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Data and personalisation at Soft2Bet: A new standard for player interaction

by Sarah Dunsby
7th Jul 26 2:17 pm

Soft2Bet is an international technology company that develops B2B solutions for the iGaming industry. Data shapes a modern iGaming product as directly as any other business input, and Soft2Bet has built its personalisation strategy on that foundation. The company operates across 22 licences in 12 jurisdictions, meaning the insights gained from its operations also inform the technology it supplies to operators. In that context, personalisation is less a marketing layer than an operating discipline – the working logic that determines what each player sees, when, and why.

The role of data in modern iGaming

Data has changed what a gaming platform can do. A generation ago, operators worked from a generic player profile: one promotion for everyone, one homepage, one shelf of recommended games. Today everything is built around the individual session. Every deposit, every game opened, every login tells the platform something, and the products that read those signals well can shape themselves to fit the player.

For Soft2Bet, this is structural. Its MEGA product – the Motivational Engineering Gaming Application launched in 2023 – is built so that behaviour drives what happens next. When Soft2Bet won the Innovation in Casino Entertainment award at the SBC Awards 2025, judges named segmentation and real-time personalisation as the mechanics behind it.

What today’s players expect

Player expectation has moved faster than many products. A player who is used to relevant content elsewhere online does not lower that expectation when they open a gaming app. Three expectations now shape the work:

  1. Relevance: content and offers that match how a person plays, not a generic feed.
  2. Continuity: a journey that remembers progress from one session to the next.
  3. Control: limits and choices the user can see and adjust.

Soft2Bet’s progression systems are designed to carry a player’s history forward rather than starting fresh each session.

How audiences are segmented

Segmentation is the bridge between raw data and effective personalisation. It groups players by shared behaviour so the platform can identify patterns it can act on. The logic runs in stages:

  1. The platform records behaviour: games played, session length, deposit patterns, preferred sports.
  2. Those signals sort players into segments defined by what they do, not who they are.
  3. Each segment receives content, offers and progression suited to its pattern.
  4. Segments update as behaviour changes, so the grouping stays current.

This is how MEGA actually works. The product lets operators set rewards, bonus triggers, user segmentation and difficulty levels per brand and per market, which Soft2Bet describes as journeys tailored by segment and by jurisdiction. Segmentation done well is invisible to the user: it shows up only as a product that seems to understand them.

Putting analytics to work

Analytics turns player data into action. Soft2Bet’s platform runs on real-time performance analytics, giving operators a live view of how each segment responds and where the platform needs to adjust. The results are measurable. Across MEGA deployments, Soft2Bet has documented a fourfold increase in screen time, a 65% rise in net gaming revenue, a 50% increase in deposit amounts and a 45% rise in average revenue per player – numbers that point to deeper engagement before they point to higher revenue.

Data in practice at Soft2Bet

Because Soft2Bet runs its own brands and supplies operators, each deployment teaches the next: a segmentation model proven on a Soft2Bet brand can be offered to partners, and what partners learn returns to the brands. Personalisation here is not designed once and shipped; it is observed, measured and reshaped market by market – which is why every MEGA deployment is tuned to local player preferences.

Balancing personalisation and privacy

Personalisation depends on data, and data depends on trust. The more a platform tailors, the more it must justify the information it holds. Soft2Bet’s position is that engagement and protection are one project: the segmentation that personalises a journey is the segmentation that flags when play should slow. Market-specific configuration ensures that each brand operates in accordance with the privacy and responsible gaming requirements applicable in its market. An effective personalisation system should not only improve the user experience but also support data protection and responsible platform operation.

Personalisation as an operating standard

Step back, and the picture is consistent. For Soft2Bet, data and personalisation are not just product features but a method – the way the company decides what each player meets and how each brand develops. From the segmentation behind MEGA to the analytics that measure it, one loop repeats: read behaviour, group it, answer it, measure the answer. As player expectations keep rising, that loop is what keeps a gaming product current, and it is the standard Soft2Bet is building its brands and its technology to meet.

 

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