GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 41 - July 2018

NEW GPWA MEMBER BENEFIT of data, and how do we keep it complete and up-to-date? Glad you asked. Every month for 15 years, we have used services like Alexa, Hitwise and SimilarWeb to find new sites that those services consider similar to the sites already in our database. Our dedicated research team manually examines and classifies these new sites, effectively leveraging the millions of users Free Access to iGamingDirectory.com Affiliates can now take advantage of the world’s most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the online gaming industry BY MICHAEL CORFMAN As an iGaming affiliate, information is vital and knowledge is power. For this reason, we’re pleased to announce the GPWA is offering private members and sponsors a unique opportunity to use the world’s most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the online gaming industry, via our newly launched iGamingDirectory. com online service. And thanks to longtime GPWA sponsor bet365, this offer is free of charge. Fifteen years ago, Casino City Press published the inaugural edition of its annual Casino City’s iGaming Business Directory , a bona fide “who’s who” of all things iGam- ing. Last year, we implemented an online version of this directory that is substantially more detailed and continuously updated. As this magazine went to press, the ever-expanding iGamingDirectory. com database included 1,500 busi- nesses that own online gaming sites, 4,000 online gaming sites, 1,200 affiliate programs and affiliate net- works, 10,000 web portals and their owners, 800 game and platform suppliers, 12,000 games, 180 reg- ulatory jurisdictions, 1,500 annual reports of online gaming businesses, 800 payment methods and nearly 15,000 gaming executives with their associated LinkedIn profiles. How did we go about accumu- lating such a massive collection W W W . G P W A T I M E S . O R G 30