The Blask Awards 2025 global results have signaled a fundamental change in how iGaming leadership is evaluated. Abandoning traditional juries, entry fees, and sponsorship tiers, the awards rely strictly on data to measure tangible player demand, competitive resilience, and scalable growth across regulated international markets.
While Betano secured its place as the central figure of this year’s rankings, emerging as the most consistent licensed operator globally, the data reveals a fragmented landscape. In this new era, rapid growth is valued as highly as market size, and individual game titles are increasingly outpacing operator brands in terms of cross-border reach.
“Data is the jury,” said Max Tesla, co-founder and CEO of Blask. “In Blask Awards, brands don’t compete with those who submitted a form, they compete with the entire market.”
Global operator rankings
Betano dominated the global categories, securing a significant portion of the top accolades:
- Leader of the Blask Year: Awarded for securing the highest total number of awards in 2025.
- Top CEB Performer: Recognizing the strongest aggregate revenue baseline across regulated territories.
- Blask Index Leader: Reflecting the highest cumulative player demand in licensed geographies.
- Demand Surge of the Year: For the largest single 30-day increase in demand recorded globally.
Beyond Betano, the results highlighted the diversity of modern market leadership:
- Fastest-Growing Brand: MrQ, which posted the most significant year-over-year demand growth.
- Baseline Breakout: LakiWin, recognized for the fastest rise in its revenue baseline.
- Top #1 Footprint: betPawa, holding the highest number of #1 market positions worldwide.
- The Monopolist: Singapore Pools, achieving the highest concentration of market power within a single regulated jurisdiction.
The collective results underscore that global leadership is no longer solely about footprint size; momentum, operational efficiency, and consistency are now critical differentiators.
Games and providers: Global reach transcends borders
While operator dominance varies by region, the games sector shows a trend toward global convergence.
Pragmatic Play led the provider and game rankings, powered largely by the success of Gates of Olympus 1000, which secured a trifecta of awards: Operator Footprint Champion, Lobby Legend, and Slot of the Year.
Pragmatic Play also took home titles for Largest Catalog Provider and Full-Shelf Takeover, highlighting its unrivaled distribution breadth.
Other notable winners in the game categories included:
- Game Demand Leader: Chicken Road by InOut Games
- Breakout Game of the Year: Roulette European by 7777 gaming
- Crash Game of the Year: Aviator by Spribe
The data suggests that unlike operators, hit games are increasingly scaling globally, with player preferences aligning across different continents.
A purely data-driven methodology
The Blask Awards function without application processes, fees, or voting panels. Winners are determined algorithmically using proprietary metrics, such as the Blask Index, BAP, and CEB, strictly within regulated markets.
“This isn’t about trophies,” Tesla added. “It’s about creating a shared, verifiable language for the industry: one where anyone can open the data and see why a brand won. We’re not stopping here. Each year, the coverage gets wider, the benchmarks sharper, and the comparison fairer.”
The complete results of the Blask Awards 2025 are available here.
About Blask
Blask is an AI-powered analytics platform for the iGaming and gambling sectors. By converting fragmented open-source data into real-time insights on brand visibility, player demand, and baseline revenue, Blask enables teams to move faster, optimize spend, and mitigate risk across global markets.
