iGaming Ontario published its official market performance data for April 2026 on May 27, and the release does double duty: it also closes the books on the 2025-26 fiscal year. We went through the full data tables so you do not have to. Here are seven things the numbers actually say, and what they mean if you play.
1. The market just closed a record $4.27 billion year
Across the fiscal year that ran from April 2025 to March 2026, Ontario's regulated operators booked about 4.27 billion dollars in gross gaming revenue, up roughly 33 percent on the 3.22 billion the year before. Players staked around 103 billion dollars to get there. Four years after the market opened, the trend line is still bending upward rather than flattening, which is not what most maturing gambling markets do.
2. The new fiscal year opened at a record pace
April 2026, the first month of the 2026-27 year, out-earned every previous April by a wide margin: 405.4 million dollars in revenue, up about 29 percent year over year, on 9.32 billion dollars in wagers, up 19 percent. For a sense of scale, April 2022, the market's first full month, produced 43.9 million. The market is now roughly nine times the size it was at launch.
3. Revenue rose even as wagering fell
Here is the line worth a second look. Cash wagers actually dipped about 3 percent from March to April, yet revenue rose 5 percent. In other words, operators kept more of every dollar staked. Monthly hold moves around with which games and which sports people bet on, so one month is not a trend, but it is a clean reminder that total wagering and operator revenue do not always move in the same direction.
4. Casino is still about three-quarters of the money
Online casino, meaning the slots and live dealer tables, generated 314 million of April's 405 million dollars in revenue, about 77.5 percent of the total. Sports betting was 21 percent and poker barely 1 percent. For all the sportsbook advertising on Canadian television, the money in this market is overwhelmingly casino, and it has been for two years.
5. But sports betting just had its moment
The reason casino's share slipped from 82 percent in March to 77.5 percent in April is seasonal. Sports-betting revenue jumped about 40 percent in a single month on the spring NHL and NBA playoff schedule, while casino revenue held roughly steady. It is a useful caution against reading too much into any one month's market-share headline, because the sports calendar moves those numbers as much as player behaviour does.
6. A record 1.27 million accounts were active in a single month
About 1.265 million player accounts were active in April, up 16 percent year over year and a fresh high. With regulated sites now carrying 91 percent of Ontario's online play, this market is not simply taking more money from the same people. It is steadily pulling new players out of the unregulated grey market and widening the base.
7. The average active account generated $321 in the month
Average revenue per active account reached 321 dollars in April, up from 287 a year earlier. Read from the player's side of the table, that figure is the house edge compounding month after month. It is the single best argument for setting a deposit limit on the day you open an account rather than after a bad month, which is exactly what every licensed operator's responsible gambling tools are there to help you do.
Our reading of all this is unchanged. The money in Canadian online gambling is in casino, it is concentrated in Ontario for now, and it is growing fast enough that operators have to compete on the things this site measures: how fast they pay, how their verification process treats you, and what the lobby actually holds. Every figure here comes straight from iGaming Ontario's official data tables, and we keep the running numbers, anchored and sourced, on our market statistics page.