COMPLETE MEDIA GROUP is the corporate parent company of CDC Gaming (founded 2002) and Inside Asian Gaming (founded 2005), created as a result of the merger of those two companies. The merger was first announced in early October 2024 and completed on 31 December 2024. The first full day of merged operations was 1 January 2025.
Inside Asian Gaming (asgam.com) is Asia’s leading digital and print media brand for the gaming resort and entertainment industry. 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 each weekday morning in English and traditional Chinese. In addition to its media business, IAG also maintains a thriving events business, offering professional and social events to the Asia-Pacific land-based gaming industry, including the Asian Gaming Power 50 each November, the IAG EXPO each September, The Industry Party each May, and iconic industry social events Macau After Dark and Manila After Dark. IAG also runs an Advisory Services business unit.
CDC Gaming (cdcgaming.com) was founded in 2002, and has the Americas’ largest team covering the gaming industry. With team members in eight US states, Canada, and the United Kingdom, CDC Gaming brings the world of gaming to the inboxes and devices of its audience. CDC Gaming first launched with the Adams Daily Report, then expanded to include two additional daily reports (The Flash and Last Call) and two weekly reports (Hot Clicks and Picks and Weekend Report). CDC Gaming also reports directly from major industry trade shows with its special From the Floor reports. CDC Gaming publishes the Tottenham Report (covering Europe), Igaming Focus, Focus on Asia and Frank Floor Talk (covering slots). Focus on Partners was added in 2020. In 2023, CDC Gaming established partnerships with Global Gaming Women and African Americans in Gaming to launch “10 Women Rising in Gaming” and “Black Executives on the Rise” respectively. CDC Gaming also publishes The CDC Gaming Show, a weekly video industry roundup.
The merger of IAG and CDC to form Complete Media group creates the first-ever global gaming media and events company physically based for 20+ years in both of the world’s top two integrated resort and terrestrial casino gaming markets, Macau and the United States. The IAG coverage area extends from the Middle East to the International Date Line, that is the south Caucasus; the Middle East; central, south, southeast and northeast Asia; the western Pacific and the three easternmost districts of Russia. The CDC coverage area continues from the International Date Line to the mid-Atlantic, that is the United States, Canada and Latin America (including the Caribbean).
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