Search Party
@searchparty·949K subscribers·154 videos
Inside Russia's creepy sport farms
Posted
June 30, 2025
Views
1,591,297
Likes
41,046
Comments
1,315
Engagement
2.66%
June 30, 2025
1,591,297
41,046
1,315
2.66%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
15:32Now PlayingFootball doesn’t know how deep its gambling addiction goes
🍎 Get started with Notion AI at →
Join Newpress, our communitydriven hub for creator journalism
Hidden throughout eastern Europe is a network of "sports-betting farms", where minimum wage workers play an endless succession of games -- soccer, basketball, table-tennis, even "bench-soccer" for people to bet on through the site 1xBet. These farms are controversial and there are arrest warrants out for their founders -- yet some of the world's biggest football clubs count 1xBet as a major sponsor. This episode is a collaboration with the award-winning investigative team, Bellingcat.
Special thanks to:
- Bellingcat and its Community: Ross Higgins, Beau Donelly, Charley Maher, Josimar
- Ismail Vali, Founder & CEO of YieldSec
CORRECTION:
Welcome to Search Party!
Search Party is a new, independent, video news show that combines experienced journalism and visual design to decode the most complex stories in international sports and geopolitics.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos
Become a Search Party Original member today
Check out our other channels:
Johnny Harris
Christophe Haubursin’s Tunnel Vision
All the music for this video was created by our in-house composer Tom Fox and is available to license or just to listen to on our music channel: @chromatic
About:
Search Party is led and produced by Sam Ellis, a journalist, director, editor, and animator based in New York City. For more than 6 years, Ellis produced the hugely popular video series, Vox Atlas, for which he earned an Emmy nomination. He specializes in breaking down the most complex new stories and presenting them with a refreshing, accessible, and engaging visual style.
He’s produced explainers on some of the world’s thorniest geopolitical stories; from corruption scandals in Latin America, conflict in the Middle East, and the rise of China, to the world of sports; the Monaco Grand Prix, the FIFA corruption scandal, and the 100-foot waves of Nazaré, Portugal. Ellis has also directed multiple episodes of TV; notably on Netflix’s ‘Explained’ and HBO Sport’s ‘Level Playing Field’.
Got story ideas or tips? Reach out to the team at:
Email: sam@searchparty.ch
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
