Dear Blogabet members,
Pinnacle odds verification has been an integral part of the Blogabet ecosystem for more than 10 years. Unfortunately, since last week Pinnacle has revoked our API access with very short notice and our negotiations with them the last few days have been futile.
Bellow is the full story
Earlier this month Pinnacle informed us that "the landscape has changed" and the real-time odds API will be provided only to affiliates that are profitable for Pinnacle - bring a certain number of FTDs (first time depositors) every month and provide a certain profit NGR (net gaming revenue) every month.
Unfortunately Blogabet is not such an affiliate. Actually our affiliate account in Pinnacle has been in the red for 6-7 years and due to negative carryover, we have not received any earnings from Pinnacle for that period. In other words the players that Blogabet brings to Pinnacle are winning players that make profit and the bookmaker is in loss overall from our traffic.
Additional setback is that the Blogabet audience is mainly fairly experienced bettors and most of them already have accounts in Pinnacle. At the same time for the novice bettors the bookmaker is not that attractive as its frontend is tailored for pro users and the bonuses for new accounts are not that great, if any.
This makes it impossible for Blogabet to reach the required FTD and NRG targets even if we make strong advertising. And if we can not reach the NRG, we will have to pay from our pocket, the amount is rather high and impossible for our budget.
Hence for the moment we do not have any good news to share. Talks with Pinnacle have stalled and it seems this will be the end.
What is your reaction? Please, comment below what you think of this development.
Pinnacle odds update: coming back soon!
Dear Blogabet members,
We would like to share a positive update on this very important issue.
Since Pinnacle abruptly cut off our access to their free-to-use API, we have been exploring many different 3rd party providers to get the odds back.
We are now in the final stages of selecting the right provider, but there is still some testing going on especially about the latency / delay.
We prefer not to hurry, but to test each provider extensively because all of them are proprietary APIs, i.e. we will have to integrate their data from scratch, which will take at least 2-3 weeks of dedicated programming work. Also the APIs themselves are not cheap either.
Anyway, the wheels are rolling and Pinnacle odds verification will be back sooner than later!
Thank you for your patience and understanding on the matter!
Kind regards,
Blogabet Team