{"id":14753,"date":"2014-10-10T11:34:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T19:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=14753"},"modified":"2014-10-10T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T19:34:01","slug":"caesars-wins-times-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/caesars-wins-times-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Caesars wins times two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations are in order twice over for Caesars Entertainment<\/strong>. The company is towering over its competitors in the social-gaming sphere, \"CAESARS-ENTERTAINMENT-LOGO\"<\/a>according to Eilers Research<\/strong>. While Zynga<\/strong> still rules Facebook<\/strong> and DoubleDown Casino<\/strong> has thrown a lifeline to International Game Technology<\/strong>, it’s the guy in the toga who comes out on top, with a 21% market share. DoubleDown is way back, at 11% and Zynga is close behind it at 9%, nearly followed by Big Fish Games at 8%.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t that long ago (July of last year) that Zynga was tops and Caesars pushed past it to be Numero Uno. It’s not even the online World Series of Poker<\/strong> that’s driving the numbers but Slotomania<\/strong>, twice as popular on Facebook. Only 5% of Caesars Interactive<\/strong>‘s business is for-money play, with social gaming far outstripping it. Even so, the lines between the two types of play seem to be blurring: “Social casino gaming doesn\u2019t involve depositing and cashing out real money, but players can purchase in-game add-ons and other enhancements, in addition to extra funds to play with, typically after losing the amount one gets for free.”<\/p>\n

* In the environmental realm, Caesars won its first-ever LEED Gold certification for Horseshoe Casino Baltimore<\/strong>. Awards for energy efficiency don’t come much higher. Among the features for which Horseshoe was cited was its water-recycling system, which capitalizes on stored rainwater for\u00a0irrigation, the use of repurposed building materials (a quarter of the entire complex) and low reliance on landfills<\/a>. Kudos to Caesars and Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.<\/strong> for a job well and conscientiously done.<\/p>\n

* The first three quarters of 2014 haven’t been great for Detroit<\/strong> casinos. Their relative market shares have remained pretty much the same — 42% for MGM \"mgm-grand-detroit-promotions\"<\/a>Grand Detroit<\/strong>, 32% for MotorCity<\/strong> and 26% for Greektown<\/strong>. However, MotorCity has done the best job of hanging onto revenue, slipping only 1% while its competitors both dropped 5%. Last month, Greektown actually pulled an upset<\/a>\u00a0and rose 5%, while MotorCity was off 7% and MGM down 4%. Of course, the tax revenues the city so desperately craves in order to stay in business was incrementally lower. Detractors of urban gambling — or of any gambling — might ponder how much worse off it would be for Detroit without its three casinos spinning money.<\/p>\n

* I’m not sure the world is ready for — let alone needs — a Pitbull<\/strong> slot machine. But that’s not going to stop<\/a> Bally Technologies<\/strong> from giving us one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations are in order twice over for Caesars Entertainment. The company is towering over its competitors in the social-gaming sphere, according to Eilers Research. While Zynga still rules Facebook and DoubleDown Casino has thrown a lifeline to International Game Technology, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,44,4,117,7,29,37,72,11,132],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14754,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions\/14754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}