10.Januar 2006
UKBETTING RENEWS AGREEMENT TO USE CRYPTOLOGIC-DEVELOPED INTERNET POKER SOFTWARE
Europe's largest online sports content network extends exclusive poker contract to 2009; casino contract to 2008
January 10, 2006 (Toronto, ON) - CryptoLogic Inc., a leading software developer to the global Internet gaming market, announced today the renewal of its relationship with ukbetting plc - Europe's largest online sports content network - through the extension of the agreement with CryptoLogic's wholly-owned subsidiary, WagerLogic Limited. ukbetting will continue to use WagerLogic's Internet poker solution exclusively through to 2009 for its betting brands, www.ukbetting.com and www.totalbet.com. The contract also extends ukbetting's use of WagerLogic's casino software until 2008.
"CryptoLogic is growing its business with the world's blue-chip gaming brands - and ukbetting is one of the major European names on that list," said Lewis Rose, CryptoLogic's President and CEO. "CryptoLogic is proud that ukbetting has reaffirmed its confidence in our award-winning Internet gaming software, particularly benefiting from the liquidity of our poker network. By leveraging CryptoLogic's proven poker offering with ukbetting's extensive user base, we continue a winning combination to generate the highest returns."
A customer since 2003, ukbetting introduced WagerLogic's state-of-the-art poker and casino software to its highly popular betting brands, www.ukbetting.com and www.totalbet.com, and have experienced strong results, especially in the high-growth poker segment. Poker has accounted for the majority of ukbetting's revenue generated from CryptoLogic-developed software, which has been driven by the strong crossover from ukbetting's sports content users to poker. The contract renewal provides for WagerLogic's poker product to be integrated into ukbetting's single E-Cash wallet, to enhance the cross-marketing opportunities between ukbetting's 8.75 million monthly UK and European sports fans to its Internet poker services.
"I'm delighted that WagerLogic and ukbetting will continue this mutually rewarding relationship, which has contributed to a more than 100% year-over-year increase in our poker and casino revenue," said Eric Semel, CEO of ukbetting plc. "It is an extremely important move for ukbetting to have our poker product integrated into our back end systems, thereby allowing our customers to be able to use a single wallet solution rather than to have to register a new account to play poker."
"The contract extension with ukbetting reinforces how major gaming operators continue to benefit from WagerLogic's poker liquidity and our decade of industry experience to deliver sophisticated innovations that enhance player loyalty and drive incremental revenue," added A.J. Slivinski, WagerLogic's Managing Director.
About CryptoLogic® (www.cryptologic.com)
Focused on integrity and innovation, CryptoLogic Inc. is a world-leading, blue-chip public developer and supplier of Internet gaming software. Its leadership in regulatory compliance makes it one of the very few companies with gaming software that is certified to strict standards similar to land-based gaming. WagerLogic Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CryptoLogic, is responsible for the licensing of its gaming software and services to customers worldwide. For information on WagerLogic®, visit www.wagerlogic.com.
CryptoLogic's common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol: CRY), on the NASDAQ National Market (symbol: CRYP), and on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange (symbol: CRP).
About ukbetting (www.ukbetting.com)
ukbetting plc (LSE symbol: UKB) operates the UK's leading sports content and betting sites. This portfolio of sites includes www.sportinglife.com, the original multi-sports web site that provides the fastest news, scores, results and reviews for all major sports including football, racing, golf and rugby and cricket and much more. Its sister sites, www.sportal.com and the www.bettingzone.co.uk, deliver leading edge interactive sports content and independent betting news, preview, analysis, selections and stats respectively.
In addition to its sports content division the group has two primary betting sites, www.ukbetting.com and www.totalbet.com that offer a wide range of fixed odds markets for all the major sports as well as play poker and casino games. Customers of www.totalbet.com are also able to place bets directly into the tote pools giving them access to popular bets such as the placepot, jackpots and scoop6.