How We Earn

Editorial independence

The editorial team is paid salaries, not commissions. Scores do not change if an operator spends more with us or less with us; a struck-out partnership does not pull a positive review from the archive, and a new partnership does not cause a negative review to soften. We say no to operators who ask us to adjust a verdict, and we say no to operators who ask us to delay publication of a critical review until a promotion ends. The adverts you do not see on this site — big banners, interstitials, sponsored sections stitched into articles — are a cost we accept to keep the editorial surface clean.

What it changes for you

Nothing, as far as we can design it. The same bonus is offered to a reader who arrives through our link, through a direct search or through a different review site; our commission does not reduce the amount the operator pays out. Your terms, your bonuses and your withdrawals are the same. The only difference is that if you register through our link, the operator attributes you to this site inside its reporting system, which is how the commission reaches us. If you prefer not to be attributed, open the Betano URL in a fresh incognito window instead of following our button.

Which links are affiliate

Every button or link on this site that leads a reader to Betano is an affiliate link. That includes buttons labelled 'Download APK', 'Claim bonus', 'Register' or 'Visit Betano'. Links to the responsible-gambling register, to regulator pages, to help lines, to external news articles and to our own internal pages are not affiliate links and do not pay us anything. We mark the first promotional button on every page implicitly through its destination — it goes to the operator — and rely on this disclosure page to explain the mechanic globally rather than repeat the same banner on top of every review.

How we earn

This site is published independently and is funded through affiliate commissions. When a reader follows one of our promotional buttons to Betano and opens a new account, we may receive a one-time payment or a share of the operator's revenue from that account, depending on the agreement in force at the time. Commission is calculated by the operator, not by us, and is settled monthly on a reporting cycle we do not control. We do not take fees from readers, we do not run paid advertising inside the article body, and we do not accept payment to publish, hide or soften a review. That is the entire income model behind the site; there are no other revenue streams, and nothing about the way it works changes depending on how the reader behaves after sign-up. We do not run display ads from third-party networks, we do not run pop-ups, and we do not charge for access to specific pages. If any of that ever changes we will say so here first, before anything else.

Regulatory note

Australian consumer protection law requires commercial relationships with promoted brands to be disclosed. This page is that disclosure. We also comply with relevant advertising standards for gambling-adjacent content, which means no claims about guaranteed wins, no targeting of readers under eighteen, no messaging aimed at people who have self-excluded, and no language suggesting that gambling can solve money problems. If you believe an article on this site breaches those principles, write to the editors and we will investigate.