I have been in the gambling vertical since 2023, starting with private rate negotiations with affiliate managers. On Vodka Money I break down terms, payouts and reputation of casino offers — not from the programs’ own decks, but from what actually happens with payments, shaving and support, based on my own traffic and on feedback from the affiliates and managers I work with.

I do not attach this byline to a legal name, for the reputational and legal reasons that are normal in this niche. Everything published under it goes through the same filter: if the numbers do not add up, or a condition cannot be verified, the article says so instead of smoothing it over.

How I vet an affiliate program before writing about it

This is not a style guide for show — it is what every review is made of. Where a step could not be completed, the article carries an explicit caveat.

  1. Terms come from the primary source. Revenue share, hold period, minimum payout and the list of banned traffic sources come from the program’s own documents or from its manager — not from someone else’s rating table. If a program quietly dropped a GEO from its public card but still accepts that traffic, I state both.
  2. Fact and version stay separate. A detention, a raid, a court decision, a wanted notice — that is a fact, with a source and a date. “sources say” and “people on the forum claim” is a version, and it is labelled as one.
  3. Complaints matter more than reviews. Faking reviews on an aggregator is cheaper than paying affiliates. What carries weight is the complaint record: who complained, with what numbers, whether the program answered, and how it ended.
  4. Shaving gets checked with arithmetic. I compare my own stats against the program’s on a single flow: clicks → signups → deposits. A conversion gap on unchanged traffic is a reason to dig, not an instant accusation. The method is in its own article.
  5. Earnings get modelled on real numbers. Any “up to 65%” is tested against an actual scenario: how many players, what average deposit, what share is wagered. The banner figure and the dashboard figure are almost never the same figure.
  6. I disclose my own interest. Vodka Money is a program I work with as an affiliate, and the signup links here are affiliate links. That does not stop me listing its limits — they sit in the program review alongside the upsides.

What I cover

Entry points by topic: RevShare vs CPA, shaving and how to detect it, getting started as a gambling affiliate, casino streaming and CIS traffic.

Published work

Affiliate program reviews

Terms, payouts and limits — taken from the program’s own documents and from what affiliates report.

News and investigations

What is happening to programs right now: raids, shutdowns, unpaid affiliates.

Guides for affiliates

How payout models work, where shaving hides and how to get your money out.

Streamers and gambling content

How a streamer turns viewers into revenue, and what the platforms allow.

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