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title: "Industry Sectors"
url: https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/
description: "Sector groupings used to organise entries across the wider gaming trade."
---

# Industry Sectors

[Index](https://internationalgamingawards.com/) › [Categories](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/) › Industry Sectors

Sector groupings exist so that entries are compared against work of a similar kind. A venue business and a payments vendor answer to very different constraints, and judging them in one pool tells a reader almost nothing. These groupings are the ones most commonly used when a slate is organised by trade area rather than by division.

[A](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-a)

B

[C](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-c)

[D](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-d)

[E](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-e)

F

G

H

[I](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-i)

[J](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-j)

K

[L](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-l)

M

[N](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-n)

[O](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-o)

[P](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-p)

Q

[R](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-r)

[S](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-s)

[T](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-t)

U

[V](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-v)

[W](https://internationalgamingawards.com/index-a-z/#letter-w)

X

Y

Z

## Entries in this branch (6)

- Land-based venuesPhysical gaming floors and the hospitality operations attached to them, where footfall, floor layout and staffing shape most of the evidence.
- Online operatorsBusinesses running licensed play over the web or through applications, typically assessed on account handling and product range.
- Platform and content suppliersStudios and platform vendors supplying titles, engines and integration layers to operators rather than to players.
- Payments and compliance servicesVendors handling transaction routing, identity verification and regulatory reporting on an operator's behalf.
- Affiliates and trade mediaPublishers, comparison services and trade press working alongside the sector rather than inside it.
- Esports and skill formatsCompetitive formats whose overlap with the wider gaming trade has grown enough to warrant separate grouping.

## Elsewhere in the tree

- [Award Categories](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/) (6)
- [Judging and Criteria](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/) (6)
- [Regions and Circuits](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/) (4)
- [Terminology and Process](https://internationalgamingawards.com/glossary/) (15)

## Resource records

- [Award category terminology](https://internationalgamingawards.com/records/award-category-terminology/)
- [Judging panel structures](https://internationalgamingawards.com/records/judging-panel-structures/)
- [Entry and submission process](https://internationalgamingawards.com/records/entry-and-submission-process/)
- [Responsible play in category design](https://internationalgamingawards.com/records/responsible-play-context/)

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