The TopRanked.io Weekly Digest: What’s Hot in Affiliate Marketing [Gambling Affiliation Review]

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This week, we’re lending a helping to our Indian friends who feel like they’re constrained/held back/prevented from doing what they really want to do.

So, why are we helping ‘em out?

Well, first, to be kind and lend a helping hand.

But second (and more importantly), because there’s some money to be made here.

Lots of money (billions).

So let’s get hustlin’

TopRanked.io Affiliate Partner Program of the Week — Gambling Affiliation

Before we get to the good bit (how to weaponize this week’s news to make some money), let’s get the essential nuts and bolts out of the way first.

For that, we’re gonna need a top-tier affiliate program to monetize with. And I think I’ve got just the ticket.

Meet your new best friend: Gambling Affiliation.

Gambling Affiliation Program — The Product

Yeah, I know. No prizes for guessing what the Gambling Affiliation program is all about.

It’s gambling.

Duh.

But before you skip this section and head straight for the commissions, let me take a moment to show you what makes Gambling Affiliation special.

You see, unlike most programs in this space, Gambling Affiliation isn’t just a “single-brand” program.

Nore is Gambling Affiliation one of the “multi-brand” programs where all you’re getting is a fresh branding layer on the same five white-labeled platforms.

In fact — and here’s the biggest twist — Gambling Affiliation isn’t even limited to gambling. With everything from financial services to Amazon under one roof, Gambling Affiliation literally has everything you need to monetize.

Well, maybe that was a slight exaggeration. But there are a few non-gambling offers thrown into the Gambling Affiliation mix.

As for the rest of the offers under Gambling Affiliation… well, they’re too numerous to list here, but let’s just say that if it’s a brand name you know, then you can probably promote it with Gambling Affiliation.

Sweet, right?

Gambling Affiliation — The Commissions

So, after spending all that time going over the products under the Gambling Affiliation roof, you’d think I’d have plenty in store for the Gambling Affiliation commissions section, wouldn’t you?

Sadly, I don’t.

Simply put, because Gambling Affiliation has so many offers under one roof, it’s impossible for me to tell you exactly what you’re gonna earn.

So, I’ll keep this section simple: Gambling Affiliation offers commissions that are competitive with the best programs available. And among those offers, you’ll find a little bit of everything, from classic CPA and Rev Share through to Hybrid models.

Gambling Affiliation — Next Steps

Quick review. I know. But there’s a good reason for that:

We’ve already reviewed Gambling Affiliation for you. So if you wanna see Gambling Affiliation in all of its glory, head on over to TopRanked.io for our full Gambling Affiliation Review.

Otherwise, if you just wanna get down to business (I know I do), then head on over here to sign up with Gambling Affiliation today.

Affiliate News Takeaways

There’s a dirty tactic big business likes to use to get ahead.

And here’s the best thing — you can use it (or rather, use the reversal of it) to make BIG affiliate dollars.

And by BIG, I mean really BIG.

So, what’s the trick I’m talking about?

Any guesses?

No?

Alright, reveal time — the trick…

Regulation.

You know, like big government and all that stuff they’re supposed to be against. 

Now, obviously, big business usually HATES regulation. And I don’t think I need to explain why.

But sometimes they love it. Or, at least, they love it in a very specific form:

Regulatory Capture.

For anyone who doesn’t know what this is, let me give you an example.

Remember when OpenAI first dropped ChatGPT? And do you remember how Scam Altman went on a bit “OMG OMG I’m so afraid!” tour?

Right, of course you do.

We all do.

But why do you think he was running around trying to get regulations put on the very industry he was trying to scale in?

Any guesses?

The answer, of course, is that he didn’t want “regulations”, per se. Instead, he wanted “very specific types of regulations”.

As for what type of regulations he wanted — you only need to look through the “regulatory capture” history books to take a guess.

Basically, just enough “safety” that it would burden smaller startups, but not so much that OpenAI couldn’t absorb the cost.

Sadly, in Altman’s case, things didn’t really pan out as he expected.

And on that note, we arrive at this week’s actual news story — India.

So, what’s going on in India?

Well, OpenAI’s announced it’s setting up an office there… but that’s not the story I wanted to discuss.

Instead, what I wanted to discuss was a rare instance of “reverse regulatory capture” that I think us affiliates can exploit in a very profitable way. Here’s how profitable:

A market worth $3.6 billion in aggregate revenue just dropped into a totally un-served black hole.

In other words, real customers who were paying real money ($3.6 billion) are desperately looking for a new place to spend that money.

So, how’d this happen, and what’s the opportunity exactly?

The story itself is here, and its (condensed) headline is this:

India Bans Real-Money Games

Now, to understand how this works as a sort of “reverse regulatory capture”, let me outline the story first because… I get it… it can be a bit of a brain-bender this whole reverse logic thing.

Here’s the tl;dr:

• India passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025
• Prior to the introduction of this bill, India had a thriving real-money gaming economy ($3.6B)
• The bill just banned real-money gaming (to “promote casual online games and esports”)
• Here, real-money gaming includes just about everything: fantasy sports, poker, rummy, casino‑style games, betting, and all other “money game” formats.
• Now, a bunch of Indian real-money gaming providers are shutting down (Dream Sports, Mobile Premier League, Gameskraft, Probo, and Zupee, etc… one report says as many as 1700 startups are affected.)
• Actually, they’re not all shutting down — the ones remaining are trying to pivot into something else.
• And so far, no one looks like they’re going to challenge it in the Supreme Court.

One other note before we move on — that other report I linked to above claims that the “total size of the Indian gaming market is estimated at Rs 33,000 crore.”

I did the conversion on that (1 “crore” = 10 million), and that works out to 330 billion Indian Rupees, which converts back to around US$3.78 billion. Basically, that’s double confirmation that the first number I quoted ($3.6 billion) is at least in the ballpark.

But let’s get back to the rest of the story — the “reverse regulatory capture thing”.

Basically, dominant players in India’s real-money gaming scene, by way of regulation, just got kicked out of the market. That means the market is no longer captured. Hence, “reverse regulatory capture”.

Now, I know what some of you are thinking here—

“India just banned real-money gaming. Doesn’t that mean the market’s already dead?”

Lucky for you, I have a response:

Sorry.

Vague response.

I’m not talking about meth.

Or dating.

But I am talking about drugs in general.

Not to say you should sell drugs — more as a way of saying “you can ban something, but you can’t make it go away.”

In other words, people are always gonna find a way. Your only job here is to help them find that way faster.

But we’ll get to the “how to help them” bit in a minute.

First, we’re gonna survey the Indian gaming scene to see where the money actually is.

And there’s a hint in this — yet another — report on the Indian real-money gaming ban (which, BTW, also confirms the $3.6 billion figure.)

That hint (and, for anyone vaguely familiar with stuff people in India like to do for fun, this will already be obvious) is a single word that appears.

Cricket.

It’s absolutely huge there — probably bigger than anywhere else, including those “deadlock holiday”-type destinations who, apparently, actually prefer chemistry…

Or, to put it in a slightly less vague way, let me quote Wikipedia: “Cricket is the most popular sport in India.”

So, there’s that as a starting point (obvious sportsbook tie-in).

But there’s plenty more. Basically, the breakdown of market share (by percentage) goes like this:

• Fantasy sports: ~40–45% of the market (cricket dominant).
• Rummy: ~25–30%.
• Poker: ~5%.
• Other casino (slots, blackjack, roulette, etc.): ~5–10%
• Grey sports betting (I’ll save this number for later… it will shock you)

Now, if we take those numbers above and apply them to the “market size” estimates we’ve seen three times so far, we can see that even seemingly “small” opportunities are actually kinda big.

Take poker, for example — it’s 5% of the (formerly) “legal” market. 5% of $3.6 billion works out to $180 million.

Capture some of that, and you’ll be laughing all the way to the bank.

Anyway, that’s enough of that.

Time for the takeaway.

Takeaway

So, we have an opportunity to capture some Indian real-money gaming customers who’ll likely be looking for a new home right now.

The play?

Sell VPN’s plus casino/betting offers side by side.

Give ‘em helpful “here’s how the real playaz do it” guides.

Point ‘em in the right direction (your affiliate links).

And the rest, as they say, is history… (historically epic affiliate profits).

Oh, and also, in case you’re skeptical that this angle has any chance of working, there’s one final figure I want to share with you.

This opportunity is actually part of a $100+ billion market.

You see, while India did have a formal “regulated” real-money gaming market before, most of the activity still took place on the “grey market” anyway. And while no one knows for sure exactly how much it’s worth, there’s been more than one estimate that pegs it at at least $100 billion.

If that’s not reason enough for you to at least give this opportunity a try, then I don’t know what is.

And on that note, I’ll leave you with something that I do actually know — a great way to monetize this opportunity:

Gambling Affiliation.

Closing Thought

With this week’s affiliate opportunity being all about the “rules” (and breaking them), I thought it was an opportune time to drop this Thomas Edison banger.

Also, just in case you don’t know who Edison is…

…he’s the original “light bulb” moment guy:

Anyway, let’s get back to the quote.

What do we make of it?

Do we just disregard everything and throw out the rulebook?

Well, not quite — I don’t think Edison was saying “let’s get crazy”.

Instead, what I think he was saying was, “When you come up against resistance, and that resistance takes the form of a rule, then maybe, just maybe, it might be worth breaking that rule.”

That’s my take on it anyway.

And I think it’s a pretty good take because, let’s face it, there are plenty of rules you should follow.

Case in point, the affiliate’s golden rule: always be monetizing.

That’s a rule you should always follow.

Otherwise, you end up like this guy:

And just to make sure you don’t end up like him, here’s one final word for a very good affiliate program:

Gambling Affiliates.

Go join ‘em.

I guarantee it — you won’t just like Gambling Affiliates; you’ll love Gambling Affiliation..

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