How we make money

Nothing on Grand Bonuses is paid for by readers. The site is funded by the operators listed on it: click through from a comparison row, open an account, and we may be paid for that sign-up. A one-line notice says as much above every table. This page is the detail behind it — the payment models, what they do and do not influence, and how an international site handles disclosure when no single advertising regulator covers its readers.

How the payment actually works

Payment reaches us through operators' own partner programmes and through affiliate networks contracted to run those programmes. Three structures cover essentially all of it, and which applies is set per operator in a contract, never by anything visible in the tables:

Cost per acquisition. One fixed payment when a new customer registers and makes a qualifying first deposit. Nothing afterwards changes it.
Revenue share. A percentage of the operator's earnings from that customer over time. Those earnings are the customer's net losses; a customer who finishes a period ahead generates nothing for us. Stated bluntly: under this model our income rises when a player loses. We would rather write that sentence than let a disclosure sentence imply a neutrality that does not exist.
Hybrid. A reduced one-off payment combined with a reduced revenue share.

There is no charge to the reader, no subscription and no sale of reader data. We do not take payment to write a specific assessment, and a position in a table is not for sale.

The link, end to end

Comparison buttons pass through a redirect we control, which appends a tracking code and forwards to the operator. The code identifies the source of the visit and carries nothing about you. Those links are marked rel="sponsored", which is the same signal we give to search engines. The offer you land on is the operator's own published offer — going through us neither improves nor degrades it — and its terms are read on the operator's terms page before the row is written.

What the money does not influence

52 brands are listed at the moment, across 8 country pages. Every one of them currently sits behind a commercial agreement. We prefer to state that than to imply a mix that does not exist: what decides inclusion is the licence and whether the brand accepts players from the country in question, but the contracts are real.

Not the ranking. Order follows the five sub-scores documented on how we rate. Commission is not one of the five.
Not the country lists. Which brands appear on a country page is decided by whether the operator actually accepts traffic from that country when its own link is resolved from there — a technical result, not a commercial one.
Not the wording. A licence with no public register is described as a licence with no public register, on every brand that holds one, regardless of what the programme pays.

What the redirect carries, and what removes a brand

The tracking parameter names the site and the campaign a visit came from. It carries no name, no email address and nothing about your activity at the operator; what returns to us is a count of clicks and registrations. Everything collected after the redirect is governed by the operator's own privacy notice — worth reading, because privacy practice varies far more widely across offshore licences than across a single national regime. Our own handling is in the privacy policy.

A commercial agreement does not keep a brand on the site. A brand is removed when its licence lapses or is revoked, when the terms on its own pages repeatedly contradict what it advertises, when a documented pattern of unpaid or heavily delayed withdrawals appears, or when it starts accepting players from a country where it is prohibited. That last one is specific to an international roster and it is the one we watch hardest.

Disclosure without a single regulator

Our readers sit under many different advertising regimes at once, and no single authority supervises this site the way a national regulator supervises a national one. Rather than treat that as licence to say less, we apply the strictest common rules from the regulated markets we work in: advertising must be identifiable as advertising, must not promise winnings, must not target anyone under 18, and bonus conditions must appear next to the bonus figure instead of behind an asterisk. We do not advertise operators to readers in countries where those operators are prohibited, and a country page exists only after the legal position for that country has been written down with sources. Where an operator holds a Malta licence, you can check it yourself in the MGA licensee register; where it does not, the operator page says which authority issued the licence and what that authority does and does not publish.

Corrections

If a row looks bought, a bonus contradicts the operator's own terms, or a link behaves strangely, write to [email protected] or use the contact page; the row gets corrected and re-dated. Who publishes this is on about us, licence movements are logged on new licences, and the table data was last checked 6 September 2026.

The model above has one honest consequence: gambling carries a house edge that no bonus removes, and over time the money moves to the operator. Our revenue depends on that arithmetic rather than correcting it. Read responsible gambling, set a deposit limit before you need one, and stop when it is no longer on your terms. 18+.

The full roster the commission did not reorder is in the comparison.

Last reviewed 6 September 2026.