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GAMBLING . COM GROUP SEALS $ 27.5M ROTOWIRE PURCHASE

Gambling . com Group has completed its acquisition of Roto Sports , the operator of US-facing fantasy sports news and advice site RotoWire . com , for $ 27.5m (£ 20.4m /€ 24.4m ).
Under the deal , agreed in December , Gambling . com Group paid an initial $ 20.0m at closing , consisting $ 15.0m in cash and $ 5.0m in newly issued , unregistered ordinary shares .
A further $ 2.5m and $ 5.0m will be due on the first and second anniversaries of the closing .
Gambling . com Group said the purchase would instantly expand its US presence and is expected to create immediate accretion to its fiscal 2022 earnings .
Gambling . com Group CEO Charles Gillespie said : “ Commercially , the RotoWire business has three different revenue streams , each generating over $ 1m per year , which give it significant reach into sports media organisations as well as with advertisers and individual sports fans .
“ These deep and long-lasting customer relationships are an ideal platform from which to capitalise on the new era of American sports – the betting and gaming era .”
RotoWire president Peter Schoenke added : “ The US is entering a whole new world of sports fandom and combining forces with Gambling . com Group will accelerate RotoWire ’ s growth .”

SHARPLINK ACQUIRES FOURCUBED ASSETS

US-facing sports betting
The purchase price
FourCubed owns and
years , it has averaged
affiliate business
comprises $ 6.5m and the
operates an igaming
annual revenues of more
SharpLink Gaming
issue of some 600,000
affiliate network made
than $ 5.5m , with over
has acquired certain
restricted ordinary
up of more than 12,000
90 % of its revenue coming
assets from FourCubed
shares of SharpLink , with
sub-affiliates and has
from recurring net gaming
Management LLC and
an additional earnout
delivered over 1.8 million
revenue contracts with
6t4 Company , collectively
payment of up to 600,000
referred players since the
igaming operators such as
known as FourCubed , for
shares based on meeting
network ’ s launch in 2008 .
Party Poker , Bwin , Unibet ,
$ 8.2m (£ 6.1m /€ 7.3m ).
performance targets .
Over the past three
Bet365 and Betfair .
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