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Field notes
Notes on discovery, evidence, and the grey market — from the team watching it.
10 Sept 2026
How Helios Mapped Europe’s Growing Online Gambling Black Market
A new Regulus Partners report, published on behalf of EUROMAT, estimates that Europe’s online gambling Black Market reached €12bn in 2025. Behind that figure is a detailed discovery exercise by Helios: 978 unique sites identified across 28 jurisdictions, 709 with measurable traffic, and more than 2,500 site-country traffic relationships. The findings reveal a professionalised core, a rapidly regenerating long tail, and a market increasingly shaped by consumer friction — showing why finding-level intelligence matters when turning market estimates into actionable regulatory insight.
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Four surfaces, one catalogue
Search results, advertising, app stores and news - where illegal iGaming actually reaches players, and how Helios watches all four at once.
10 Sept 2026
Why we archive the web before we judge it
Every Helios finding is captured as a tamper-evident web archive before any classification happens. Here's why that order matters.