming and is still live in only seven states. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey, online casino revenue overtook land-based casino revenue for the first time in 2025. Where the door is open, the money walks through it. In Europe, where online has been legal longer, 39% of all gambling revenue is now online and 58% of that online revenue comes from mobile.
Online casino+27.6%
Sports betting+22.6%
Total commercial gaming+9.1%
Seven states had legal online casino in 2025. Maine is expected to be the eighth.
Online39%
Land-based61%
58% of online revenue is on mobile.
Sources: AGA State of the States 2026; EGBA European Gambling Market Key Figures 2025
Online lifts the floor; it does not empty it
The first objection every owner raises is cannibalization. The evidence runs the other way.
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Average quarterly land-based revenue uplift after online casino launched, across the six US states that had it (Eilers & Krejcik Gaming for iDEA Growth, 2024).
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Online-casino states that outgrew land-based-only states over the same periods (same study).
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Modeled land-based revenue increase for a typical state after launching online casino (same study).
Commissioned by an online gaming trade association. We cite it because it is the most rigorous before-and-after comparison published to date; ask us for the full report.
Your guests already want this on their phone
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say on-demand entertainment connected to their own accounts is their top must-have during a stay (same study).
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would be more likely to book a hotel where they pay only for the amenities they use (same study).
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mean age of past-year US casino visitors, six years younger than the adult population (AGA American Attitudes 2025).
The phone is already in the guest's hand, logged in to your brand. Gaming is one more thing it can do.
Sources: Oracle Hospitality and Skift; AGA American Attitudes 2025
What this means for a community owner
The audience is the asset.
Loyalty programs are the moat in online gaming; Caesars cites more than 65 million rewards members as the core of its omnichannel strategy. You already hold the equivalent for your property. And every dollar that stays local funds the community that holds it.
The window is open.
Seven states live, more in legislation, and the first movers in each market set the habits. Owners who launch early own the relationship before a national brand does.
The cost of waiting is the build.
Building a platform, a games catalogue and compliance plumbing takes years and capital. A joint venture puts you live in under 30 days with the platform, catalogue and compliance plumbing off your balance sheet.
Sources: Caesars omnichannel strategy, SBC Americas; AGA State of the States 2026