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Digitain, the leading sportsbook and casino platform provider in the iGaming industry, immediately confirmed the promotion of Grigor Asoyan to Group Deputy CEO of Technology.

Grigor formerly held the position of CTO and has worked for the business for ten years in senior technology roles.

Vardges Vardanyan, Founder of Digitain, said: “Grigor has demonstrated strong leadership and vision to our business throughout the last decade. As we expand our global reach in new and existing markets, his contribution to technology and solutions will further consolidate our market position as a leading iGaming provider. ” 

Commenting on the promotion, Asoyan said: “I’m delighted in this new role within the business. Digitain has been a great brand to be part of over the last ten years and has experienced growth in all areas of its operations across multiple global markets.

I will look forward to this next part of my journey with the brand. We have been and will continue to focus on new experiences, innovations, and the latest digital technologies for all our partners and customers to ensure we continue empowering your success within the iGaming supply chain.” 

Digitain is pleased to announce winning the prestigious Best Sportsbook Provider of the Year at the SiGMA Eurasia Summit held in Dubai, UAE.

Iain Hutchison, Chief Revenue Officer of Digitain commented: “We are truly grateful as a team and business to have won this wonderful award. Our team continues to show the utmost attention to detail for our partners and continues to deliver excellence in all aspects of our business solutions.

We could not do it without this team commitment and dedication to being the best that we can be for our operator partners.  On behalf of everyone at Digitain, we thank you for your continued support.”

The beautiful, cold, London night of February 6th saw Digitain get selected as the best Sports Betting Platform during the 16th Annual charity-centred International Gaming Awards (IGA), organised and run by leading media company Clever Duck Media. Hosted at the fantastic, legendary 5-Star Savoy Hotel, this highly-regarded event recognises and celebrates the annual achievements of the iGaming industry professionals. Supported by the most prominent iGaming businesses from across the world, the IGA embraces a global attendance of the industry giants from both the online and land-based gaming sectors worldwide.

“It’s always a thrill to be among the chosen!”, admits Digitain Group Chief Marketing Officer, Aregnaz Hakobyan. ”It feels so good to be once again recognised and celebrated as one of the best worldwide! This goes to show that hard work pays off. Congratulations to the Digitain team and all the other winners! Plus, our special thanks to the Awards committee for our award! See you next year!”

Digitain, the leading sportsbook and casino platform provider in the igaming industry, announces the appointment of Iain Hutchison as its Chief Revenue Officer. Iain brings with him over 20 years of experience in building and scaling successful technology start-ups in sports-betting, digital marketing, live trading and sports-betting affiliates.

Mr. Hutchison has extensive experience in managing teams, driving significant revenue growth as well as leading organizational transformations and developing strategies.

As the Chief Revenue Officer of Digitain, Iain will be responsible for leading the company’s revenue growth strategy, expanding its global reach and driving its continued success in the igaming industry.

“We are thrilled to welcome Iain to the Digitain team. His expertise will be invaluable as we continue to grow our business and expand our reach globally,” said Vardges Vardanyan, Founder of Digitain. “Iain’s track record speaks for itself and we are confident that his leadership and vision will help drive Digitain to even greater heights.”

Iain’s appointment comes at a pivotal time for Digitain as the company continues to expand its offerings and explore new opportunities in the igaming industry. With Iain’s extensive experience and leadership skills, Digitain is poised for continued success and growth.

Digitain Group’s Founder Vardges Vardanyan on Digitain’s 2022 achievements, cooperation with football legend Luís Figo, preparations for ICE London 2023 and the plans for the upcoming years.

Hello, Mr Vardanyan, it’s my pleasure to talk to you today.

We know that Digitain has a story of more than 20 years. How you started?

Digitain roots back to 1999, when we started out as a lottery company. Totogaming, our B2C operation in Armenia, was launched in 2004. Years later, in 2015, the experience and the expertise in sports betting that we built up while running TotoGaming encouraged and drove us to entering the B2B market and establishing our B2B brand – Digitain. From then onwards Digitain has been taking its unique position in the B2B market up until the present day.

What is the key to success of Digitain? How you became so successful in this competitive industry?

One can never succeed with low-quality products or by taking quick corners. Offering the best product and services is essential for success. We have always been driven by and committed to this idea. But nothing can work without people- the professional and compassionate people who stand behind all this. This combination can really work wonders.

2022 was noted as one of the most successful years in Digitain’s history. What was special about this year? What goals you have achieved?

You are right, 2022 was a record-breaking year for Digitain. One of the biggest achievements of 2022 was the cooperation with football legend Luís Figo who joined the Digitain family as Brand Ambassador.

2022 was as well remarkable for Digitain in terms of international recognition and, in particular, the awards it received in the iGaming Industry. We won awards in more than 10 categories for our top-quality products and as an industry-leading company in such significant industry awards as Sigma Awards, SBC Awards, International Gaming Awards, etc… This has been the biggest number of the awards we have won in one year.

The year was also a huge success in terms of events – we had a chance to participate in more than 20 industry events, in 16 of which we were presented with a stand. What has been an indicator of success for me is that our stand areas would always be busy and crowded. We had astonishing results and definitely hit the expo goals we set for 2022.

The most important parts are, of course, the new products launched in 2022, as well as existing product upgrades. Innovative and excellent products stand behind our success, that’s what we focus on more.

Thanks to our teams’ efforts new Sportsbook features were developed and added specifically for the World Cup 2022. We also introduced our unique Sports Betting Jackpot, the only one in the industry – a feature that lets players bet on predefined events and win the jackpot if their bets win.

We launched new products, such as our standalone Payment Gateway – Paydrom, our GLI-certified, highly flexible and customer-focused iGaming platform – Centrivo and our very own Odds Feed – OddsON.

Our in-house Virtual Sports portfolio expanded with the addition of 8 new games, all of those instantly becoming virtual football fans’ top favourites.

We received GLI-certification for a number of products and features, which allows us to expand our geography and enter new markets.

I think we have a lot to be proud of․ We have accomplished many goals this year. But, of course, the more goals we achieve, the more ambitious we become, so for this year we have set a number of new goals and I am sure that with our professional team we will be able to realize those.

You talked about cooperation with Luís Figo. Could you tell us more about this interesting partnership?

Not always an iGaming business can claim to have worked with a true sports legend. For Digitain, this actually happened! It gives me great pleasure to welcome Luís Figo to the Digitain family. He is an incredible iconic person. Figo, who is praised for his unmatched reputation, impressive background, and winning attitude, is without a doubt the ideal choice to represent our Sportsbook’s quality, innovation, and effectiveness when it comes to the global representation of an iGaming company with the most recent sports betting solutions, namely Digitain. We are really excited to collaborate with this sporting legend.

He has a stellar reputation, and I think that our collaboration makes a big statement about how confident we are in our brand and our position as a major player in the market. We have significantly expanded our geographic footprint in LatAm and Asia over the past several years, and our partnership with Mr. Figo helps to increase brand recognition in both of these crucial regions, as well as globally.

What is going to change in 2023? What are your plans?

We have a lot of exciting plans for 2023. One of our main goals is to continue expanding our presence in new markets, specifically the European market.

We are also focusing on improving our existing products and launching new ones to meet the evolving needs of our partners.

We established new offices in Romania this year and I hope that our team working in Romania will bring us one step closer to our goals.

One of the most significant news of the year was the formation of Digitain Group. We launched Galaxsys – fast & skill games provider, and Relum – online casino platform, that have already achieved great success in the industry. This year we are launching our new Live Casino software providing company – Imagine Live. It is quite promising and we are sure that we will talk about the success of this company in the next year’s review.

In addition, we are preparing for ICE London 2023 – one of the biggest gaming events in the world. We are looking forward to showcasing our products and services to a global audience.

ICE London 2023 is just around the corner, what we can expect from Digitain during the biggest iGaming expo?

We are putting a lot of effort into preparing for ICE London 2023. We want to make a strong impression at the event and showcase Digitain as one of the leaders in the iGaming industry.

Empowering Your Success – that’s our motto for ICE London and the whole year. Our 20+ years of expertise has helped us to establish a strong presence in the iGaming world with our award-winning products. Since then, Digitain has grown hand in hand with its partners, walking in parallel and laying the pathway to success. And today we can confidently say – We are the success and we can Empower Your Success!

We are going to present our award-winning products – Sprotsbook, Centrivo iGaming Platform, Virtual Sports Product, as well as officially launch our new payment gateway – Paydrom.

A number of surprises, that we will soon reveal, will be waiting for the visitors at our stand.

What more would you like to add?

We are very excited about the future of Digitain Group and the opportunities that lie ahead. We are committed to continuing to innovate and bring the best products and services to our partners. We believe that with hard work and dedication, we can achieve even greater success in the future.

Thank you for your time and insightful interview, Mr Vardanyan. We hope we’ll talk about much more success next year.

Thank you too, it was my pleasure.

Source: 5 Star Media

Ahead of ICE London 2023, set to take place on February 7-9 at ExCel London, where the global gambling industry will be reunited once again, Yogonet spoke with Hamest Safaryan, Sales Team Manager at Digitain, about the company’s expectations for the renowned event and plans for the promising year ahead.

What products will the business showcase at the event, and what will it focus on?

Digitain is very excited about the upcoming edition of ICE London, which we will be part of with one of the biggest and most innovative stands throughout the whole event and over 130 staff attending. Digitain will showcase the complete range of the company’s products – all available across online, mobile, and retail channels.

These include our multifunctional, highly-flexible, full-platform solution Centrivo, our multi-award-winning Sportsbook with its complete pre-match and live offering, our new payment gateway Paydrom and our easy-to-integrate, in-house Virtual Sports. At ICE London 2023, we will be focusing on empowering the success of our existing and potential partners. We intend to deliver drive and passion for business to all the attendees, as ICE 2023 is a perfect stage to get a taste of success.

Given ICE London’s status as one of the major global events in the industry, what are your expectations and objectives for the expo?

If I say that we have high expectations from the event, that will not be enough since every company sets expectations based on the work and effort every participant puts into the show.

I can assure you Digitain is preparing for ICE 2023, combining all its departments’ input and hard work to represent the company in the best light possible. We are confident that all the expectations – in terms of brand positioning, mutual cooperation, market expansion, and new prospects attraction – will be met.

ICE London is a huge networking opportunity where business relationships run with the highest possible speed. The very fact of the event being hosted in London and bringing together all profile businesses of the industry has a huge impact on the company’s main strategy: not only in terms of sales and business development but also in terms of partnerships improving the product portfolio to deliver a comprehensive service to our partners.

How would you describe the industry’s and your clients’ current demands at the time? What markets will you focus on at the expo?

Today’s industry clients are increasingly educated, unforgiving, and demanding in terms of product quality, support delivery, and compliance to the market needs, all of which are related to high competition among the suppliers.

With its premium iGaming platform, e-Sports, Virtual Sports, and award-winning Sportsbook, Digitain has established itself as a leading supplier of iGaming software solutions worldwide.

The corporation is primarily concerned with the European regulated market, but it has high goals of expanding into the Americas, Africa, and Asia in the near future. The firm has over 2000 employees and thus invests heavily in its growth so that it can give its all to the business and its partners. Having said this, we are proud to be one of the best employers in the industry, which remains part of our strategy.

During the month of November, we saw Digitain ink new deals with game providers Spribe and Gaming Corps. What do these kinds of partnerships represent for Digitain?

Cooperation with industry-leading suppliers is part of the offer improvement journey. We are already seeing the positive outcome from these cooperations and are very excited about these and many more cooperations initiated last year and coming up early this year. Additional announcements about this will be made in due time, of course.

The event comes as we enter a new year for gambling. What is your assessment of the company’s performance in 2022, and what should we expect from it in 2023?

For Digitain, 2022 was a defining year. The collaboration with football icon Luís Figo, who joined the Digitain family as Brand Ambassador, was one of the year’s most significant accomplishments.

Multiple awards received in more than ten different categories, from the Sigma Awards, the SBC Awards, the International Gaming Awards, and other prominent industry awards in 2022, recognized our high-quality solutions and established us as a market leader.

We had a fantastic and eventful year, with active representation at over 20 different expos and conferences worldwide. Our staff worked hard to create and implement new Sportsbook features in time for the 2022 World Cup.

We also launched many new, in-house products, including our independent payment gateway Paydrom, our GLI-certified, highly adaptable, and customer-focused iGaming platform Centrivo, our odds feed OddsON, and our in-house Virtual Sports.

We had phenomenal growth in Sales in 2022, reaching new regulated markets in Europe and beyond, exceeding the number of signed contracts target.

In 2023, Digitain established itself as Digitain Group, having under its umbrella such group companies as Galaxsys (a supplier of fast and skill games), Relum (an online casino engine), and the live casino software provider Imagine Live. 2023 will see us implement several of our most promising initiatives. Our primary focus is on developing a larger customer base in areas such as Europe. This year, we are expanding our operations to include a new office in Romania.

What other industry events does the company plan to attend this year?

Digitain presence in almost all major Industry events and awards ceremonies is part of our strategy this year. Industry prospects can expect to meet us during upcoming major events organized by IGB, SBC, and Sigma in Europe, Latin America and other continents.

We will continue improving the product portfolio and innovative functionalities and aim to bring something new to the attendees every time we are involved in the show.

Source: Yogonet

We are excited to announce the opening of our newest branch in Bucharest, Romania.

Located in the heart of the city, the new office will allow us to provide better service to our growing client base in the region and further expand our presence in the European market.

“We are thrilled to open a new branch in Bucharest,” said Digitain Founder Mr. Vardanyan.” Romania is a dynamic and growing market, and we believe that this new office will allow us to better meet the needs of our clients and partners in the European market.”

The Bucharest office will accommodate a team of experienced professionals who will work closely with clients to provide top-quality services and support.

“At Digitain, we are committed to delivering the best possible experience for our clients,” Mr. Vardanyan added. “We believe that the opening of our new Bucharest office will help us to achieve this goal, and we look forward to building strong relationships with our clients in Europe.”

The opening of the Bucharest office is part of our ongoing expansion strategy, and the first one of the multiple offices we are planning to open around the world.

“We are always looking for opportunities to grow and improve, and the opening of our new Bucharest office is a testament to this commitment,” added Mr. Vardanyan.

Last week, winners were announced at the biggest event ever held by Romania’s gambling industry. Yet another award for Digitain in Bucharest reconfirms the fact that we have a stable presence in the European iGaming market. When the Casino Life & Business Magazine held their annual Romanian Gambling Industry Grand Awards ceremony on December 14, our company took home the prize for the best Software Provider.  

The Official Gala of the Grand Awards was the largest social event ever held in Romania’s gaming industry, with 153 attendees, 26 sponsors and supporters, 8 audio/video technicians, 7 performers (including musicians and dancers), and a staff of 20. 

As Digitain’s Head of Marketing, Aregnaz Hakobyan, put it, “The excitement of receiving due recognition through such an important international event is overwhelming and never-ending.” 

Congratulations to the Digitain team and all the other winners, and sincere thanks to the organisers and jury! 

November of 2022 saw Digitain win Platform of the Year at the Starlet Awards, organised by 5 Star iGaming Media! 

Known for fostering success, innovation and ethics in the iGaming industry, the Starlet Awards recognise the achievements of the most cutting-edge companies and B2B service providers in the sector. The judges are specially selected professionals with extensive knowledge and experience to determine which candidates provide the best products and services. 

In Digitain’s Head of Marketing Aregnaz Hakobyan’s words, “It’s an incredible thrill to be once again internationally recognised for the work we collectively put hearts in.” 

Congratulations to all the other winners and special thanks to the organisers and judges! 

Digitain Group R&D Director Peter Nolan speaks to Gambling Insider about the company’s future in the US, the LatAm market and Luís Figo playing football on an Armenian roof.

Where is Digitain right now in the market and where does it want to be?

It’s in a good state. We’ve just come out of a good conference. We’re looking to expand our global footprint in regulated markets; that’s our target. We’re building sales teams in Latin America and Asia to help support that, and the general sales team has doubled in the region in the last 18 months. We’ve got some good products; in particular, we launched the new platform called Centrivo in the summer and it has had a big impact – so we’re in good shape platform wise. It’s got some really good verticals, support and a lot of tools for the operators: like CRM and an integrated payment gateway, content management system, etc. We bumped up the tools and the whole stability and flexibility of it, where people can quickly change the website and mobile sites to suit their brand. That has been successful so far.

What about the core products?

We upgraded our sportsbook, which is our hero product. Digitain started out in this industry with shops in Armenia and a sports betting B2C. Sports betting was our original business, so we have a large team of traders and risk management people, with algorithms – we’ve upgraded that recently so it’s ready for the World Cup. Also, we launched our online casino studio in the last few months and have signed up over 50 partners on the live casino. That’s a completely new studio built in our Digitain headquarters, which is a state-of-the-art building housing over 2,000 people now. We’re also building another studio so we can offer some more bespoke services to clients.

In terms of sports betting, how interested are you in the US market right now?

It’s on our radar at some point in the future. There are certainly plenty of opportunities there as the various new regulated markets open up. Right now, we have plenty to do, plenty on and are focused on Central European, LatAm and Asian markets. Looking at it, there’s a fight going on in the US, people spending a lot of money in terms of operations, while most people are cutting down on that to save money. However, we’re confident we will achieve growth there over time.

So LatAm is a bigger focus for you in the near future, then?

Yeah, but we want to go into the regulated markets, too. I worked in Brazil for a couple of years, so I know it quite well. We have a couple of good people that work there for us, who are talking to the regulators a lot in Brazil and Argentina. We want to get our products certified for these areas; that’s our aim. However, right now, we’re focused on getting more visibility.

In terms of visibility, it must be great for the brand to have Luís Figo as an ambassador, which Gambling Insider exclusively revealed back in July.

Yes, that’s a big statement for us and our B2B suppliers, as well. Obviously, you get a lot of B2C people with advocates and footballers. So, for our B2B supplier to get him was a big statement. It’s a bit like our show at ICE London: every year it’s a bit bigger, a bit better and represents the confidence we have in the business.