Spain's Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling (DGOJ) has today participated in a seminar to re-emphasise its commitment to tackling the nation's black market.
Indeed, as part of this meeting, the regulator's Director General of Inspection Cecilia Pastor performed an in-depth presentation to highlight current statistics and future projections around the organisation's current work in the illegal wagering field. As part of her presentation, Pastor used the opportunity to emphasise the importance of collaboration to create effective detection and prevention methods for tackling unauthorised gambling activities in Spain.
Also highlighted were the current barriers and challenges facing the regulator's long-term goal of capturing the unregulated space, including identity theft, unlawful influencer promotions and a recent sharp increase in domains that redirect to unregulated sites. The DJOG formally outlined that it continues to pursue enhanced methods of protection to strengthen the supervision of domains associated with online gambling.
As part of this day-long conference organised by Red.es, the presence of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration - alongside additional public bodies - allowed for rife discussion on the further need for collaboration in the fight against unregulated actors.
This latest update builds on the regulator's newly announced risky gambling behaviour recognition mechanism - unveiled in Q3 2025. More recently, the DJOG also announced in October that the public consultation for new proposed advertising regulations had officially opened, after the gambling sector raised concerns around new safer gambling messaging.
Elsewhere in the Spanish market, Greentube also reached a new agreement with bet365 last week to integrate the supplier's classic Novomatic titles to the operator's offerings in the nation.
The DGOJ reported that Spain's regulated market generated a GGR figure of €410.3m during Q2 2025, up 18.6% year-on-year
