If you never watch live sports, you can't understand how insane the marketing for online sports gambling is right now. Imagine tuning in to a local news broadcast, and having the meteorologist spend 10 minutes talking about different ways to bet on today's weather, and which weather bet will pay off - ThreadSky

toobigtofail.bsky.social • 340 days ago

If you never watch live sports, you can't understand how insane the marketing for online sports gambling is right now. Imagine tuning in to a local news broadcast, and having the meteorologist spend 10 minutes talking about different ways to bet on today's weather, and which weather bet will pay off

Reposted from Shiv Ramdas Rice Lord

The amount of money and effort currently being invested in trying to addict young people to gambling in the USA can only be compared to when Philip Morris actively targeted 10 year olds to have active customers for the next 40

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ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social•340 days ago

This would in fact, be very funny, watching people predict 75 and sunny and lose everything on 73 and partly cloudy.

db-user.bsky.social•340 days ago

me, making friendly casual conversation: sup man, great day we're having

rando: GREAT DAY?! FUCK YOU MAN, I JUST LOST MY KIDS COLLEGE MONEY BECAUSE THE CLOUDS JUST WOULDN'T GO AWAY

robertus.bsky.social•340 days ago

Honey can I borrow your hair dryer, I need to blow some warm air on the weather station because... reasons.

illiteratehunk.bsky.social•340 days ago

This stuff literally used to happen in Australia. I don't know any stats, but my impression is that the gambling problem there has been diminishing, but there were so many addicts a few decades back.

hamptonstevens.bsky.social•340 days ago

https://www.fox5ny.com/weather/betting-on-weather-takes-off

dramaticdaisies.bsky.social•340 days ago

They legalised sports betting in Germany around the same time. Now, even the subscription based viewing platforms show more ads for sports betting than football (the one with only feet) I literally counted.

trentonhoshiko.bsky.social•339 days ago

I don't even watch sports and yet I CONSTATLY get ads for every betting app known to mankind. I've played slots for a total of 10 minutes and hated it, I'm like the least of their audience. I can't even imagine how bad it is for people who actually watch sports regularly.

halfcockedlaw.bsky.social•340 days ago

Prop bets on when the next lightning strike. Discussion of how much fun it is to get the right rainfall correct. Offers of $50 on your first guess for tomorrow's high.

jeff-notheotherone.bsky.social•340 days ago

Tomorrow’s high: Take the over

jarekfa.bsky.social•340 days ago

Yah, seeing prompts for betting on upcoming AB outcomes, have been very depressing. I do a season long fantasy bball league with friends and I will find myself “caring” about random ABs. But the payoff is at the end of the season! I can’t imagine the mindset of “Daddy needs this 2B for the parlay”.

toobigtofail.bsky.social•340 days ago

And after explaining all of that, the meteorologist points you to a button on the screen of the device you're watching the news on, that you can press RIGHT NOW to bet on the weather. Then every thirty seconds the newscasters chat about how their bets on today's weather are paying off.

bmceuen.bsky.social•340 days ago

Then it goes to commercial, where you see advertisements for different platforms to bet on the weather through your phone

johnkelly.bsky.social•340 days ago

Don’t give them ideas. Someone will come along and try to ‘disrupt’ weather futures. 🙄

Also, I don’t watch sports and yet during certain seasons a significant portion of YouTube/youtube tv ads are just ‘random celebrity pushing sports betting’. Ugh.

onedishwasher.bsky.social•340 days ago

Fun fact: the best job offer I got coming out of college was in weather futures. I didn't take the job because I didn't want to live in Houston. (The job was with Enron)

wolfenred.bsky.social•340 days ago

They’re part of the reason I moved to Arizona. Thank you for not being part of that 🤬.

rosenbergite.bsky.social•340 days ago

Please step away from the Lathe of Heaven.

beninquiring.bsky.social•340 days ago

MLS is not doing this, and they mostly deliver their games through their Apple streaming subscription service. This sounds like a linear TV industry problem at the end of the day.

toobigtofail.bsky.social•339 days ago

Nope; much worse with apps where they can have betting buttons pop up over the screen.

beninquiring.bsky.social•339 days ago

Yeesh, MLS gets even more credit then

tom4okstate.bsky.social•339 days ago

Yep, it's become a huge, in my view, unwelcome distraction from the actual competition that most of us are there for. I say most of us. Maybe most of us aren't there for it anymore. Maybe I'm an outlier. Maybe everyone's just there for the bets.

rhcmuts.bsky.social•340 days ago

Listen to WBBM news on 780AM and every so many minutes "the sports guy" singing praises on Fan Duel, how easy it is, etc. etc.

socialisthermit.bsky.social•339 days ago

You don't even need to be an avid sports watcher, here in NC every other ad on every device is for online sports betting, + fliers in the mail

sodone.bsky.social•340 days ago

Just wait for the election

ckjohnsonbk.bsky.social•340 days ago

Zero interest in sports, but this is horrible. 😨

norbizness.bsky.social•340 days ago

I think I heard one on my local sports radio station (Austin-centric) that made me either want to call the host up for him to seek gambling help, or failing that calling the FCC: the over/under draft position of various Longhorn 1st/2nd round prospects.

homelessrobot.bsky.social•340 days ago

I feel like if you need to include an 800 number for if your product is ruining lives in your ad, then you really shouldn't be allowed to advertise your product

feeblecursedone.bsky.social•339 days ago

Still boggles my mind that like a decade ago the DOJ treated online poker as akin to running a cocaine smuggling ring but now that MLB and the NFL are on board gambling is fucking great.

becktiger.bsky.social•340 days ago

Constant online gambling ads on TV since NJ legalized it

crystalpepsi.bsky.social•340 days ago

There’s an entire football league, the UFL, that exists solely so people can bet on it!

cephaloctopi.bsky.social•340 days ago

Reddit has become-even more-unusable because between every post is a sports betting ad. Since NC legalized it, the bombarding from every corner has been incessant.

pyrholidon.bsky.social•340 days ago

My last roommate is a huge nfl fan and I'd always see ads for draftkings whenever I caught whatever she was watching.

jenniferpetitt.bsky.social•339 days ago

Truth. If you go to https://espn.com and their SCORES page, there is a betting line listed for every game today that has not yet started and a direct one-click link into the ESPN betting app. It's all so awful.

supak.com•340 days ago

Heh.

https://kalshi.com/events/climate

todus.bsky.social•340 days ago

Podcasts, too. And yet here I sit in the most populous state in the nation, unable to lay a tiny $5 bet on the Super Bowl or similar because somebody has their hands in Big No’s pocket.

cmraman.geek.org•339 days ago

VPNs exist, you know. (Also HA HA I’m part of Big No.)

todus.bsky.social•339 days ago

Perhaps I need to learn how to use Vs better, but I have yet to be able to place a bet on my east coast account when I'm in CA. Also: I don't get the logic behind restricting gambling apps in CA, when there are countless casinos, sportsbooks and card rooms across the state. Except: kill competition?

oldunreliable.bsky.social•339 days ago

Yes! Prop bets on everything.

bghilton.bsky.social•339 days ago

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