iGaming Awards Calendar 2026

Coverage: Land-based and digital operators, supplier categories, games and products, sportsbook, casino services, innovation, and responsible business.

Selection: The organizer selects and explains the shortlist, a panel of senior industry executives votes, and KPMG US independently adjudicates the voting process. Adjudication verifies voting controls, not every commercial claim made about a nominee.

A May 15 organizer post said June 11. The later official occurrence page shows June 26, which is treated as the extended final deadline.

Coverage: Affiliate, operator-program, supplier, content, campaign, network, and individual leadership categories.

Selection: A judging panel produces the shortlist, followed by a weighted combination of judge scores and an industry vote. Public voting is part of the method and should not be described as independent performance verification.

The current awards page says April 8-June 26. It calls April 8 a Monday even though the date was a Wednesday, and a separate organizer article says June 25. The numeric April 8 and the later live June 26 deadline are retained without silently fixing either conflict.

Coverage: Operator, operator-and-supplier, supplier, product, marketing, games, payments, compliance, data, platform, and responsible-business categories.

Selection: An organizer-appointed industry panel signs confidentiality terms, declares conflicts, abstains in affected categories, and is assigned categories by expertise. The page does not name an independent vote adjudicator. Entry is free, shortlisted entrants are encouraged to buy at least one full-price ticket, and categories display sponsor labels; none of those commercial facts proves judging independence or nominee performance.

The current year-specific page accepts entries and publishes the deadline, but does not publish the original opening date.

Coverage: Affiliate, operator, service, general, and innovation categories across casino, sports betting, platforms, payments, compliance, marketing, safer gambling, employment, and AI.

Selection: Organizer-appointed external judges declare conflicts, score category criteria, and do not receive unrelated submissions. EGR says it does not score or vote. Deloitte verifies the submitted scores used to confirm winners and highly commended entries; that is score verification, not an endorsement of the entrants or an audit of their underlying claims. Named event sponsors are a separate commercial relationship.

Coverage: The organizer groups nominations across B2B, B2C, products, companies, projects, and individuals; the live category list should be checked before entering.

Selection: The organizer states that five nominees are shortlisted and the winner is determined by a 70% judge and 30% public-vote weighting.

The final occurrence page extended the deadline beyond an earlier March 27 organizer announcement.

Coverage: Twenty-one categories across affiliates, individuals, programs and networks, suppliers, and categories open to all active affiliate-sector businesses.

Selection: External judges score most categories against published criteria and declare conflicts. Best Affiliate Manager uses a public vote on a judge-selected shortlist.

Coverage: General supplier performance, software and product categories, service categories, and individual achievement.

Selection: Entries are assessed against category criteria by the organizer's judging panel. Published winner explanations describe the judges' rationale but do not turn submitted performance claims into independently verified facts.

Coverage: Casino operators and suppliers, digital operators and casino suppliers, integrated resorts, casino and table-game products, digital sports betting suppliers, corporate responsibility, and executives.

Selection: The organizer selects and explains the shortlist, and a panel of senior industry executives votes for a winner and runner-up. One executive per company may judge, conflicts exclude a vote, and KPMG US checks the voting system and result calculation. That adjudication is not verification of nominee performance claims, and a category sponsor label is not judging evidence.

Coverage: Operator, operator-and-supplier, supplier, affiliate, game developer, and payments-and-compliance categories.

Selection: Organizer-appointed judges sign confidentiality agreements, declare conflicts, and are assigned categories based on experience. That process is an award decision, not an audit of every claim in an entry.

The FAQ says Friday, December 5 without printing the year. December 5, 2025 was a Friday and preceded the February 2026 ceremony, so the record makes that year inference explicit.

Coverage: Regional operator and affiliate performance, supplier services and software, marketing, employment, ESG, safer gambling, and individual achievement.

Selection: Organizer-appointed external judges declare conflicts and score published category criteria. EGR says it does not vote, and names Deloitte as process adjudicator, but the public 2026 page does not describe Deloitte's procedures in enough detail to treat entrant claims as audited evidence.

The page prints July 14-September 30 without repeating the year. These dates are retained as 2025 because they form the nomination stage before the January 2026 ceremony.

Coverage: Sports betting, land-based casino, online casino, suppliers, games and products, affiliates, platforms, services, and breakthrough companies.

Selection: The organizer develops and explains the shortlist, then a panel of senior industry executives votes for a winner and runner-up. Judges are excluded where the organizer records a conflict, and KPMG adjudicates the voting controls and result calculation. That work does not verify the commercial claims behind a nomination, and a category sponsor label is not judging evidence.