Last updated: June 4, 2026.
The short version
American Online Casinos is an affiliate website. When you click a link from our site to a gambling operator and subsequently sign up and play, the operator may pay us a commission. That commission is typically a one-time payment (a CPA, "cost per acquisition") or a percentage of your net losses to the operator over time (a revenue share). It does not increase any cost to you, and it does not affect any bonus you receive from the operator.
Which operators we have affiliate relationships with
As of June 2026, we have active affiliate relationships with the 15 online casino operators ranked on our flagship NY casinos page:
- Ignition
- BetOnline
- All Star Slots
- Super Slots
- Slots.lv
- Slots of Vegas
- Cafe Casino
- Wild Casino
- Lucky Red Casino
- Black Lotus
- Lucky Creek
- Shazam
- BetWhale
- VoltageBet
- Lucky Tiger
These operators are licensed offshore (primarily under Curaçao, Costa Rica and Panama jurisdictions) and accept U.S. players including New York residents. They are not licensed by the New York State Gaming Commission, and our recommendation reflects testing rather than state-regulatory endorsement.
We also reference (but do not currently have direct affiliate relationships with) the nine state-licensed NY mobile sportsbooks on our sports betting page. References to NY-licensed sportsbooks, iLottery and DFS operators are editorial; we do not earn affiliate commission from those mentions.
Every link on our site that points to a partner is marked with rel="sponsored nofollow" in compliance with Google's affiliate-link guidance. The disclosure strip at the top of every page on this site additionally signals that we may earn commissions.
How commission affects our rankings (it doesn't)
Our editorial team is independent of our affiliate-relationships team. The four-person editorial group sets review scores and rankings based on the methodology documented on our editorial process page. Affiliate-commission tiers are not an input to that scoring.
Practical confirmations of this independence:
- We've ranked operators that pay us lower commissions above operators that pay us higher commissions — when the testing supported that ranking.
- We've recommended operators that don't yet have affiliate programs with us at all (in some cases simply because the operator and our affiliate-relationships team haven't agreed to terms).
- We've declined operator partnerships that would have required favorable editorial coverage as a condition.
What this means for you as a reader
- You pay nothing extra by clicking through our links. The commission comes from the operator, not from you.
- You may receive a bonus by clicking through our links (a welcome offer, promo code, or sign-up perk) — these are documented per-operator on each review page.
- Our reviews are honest about flaws. If an operator has a problem we identified during testing, we say so — including for operators that pay us commissions.
- You can verify operator details independently. Every operator we partner with is licensed by an appropriate regulator. Their license details are publicly searchable.
How to report a problem
If you believe a review on this site misrepresents a partner operator, or if you encountered an operator behavior that contradicts our coverage, email [email protected]. We investigate every report.
If the issue is with the operator itself rather than our coverage, the appropriate complaint channels are:
- NY State Gaming Commission for licensed sportsbooks, parimutuel and retail operators: gaming.ny.gov
- NY Attorney General consumer-frauds bureau for non-payment or fraud: ag.ny.gov
FTC compliance notice
This disclosure is made pursuant to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, 16 C.F.R. § 255, and the FTC's .com Disclosures guidance. We disclose material relationships with operators on a per-page basis (via the disclosure strip and operator-specific notations) and on this dedicated page.
Questions
Email [email protected].