The summer slowdown kicked in for Ontario online gambling in June as numbers dropped across the board from a record-breaking May. But the $7.26 billion spent on iGaming Ontario-managed platforms took the regulated market’s lifetime handle past the $200 billion mark.
iGaming Ontario’s latest monthly reporting shows that sports betting particularly suffered last month, although online casino continues to drive strong year-over-year gains.
The $7.26 billion in total cash wagers was 21.4% higher than June 2024 and took customer wagering since the market opened in April 2022 to more than $204 billion. However, betting was down 10% from May 2025, in which handle broke the $8 billion barrier for the first time ever.
Total non-adjusted gross gaming revenue for June was $306.8 million, meaning that licensed online casinos and sportsbooks made 28% more GGR than they did in June 2024. Operator winnings were down 9% from May’s record of $338 million.
All-time, Ontario’s licensed commercial online gambling operators have now made more than $8 billion in gross revenue, earning the province more than $1.6 billion in tax revenue.
Operators getting better at monetizing online casino
Some $6.36 billion of the $7.26 billion handle was spent on online casino gaming, up 25.2% year over year.
That was also a monthly decline, this time of 8%, but online casino accounted for 88% of Ontario gamblers’ total spending on licensed platforms, the highest proportion in more than three years of regulated iGaming in the province.
So, you can justifiably say that almost nine in every 10 dollars wagered on iGaming Ontario-managed online gambling in Ontario is bet on games like digital slots, table games and live dealer products.
And, as well as being the big draw for players, online casino is operators’ biggest money-maker. Nearly 80% of June’s total GGR came from online casino, at $243.0 million, although that was down 6% from May’s all-time online casino GGR record of $259.8 million.
Operators’ winnings from iCasino are up 41.5% from June 2024’s $171.5 million. The fact that online casino’s revenue growth is far outpacing its wagering volume increase suggests that Ontario’s licensed operators are finding more and better ways to turn online casino play into house winnings.
Sports betting flatlines as summer season arrives
At the other end of the scale, there is sports betting.
With the NHL and NBA seasons ending in June and no NFL or meaningful European soccer, customer spending on sports fell to its lowest level in 10 months, since August 2024. The online sports wagering handle of $768 million was just 11% of the total cash wagers, the joint-lowest proportion in the market’s history and was also a year-over-year increase of just 0.26%.
That total was down 21% month over month, although the seasonality of sports undoubtedly had a big effect; in May, Ontario bettors had NHL Playoffs series featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Edmonton Oilers to gamble on, before the Leafs lost in seven games to the Florida Panthers.
And, for the third time in the first six months of 2025, operators’ winnings from online sports betting fell year over year. June’s $58.4 million was down 7.7% from June 2024’s $63.3 million and down 19% month over month.
Fewest active player accounts since November
There were 1.01 million active player accounts across all commercial regulated platforms last month, a 20.9% year-over-year rise. In June 2024, there were around 838,000 active accounts.
While June was the eighth consecutive month in which active accounts surpassed one million, the number of actives fell for the third month in a row to its lowest level since last November. The active accounts yielded an average revenue of $303 for operators in June, up slightly by 5.9% year over year from $286 but down 4% from May’s $316.
The number of active player accounts should not be interpreted as equal to the number of active online gamblers in Ontario. Many players have accounts with more than one platform and iGaming Ontario’s numbers don’t account for Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG) activity, nor do they shine any light on gambling on unlicensed and unregulated platforms.
OLG is estimated to hold around 20% of Ontario’s regulated online gambling activity by revenue share. Meanwhile, Ipsos and the Canadian Gaming Association concluded that 16.3% of gamblers in the province use only unregulated websites, while one-fifth of the remaining 83.7% use both licensed and unlicensed platforms.
