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Stadion brings live streams into the bet slip

A small interface change with a real effect on how quickly in-play bets get placed.

Ellis HartnollHead of Testing4 August 20261 min readUpdated 4 August 2026
Stadion brings live streams into the bet slip
The stream sits beside the slip now, not above it — and the difference is measurable.

Stadion has moved its live streams from a panel above the markets to a column beside the bet slip, so a stream, the in-play prices and the slip are on screen together. It sounds cosmetic. In our usability lab it cut the time from deciding on an in-play bet to confirming it by a third.

We time bet placement on every operator, on desktop and mobile, as part of the usability score. Stadion’s in-play placement was already the fastest in the guide at under four seconds from tap to confirmation; the new layout removes a scroll and a tab switch that added two seconds when a stream was open. On a phone the stream now docks to the top of the screen and the slip stays reachable underneath.

The feature requires a funded account or a bet in the last twenty-four hours, as before, and covers football, tennis and racing. Basketball streaming remains Basketball Cup and college only. The usability score moves from 9.4 to 9.5 in the review, which puts Stadion level with Marlin and one tenth behind Velobet.

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Written byEllis HartnollHead of Testing · 8 articles published

Ellis has priced sports markets for two bookmakers and now runs Oddsmark’s testing programme, measuring margins across forty markets a month. He writes about pricing, market rules and the arithmetic bettors are rarely shown.

All work by Ellis Hartnoll

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