{"id":9279,"date":"2026-01-18T18:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/?p=9279"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:06:52","slug":"how-to-compete-with-fanduel-and-draftkings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/industry-news\/how-to-compete-with-fanduel-and-draftkings\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Compete with FanDuel and DraftKings?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DraftKings has&nbsp;more than 7 million&nbsp;users and brings in more than $1 billion in revenue each year. FanDuel, meanwhile, has more than 12 million users and generates right around $2 billion in revenue each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After hearing these statistics, you might be wondering, &#8220;How in the world could&nbsp;<em>I<\/em>&nbsp;ever compete with that?&#8221; The idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/bookie-101\/create-the-best-bookie-site-possible\/\">starting up a&nbsp;sportsbook site<\/a> and attempting to go head-to-head with DraftKings and FanDuel may sound like it would be out of the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But guess what? If you take the right approach to designing a gambling website, you can get an online sportsbook off the ground that&#8217;ll have at least some people choosing your site over DraftKings or FanDuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to make this happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pick a Pay Per Head Partner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know the first thing about designing a gambling website, you might be under the impression that starting a&nbsp;sports betting website is crazy. But you don&#8217;t have to know how to create a website to get one going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, you can choose a pay per head partner like AcePerHead that&#8217;ll provide you with everything you&#8217;ll need to build a&nbsp;sports betting website from scratch. You can start competing with DraftKings and FanDuel in no time with the right <a href=\"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/pph-guide\/what-is-pay-per-head\/\">pay per head service<\/a> on your side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Create a Sports Betting Website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you decide which pay per head service to work with, you can begin customizing a sports betting website. You&#8217;ll be able to put your own stamp on it by figuring out what you would like it to look and feel like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll also be able to pick out which betting options you&#8217;d like to add to your sports betting website. From&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/betting\/guides\/live-betting\/\" target=\"_blank\">live betting<\/a>&nbsp;to an online casino, you can select the options that will allow you to put up a fight against DraftKings and FanDuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Attract Clients to an Online Sportsbook<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the day, you probably aren&#8217;t going to be able to rack up 7 million or 12 million users like DraftKings and FanDuel have respectively. But at the same time, you don&#8217;t need that many clients to sign up for an account with your online sportsbook to make a profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, you can get away with having just 10 clients or so while still earning money from your&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/bookie-101\/i-want-to-be-a-bookie\/\">bookie business<\/a>&nbsp;each week. You can also start with just a few clients and gradually add more to the mix over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try marketing your sports betting website as best you can by encouraging your first clients to tell others about your bookie shop. It&#8217;ll help your operation to grow and enable you to compete with the DraftKings and FanDuels of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/834227038?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"#1 How to compete with Fanduel-Draft-\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Begin Competing With DraftKings and FanDuel Now<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/\">AcePerHead<\/a> has created an AcePerHead Academy that&#8217;ll teach you more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/how-to-be-a-successful-bookie.php\">becoming a bookie<\/a>\u00a0and competing with DraftKings and FanDuel. You should take full advantage of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You should also learn more about pay per head as a whole. It&#8217;ll give you a better perspective on how it can help you set up a successful sports betting website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/pph-guide\/steps-to-start-your-online-gambling-site\/\">Get more&nbsp;sportsbook design tips<\/a>&nbsp;on our blog that&#8217;ll help you as you move forward with your site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DraftKings has&nbsp;more than 7 million&nbsp;users and brings in more than $1 billion in revenue each year. FanDuel, meanwhile, has more than 12 million users and generates right around $2 billion in revenue each year. After hearing these statistics, you might be wondering, &#8220;How in the world could&nbsp;I&nbsp;ever compete with that?&#8221; The idea of starting up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookie-101","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9279"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9287,"href":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions\/9287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceperhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}