If you have tips about advertising for permitted or unpermitted gambling offers on the Internet, you can submit them anonymously.
The publication of gambling advertising is regulated in Germany. Only gaming providers that have received a permit to conduct gambling from the competent authority are allowed to advertise their gambling offers (i.e. legal gambling offers).
If you are not sure whether you have discovered a violation of rules of gambling advertising, find out in advance in the State Gambling Treaty 2021.
Here are some clues for you:
- Gambling advertising must not suggest that players can influence gambling.
- No advertising for virtual slot machine games, online poker and online casino games may take place on the radio or Internet between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. (daily).
- Directly before or during the live broadcasting of sports events, it is not permitted for advertising for sports betting on this sports event to be broadcast on the broadcasting channel.
Relevance has references to gambling advertising, for example, in the area of horse and sports betting, lotteries, online poker or virtual slot machine games.
