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Lottoland’s marketing technology team saved up to 300 hours per month in campaign operations by implementing Optimove’s Positionless Marketing Platform, consolidating several fragmented marketing tools into a unified CRM ecosystem.
As one of the world’s leading online gambling operators, Lottoland manages more than 21 million customers across 15 international markets with a portfolio that includes Lottoland itself and four sister brands. But as the company grew, its marketing technology ecosystem became increasingly complex.
Over time, new tools were added to support email, messaging, analytics, promotions, and campaign management. What began as incremental improvements eventually turned into a tangled web of overlapping systems that slowed execution and created operational inefficiencies.
Mark Wilson, Head of Marketing Technology at Lottoland, was brought in to solve this challenge. His role was created specifically to connect the company’s marketing, product, and data teams and to bring order to the rapidly expanding martech stack.
When Wilson mapped out the ecosystem for the first time, the scale of the problem became clear.
“It became affectionately known internally as the spaghetti diagram,” Wilson explained. “Everyone who saw it had the same reaction — ‘what are we doing?’”
The team identified three critical bottlenecks:
“We were double-paying for tools that did the same things, while our teams were constantly jumping between systems,” Wilson said. The fragmented environment slowed campaign execution and made it difficult to generate reliable insights.
Lottoland partnered with Optimove to consolidate its marketing technology stack and build a more connected data ecosystem.
The transformation was built around a long-term strategy to simplify operations and centralize marketing capabilities.
“This was never going to happen overnight,” Wilson said. “It’s a marathon, not a sprint. You need a long-term vision and a partner that’s aligned with it.”
Lottoland consolidated its fragmented marketing stack into Optimove as its central CRM platform.
Multiple email vendors were replaced, a custom-built internal template builder was retired, and messaging tools for web notifications and push messaging were consolidated into the Optimove ecosystem.
This reduced the number of marketing touchpoints from dozens of systems to a streamlined core platform.
“We had tools overlapping everywhere,” Wilson explained. “Consolidating into one central system removed a huge amount of operational friction.”
Optimove was integrated with Lottoland’s internal data infrastructure using Snowflake data sharing, allowing campaign data to flow directly into the company’s analytics environment.
This eliminated outdated file transfers and enabled analysts to combine campaign data with other internal datasets for deeper insights.
“Our analytics team needed the data on their side,” Wilson said. “The Snowflake integration gave them reliable access without clunky exports or manual transfers.”
Optimove was also integrated with Lottoland’s internal bonus engine, which manages promotions and player incentives.
Previously, teams exported audience lists, uploaded them into the bonus system, created promotions, and then returned to Optimove to launch campaigns.
The integration eliminated these steps.
“Now our teams can set up the bonus and create the campaign directly in Optimove,” Wilson explained. “It removed a massive manual step.”
This automation unlocked the ability to run always-on bonus campaigns, something that had been impossible with the previous manual workflows.
The transformation significantly improved operational efficiency, reduced costs, and simplified marketing execution.
By consolidating tools and eliminating manual campaign steps, Lottoland reduced the operational overhead required to build and launch campaigns.
“We’ve dramatically reduced the number of touchpoints in our campaigns,” Wilson said. “That’s saving us nearly 300 hours every month.”
Removing duplicate vendors and consolidating capabilities into a single platform generated significant cost savings.
Instead of paying multiple providers for overlapping functionality, the company now runs its marketing operations through a streamlined ecosystem.
“Once we mapped the stack, we realized how much duplication we had,” Wilson said. “Consolidation immediately removed those costs.”
Perhaps the most important change was the impact on the marketing team itself.
The “spaghetti diagram” of dozens of interconnected systems has been replaced with an architecture connecting Lottoland’s internal Snowflake CDP with Optimove and customer communication channels. “It's not just about saving money or hours,” Wilson said. “Our CRM team can now do their work in one place instead of jumping between systems.”
The new infrastructure gives Lottoland a scalable foundation for continued innovation in marketing automation, personalization, and customer engagement. “We’re not finished yet,” Wilson added. “This is just the beginning, but now we have the foundation to keep building.”
