Gaming Industry Observer Enhanced Services

Our GIO² premium service provides you with a suite of timely information that is unavailable elsewhere. Hundreds of gaming operators, equipment manufacturers, analysts, investors, regulators, attorneys and other gaming-related professionals rely on our premium service for critical analysis of current and future industry trends , timely insight of the latest news, and vital operating statistics of all publicly reporting gaming properties in the United States.

What are the benefits?

• Atlantic City Analytical Annual – Delivered in April each year, this detailed annual analysis analyzes the key operating metrics for every Atlantic City property over the last five years. This report provides revenue by type, gross operating profits, hotel operating statistics, promotional allowances. This is a must-have report for anyone who studies the Atlantic City gaming industry.
• Atlantic City Revenue Analysis – Delivered on the 10th of each month, this report not only crunches the monthly gross revenue figures in ways unavailable anywhere else, but also provides a snapshot of the external factors influencing each month’s results. Our detailed analysis provides benchmarks for gaming operators and analysts in jurisdictions across the country.
• East Coast Slot Report© – This monthly statistical analysis has becomes the Bible for gaming operators from Maine to Florida who seek to compare state-by-state, property-by-property slot performance metrics, including: Handle, win, daily win per unit, unit count, and hold percentage.
• Mid-Atlantic Gaming Report – Delivered monthly, this report closely examines both the slots and table-games performance, along with the critical trends and rankings, for all gaming properties in the intensely competitive gaming market within 150 miles of Atlantic City.
• Midwest Slot Report© – Just like our East Coast report, except tailored for the Midwestern markets (as we liberally define “Midwest”), from Indiana to Colorado, from Michigan to Mississippi. Each report includes (where available) the handle, win, daily win per unit, unit count, and hold percentage for each property.
• National Gaming-Regulation Digest – Delivered on the 1st and 15th of each month, we report on the regulatory activity in U.S. public gaming jurisdictions and the National Indian Gaming Commission.
• U.S. Gross Gaming Revenue Analysis – Our newest monthly statistical analysis is designed to meet the needs of operators, analysts, suppliers and others who require property-by-property state-by-state performance metrics for commercial casinos across the United States. The report includes the key performance indicators of slots, tables, poker and number of gaming positions – by month, last three months and last 12 months.
• U.S. Internet Gambling Watch – Produced with the online-gaming experts at BolaVerde Media Group, our quarterly newsletter brings you up to date on the fast-moving efforts to legalize Internet gaming in the United States.
• Subscriber perks, including $125 discounts on all Spectrum conferences, free back issues of the newsletter, and periodic Spectrum white papers.

GIO Analytics will be offered as a new add-on service to Gaming Industry Observer. Powered by MSA’s Business Intelligence Server (MBIS), subscribers will have the ability to review casino specific and regional revenue and slot reports via a secure web portal. This service is designed to provide a high level of value to those who are interested in gaining industry insights without the need for in-depth analysis. Reports will be released to users simultaneously each month.

GIO Analytics includes:

• Gaming Industry Observer delivered 20 times per year
• Atlantic City Revenue Report*
• East Coast Slot Report© *
• Midwest Slot Report©*
• Access to current and historical reports*

GIO³ is Gaming Industry Observer’s new premium plus service that will offer everything currently found in GIO² as well as a web portal to view and analyze the data behind the GIO² reports. Powered by MSA’s Business Intelligence Server (MBIS), GIO³ Premium Plus subscribers will have the ability to view static or dynamic reports depending upon the user’s needs. In addition to the Atlantic City Revenue Analysis and East Coast and Midwest Slot Reports©, users will have the ability to create, view and share their own reports using any of the GIO data, current or historical, via MBIS’s core functionality:

• Shared Reports: allows users to view and store static and dynamic reports created by other users.
• Power Analyst: allows data savvy users to organize data dimensions into meaningful reports and graphs. These reports can be saved to “Shared Reports” for others to view or saved to the Dashboard for frequent viewing.
• My MBIS: an individual partition that permits a user to browse and manage personal reports.
• Dashboard: allows users a dynamic view of mission critical reports and graphs. Each Dashboard is easily customizable to meet a specific user’s needs. MBIS’s Dashboard can be segmented to include data pertinent to a specific area of expertise.

The GIO³ premium plus service includes all the benefits of GIO² premium service, as well as full MBIS functionality.