How we make money
We think you deserve to know exactly how a site that ranks casinos pays for itself. Short version: affiliate commissions, nothing hidden, and no clause in any contract that lets an operator buy a better rating.
The money trail
Most casino sign-up buttons on SpinScout contain an affiliate link. If you open an account with that operator and eventually deposit or play, the casino pays us a referral fee — typically a one-time CPA (cost per acquisition) or a share of the house margin from your activity (revenue share).
This is the standard funding model for every independent casino comparison site in the world. It does not cost you anything extra — the affiliate commission comes out of the casino's own marketing budget, not your wallet or your winnings.
What the commission does not buy
Rankings. Ratings are computed from signals we can observe independently: regulator licence tier (UKGC/MGA/AGCO/DGOJ/etc. and whether we've verified the licence against the regulator's public register), the number of independently verified licences on file, whether an operating company is publicly disclosed, years in operation, and the completeness of the public data the operator publishes. The same scoring formula is applied to every casino — no operator can pay to change it.
Inclusion. Every casino in our catalog — 9,000+ and counting — got there from a regulator register, a directory import, or the Wikidata public sitemap. Operators cannot submit themselves to be listed.
Reviews. Our computed pros and cons are rule-based and tied to observable data on each record. Operators cannot edit them.
What the commission does buy
Placement on the "Visit Casino" call-to-action buttons. Where a casino is one of our affiliate partners, clicks go through a tracked link. Where it isn't, we link to their public homepage. Either way, the casino itself is the destination — we don't interstitial or re-route through bait pages.
We list every casino we can find real data on, partner or not. We think that's the only defensible way to run this: an incomplete catalog would already be a lie by omission.
How we handle conflicts
Affiliate agreements do not give the operator a veto over our content. If a casino we partner with gets a bad complaint record, fails to pay players, or loses its licence, the rating drops and the page reflects that — the commission does not outrank the truth. When we find signals that contradict our own listings (e.g. a licence later revoked), we update the page and say so explicitly.
What you can trust, and what you can't
Trust: licence status, operator identity, regulatory body, founding year, and any field marked as verified (badge next to the licence or operator chip) — these are sourced from regulator public registers and rechecked on a schedule.
Less trust: marketing claims in a casino's own description, welcome-bonus headlines (operators change these monthly), and player review counts. We don't invent any of this — if we quote a number, it came from the operator's site or a regulator feed — but these fields go stale faster than the licensing data.
Gambling responsibly
Gambling is entertainment that costs money. The house edge is real, "systems" don't beat it, and the only reliable way not to lose is not to play. If a casino on this site — or any other — starts to feel compulsive, deposit limits, session timers, self-exclusion and cool-off tools are mandatory features at every UKGC/MGA/AGCO licensee and we surface them on each casino page.
Independent help: BeGambleAware (UK), GamCare (UK), NCPG (US),, international Gamblers Anonymous.
Disagreement protocol
If you think a ranking, description, or computed pro/con on this site is wrong, email [email protected] with the casino slug and what's off. We answer within a week and publish any material corrections.