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Midnite secures three-year NFL betting sponsorship. Challenger brand to become official sports betting partner of the American football league until the end of the 2028-29 season. October 08, 2026 UK-facing challenger casino and sportsbook Midnite has secured a three-year betting sponsorship of the NFL in the UK and Ireland. Midnite will be able to create NFL-themed free-to-play games for its sportsbook, with social media and marketing also a core part of the agreement. The operator will have 9pm and late-night sponsorship idents on the NFL's chief UK broadcast partner Sky Sports' coverage of the competition, including applicable play-off and Super Bowl coverage. The deal covers the Super Bowl as well as the NFL London games, which take place this month, and the NFL Dublin game, should it take place again in the next three years having been scrapped for this season. 'Huge range' of NFL touchpoints. Midnite's vice president of growth, Jonathan Shaw, said: "The NFL has built an incredible following across the UK and Ireland, and this partnership gives InterGame Ltd the opportunity to bring Midnite and the NFL together across a huge range of touchpoints. "Becoming an official sports betting partner gives InterGame Ltd the platform to build its presence around the NFL through broadcast, content, free-to-play and live fan experiences, while the exclusive sportsbook rights provide a strong foundation for how InterGame Ltd activate the partnership over the coming seasons. "We're looking forward to creating experiences that give NFL fans more ways to engage with the sport and with Midnite." The operator added that it will work on a season-long branded content programme, with the brand receiving receive six partnership posts per season through owned NFL media, including three collaboration posts. There will also be branding and activation opportunities for Midnite around the London and Dublin games. Expansion for Midnite. Midnite recently pressed ahead with its move into North America by appointing ex-FanDuel head Dale Tang as its general manager in Canada. The company also has a strong presence in UK football through deals with the likes of Wolverhampton Wanderers and Sheffield United.

Midnite partners with BR-DGE to optimise payments performance. Midnite has partnered with BR-DGE to optimise pay-ins and payouts and support the operator"s international expansion. Midnite has partnered with BR-DGE to optimise pay-ins and payouts and support the operator's international expansion. The move replaces the operator's previous direct integrations with payment providers and places an independent orchestration layer at the centre of its payments setup as it prepares to enter new markets. Before the partnership, Midnite operated through direct integrations with payment providers in the UK and Ireland. According to the companies, this arrangement supported the business while it was establishing itself, but its growth and expansion plans required a payments setup able to keep pace with the rest of its mobile-first app. Jacob Spencer, Chief Revenue Officer at BR-DGE, said that building on a single payment service provider (PSP) worked well domestically but limited how quickly Midnite could add new payment methods or move into new markets. He also described the shift to independent orchestration as a way to address that technical debt in one step. Through BR-DGE's existing connectivity, Midnite introduced TrueLayer's Pay By Bank payments almost immediately. Further alternative payment methods are already in the implementation phase via the platform. As Midnite pursues its growth plans, BR-DGE is set to enable additional payment options so that the operator can serve new markets from launch. Midnite also plans to add further PSP connectivity through BR-DGE in due course. This will give the operator access to BR-DGE's smart routing capabilities, designed to optimise costs, acceptance rates and uptime for both deposits and withdrawals. Tokenisation is another part of the setup. BR-DGE Vault will centralise tokenisation so that stored card details remain portable across both processors. As a result, the change is not expected to require re-tokenising players or to disrupt the checkout experience existing customers use. Midnite will also have access to BR-DGE's gaming-specific performance benchmarking and market insights. This intelligence draws on BR-DGE's modelling capabilities and its gaming merchant base, which spans multiple regulated markets, including the UK, Ireland, North America, Europe, and Australia. The aim is to identify where payment journeys can be improved to balance cost, security, acceptance, and customer experience. Payments in gaming and sports betting carry specific operational and regulatory requirements at every stage of a transaction, from pay-in to payout. Through the process of pairing its product-led, mobile-first platform with a provider focused on the sector, Midnite aims to bring its payments layer in line with the speed of the rest of its customer experience. Christian Huynh, Lead Product Manager, Midnite, said the company is focused on building the flexibility to move quickly and to replicate its payment experience in new markets as it grows. BR-DGE, for its part, expects its data intelligence to support orchestration decisions on each transaction as Midnite's business evolves. For BR-DGE, the agreement adds Midnite to a growing number of gaming operators using its independent orchestration layer and data intelligence, extending its presence in the gaming sector... Sep 25, 2026 00:00

UK watchdog bans Midnite AI ad, clears separate case. The UK ASA has ruled that a Midnite advert breached gambling advertising rules because its AI-generated character appeared under 25. In a separate case, it cleared White Hat Gaming adverts on HLTV.org, finding no evidence of targeting under-18s. UK gambling advertising rulings focus on age and audience targeting. The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has warned Dribble Media over a Midnite advert linked to the 2026 World Cup. The regulator found that the advert featured a character who appeared to be under 25. In a separate case, the ASA cleared White Hat Gaming over three adverts for Casimba and The Grand Ivy Casino. The regulator found no evidence that the adverts targeted under-18s on the Counter-Strike 2 website HLTV.org. Midnite advert challenged over character's age. A single complaint concerned a TikTok advert promoting free bets through the Midnite app. The advert showed a man using the app on his phone. The complaint questioned whether the advert breached UK gambling advertising rules by featuring someone who appeared to be under 25. Those rules prohibit gambling adverts from featuring anyone who is, or appears to be, under that age. AI-Generated character breaches CAP Code rules. Dribble Media said an affiliate, Limay Media, created and sanctioned the advert without instruction. Dribble later ended its relationship with the affiliate. Limay Media said the advert featured an AI-generated fictional character intended to depict an adult. It attributed the publication to an "isolated human error" and said it had added safeguards for AI-generated characters in gambling adverts. The ASA accepted the explanation about the character's use but agreed that his presentation appeared "youthful". The regulator also found that his behaviour in the advert suggested he was under 25. Under Edition 12 of the CAP Code, the ASA ruled that the advert breached rules 16.3 and 16.3.14 on gambling advertising. It ordered Dribble Media and Limay Media not to publish the advert again in its current form. White Hat adverts cleared on esports website. The separate complaint concerned three adverts displayed on HLTV.org, a website covering professional Counter-Strike 2 esports. Two adverts promoted welcome bonuses for Casimba and The Grand Ivy Casino. A live match page also contained a "Betting" section with odds and clickable links to gambling operators, including Casimba. The complainant challenged whether the adverts were appropriately targeted.