Blask, together with Find More Africa, compiled the Top 20 African gambling operators: a list of the largest cross-African brands, ranked by their total Blask Index for Q4 2025 (October–December).
Blask Top-20 ranking (Q4 2025)
| № | Brand name | Number of countries | Blask Index in Q4 | Blask Index in Q3 | QoQ |
| 1 | betPawa | 27 | 260 681 877 | 205 730 752 | 26,71 % |
| 2 | Betway | 43 | 234 141 288 | 178 281 178 | 31,33 % |
| 3 | SportyBet | 19 | 73 597 588 | 56 977 401 | 29,16 % |
| 4 | Hollywoodbets | 7 | 64 767 735 | 59 027 276 | 9,72 % |
| 5 | Betika | 17 | 46 581 118 | 40 176 010 | 15,94 % |
| 6 | Bet9ja | 3 | 41 523 822 | 37 014 255 | 12,18 % |
| 7 | Premier Bet | 27 | 34 652 958 | 30 913 764 | 12,09 % |
| 8 | Elephant Bet | 6 | 29 277 440 | 27 236 197 | 7,49 % |
| 9 | bet223 | 1 | 19 190 884 | 13 941 451 | 37,65 % |
| 10 | 1xBet | 57 | 18 976 210 | 16 581 154 | 14,44 % |
| 11 | NgeNge | 1 | 17 342 305 | 21 711 337 | -20,12 % |
| 12 | SportPesa | 10 | 15 008 039 | 13 705 758 | 9,5 % |
| 13 | BetKing | 7 | 14 807 237 | 12 680 557 | 16,77 % |
| 14 | Lotto Star | 1 | 14 648 684 | 13 687 238 | 7,02 % |
| 15 | Fortebet | 5 | 14 179 947 | 14 290 494 | -0,77 % |
| 16 | DashBet | 1 | 11 949 181 | 12 817 195 | -6,77 % |
| 17 | Congo Bet | 2 | 11 367 364 | 8 487 145 | 33,93 % |
| 18 | GameMania | 1 | 11 184 846 | 13 257 937 | -15,63 % |
| 19 | 888bet | 5 | 9 584 955 | 9 639 250 | -0,56 % |
| 20 | Odibets | 2 | 8 945 241 | 11 983 889 | -25,35 % |
What the quarter shows
Conclusion 1: betPawa and Betway account for roughly half of the total Blask Index within the Top 20. Yet maximum geographic footprint does not automatically translate into leadership: 1xBet, present in 57 countries, sits only in 10th place, while betPawa active in 27 markets leads the ranking on demand.
Conclusion 2: Every brand in the top ten posts positive QoQ. That matters: the market could have “grown” merely through reshuffling inside the Top 20, but here the lift is visible across most of the biggest names at the same time.
Conclusion 3: The lower end of the ranking behaves differently. Volatility and drawdowns show up there first, often in demand signals rather than in the public rhetoric of brands.
Gainers: who grew the most (QoQ)
| Position in Top 20 | Brand name | Number of countries | Blask Index in Q4 | Blask Index in Q3 | QoQ |
| 9 | bet223 | 1 | 19 190 884 | 13 941 451 | 37,65 % |
| 17 | Congo Bet | 2 | 11 367 364 | 8 487 145 | 33,93 % |
| 2 | Betway | 43 | 234 141 288 | 178 281 178 | 31,33 % |
| 3 | SportyBet | 19 | 73 597 588 | 56 977 401 | 29,16 % |
| 1 | betPawa | 27 | 260 681 877 | 205 730 752 | 26,71 % |
In the growth leaders, you see both heavyweights and narrowly-scoped brands.
Conclusion 1: Across this group of five, the average quarter-over-quarter increase is roughly one-third.
Conclusion 2: All three top operators (betPawa, Betway, and SportyBet) appear among the gainers, each with growth above 25%.
Conclusion 3: Country count is not a proxy for speed. The biggest % jumps belong to operators present in just one or two markets (bet223 and Congo Bet).
Losers: who lost the most (QoQ)
| Position in Top 20 | Brand name | Number of countries | Blask Index in Q4 | Blask Index in Q3 | QoQ |
| 20 | Odibets | 2 | 8 945 241 | 11 983 889 | -25,35 % |
| 11 | NgeNge | 1 | 17 342 305 | 21 711 337 | -20,12 % |
| 18 | GameMania | 1 | 11 184 846 | 13 257 937 | -15,63 % |
| 16 | DashBet | 1 | 11 949 181 | 12 817 195 | -6,77 % |
| 15 | Fortebet | 5 | 14 179 947 | 14 290 494 | -0,77 % |
Conclusion 1: The downside is uneven: from a near-flat dip at Fortebet to a loss of roughly a quarter of quarterly volume at Odibets.
Conclusion 2: A pattern still emerges: sharper declines appear more often among brands with a narrow geographic footprint. This is not proof of causality, but the practical takeaway is straightforward: when the number of markets is limited, any shift in conditions can become decisive.
Methodology
How the ranking was calculated
Blask reviewed all operators active across the African countries supported by Blask, calculated each brand’s total Blask Index metric for Q4 2025 (October–December), ranked brands in descending order, and then compared Q4 against Q3 2025 to capture quarter-over-quarter momentum. QoQ (quarter-over-quarter) is the percentage change from one quarter to the previous quarter.
What Blask Index is
Blask Index is an operational demand indicator for iGaming: it measures the volume of market interest in a given country and the portion of that interest attributed to a brand over a selected period. The metric is built from open behavioral signals that are converted into a comparable scale: data is normalized, time series are smoothed, and noise and one-off distortions are reduced, so brand and period comparisons are not driven by random fluctuations. Practically, it functions as a “market pulse” that can be summed by quarter and compared quarter-to-quarter.
