Online, betting & gaming

Introduction


Whether you want to help shape our digital future or have a stake in our innovative range of gaming services, you can bet there'll be a role for you within the Online, Betting & Gaming operations.

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The online team is responsible for the strategic and operational management of Sky.com.

We are a major player in the online market with our network attracting 15.8 million users, making us the seventh largest commercial network… and growing.

We have huge ambition, great content and a range of new services, working together to create a unique experience on web and mobile.

Our sites include Sky News, Sky Sports, Sky Travel, Sky Dating, Sky Money and Sky Showbiz. 

“We’ve changed TV, now we’re going to change online.”

We’ve been instrumental in the rapid expansion of our online presence, investing heavily in the development of our existing sites. This has seen us win the prestigious “best consumer publisher” at the Association of Online Publisher awards (AOP) in October 2008.

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Our engineers make around 80,000 home visits a week.

Sky betting & gaming

Sky Betting & Gaming offers a wide range of betting and gaming services under the Sky Bet, Sky Poker, Sky Vegas and Sky Bingo brands. The business uses the latest technology and cutting edge innovation to provide services over a number of platforms – customers can play online, via the red button on the TV, and via mobile.

Ensuring the customer has a great experience whichever platform they use is a major influence to growing our business and is a key focus for every member of the team based in Leeds and London.

We’re an exciting, growing, technology driven enterprise, and you’ll feel the buzz whether you’re part of marketing, finance, trading or IT. We look for innovative, driven, online savvy people who want to help us change the face of UK betting and gaming, further positioning ourselves as the modern, innovative entertainment company that we are. We’re always on the look out for great people and typical areas/roles include; product management, production, finance, marketing, odds compliers or fraud analyst specialists.

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Sky Bet - It matters more when there's money on it and that's a fact. Sport becomes even more exciting, there is more passion, more pleasure and more pain. Football, horse racing, golf, cricket, tennis, rugby, speedway... the list goes on and on. Visit www.skybet.com

BSkyB purchased the Sports Internet Group back in 1999 and re-branded the business as Sky Bet. Surrey Sports was a bet taking contact centre with the odd betting shop here and there, from these humble beginnings Sky Betting & Gaming was launched and has grown to be one of the industry leaders.

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The success of Sky Bet led to the launch of Sky Bet Vegas, now Sky Vegas. Rapid growth on this product has led to be our most successful title on Sky Vegas. Here customers can sample the thrills of online gaming with Sky Betting & Gaming’s online casino. Play without downloading and choose from more than 130 games from Roulette and Blackjack to Deal or No Deal and Chain Reactors. Visit www.skyvegas.com or play via TV by pressing red on any Sky channel.Sky Poker logo




Sky Poker is available online at www.skypoker.com and offers a wide range of games to play, ranging from two penny cash tables right through to huge prize tournaments.

Sky Poker is the most visited Poker site in the UK and offers sheer heart-stopping excitement and entertainment. Customers play poker against other Sky Poker customers and can even challenge celebrities who appear live on Sky Poker TV (Sky Channel 865).

Sky aims to not only entertain, but educate customers, with programming designed to aid viewers develop their game play and The Poker School travelling the UK, Sky Poker customers have the opportunity to grow in skill and confidence.

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Sky Bingo is the newest product in the Sky Betting & Gaming portfolio – the baby of the family – but definitely a key brand which is rapidly growing www.skybingo.com Customers can join in online chat with other bingo players from around the country and there are great competitions to win a range of prizes.

Bingo is one of the fastest growing segments of the online entertainment market, and is opening up a new market for online gaming companies. This market is already crowded and competitive, though most offerings are fairly generic. We believe that Sky have an unrivalled opportunity to shake up the market and succeed by bringing the power of live television, celebrity, a mainstream brand and Sky’s unique communication and technology assets to the bingo market.