Best Bookmakers For Live Streaming
Published: 6th March 2025
– Updated: 6th March 2025
What are the best bookmaker live streaming services? Which bookmakers offer live streaming? What do you need to do to access bookmaker live streaming? Today Alex Lee reviews live streaming offered by six top bookmakers and asks the question, which are the best bookmakers for live streaming.
What Is Live Streaming?
With the recent explosion in on-line betting, many bookmakers now offer live streaming of a broad range of sporting events, making the experience of betting on a football match or a horse race that much more exciting for their customers. But which bookmakers offer live streaming? Which are the best bookmaker live streaming services currently available? And what is required in order to access bookmaker live streaming?
While most bookmakers require their customers to make either a minimum deposit or place a minimum bet on the relevant event in order to access the live broadcast, the requirements are typically small and most of all, the live streaming is entirely legal.
A further plus is that many bookmaker live streaming services deliver sporting events that are not available on commercial television with many live streamed events not even available via satellite television, giving users a tremendous range to enjoy. And what’s even better, most live streams are easily accessed on your smart phone or mobile device meaning you’ll never have to miss a moment of the action.
Are "Live Streams" Really Live?
The expression 'live streaming' is a bit of a misnomer in itself as, typically, the action is delayed by five to ten seconds, thus giving punters who are actually at the event with a reliable internet connection a slight advantage over their counterparts manning PCs, laptops, tablets or smartphones. While this may limit the value of live streaming in terms of in-play betting, what we will be reviewing is the quality, breadth and depth of the live streaming on offer at six of the most popular and long-established online bookmakers:
Betfair ExchangeBet365 PaddyPower SkyBet CoralUnibet.
To keep the comparison as fair as possible, each site has been analysed using the same wireless connection on the same computer – in this case, a Sony Vaio laptop.
What Do I Need To Access Live Streaming?
In order to receive the
