Opening Editorial | GamingMarkets.com — 2025 Research Launch

By Oren Dalal, Publisher & Editor, GamingMarkets.com

The global gaming industry enters 2025 looking less like entertainment and more like a financial system. The boundaries between play, capital, regulation, and technology are rapidly dissolving. Power is no longer measured by popularity or viewership, but by who shapes policy, attracts capital, and builds the next layer of digital economic infrastructure.

GamingMarkets.com today announces the launch of its international research initiative, “The 100 Most Influential People in Gaming 2025” — an annual index mapping the true centers of power across the global gaming economy. The research identifies founders leading corporate transformations, regulators redrawing compliance borders, and investors and technologists designing the next generation of gaming and finance.

The report applies a multi-layered analytical methodology combining market data, regulatory developments, investment flows, and media analysis, supported by expert perspectives from Europe, Asia, and North America. It aims to provide both quantitative and qualitative insight into who truly moves the industry, establishing a new benchmark for reliability in a sector often driven by marketing narratives.

According to the editorial framework of GamingMarkets.com, real influence in gaming is defined not by stage presence or social-media visibility, but by the ability to reshape markets, define regulatory standards, and direct the flow of capital across jurisdictions.

The 2025 landscape is being defined by three converging forces: smarter regulation enhancing transparency and financial traceability; capital expansion as investors accelerate into emerging markets across Africa, Asia, and Latin America; and AI-driven decision systems guiding strategic choices by operators, investors, and regulators. Together, these dynamics are creating a new hierarchy of authority — one where value is measured not by engagement metrics, but by contribution to the architecture of the global digital economy.

Over the coming weeks, GamingMarkets.com will publish a series of interviews and analytical features detailing how the index was built, leading up to the release of the complete 2025 list next month. Alongside well-known CEOs and entrepreneurs, the research will also highlight regulators, analysts, and policy architects who quietly define the structural direction of the industry.

The 2025 edition inaugurates an annual tradition — a Global Gaming Influence Index serving as a trusted reference for journalists, regulators, and investors. Its objective is to promote transparency, accountability, and data-driven analysis across a trillion-dollar entertainment-and-finance ecosystem.

Gaming has become one of the world’s most influential industries — yet one of the least measured. This initiative seeks to bring the same level of analytical credibility that financial markets have enjoyed for decades.

About GamingMarkets.com

GamingMarkets.com is a global research and media platform covering the intersection of gaming, regulation, finance, and technology. Through its network of analysts and contributors, it delivers data-driven journalism and strategic insight shaping the future of the global gaming economy.

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