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A year or so ago, we splashed WagerWire across iGB with a deep dive into their plans. Love seeing them explode into the public consciousness in real-time!

WagerWire is headed across the pond to take NEXT Summit Valletta by storm!! We couldn’t be more proud to announce that this year we are Official Media Partners of NEXT.io. NEXT has been crucial to our success as a start up. Their panels, floor and unrivaled parties have been the site of some of our biggest breakthroughs - and we’re looking forward to sharing the action in real time with you this year live from the Mediterranean. Big thanks to Pierre Lindh⚡️for creating a truly special community and to Anoosha I. for her visionary understanding of what matters most to emerging companies like ours. While there might be bigger conferences, dare we say NEXT is the best.

A year or so ago, we splashed WagerWire across iGB with a deep dive into their plans. Love seeing them explode into the public consciousness in real-time!

When your client and their story are on ESPN. WagerWire doing it again...

THIS IS NOT OUR TROPHY... while we came up a few votes shy of winning "Rising Star of the Year" and "Sports Affiliate of the Year" at the 2024 SBC Awards last night, WagerWire is winning BIG where it matters most. Here's some of WagerWire's W's in just the past few months: 🏆 NEXT.io selected us as a "Hot 6" startup. 🏆 Gaming Laboratories International, LLC featured our GLI-33 certified tech at their Regulators Round Table in Las Vegas - and published a high profile case study about our platform's compliance. 🏆 EGR Global awards nominated us in the prestigious "US Rising Star" category. 🏆 Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association awards nominated our technology as the "Best Innovation" of 2024. 🏆 iGamingBusiness featured us in a blockbuster article in iGB Magazine along with Circa Sports and Simplebet as thought leaders in US betting. 🏆 Our company appeared on CNBC, ESPN, Bleacher Report, Barstool Sports, and in the New York Post, The Washington Post and USA TODAY. 🦍 WagerWire has infiltrated the national conversation and is quickly becoming a brand name ... without a single dollar spent on paid advertising (ever!) Congrats to our friends and collaborators Huddle and awards dinner tablemates Leo Gaspar, Magdalena Vuckovic and Dylan Mitchard for besting us in the rising star category to bring home the coveted golden letters last night. Now, Guy Dotan, Zach Doctor and myself are off to Malta for the NEXT.io Valletta conference where we will introduce WagerWire to the global market. [photo credit: Whitney McGuire]

As I type this, WagerWire is being plastered across ESPN and TNT… this is exactly what we mean when we talk about the inherent virality of our invention which allows people to sell their sportsbets. This exposure is organic and real. Two words that are priceless for sportsbooks whose classical marketing campaigns are bloated, inefficient, expensive and untrusted by the general public. On May 1, 2023 Wayne Shelton placed a $100 parlay to win $1,700,000 - all he needs is the Thunder to win it all. But will they? Instead of hedging, which would require capital he simply doesn’t have, Wayne posted his bet for sale via WagerWire. Since, Wayne has turned down offers of 100k and 150k from private buyers. Whatever he does next will be national news. Stay tuned. [READ THE DETAILS IN THE ESPN ARTICLE IN COMMENTS]

Great to see this story come to fruition in ESPN today. Doug Greenberg expertly wove together an exciting futures parlay hinging on the Thunder winning the NBA Championship, with how my client WagerWire has created a secondary market for bettors to have more control over their bets. It's worth a read! https://lnkd.in/enh3datb

I love seeing WagerWire's thought leadership amplified on ESPN. The platform they've built to give customers the richest, best priced set of options for managing in-the-money bets is clearly the future. Every market looks like the OSB market in the early days: an oligopoly with a few players exerting disproportionate market power over both customers and competitors. When it comes to cash out, why offer more liquidity than you have to if you're the house? Because markets over time don't work like this. New entrants come in to disrupt the status quo. Liquidity becomes fragmented but ultimately improves and more nimble, risk-seeking participants enter and enhance the options and the pricing available to customers. And then the axis of competition shifts from those who have the ability to TAKE large risks to those who have the ability to MANAGE large risks. The WagerWire secondary liquidity marketplace is an important step in this direction, leveling the playing field for bettors who want more than one price for their entire bet but rather a liquid market for all or a piece of their bet. This is something customers should demand from their sports books. While this might seem scary and daunting for the incumbents, the most forward-looking will adopt this approach to give customers a better experience and perhaps even increase volumes as more sophisticated retail risk management enables bet winnings to be redeployed more efficiently. It's hard to take these steps if you already have a big business, but given the fact that markets trend towards liquidity it's best to get out in front and create a competitive advantage though customer focus. #betting #liquidity Eberg Capital

Yesterday’s eclipse was a beautiful reminder of the grandeur of our universe and our humble place within it… So why all that apocalypse fuss? In this article I suggest its symptomatic of the same forces of human nature that drive betting behavior: - The desire to predict outcomes  - Participation in something greater than oneself - The search for and application of meaning I also explore the relationship between pseudoscience and sports; use WagerWire data to create the world's first Sports Betting Zodiac™️; and leverage astrology to accurately predict the winner of the NCAA Championship game. [EXCERPT] In Silver Linings Playbook, a die hard Eagles fan played by Robert De Niro believes he must hold a handkerchief in his left hand the entire game or the Eagles will lose. In astrology, die hard Aquarians believe their fate is tied directly to their cosmic coordinates. So where exactly does De Niro’s left hand stop and Orion’s arm begin? Are “luck” “juju” and “fate” actually all part of the same invisible force? When choosing a winner for last night's championship I may well have flipped a coin - but considering it was occurring on the same day as an eclipse, I opted to instead consult the horoscopes of the starting 5 players on each team... Cam Spencer celebrated his 24th birthday 2 days ago. Cam turned 24 in the year 2024. The eclipse occurred in his ruling house of Aries the day of the championship supercharging his aura. Plus his teammates all have star signs known to be intense, dedicated and committed. That all proved itself our on the court as UConn dominated from wire-to-wire. [Keep reading below]👇

Happy April 2nd! Congrats on surviving April Fools Day. Yesterday, WagerWire pulled a prank that nearly got out of hand - and in the process revealed some hard truths about the problem of transparency in sports betting and the need for WagerWire's solutions. I wrote an article about what went down to memorialize my thoughts on the implications of this holiday in the post-truth world. It's titled Anatomy of a Fool: Prankvertising in the Age of Digital Anarchy and you can read by clicking the link below. 📃 [EXCEPRT] “Prankvertising” is the term sometimes given to the genre of marketing that just invaded our lives yesterday, as it does every April Fools. As a holiday it's a bit demented, but conceptually I’m all for it. Comedy has been called the art of lying. It has also been said to be the ultimate form of truth. As a self styled student of the holiday, I identified an opportunity for WagerWire to get in on the fun this year. The goal? A cheeky reinforcement of the benefit of WagerWire’s free betting tools - namely our apps ability to verify the authenticity of sports bets and fantasy entries. The plan was simple: create a faux bet slip of a wild longshot parlay that’s one leg away from an incredible payout. Then create a backstory for the bettor and a humorous scenario for what they’ll do with the winnings. A story you’ve seen before, but with a twist. The grand reveal would shed light on how the slip was fake and without WagerWire it's impossible to know if any of the thousands of screenshotted slip is legit. The ethical quandaries began immediately. To pull this off I would have to employ the same tactics used by scammers, hostile governments and anarchists because digital April Fools pranks are at their core misinformation campaigns. So I sat down with our intern Jacob and began to plot... Read it in full below. Curious about everyone's thoughts on this topic! 👇 https://lnkd.in/gnFcxeSb