How we fund the site
There is no paywall here, no gated newsletter and no premium subscription. The vast majority of what we produce is paid for through affiliate commissions. Should a visitor register at a casino via one of our outbound links and start playing, the operator might pay us a referral fee. That payment is drawn entirely from the casino's marketing spend, and nothing extra is ever added to your deposit, your bets or the money you cash out. Where an operator offers multiple bonus levels, the offer you claim through our link is never inferior to what you would find by going to the casino yourself.
Every page on the site that carries affiliate links displays a short note near the top linking back here for the complete explanation. The outbound buttons are additionally marked in a format recognised by most modern browsers, following established search-engine and consumer-protection recommendations.
You cannot buy a ranking
We will be direct, because this is the whole crux of it: commissions play no part in an operator's position in our rankings, and they simply cannot. The commercial rate is agreed with each operator a single time, and it holds firm whether they head a top-ten table, sit in tenth place, or vanish from it completely. If a casino fails our six-point retests, its position slips. If a casino has never paid us a cent yet the testing supports a listing, it earns that listing.
This plays out in a handful of concrete ways. Across several markets we have turned down the largest commission deals available because our testing did not warrant a spot. We remove operators the moment payouts, terms or support start to decline, and we say why. And a position secured through genuine testing cannot be reclaimed by an operator waving a higher rate.
Several operators pay us nothing
Not every casino featured on Fun888.gg is an affiliate partner. Our tables include three categories of operator:
- Affiliate partners. A standard commercial arrangement, a fixed referral fee and no influence on scoring at all. These make up the bulk of the list.
- In-house programmes we have skipped. Certain operators run their own affiliate schemes rather than working through a network. Even when we have not joined them, we still list the operator whenever it deserves the place.
- Networks we steer clear of. A few networks come with terms we do not accept; operators connected solely to those networks pay us nothing and still make the cut on merit alone.
It comes down to this: "pays us the most" and "ranks at the top" are two completely distinct columns in our internal records, and one never influences the other.
What money can and cannot buy
- We will accept a fixed, clearly disclosed affiliate commission on outbound signups.
- We will not trade a ranking position, an inflated score or a softer conclusion for cash.
- We will not run undisclosed sponsored articles or advertorial dressed up as an editorial review.
- We will not suppress critical reporting in exchange for a better rate.
Spotted anything on the site that seems to contradict any of this? Email hello@fun888.gg with "Editorial concern" as the subject. A real person will read it.