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LEAD GENERATION The live casino landscape – past and present From the casino fl oor to your fi ngertips The desire to create comparable and cutting-edge live dealer gameplay online has existed since the dawn of the Internet. In the early 2000s, the Asian market was fi rst to adopt it as they foresaw players’ preference to real-time games over RNG ones. However, limited technological capabilities and stream latency restricted their popularity. A surge of slot suppliers and newcomers took on the challenge to develop their own live dealer products in the mid to late noughties. Their knowledge of the industry lent to the user experience they created, and demand boomed. Tech improvements and reams of research caused key players in Europe to consider live casino as an extension of their brand and multi-table solutions became available. As the proud category sponsor of the iGB Digital Affi liate Magazine 2018, LiveCasino.com is set to enhance the ever-changing gaming environment with genuine reviews and a focus on establishing a casino community. Subsequently, this sparked an increase in searches for live casino related terms, with peaks during the summer period, according to recent statistics. In fact, searches for ‘live roulette’ have more than doubled since 2014. This, coupled with HTML5 and the growth of mobile, Sponsored by 74 • iGB Affiliate Directory 2018