Affiliate Disclosure

How we make money

Playhouse Gazette is free to read because it is funded by affiliate commissions. Here is exactly what that means, with nothing dressed up.

What an affiliate link is

Some of the links on this site — the “Visit” buttons on each casino, mainly — are affiliate links. If you click one, open an account and play, the operator may pay us a commission. That payment comes out of the operator's marketing budget. It does not come out of your pocket: your deposit, bonus, odds and terms are exactly the same as they would be if you had typed the casino's address in yourself.

What it does not change

The order of the casinos. The scores. Whether we mention a weakness. We rank operators on the eight checks set out in our comparison and explained in the methodology — licence, game range, live casino, app, payments, withdrawal speed, minimum deposit and support. A bigger commission does not buy a higher spot, and we will happily tell you when a site that pays us well is slow to cash out or has a thin app.

The links themselves

We keep outbound links clean and pointed at the operator's real casino site. We do not bury you in redirect chains or fake click trackers, and we mark commercial links with the standard rel="sponsored nofollow" attributes so search engines and screen readers know what they are. If a casino ever stops meeting the basics — most importantly a valid UK Gambling Commission licence — it comes off the site, commission or not.

Why we tell you all this

Because a comparison site that hides how it gets paid has already lost the plot. The Advertising Standards Authority expects affiliate relationships to be made clear, and frankly so should you. If anything here reads as if it is steering you rather than informing you, that is a failure on our part — let us know on the contact page.

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