Inside Asian Gaming is Asia’s leading B2B digital and print media brand for the gaming, resort and entertainment industry. It has the highest website traffic, social media following, digital newsletter distribution and print magazine distribution of any such brand.
Founded in 2005, IAG has a broad business editorial focus on the Asian gaming and integrated resort industry. It is widely distributed to industry executives throughout Macau and the rest of Asia in two formats: a monthly English and traditional Chinese fully bilingual digital and print magazine and a daily English language e-newsletter titled IAG Breakfast Briefing, delivered at 8am Macau time in English and 11am in traditional Chinese each weekday. IAG also publishes special magazine editions for G2E Asia each May, the IAG EXPO each September, the Asian Gaming Power 50 each November and our year-end Philippines special each December.
IAG produces all original content. As well as almost always being the first media outlet to publish breaking industry news, the deep domain knowledge our journalists have accumulated from as far back as the 1980s allows IAG to offer highly insightful opinion pieces and analysis of industry news. We do not aggregate media content or copy from other media outlets. Conversely, IAG is often the original source (sometimes credited, more often not!) of many stories published around the world covering the Asian IR and gaming industry.
Inside Asian Gaming published IAG Japan from January 2019 to January 2022, at the height of international interest in the Japanese integrated resort market. IAG Japan had a monthly Japanese and English fully bilingual digital magazine and a daily Japanese language e-newsletter titled IAG Daily Briefing. International industry interest in operating in Japan has since waned considerably, but we still issue our Japanese language IAG Daily Briefing when major Japan-related news breaks.
Since 2008 IAG has been renowned for publishing “The Asian Gaming Power 50”. Anxiously awaited each year, The Asian Gaming Power 50 is an annual ranking of the 50 most influential and prominent Asian gaming industry leaders and executives. The Asian Gaming Power 50 is celebrated on the first Friday of each November with IAG organizing a glamorous Black Tie Gala Dinner in a Macau Integrated Resort ballroom. The Gala Dinner ballroom location rotates annually amongst Macau’s six Integrated Resort concessionaires.
IAG produces Macau After Dark and Manila After Dark (both known as “MAD”), a series of casual industry networking social events held in both Macau and Manila three times each year. MAD brings together key industry decision-makers, including operators, suppliers and other industry executives.
In 2021 IAG launched the IAG Academy, its educational arm, with the goal of advancing professionalism within the industry through education, training and other gold collar knowledge work. That same year, the IAG Academy held its inaugural IAG Academy IR Awards, a glamorous black tie event celebrating the best of the best of the Integrated Resort industry in the Asia-Pacific region. The inaugural IAG Academy Summit, the industry’s leading conference, was held in 2023. IAG then launched the IAG Exhibition, a full-scale industry product exhibition and showcase with shell scheme booths and raw space stands, in 2025. These three events, along with a MAD Manila event which doubles as the show welcome cocktails opening event, are combined in a three day festival of gaming known as the IAG EXPO, on the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the week of the second Tuesday in September. The IAG EXPO is held at Newport World Resorts in Manila every year.
In July 2023 IAG launched “The Industry Party” (TIP), a major networking event held alongside and with the blessing of Macau-based industry trade shows. With the convening authority of IAG, TIP is a party held on behalf of all sponsoring industry participants, whether they be suppliers, operators or from other industry sectors. With its distinctive bright orange branding, TIP is not aligned with any one company, but represents a coming together of the entire industry, aiming to provide guests with an opportunity to mingle in a relaxed and friendly environment while many senior industry figures are in Macau. TIP provides an excellent opportunity for supporting sponsors to promote their brands and products in a low pressure and enjoyable environment, with key decision makers in attendance. Unlike IAG’s regular networking social Macau After Dark, TIP presents as a larger gathering for the entire Asia-Pacific region with bigger production, more entertainment and a much larger attendance, given its attachment to a major Asian gaming trade show.
In 2018, IAG announced a strategic partnership agreement with CDC Gaming, which was founded in 2002 and is the leading US-based gaming media company covering the casino and IR industry in the Americas. The agreement offered significant benefits to both IAG and CDC including collaboration in business development, editorial development, product development and strategy development as well as content sharing, cooperation at trade shows throughout the world and mutual assistance in broadening the audience and network of both media brands.
On 31 December 2024, IAG and CDC completed a merger, with the two companies now operating under a newly formed common corporate parent, Complete Media Group (CMG). The merger created the first truly global gaming media and events company with 20+ years of experience physically based in the world’s top two integrated resort and terrestrial gaming markets: the United States and Macau.
IAG and CDC Gaming continue to operate under their existing brand names in their respective markets, just as they have done for 20+ years, including six years as strategic partners, giving credence to Complete Media Group’s philosophy of “Regional expertise, worldwide”.
IAG is the Lead Media Partner for G2E Asia and has managed the entire conference at G2E Asia events, including G2E Asia Special Edition: Singapore, G2E Asia @ the Philippines and the G2E Asia Online Conferences.
We have also published G2E Asia Daily, the daily newspaper of G2E Asia, and co-organized the G2E Asia Awards.
IAG was the Lead Media and Summit Production Partner for the MGS Entertainment Show, up to its last show held in 2023. We also published MGS Daily, the daily newspaper of the MGS Entertainment Show.
IAG is the Asian Lead Media Partner for ICE Barcelona as it was previously for ICE London. We have published The Daily Download, the official daily digital record of ICE Asia.
In addition to being the Lead Media Partner for various major industry trade shows throughout Asia, IAG is an official media partner of dozens of leisure and gaming industry events held across every continent of the world.
IAG attends numerous industry trade shows and international conferences and seminars across Asia and throughout the world, including ICE Barcelona in January, G2E Asia in Macau in May, AGE in Sydney in August, G2E in Las Vegas in October and IAGR in various locations around the world each October. In addition, we have attended numerous other shows around the world such as the former MGS in Macau in November and various developing shows previously covering the Japanese IR industry in Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka. Our Vice Chairman and CEO Andrew W Scott and our Managing Editor Ben Blaschke variously chair, moderate and speak at such conferences and seminars.
IAG has produced a range of industry conferences and seminars such as the Cambodia International Gaming Conference on behalf of the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Cambodia, sessions for the G2E Asia conference and the MGS Entertainment Show conference, and the highly acclaimed “Strategy and Leadership for Personal and Business Success” seminar series.
IAG Consulting is IAG’s consulting business unit, which offers consulting and revenue support services for businesses exploring or operating in the Asian gaming and Integrated Resort industry. IAG Consulting also produces tailor-made training and education programs (and has been commissioned by Philippine regulator PAGCOR to do so) and organizes events on behalf of our clients, such as product launches, seminars and social events.
For our main Macau office please phone +853 2883 6497.
For advertising enquiries, please contact Jadeson Ho on +853 2875 2959 or jh@asgam.com.
For editorial enquiries, please contact Ben Blaschke (in English) on bb@asgam.com, Oscar Guijarro (in English or Spanish) on oscar@asgam.com, Pierce Chan (in Chinese) on piercechan@asgam.com or Reina Nishimura (in Japanese or English) on reina@asgam.jp.
For events enquiries, please contact Dorothy Loi on +853 6802 1905 or dorothy@asgam.com.
For anything relating to Macau economic diversification, Corporate Social Responsibility or non-gaming initiatives in Macau, please contact Ivone De Jesus on ivone@omedia.mo.
For IAG Japan enquiries, please contact Reina Nishimura on reina@asgam.jp.
For finance enquiries, please contact Sue Liang on sue@asgam.com.
For client account, subscription and all other enquires, please contact Caroline Iau on +853 2875 2959 or ci@asgam.com.
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