Affiliate Compliance Report
Editorial statement, August 2026
Section 1
The Affiliate Compliance Report exists to give the iGaming trade a plain, current reference on affiliate oversight. Affiliate compliance is documented today in fragments, a regulator notice here, a conference slide there, a vendor white paper written to sell the vendor's product. Practitioners who need a straight answer on liability, brand bidding or sub-affiliate exposure end up assembling it themselves from sources with mixed motives. This report assembles it once, in one place, and keeps it revised.
The editorial position is deliberately narrow. The report covers the compliance of affiliate marketing for licensed betting and casino operators, and nothing else. It does not review operators, does not rank affiliate programs, does not publish bonus content and does not carry advertising. Nothing on this site is sponsored and no page recommends a product the editors were paid to name.
Section 2
Sections are standing documents rather than dated news items. Each is revised when the underlying practice changes, and each carries the date of its last substantive revision in its header. Material is drawn from published regulatory decisions and licence conditions, from the public program terms of operators in regulated markets, and from patterns observed across program audits described to the report in general terms. Where a claim rests on enforcement practice, the report states the pattern rather than naming parties, since individual cases age quickly and patterns do not.
| Editorial rule | Practice |
|---|---|
| Currency | Sections revised on change, revision date shown |
| Independence | No advertising, no sponsored placements, no paid mentions |
| Specificity | Named markets and mechanisms, not general caution |
| Restraint | Vendors named only where a factual comparison requires it |
Section 3
The report is written for people who carry affiliate risk professionally. Affiliate managers inheriting a program with unknown history, compliance officers asked to certify a channel they did not build, and operators entering their first strictly regulated market are the readers each section is drafted for. Affiliates themselves may find the material useful for understanding what well-run programs will demand of them, though the perspective throughout is the operator's, because the operator is the party the regulator holds to account.
Corrections are welcome and are applied to the standing sections directly. A trade reference is only worth consulting while it is accurate, and accuracy in this field decays without maintenance. That maintenance is the whole undertaking of this site.