The latest figures from iGaming Ontario (iGO) show that the regulated Ontario online gambling market is tracking at 30% ahead of last year in terms of both customer spending and operator earnings.
In June 2026, handle increased 30.3% from $7.26bn in June 2025 to $9.46bn. That total amount of non-promotional cash wagers was the fifth-highest monthly figure in Ontario’s history as a regulated market; March 2026’s $9.59bn remains the all-time high mark.
Aggregated gross gaming revenue last month was $400.6m, which was 30.6% ahead of the same month last year. However, like the handle, it represented a small monthly dip from May. Ontario operators’ all-time best month for GGR is December 2025, when the total hit $425.6m.
Operators’ combined revenue has now broken the $400m barrier in six of the last eight months since first doing so last November.
The $400m in revenue meant that the Ontario government took $80m in tax revenue thanks to the province’s 80-20 revenue split. That takes the province’s all-time tax revenue from regulated iGaming to more than $2.5bn since the government opened the market in April 2022.
There were more than 1.3 million active player accounts on licensed Ontario online gambling operators in June, the most since January. Those accounts produced an average revenue for operators of $304.
More than $8bn in online casino gaming
Of the total cash wagers, 88% came on online casino gaming. The $8.30bn in online casino handle was the third-highest of any month in the history of Ontario’s regulated market, behind only March 2026 and May 2026’s record, and was up 30.5% year over year.
Ontario’s iCasino operators made a collective $316.8m from that product vertical, representing 79% of the total GGR. That was down 3% from May’s monthly record online casino revenue of $326.4m but up 30.4% from June 2025.
In a month that included the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and yielded reported record-setting soccer betting on several Ontario online gambling platforms, sports betting handle eclipsed $1bn for the fourth time in six months in 2026. The $1.03bn total was up 6% from May and 34.5% ahead of the same month last year, when there was no World Cup boost.
Ontario’s online sportsbooks made $78.6m from sports betting, representing 20% of the total Ontario online gambling handle in June. That sports wagering GGR was up 34.4% from June 2025.
Online poker continues to account for just 1% of both handle and revenue in the province’s iGaming market.
iGaming Ontario’s numbers do not include online sports betting or casino activity on the government-owned Ontario Lottery and Gaming (OLG) platform.
Two major new operators arrive
As of the time of writing, the Ontario online gambling market consists of 48 licensed operators running a total of 82 sites.
June’s numbers do not account for the potential impact of two high-profile new additions to the field in recent weeks.
On June 30, the final day of the month, European sports streaming giant DAZN launched its DAZN Bet platform in the province, marking DAZN’s first North American gambling entry. DAZN Bet also went live in Alberta when that province became Canada’s second regulated iGaming market on July 13.
DAZN Bet already operates in several European markets, including:
- Germany
- Italy
- Spain
- The UK
DAZN Bet’s Managing Director of Canada, Richard Rawlinson, said that the operator will combine the strength of a global sports brand with a localized, built-for-Canada product, and that the Ontario entry “is the beginning of a long-term commitment” to Canada.
Then, on July 22, Hard Rock Bet finally launched in Ontario after many months of speculation about its plans for Canadian entry. The Seminole tribe-owned, Florida-headquartered operator offers online sports betting in 10 U.S. states, but Ontario constitutes its first iGaming expansion north of the border.
Ontario is just the third market in which Hard Rock Bet is able to offer online casino as well as sports betting.
Until last week, Hard Rock Bet’s absence from Ontario made it one of the holdouts of U.S. gaming; most other major American-market operators have been in the province’s regulated market for years.
However, the parent Hard Rock International does own and operate Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa in Canada’s capital. That makes it one of very few Ontario online gambling operators that also has a brick-and-mortar casino presence in Canada.
The arrivals of DAZN Bet and Hard Rock Bet will be accounted for in iGaming Ontario’s July revenue report, although the government agency does not break down its reporting by individual operator.
