This affiliate disclosure explains exactly how Crazy Vegas Australia makes money, and why it never changes what we write. You don’t pay a cent to use our site. We cover our costs through commission from the casinos we recommend, and that arrangement never buys a better review, a higher ranking, or a softer opinion.
Here’s the short version: an online casino pays us if you click through and sign up. You don’t pay anything extra for that. The rating you see next to that casino is the same rating you’d see if it paid us nothing at all.
The rest of this page breaks down how that works, what the law requires of us, and how we keep commission separate from editorial judgement.
How the Affiliate Model Works
Crazy Vegas Australia is free to use. You can read every review, compare every casino, and use every tool on this site without paying anything or handing over a card number.
We stay in business through affiliate partnerships with licensed casino operators. When you click a link on our site and go on to sign up or deposit at that casino, the operator pays us a commission. That’s it. That’s the entire model.
Two things matter here:
- You never pay extra. The commission comes out of the casino’s marketing budget, not your deposit or your winnings.
- The commission doesn’t buy anything. A casino paying us for referrals doesn’t get a better score, a higher spot on a list, or a friendlier review. We’ll explain exactly how we protect that separation in the next section.
Our Commitment to Australian Consumer Law and ACCC Guidance
We operate under Section 18 of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), which prohibits conduct that’s misleading or deceptive. For a site that earns commission from the businesses it reviews, that’s not a box to tick. It’s the standard every page has to clear.
We also follow the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) guidance on online business disclosures. In practice, that means:
- Commercial relationships are disclosed clearly, not buried in fine print.
- Sponsored content and affiliate links are labelled as such at the point you encounter them.
- Nothing on this site is built to make a paid placement look like an independent recommendation.
If a casino’s terms change or a claim on this site turns out to be wrong, we correct it. That obligation doesn’t disappear because a page has already been published for years.
Editorial Independence: The Firewall Between Money and Opinion
Our commercial team negotiates affiliate deals. Our editorial team writes and rates casinos. Those two teams work from different information, and neither one edits the other’s work.
No casino, however much it pays us, gets to see a draft review before it goes live. No casino gets a say in its star rating, its position on a comparison list, or which pros and cons we publish. When we write that a casino has slow withdrawals or a thin game library, that stays in the review, partner or not. This firewall is the same one set out in our editorial policy, which governs how every review on this site gets written.
Here’s what that firewall actually protects: your ability to trust a “recommended” casino because it earned that word, not because it paid for it.
Types of Affiliate Partnerships
Not every affiliate relationship on this site works the same way. Here’s how they break down, and how we keep commission out of the editorial decision in each one.
Sponsored or Paid Placement
Some casinos pay for a dedicated spot on our site, usually a banner, a featured slot, or a highlighted listing. That’s a media buy, and we label it as one wherever it appears.
No-influence disclaimer: Payment for a sponsored placement buys visibility. It doesn’t buy a rating, a review score, or editorial content. A sponsored casino goes through the same vetting as every other operator on this site, and a poor review can sit right next to a paid banner for that same casino.
Comparison and Ranking Lists
Pages like our fast payout and PayID comparisons include casinos we’re paid to refer. Their order on that list comes from our research criteria, things like payout speed, licensing, and game selection, not from commission rate.
No-influence disclaimer: A casino that pays us a higher commission doesn’t move up the list. If our data says a non-partner casino pays out faster, that casino ranks higher, full stop.
Performance-Based Agreements
Some deals pay us more when more players sign up or deposit through our links. It’s a volume-based arrangement, similar to how most affiliate marketing works.
No-influence disclaimer: Volume-based pay structures don’t change which casinos we feature or how we score them. A casino under a performance deal gets recommended because it passed our vetting first, not because the deal exists.
How Affiliate Links Do (and Don’t) Affect Our Content
Affiliate links fund this site. They don’t write it.
Every review, comparison, and guide is researched and drafted before any commercial consideration comes into play. If a casino we work with has high fees or a slow verification process, we say so in the review, the same as we would for a casino we’ve never partnered with.
What affiliate links do change: nothing about your experience. Clicking through doesn’t cost you extra, doesn’t change the odds, and doesn’t change the bonus terms you see on the operator’s own site. What they don’t change: the facts, the rating, or our willingness to tell you when a casino falls short.
Ad Placement and Labelling
Ads and affiliate links appear across this site, and we keep them visibly separate from editorial content. You’ll see clear labels like “Sponsored,” “Ad,” or “Affiliate Link” wherever a paid element sits inside a page, so you always know what you’re looking at before you click.
We don’t disguise a paid placement as independent editorial, and we don’t format an ad to blend into body copy so it reads like our own recommendation. That’s a direct requirement under ACCC guidance on clear and prominent disclosure, and we treat it as a baseline, not a best-effort target.
Keeping This Disclosure Current
We review this page on a regular schedule, not just when something breaks. Affiliate terms, regulator guidance, and our own partnerships change, and this disclosure gets updated to match.
If you come across a placement on this site that isn’t labelled clearly, or a section here that doesn’t match what you’re seeing on the page, get in touch. We’d rather hear about it and fix it than have it sit there unclear.
How We Choose Partner Casinos
We vet a casino before we ever consider an affiliate deal with it, not after. The criteria stay the same, paying partner or not:
- We check the operator holds a valid licence from a recognised regulator and confirm it against the regulator’s own register.
- Payment reliability. We test real deposits and withdrawals and check actual processing times against what the casino advertises.
- Game fairness. We look for independently audited RTPs (Return to Player, the percentage of wagered money a game pays back over time) and confirm the software providers are legitimate, licensed studios.
- Player treatment. We check dispute history, support responsiveness, and how clearly the casino states its terms.
- Responsible gambling tools. We confirm these are actually in place:
- Deposit limits (a cap you set on how much you can add to your account in a day, week, or month)
- Self-exclusion (voluntarily locking yourself out of the site for a set period)
- Links to support services like Gambling Help Online (a free, confidential national counselling service) and BetStop (Australia’s National Self-Exclusion Register, which blocks you from all licensed online gambling services at once)
A casino that fails any of these doesn’t get listed, commission or not. You can read more about how we assess the tools listed above on our responsible gambling page.
Affiliate Disclosure FAQs
What is an affiliate link?
An affiliate link is a tracked URL. If you click it and later sign up or deposit at that casino, we get paid a commission by the casino. You don’t pay anything extra, the operator absorbs that cost as a marketing expense.
How does Crazy Vegas make money?
Mainly through affiliate commission and, on some pages, paid sponsored placements. Both are disclosed on this page and labelled where they appear.
Can I trust a review of a casino you’re paid to promote?
Yes. Our writers score a casino using the same criteria, partner or not, and our editorial team doesn’t answer to our commercial team. If a partner casino has a real problem, our review says so.
Does clicking an affiliate link change what I pay or what I’m offered?
No. Your deposit, your bonus terms, and your odds stay exactly as the casino publishes them. Some partner casinos offer exclusive bonuses through our links, which is the one place the relationship works in your favour.
How do I know if something on the page is an ad?
Look for a label: “Sponsored,” “Ad,” or “Affiliate Link.” We place these at the point where the paid element appears, not buried in a footer you’d have to go looking for.