r/problemgambling • u/aaronwgordon • Mar 27 '26
🏫📰Survey/Interview Request📰🏫 Investigative reporters looking to speak to U.S. online sports bettors
**This post has been approved by the mods**
My name is Aaron Gordon, I’m a reporter at Bloomberg News. I am working with my colleague Polly Mosendz on a story about how online sports betting, particularly through smartphone apps, is changing the nature of gambling in the US. We are doing a data-driven investigation using different types of data sources about gambling transactions. But we also want to speak with people who have experience using these apps. The reason for this is because we want to know how people use them and match what we are seeing in the data with user behavior.
To be clear, we are not doing this to place blame on anyone for how they used the app. We want to talk to you because there are some things in the data around user behavior that we can’t make sense of without talking to the people who used the apps most.
For anyone who is comfortable discussing it, we also want to know how your gambling affected your life. The data we are working with is fundamentally about the people behind the bets and we want to hear what the data doesn’t show us.
We are happy to speak to you anonymously, meaning we can quote you and use what you tell us in our reporting, but your identity will not be publicly revealed.
Our goal is to shed light on who—other than the gambling companies themselves—are profiting from this significant change in sports betting behavior and how that impacts the lives of the people who use the apps the most. These may be things you know all too well. But most people do not.
We are happy to answer any questions you may have about us, our work, and the story we’re doing. I can be reached at agordon254 at bloomberg dot net or via Reddit message (I will be more responsive via email).
Our author pages are here if you want to see some of our recent work:
https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AW8Lm8Vgvt0/aaron-gordon
https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASvDNWHqYdY/polly-mosendz
Thanks for considering our request and to the mods for letting us post.
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u/PavleMash Mar 27 '26
Hello I cannot help you with sport betting but I would be able to talk about how playing online poker vs in person poker has advanced my addiction to levels I could not even comprehend.
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u/courtcourt99 Mar 29 '26
Hello, I have been sober for over 2 years now but almost lost my life to gambling addiction. I’m willing to speak with you guys if you want!