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Detecting when Affiliate Programs Shave

Detecting when Affiliate Programs Shave

📅 February 24, 2026 ⏱ 6:45

I recorded this episode because I think a lot of affiliates are about to discover something uncomfortable in their data. I was speaking with one of our customers who noticed something strange. An FTD showed up in tracking, deposits were happening, wagering was happening, net revenue was positive… b...

Semantic SEO in the AI Era with Koray Tugberk GÜBÜR

Semantic SEO in the AI Era with Koray Tugberk GÜBÜR

📅 January 14, 2026 ⏱ 58:24

In this episode, John Wright sits down with Koray Tugberk GÜBÜR, one of the most respected voices in semantic SEO, to unpack how Google actually understands, ranks, and retrieves content in the age of AI. The conversation goes far beyond traditional keyword-based SEO and dives into vector search, en...

PAM for Affiliates - Player Account Management Tools

PAM for Affiliates - Player Account Management Tools

📅 December 31, 2025 ⏱ 4:36

What is a PAM? PAM stands for Player Account Management. These PAM tools are normally understood to be for operators as in casinos or bookmakers but affiliates can now build these for themselves. The tools of the trade are turning your newsletter from a 1 to many link solution to a 1 to 1 using dyna...

Replacing Tableau with AI Tools

Replacing Tableau with AI Tools

📅 December 12, 2025 ⏱ 5:26

Is replacing Tableau a good thing and is it easy? As someone who's been working with Tableau for 3 years, I can confidently say there is a good chance I may never use their tools again. Unless of course it is to convert Tableau files into custom data viz and reports. Since September of this year, I'...

Claude.ai for Advanced Data Viz

Claude.ai for Advanced Data Viz

📅 November 24, 2025 ⏱ 7:22

I'm here to officially say that tools like Claude.ai and all other AI tools are here to eat data viz tools like Tableau, Power BI, Looker Studio and more. If I were at any of these companies, I would be concerned to see if the revenue from these giants is starting to drop. Likewise, I think people...

A Deeper Look at Closed Casinos

A Deeper Look at Closed Casinos

📅 November 7, 2025 ⏱ 8:36

This past week, I presented a keynote on why online casinos close. I did share some data that shows what is behind the scenes that would lead a casino to close at all in the first place. In this short solo cast, I share a few more insights but my work in analyzing closed casinos isn't done yet!

The AI Shift: Why Affiliates Must Evolve Now

The AI Shift: Why Affiliates Must Evolve Now

📅 October 31, 2025 ⏱ 9:48

If you haven't made a serious start in AI tools today in running and optimizing your affiliate business, you might be getting left behind. My personal take, the transformation we see today will be more profound than the internet itself. I think this is a new era of affiliate marketing beyond the n...

Why Online Casinos Close

Why Online Casinos Close

📅 October 14, 2025 ⏱ 3:37

Why do online casinos close? There are many reasons but what should be the bigger concern is that these casinos close taking down their recurring revenue with it. How can you avoid casinos that might close beyond just asking for listing fees?

What content makes for a great affiliate conference

What content makes for a great affiliate conference

📅 October 5, 2025 ⏱ 3:13

I've been to a lot of affiliate conferences in the last 15+ years and not all the speakers and panels are great. Some are terrible and a complete waste of time but we always hope for the best. I remember when content got so bad that I stopped going to the panels and speaker keynotes. The networking...

Binary Options Affiliate Programs

Binary Options Affiliate Programs

📅 September 26, 2025 ⏱ 2:45

I used to wonder what ever happened to binary options as in 2017 to 2019, binary options was making a lot of noise but for all the wrong reasons. Many people have been arrested for fraud related to binary options but the product never disappeared. Some sites got bigger and appear to be running a le...

Kasra Dash on Why Lazy SEO Is Dead and Brands Win

Kasra Dash on Why Lazy SEO Is Dead and Brands Win

📅 September 9, 2025 ⏱ 43:02

Affiliate SEO isn’t what it used to be—and Kasra Dash knows why. In this episode, Kasra breaks down how the game has shifted from quick hacks and article farms to building real brands that earn trust, attention, and long-term growth. His stories from masterminds and conferences reveal the hidden pla...

Affiliate Link Research with Affiliate Track

Affiliate Link Research with Affiliate Track

📅 September 2, 2025 ⏱ 8:24

So we have a new tool called Affiliate Track which you can get at AffiliateTrack.io and it has a lot of research power. It can help us find affiliates linking to closed brands which is revenue leak. It can also help us identify tracking signatures of how affiliates organize their links. It will tell...

Selling Business Intelligence

Selling Business Intelligence

📅 August 26, 2025 ⏱ 5:43

In this episode, we take a closer look at the concept of revenue leak and why it resonates more than traditional business intelligence (BI) when it comes to helping affiliates and online businesses. The discussion starts with the origins of StatsDrone and the realization that affiliates often lose m...

How Dynamic Variables Help Detect Shaving

How Dynamic Variables Help Detect Shaving

📅 July 15, 2025 ⏱ 2:10

Can dynamic variables help detecting shaving from operators? Based on a conversation I had last week with Armin Aganovic, CRO of Joelsson Media, I realized that click IDs are more valuable than I realized. That is, operators can't inject fake winning players if you're in control of issuing unique...

The Future of Affiliate Marketing with AI

The Future of Affiliate Marketing with AI

📅 July 9, 2025 ⏱ 3:14

At the iGB L!ve Pitch in London 2025, I got asked a tough question by Karolina Pelc which is how does StatsDrone avoid getting eaten by AI? I have had time to think about that question and digest a better answer and I think this comes down to affiliates trying to get more value out of their existin...

Affiliate Data, Reporting & Standards

Affiliate Data, Reporting & Standards

📅 June 24, 2025 ⏱ 6:06

Is there a need for a new standard when it comes to affiliate data, standards and reporting? I think this needs to be done. At the moment, this was attempted by NetRefer which was a great concept except that I believe that this initiative can't exist as a commercial directive but one that needs to...

On-prem data for affiliates

On-prem data for affiliates

📅 May 13, 2025 ⏱ 3:41

Today is a solocast but want to shoutout to Mark Flores Martin, the founder of XGENIA for the conversation we had at NEXT.io. He shared his opinion that bigger companies will start commanding on-prem services and cancelling data contracts as a result.

Affiliate CRM with Niels Zee

Affiliate CRM with Niels Zee

📅 April 22, 2025 ⏱ 53:41

What would a dream affiliate CRM tool look like? I asked affiliate marketing expert, Niels Zee, are there any affiliate CRM tools out there that he knows of and he said no. He then went on to describe what a perfect affiliate CRM tool would look like. Hmmm, could that be what StatsDrone is building...

Business Intelligence in iGaming

Business Intelligence in iGaming

📅 March 18, 2025 ⏱ 37:15

Meet Rahul Jain who's the Delivery Head, BI & Data Analytics for BizAcuity. I'm just going to say it, BizAcuity is perhaps one of the most underrated companies in iGaming today. They've built some of the original BI dashboards in the early days before people even knew what Business Intelligence was...

AI Betting TIPs & Predictions with The Crowd's Line

AI Betting TIPs & Predictions with The Crowd's Line

📅 March 11, 2025 ⏱ 38:40

Meet Conor Cassidy and Justin Nelson from The Crowd's Line or TCL for short. These 2 gents did this interview for me just before NEXT.io event in New York City. I got to go back to my days of professional gambling to ask these guys what's new in the world of sports betting. In fact, quite a bit is...

SEO training with Dirk Schembri

SEO training with Dirk Schembri

📅 March 4, 2025 ⏱ 37:26

I asked Dirk Schembri what type of affiliate businesses seem to have the most success in SEO. He said that founders and C-level management that study and practice SEO are the companies that tend to be leaders. This is what investing into SEO looks like today. Not all SEOs in companies have the sa...

B2B Affiliate Marketing with David Shapiro

B2B Affiliate Marketing with David Shapiro

📅 February 18, 2025 ⏱ 29:51

Is affiliate.com another affiliate network with a great domain? It is not! David Shapiro is working to address a need in affiliate marketing and ecommerce which is to make products and inventory in affiliate marketing, more accessible. David shares insights how the future of affiliate marketing wi...

The Bezos Letters with Steve Anderson

The Bezos Letters with Steve Anderson

📅 February 4, 2025 ⏱ 34:22

Meet Steve Anderson whom is a business analysis specializing in risk. He runs an agency and besides being a best selling author, is the Co-Founder at Catalyit®. Steve put his business analyst hat on and dissected Jeff Bezos's shareholder letters. He breaks it down into 14 core principles that coul...

B2B SEO with Jamie I.F. from Endorsely

B2B SEO with Jamie I.F. from Endorsely

📅 January 21, 2025 ⏱ 39:32

Jamie I.F. is the CEO and founder of Endorsely and former CMO of Lasso. I've been studying Lasso's SEO go to market strategy for years and I can say Jamie I.F. He is one of my B2B SEO heroes and he's got some solid SEO advise for any B2B company. I'll personally be listening to this episode a few t...

CRM & Gamification in iGaming with Shahar Attias

CRM & Gamification in iGaming with Shahar Attias

📅 January 14, 2025 ⏱ 42:25

Meet Shahar Attias who's the founder of Hybrid Interaction which they are CRM and gamification experts. I came to this convo expecting more chat on the CRM side but realized gamification is where I think iGaming and affiliate marketing can make bigger strides for growth and revenue.

Short-form podcasting for affiliates

Short-form podcasting for affiliates

📅 December 31, 2024 ⏱ 5:16

What is a short-form podcast? Short-form podcasting is hot for all the right and wrong reasons. The right and wrong reason to consider is once you get a follower, it is easier for you to be top of mind for the listener and get into their feed once a day. How is a short-form podcast beneficial for...

Consistent quality content in affiliate marketing

Consistent quality content in affiliate marketing

📅 December 24, 2024 ⏱ 7:43

Today we have a solo cast from me talking about being consistent in affiliate marketing. There is a time to pivot like the number of betting affiliates I've seen switch to cryptocurrencies and a time to stay consistent. You have to decide what that consistent looks like for you. For the most succes...

Podcast guesting vs hosting

Podcast guesting vs hosting

📅 December 17, 2024 ⏱ 6:18

Which is better? Ever since I've tuned in to the Confessions of a B2B Entrepreneur and heard Tom Hunt go head to head with Jakub Zajicek, I've thought hard about what is important. To be a guest on a podcast, or to host one? I think the answer is a bit of both but guesting has a slight edge of buil...

The online bingo industry with Sue Dawson

The online bingo industry with Sue Dawson

📅 December 10, 2024 ⏱ 26:05

Does the online bingo industry make more money on slot games than bingo? This is one of the many questions I asked Sue Dawson whom is the Operations Director at FTD Digital. FTD Digital is a leading iGaming affiliate that specializes in online bingo and slots content and has won numerous affiliate...

Influencers & Affiliate Networks

Influencers & Affiliate Networks

📅 December 3, 2024 ⏱ 8:39

What is the connection between influencers and affiliate networks? Last week I noticed Jesper Søgaard, CEO of Better Collective, he mentioned the company was being patient in acquiring assets but I don't think there are a lot of assets on the market. Influencers are like an asset you can't buy b...

iGaming SEO Guide 2025

iGaming SEO Guide 2025

📅 November 26, 2024 ⏱ 11:16

Why did I create this iGaming SEO guide for 2025? I want to help you be setup for success in making sure SEO is working in your favour regardless of your project in iGaming. I wrote 2 articles recently, one for SEO in iGaming for Times of Malta and the other was another iGaming SEO guide in Linke...

Affiliate coaching for MyTopSlot with Marco Braun

Affiliate coaching for MyTopSlot with Marco Braun

📅 November 5, 2024 ⏱ 54:49

Meet Marco Braun who's the founder of MyTopSlot and an aspiring entrepreneur. This episode is not your ordinary one as it is an affiliate coaching episode. I give Marco my best tips as an affiliate coach on how he can cut through the noise and build a slots site in a competitive space. One of my re...

Why affiliate sites must give value with Bob Burg

Why affiliate sites must give value with Bob Burg

📅 October 22, 2024 ⏱ 21:52

Meet Bob Burg who's the co-author of The Go Giver book and is a sought out speaker. Bob exhibits a lot of qualities that my other guests have, which is they openly share information without asking for as much in return. All of those podcast guests all seem to share similar stories especially the SEO...

Advisory for affiliates & startups with Lou Viveros

Advisory for affiliates & startups with Lou Viveros

📅 October 15, 2024 ⏱ 42:31

Meet Lou Viveros whom I was introduced through Matt Diggity. Matt posted that Lou was there in some of his M&A transactions and that is when I learned about Lou's work in both M&A as well as being an advisor to startups, SEOs and affiliate companies. As a startup, I've learned quite a few things fro...

Fractional CFO for affiliates with Rowan Ellis

Fractional CFO for affiliates with Rowan Ellis

📅 October 10, 2024 ⏱ 47:18

Meet Rowan Ellis who runs XVARO and you could call him your fractional CFO for hire. Rowan doesn't just help companies get their books in order but he helps them with financial strategy. This can often lead to discussion around mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and in the affiliate space, those topics ar...

Live dealer product affiliate niche with Neil Walker

Live dealer product affiliate niche with Neil Walker

📅 September 26, 2024 ⏱ 57:29

Meet Neil Walker who's the specialist behind Live Casino Comparer and his niche approach has lead to success. In fact, Neil is considered one of the leading experts when it comes to knowledge of the live dealer games space. While Neil doesn't profess to be an expert in SEO, he does know that his att...

VIP Strategy in iGaming with Gali Hartuv

VIP Strategy in iGaming with Gali Hartuv

📅 September 19, 2024 ⏱ 56:42

Meet Gali Hartuv who's the creator of Gali's Guide which is a newsletter that explores the world of VIP in iGaming. Talking about VIP in iGaming whether it is casinos or sportsbooks, is usually a forbidden topic. That is exactly what Gali set out to do which is change the status quo and start talki...

Parasite SEO Strategy & Tools with James Oliver

Parasite SEO Strategy & Tools with James Oliver

📅 September 12, 2024 ⏱ 30:30

Meet James Oliver who's one of the co-founders of ParasiteSEO.com which is a unique SEO tool that ... helps you with parasite SEO. In this podcast, James explains what is parasite SEO and what are the best strategies and tips when it comes to leveraging this SEO tactic for your affiliate sites.

RevOps in affiliate marketing with Ben Austen

RevOps in affiliate marketing with Ben Austen

📅 August 19, 2024 ⏱ 50:14

Meet Ben Austen who's the the Director-level leader specialising in RevOps with Find.co, a fast growing media company in affiliate marketing, iGaming, EdTech, CSR SaaS and crypto. Ben believes that RevOps is an important job that can bridge the gap between sales and marketing. It is the intersecti...

International SEO with Kira Khoroshilova

International SEO with Kira Khoroshilova

📅 June 13, 2024 ⏱ 47:29

Meet Kira Khoroshilova who does international SEO which personally I cannot think of any SEO experts that would be my go-to for this skillset. Think about things beyond local SEO but rather localization, cultural nuances and the dreaded hreflang for your sites. Kira has her brand called Diary of a...

5 Reasons to Start a Podcast

5 Reasons to Start a Podcast

📅 April 19, 2024 ⏱ 5:51

Should you start a podcast? There are enough pros and cons but the short answer is yes! Podcasting is a powerful channel for sales, personal branding and helping put your business on the radar of your potential buyers. Whether you're a SaaS founder or an affiliate company, podcasting is powerful.

Business Coach & Mentorship with Phil Fraser

Business Coach & Mentorship with Phil Fraser

📅 March 29, 2024 ⏱ 39:23

Meet Phil Fraser who runs the Business Sounding Board service as a business coach and is also the host of the Leeds Business Podcast. That podcast is amazing and I highly recommend you follow and listen to a few episodes of Phil's business podcast that talks about entrepreneurship and mentoring entr...

Affiliate Manager Training & Tools with Dustin Howes

Affiliate Manager Training & Tools with Dustin Howes

📅 February 23, 2024 ⏱ 41:14

Meet Dustin Howes whom is the first person I think of when I think about affiliate marketing. Dustin has made a name for himself by hosting the Affiliate Nerd Out podcast, he runs Performance Marketing Manager which helps educate and train affiliate managers and he is also the co-founder of Affistas...

Using Video For SEO with Craig Campbell

Using Video For SEO with Craig Campbell

📅 February 9, 2024 ⏱ 52:55

Craig Campbell inspired me to get into producing videos and doing podcasting. I remember Craig telling me that video was a powerful tool for SEO but I didn't realize that it was a significant part of his sales and affiliate funnels. In this episode we also talk about masterminds and why he runs a...

Podcasting For Affiliate Marketing with Tom Hunt

Podcasting For Affiliate Marketing with Tom Hunt

📅 February 2, 2024 ⏱ 39:10

Tom Hunt is the host of my favourite podcast, Confessions of a B2B Marketer. He is also the founder of bCast which is a podcast host and he runs Fame.so which is an agency that helps B2B companies become famous in their niche with podcasting. I wanted to ask Tom questions about his B2B experience...

Mastermind Groups with James Dooley

Mastermind Groups with James Dooley

📅 January 26, 2024 ⏱ 53:42

Why should you consider being in a Mastermind group? Meet James Dooley who's an SEO, affiliate, entrepreneur and investor. He credits masterminds as being the key ingredient to his success in business. He explains that you'll gain more knowledge in a mastermind group than you would attending any co...

Delegation & People Management with Mads Singers

Delegation & People Management with Mads Singers

📅 January 18, 2024 ⏱ 56:59

Meet Mads Singers. He is the founder of the SEO Mastery Summit, Aristo Sourcing and Mads Singers Management Consulting. I saw a recent clip of him on Instagram about making better business decisions with time management. That is when I realized that Mads isn't just another SEO but something more....

SEO in Affiliate Marketing 2024

SEO in Affiliate Marketing 2024

📅 January 11, 2024 ⏱ 10:22

What does SEO in affiliate marketing look like in 2024? I've had the luxury to interview these amazing SEO experts to ask a lot of questions. Questions like what SEO tools do you use, how would you build an affiliate site on a minimal budget, is it too late to do affiliate marketing and what strat...

Brand Building with Digital PR with Gabriela Covay

Brand Building with Digital PR with Gabriela Covay

📅 December 21, 2023 ⏱ 41:50

Meet Gabriela Covay who is the founder of Bright Valley Marketing. What I thought was going to be a link building episode, was really a masterclass on brand building. Gabriela shares her insights on why and how affiliates can use digital PR for link building and more importantly, building a truste...

How Affiliate Programs Can Improve Their Results

How Affiliate Programs Can Improve Their Results

📅 November 30, 2023 ⏱ 10:29

What can affiliate programs do to earn more revenue and improve their business? The old method was to get affiliate managers to find more affiliates, problem solved, right? Not quite. While most programs are trying to solve the problem with volume, there are 3 things affiliate programs should be...

Affiliate Manager Insights with Sami Kurvinen

Affiliate Manager Insights with Sami Kurvinen

📅 November 23, 2023 ⏱ 26:02

Sami Kurvinen is a long time friend in the affiliate marketing and iGaming industry. He was my favourite affiliate manager because he knew everything and he was hard working. Sami has evolved his career on all 3 pillars of the iGaming industry: first as a professional poker player, then an affiliat...

Affiliate SEO Secrets: Dive Deep with Matt Diggity

Affiliate SEO Secrets: Dive Deep with Matt Diggity

📅 September 27, 2023 ⏱ 26:40

Matt Diggity gives an SEO masterclass that includes affiliate marketing. Year after year, people keep asking if SEO is dead and Matt thinks there has never been a better time to be in SEO and to get started in SEO and affiliate marketing. There is a lot of timeless, evergreen, SEO tips in this e...

Data Driven SEO with Victor Karpenko of SeoProfy

Data Driven SEO with Victor Karpenko of SeoProfy

📅 September 20, 2023 ⏱ 33:13

Victor Karpenko is an affiliate and an SEO expert who owns SeoProfy. He shares a few SEO case studies and another look at how he uses data to make better and fastest decisions for running his sites and working with SEO clients. I'll share a story within this episode that should inspire people to t...

A data driven iGaming affiliate platform: ReferOn

A data driven iGaming affiliate platform: ReferOn

📅 August 30, 2023 ⏱ 38:09

Meet David Harris and Vladyslav Bondarenko from ReferOn. ReferOn is a new iGaming affiliate platform powering the next generation of affiliate programs. These guys don't want to just build another affiliate program platform, they want to innovate and build the best one out there. In this podcast th...

SEO dashboards with Kyle Roof

SEO dashboards with Kyle Roof

📅 August 23, 2023 ⏱ 34:07

This episode had me writing lots of notes on looking at SEO data and building the right SEO dashboard for you. Kyle specifically has SEO courses dedicated to building dashboards and explains why every SEO should do it even though only 0.01% actually do it.