Can You Advertise Gambling

Idaho: Idaho regulates gambling advertising on signs: Any building, place, or the ground itself, wherein or whereon gambling or any game of chance for money, checks, credit or other representatives of value is carried on or takes place, or gambling paraphernalia is kept, or any notice, sign or device advertising or indicating the existence. YouTube and Google users soon will have the ability to opt out of gambling and alcohol advertisements if they don’t want to see them, using tools the companies are rolling out. The feature will.

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• by Laurie Sullivan@lauriesullivan, December 10, 2020

YouTube and Google users soon will have the ability to opt out of gambling and alcohol advertisements if they don’t want to see them, using tools the companies are rollingout.

The feature will start in Ad Settings beginning with YouTube Ads in the U.S., and will be introduced into Google Ads and YouTube globally in early 2021. Countries with legal restrictionsagainst serving gambling and alcohol ads will not see any change in their policies.

“We’ve heard feedback that some people would prefer to limit ads in certaincategories like alcohol, so today we’re launching a new control in Ad Settings, enabling people to see fewer alcohol ads, with gambling as an additional option,” Debbie Weinstein, vicepresident of YouTube and video global solutions, wrote in a post.

This feature doesn't opt people out of all ads. The intent aims to have the ability to block all ads from a givencategory, but there are certain ads that can be difficult to categorize.

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Google wants to remain fully transparent so they’re using 'see fewer ads' rather than 'see noads' or 'block ads' to appropriately set expectations that while significantly reduced, people may still see ads related to a selected category.

A company spokesperson said Google willcontinue to work to get as close as possible to blocking all ads within a selected category.

Google also gained the support of the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking. The twoorganizations have been working with the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD) and its members such as beer, wine and spirits producers, taking into account their expertise onstandards for responsible alcohol advertising and marketing.

There are other features that block or mute ads. The feature called Mute this ad has been around for some time. It lets peoplechoose the ads they would rather not see. These controls live alongside the policies determining when and where gambling and alcohol ads can be shown per local laws.

This extra step givesusers greater control. It is also reversible, should someone change their mind and want to once again see the ads.

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December 14, 2020

Don’t Jeopardize Your Organization’s Gambling License

There have been reports that some Minnesota bars and restaurants intend to open for on-site eating and drinking prior to Friday, December 18 in violation of Executive Order 20-99. If so, your organization may feel pressure to also restart the conduct of gambling at these locations. Please remember that your organization is responsible for securing all games, including those played and unplayed.

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The conduct of gambling at a location in violation of Executive Order 20-99 could result in the suspension or revocation of your organization’s lawful gambling license. If your organization has multiple premises permits, your ability to conduct gambling, even at sites that did not violate the Executive Order, could be affected.

December 10, 2020

To Attend Remote Board Meeting via WebEx: Prior to the 10:00 a.m. meeting start time, call 855-282-6330. At the prompt, enter meeting ID 146 757 1289, followed by the # key. You may be asked for extra information, but you may hit the # key again and you will be taken to the meeting.

To Participate in Public Comment: If you wish to provide public comment at the next meeting please submit, by 4:30 p.m. the prior Friday, your name, who you represent, and your comment to steve.pedersen@state.mn.us.

November 30, 2020

The October/November/December 2020 Gaming News is now available.

Pull-tab Sales at Liquor Stores

Many gambling managers have the impression that because off-sale liquor stores may continue to sell pull-tabs at this time, and, per executive order, on-sale bars can now also sell off-sale beer and wine, that all bars may therefore sell pull-tabs. However, that conclusion is incorrect.

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Only bar and restaurant locations with an off-sale liquor license may conduct pull-tabs at this time – provided that the pull-tabs are conducted in a portion of a building with a separate entrance where on-site eating and drinking was not previously allowed. Although executive order temporarily allows bars with on-sale licenses to conduct some limited off-sale, very few locations have an actual off-sale license. Again, bars without an off-sale license and a separate entrance into an exclusively off-sale portion of the building are not allowed to sell pull-tabs.

Guidance for Reporting “Paused” Games

On Friday, November 20 organizations were allowed the option of “pausing” their pull-tab games in play rather than closing them. Pausing a game means that the organization may put that same game back into play once their premises reopens for on-site eating and drinking. The proceeds from paused games must be deposited into the gambling account within 4 business days after the game was paused. However, the game is not reported as closed on monthly reports until the game has been placed into play again and then removed from play.

Pausing games creates some unique reporting issues at month-end. The instructions below are meant to help your organization report paused games correctly so that your Profit Carryover Reconciliation, form LG100F, will balance.

There are three important numbers for an organization to remember when pausing their games; the amount of their cash bank for the games being paused, their deposit total, and the difference between those two numbers (which should be an indication of what the net receipts were for the games at the time they were paused).

Organizations should take the following steps:

• Deposit all the cash from each site (“Deposit Total” in the examples below) into their gambling bank account.
• On the LG100A, Lawful Gambling Receipts and Expenses per Site, reduce the starting cash bank amount for the games that are paused at the site to $0.
• Report the difference amount from the starting cash bank and deposit total amounts on the LG100F line 14 (the difference amount can be positive or negative depending on the circumstance).
• When re-opening a site, withdraw the same “Deposit Total” that they initially deposited and report the same cash bank amount that they had at the time the games were paused.

Click here for examples of how the reporting would work out depending on the starting cash banks as compared to the net receipts for each game. If you have questions, please contact your Compliance Auditor for assistance.

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Continuing Education Opportunities

A new continuing education class on lawful purpose expenditures is now available by clicking on the following link: CE – Lawful Purpose Expenditures. It’s a video-based course presented by Nichole Engeswick, a Compliance Auditor working out of our Mankato office. Participants will watch four videos with a total combined running time of about 40 minutes and answer a few questions at the end of each video.

Information on these and other continuing education classes is also available under the “Education” tab by selecting the “Continuing Education” menu option.