Driven by online casino gains in a quiet period for sports, Ontario’s regulated iGaming market grew 24% year over year in July despite the number of active player accounts falling below one million for the first time in nine months.
Total wagering activity for the month was $7.563 billion, iGaming Ontario (iGO) reported in its latest revenue update, up 24.0% from July 2024 and 4% from June 2025. The province’s 50 licensed commercial operators collectively made $311.0 million in gross gaming revenue, 28.3% more than in the same month last year.
The number of active player accounts (APAs) across those 50 platforms dipped to 948,000, down 6% from June. That took the number of APAs below one million for the first time since October 2024, although it is still up 15.2% from July 2024.
However, while fewer accounts are playing, the ones that are being used are yielding more money for operators. Those APAs produced an average revenue of $328, up 8% from June and the highest per-user takings since August 2024.
Casino boom keeps booming
Online casino gaming accounted for a whopping 89% of the total handle in July, the largest proportion in the history of regulated iGaming in Ontario.
Players wagered through $6.737 billion on iCasino, up 27.3% year over year. That produced gross iCasino gaming revenue for operators of $252.3 million, a 37.4% year-over-year increase as online casinos continue to monetize their play effectively. That iCasino GGR was 81% of the total GGR, proving once again that online casino is where the money is at in this market.
July’s figures also don’t take into account the arrival of one of the best-performing online casino brands in North America, DraftKings-owned Golden Nugget Online Casino, which launched in Ontario in mid-August.
Sports falls to lowest-ever wagering share
In stark contrast, July sports betting handle was $688 million in a very quiet period for sports. That was down 10% from June, and the lowest total value of sports betting wagers since August 2024. July 2025’s total was barely up from July 2024, increasing just 2.5%, and it also represented just 9% of July 2025’s total iGaming handle, the first time that online sports betting’s share of total handle has been in the single digits since Ontario launched regulated iGaming in April 2022.
Operators made $52.7 million from sports wagering, representing 17% of their total gaming revenue. That was down 1.3% from July 2024’s sports betting GGR, the fourth time in the first seven months of this year that operators’ winnings from online sports betting fell year over year.
Online peer-to-peer poker continues to account for just 2% of handle and GGR, hampered by the current liquidity restriction that limits Ontarians to only playing against other Ontarians.
As always, we remind you that iGO’s reporting does not take into account activity on Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG) platforms, including the PROLINE+ sportsbook. OLG will report its results from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025, sometime this fall.
All change at iGO
iGO is now doing its business as a standalone conduct-and-manage agency after the iGaming Ontario Act 2024 ended its subsidiary relationship with the market’s regulator, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO). From its inception in July 2021 until May 11, 2025, iGO had been a subsidiary of the AGCO, but it officially went alone on May 12 under the provincial Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Gaming.
Last November, a spokesperson from the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General told Canadian Gaming Business that the legal change was made in part to address a concern of a conflict of interest raised by Ontario’s Auditor General.
The change to organizational structure comes at a time when iGO is also transitioning its leadership. The agency announced on Thursday that Joseph Hillier has been appointed to the new position of President and CEO to replace retired Executive Director Martha Otton.
