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The Influence of Israeli Affiliate Marketers on the Global Gambling Industry

Explore how Israeli affiliate marketing giants like NeoGames Partners, Playtech, and XLMedia shape the global gambling industry through optimised user acquisition and operator relationships.

Affiliate marketing is vital to the multi-billion dollar gambling sector. They introduce new customers to online operators through targeted digital campaigns, bringing in much of the industry’s revenue. Israeli businesses have become leaders in this specialised field, significantly shaping how providers and affiliates connect.

Through innovation and refined techniques, major Israeli companies now direct a substantial number of players to gambling websites globally. Their strategies range from developing customizable casino promotion tools to crafting agreements that mutually benefit partners. As a result, Israeli marketers hold significant control over online casinos.


What is a Gambling Affiliate Business?

A gambling affiliate business promotes online betting and gaming products for casinos or gambling operators. These partners use their websites, social media, emails, and other digital methods to direct visitors to casinos, sportsbooks, or bingo rooms. The company earns a commission when these new players sign up and interact with the operator through referral links.

This compensation is typically a percentage of the player’s losses or deposits. Successful affiliates maximise these earnings by tailoring promotions to different audiences and tracking user behaviour to refine strategies. The goal is to recommend the best options to players while helping operators acquire loyal, long-term customers.

Top Israeli Affiliate Marketing Businesses

Experts from Gamblizard.ca, who specialize in reviewing and analyzing casino bonuses, conducted a research study to identify the most successful Israeli companies in this field. With their help, we created a list of companies that have not only maintained their positions in a competitive market but also significantly expanded their capabilities and influence:

CompanyDescription
NeoGamesA leading provider of iGaming solutions. Offers games, slots, bingo, and more to help operators across regulated markets.
XLMediaWorks with many of the largest and most respected gambling brands. Supports affiliates through multiple programs targeting sports, casinos, bingo, and other products.
Evoke plcPromotes 888 brands like 888casino and 888poker, Mr Green and William Hill to reach global audiences. Rewards affiliates through competitive commissions and long-standing client relationships.
PlaytechWorks alongside one of the largest gambling tech companies. Supplies affiliate’s products across various verticals from some of the industry’s biggest names.
WebpalsFacilitates partnerships between operators and affiliates through a transparent system. Focuses on optimising conversions through customised support.

1. NeoGames

NeoGames Partners is one of the arms of NeoGames, a leading turnkey solutions provider for regulated iGaming markets globally. Through an innovative lottery, casino, and sports betting websites, NeoGames powers many sovereign and commercially operated lotteries. Their casino affiliate program works to bring value to both operators and partners. NeoGames Partners offers a comprehensive selection of games and products to help online casino brands thrive.

They target audiences across multiple languages and locations. The company leads customised marketing campaigns utilising various online channels to maximise results. NeoGames Partners also provides analytical tools and support resources to optimise promotions.

As a major force introducing new players, NeoGames Partners plays a key role in determining the success of many gambling operators worldwide that benefit from increased signups and loyalty through their efforts.

2. XLMedia

XLMedia is a leader in this industry in the UK. As one of the largest gambling networks, it works with many top betting and gaming brands. XLMedia aims to aid affiliates in introducing new players to best payout slots. Its programs target casinos, sports, and other verticals, allowing them to efficiently promote gambling products that match their audiences’ preferences.

Through sustained success, XLMedia has become enormously influential in the British market. Their efforts remain important for identifying online casinos that offer the highest rewards.

3. Evoke plc

Evoke plc should be among the top if we talk about the most established programs in this field in the gambling industry. They aim to reward partners for introducing new clients to these gambling sites. Their customised marketing campaigns utilise multiple digital channels to help acquire and retain players.

Promos highlight the different virtual and live dealer games and sportsbooks available on 888 sites. Through long-standing client relationships and competitive commissions, Evoke plc exert a strong influence in determining the success of many online casinos, benefiting from the steady stream of signups their efforts produce.

4. Playtech

Playtech Affiliates works alongside one of the largest B2B gambling tech companies. They assist partners in showcasing Playtech’s games and casino operator clients to audiences worldwide. Playtech develops campaigns to promote a portfolio of poker, bingo, and live dealer products. Their strategies utilise different online channels such as affiliate websites, blogs and forums.

Playtech also supplies promotional tools and support resources. Through these services, it aims to partner affiliates with Playtech’s varied and reliable brands effectively. As a result, Playtech introduces many new users, expanding the customer bases and boosting revenues for numerous online casinos running on Playtech’s software and utilising its program.

5. Webpals Affiliates

Webpals Affiliates operates one of the largest iGaming networks in this field. They facilitate partnerships between licensed operators and partners across Europe and emerging markets globally. Webpals helps to boost signups for casino, poker, bingo, and sports betting websites. Their customised support helps optimise promos through audience insights.

Webpals Affiliates also provides operators with analytical tools to test their campaigns. Through a transparent revenue-sharing structure and real-time payment processing, Webpals empowers their partners while satisfying operators. As a result, their efforts play a major role in determining the profitability of many online gambling brands that benefit from the web traffic that their base brings.

Conclusion

Israeli affiliate marketing businesses have made immense contributions globally to the gambling sector. Through decades of innovation and optimisation of partner programs, major Israeli firms like NeoGames Partners, Playtech, and XLMedia now direct a huge portion of worldwide user acquisition for numerous casino brands.

As reviewed, they craft savvy campaigns utilising different channels to tie talented partners with reputable operators. By intelligently matching varied products to appropriate audiences, Israeli marketers help determine the success levels of many gambling websites.

According to expert evaluations, their efforts remain important in supporting casinos that provide high payout percentages. Israeli affiliate marketers substantially impact online betting and gaming revenues internationally through targeted introductions of new members employing customised promotions.

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I Speak “Jew”

Morrocan Jewish fish dish

By MARK E. PAULL I grew up in Montreal. Born in 1956. Anglo by birth, sure. But that never quite fit. I don’t speak “Anglo” the way they mean it. My real language is Jew.
And I don’t mean Hebrew or Yiddish. I mean the language of reading the room before you enter it. The code-switching, shame-dodging, laugh-first-so-they-don’t-pounce dialect we pick up early. It’s a language built on side-eyes and timing and ten generations of tension.
I speak French—enough to make myself understood. Enough to charm a dinner table, crack a joke, get someone’s uncle to nod. I’m not fluent, but I’m fast. Doesn’t matter. In Quebec, language isn’t grammar—it’s inheritance. It’s who your grandfather cursed out in a hardware store.
To the Francophones, I’ll never be one of them. My accent betrays me before I say a word. I’m just an Anglo. And not even that, really. Because when the lens tightens, when they look closely, I’m just un Juif. Just a Jew.
And to the Anglos? Same thing. I can wear the suit, speak the Queen’s English, order the wine properly—still a Jew. Even in rooms where I “pass,” I don’t belong. I’m not invited in to be myself. I’m invited in to behave. To be safe. To not say the thing that makes the air stiff.
We’re the only people still called by our religion. No one says “Orthodox” for a Greek. No one says “Vatican” for an Italian. No one calls a Black man “Baptist” before they see his face. But “Jew”? That sticks. That’s the label. Before passport. Before language. Before hello.
I’ve mostly made peace with that. But there’s still this ache—knowing you can live your whole life in a place and never really be from there.
Let me tell you a story.
We had this block party once—the folding-table, paper-plate kind. Kids zipping by on scooters. Music low. Everyone asked to bring something from “your culture.”
The Greek guy brought lemon potatoes and lamb—felt like it came with a side of Byzantine history. The Italians brought two lasagnas—meat and veggie—with basil placed like confetti. The Vietnamese couple brought shrimp rolls that vanished before they hit the table. Even the German guy—built like a fridge—brought bratwurst and a six-pack with gothic lettering.
And then us.
My partner made Moroccan fish. Her grandmother’s recipe. Red with tomatoes, garlic, cumin. Studded with olives and preserved lemon. I brought a bottle of white wine. Dry. Crisp. From the Golan Heights. Not Manischewitz. Not even close.
We laid it out. Someone leaned over: “Moroccan? But I thought you were Jewish.”
We smiled. “We are.”
Then: “So… where’s the brisket? Isn’t Jewish wine supposed to be sweet?”
That’s when it hits you. No matter how long you’ve lived here, how many snowstorms you’ve shoveled through, you’re still explaining yourself. Still translating your presence.
Because they don’t know. They don’t know Jews came from everywhere. That “Jewish” isn’t one dish—it’s a whole map. That we had Jews in Morocco before there was even a France. That some of us grew up on kreplach, some on kefta. That some of our mothers sang in Yiddish, others in Arabic, and some in both—depending on who was knocking.
They don’t know. And worse—they don’t ask.
And that’s the part that gets you. Not the slurs. Not the graffiti. Not even the occasional muttered cliché. It’s the blankness. The shrug. The image they already have of you that’s built out of dreidels and sitcoms.
“Jewish” as nostalgic. As novelty. Something they saw once on a bagel.
Sometimes, when those questions come, I float. One version of me walks out. Another turns into a mouse. One turns into a Frisbee. Just gone. Not mad. Just tired.
Because being a Jew isn’t cute. It’s not nostalgic.
It’s ancient.
Before Montreal.
Before France.
Before Poland. Before Spain.
Before pogroms.
Before ghettos.
Before Hitler.
Before even the word Europe.
We were there.
Go back to the 5th century. 2nd century.
Go back to Jesus—our kid, by the way.
Go further—Babylon. Persia.
Keep going—Temple. Exile. Wandering.
And still, after all that, I’m at a table in Quebec explaining why our fish has cumin in it.
It’s almost funny. If it didn’t wear you down a little.
I’m not looking for pity. This isn’t a complaint.
I’m proud. I know what I carry. I walk into any room with five thousand years behind me. I come from people who kept the lights on through every kind of darkness—and laughed through it, too.
But sometimes, I just wish I didn’t have to explain so much.
All I want is to put down my dish…
…and hear someone say:
“That smells amazing. Tell me the story.”

That’s all.


Mark E. Paull, C.A.C. is a Certified ADHD Coach – IPHM, CMA, IIC&M, CPD Certified
Writer | Lived-Experience Advocate | Type 1 Diabetic since 1967

He has been published in:
The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Folklife Magazine, Times of Israel, CHADD’s Attention Magazine, The Good Men Project

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At 104, Besse Gurevich last original resident of Shaftesbury Park Retirement Residence

By MYRON LOVE At 104, Besse Gurevich is the last of the original residents of Shaftesbury Park Retirement Residence. She may also be the oldest member of our Jewish community.
Although her vision and her hearing have diminished considerably, her mind and memory are still intact.  A few weeks back, this writer sat down with her in her suite as she recalled a life filled with highs and lows and her many  contributions to her community, both in Winnipeg and Fort William before that.
The daughter of Jack and Rebecca Avit, her life’s journey began in 1921 in a home on Carlton Street near Ellice Avenue, near her father’s furniture store.  He later operated a cap factory.
When she was ten, the family – she had two brothers and a sister – moved to Manitoba Avenue in the old North End. “My father had put a deposit down on a house on Scotia,” she recalls.  “But my parents didn’t feel that the neighbourhood was Jewish enough.”
Her schooling included Peretz School and, like so many of her generation, St. John’s Tech (as it was known back then.)  “I was actually supposed to be going to Isaac Newton for high school,” she says.  We were living on the wrong side of the tracks for St. John’s.  After one day at Isaac Newton, I found a way to transfer to St. John’s.”
In 1940, 19-year-old Bessie Avit married Jack Gurevich, a young man from Fort William.  The wedding was marred though, by the sudden, untimely passing of her father.
Following the wedding, Besse moved with her new husband to Fort William where Jack Gurevich worked in retail clothing sales.  “We lived in Fort William for 20 years,” she says.  “Our three children (Judy, Richard and Howard) were born there.”
She recalls that there were about 200 Jewish families – including her sister and one of her brothers for some years – in town, during the time she lived there. “We were very well known in the community,” she recalls. “I was involved in everything.”
Her community activism continued after the family’s return to her home town. While Jack went to work as a salesman for Western Glove Works, Besse became an indefatigable community volunteer. At one time or another, she served as vice-president of ORT, Hadassah and National Council of Jewish Women in Winnipeg. She was also a long time B’nai Brith member.
In the business world, the highlight of her career was the building of Linden Woods.  “I became involved in real estate development for a time,” she recalls. “I was hired by Genstar to develop Linden Woods.  The company estimated that it would take about 20 years to complete.  I got it done in two.”
She also taught hair dressing for a while. “I worked with many young Jewish brides,” she says.
Recent years have not been kind to Besse Gurevich. Her beloved husband, Jack, died in 2016 – after almost 65 years of marriage.  Older son, Richard, passed away in Vancouver in 2018 and, most recently –six months ago – younger son, Howard, followed.  She notes that there were 200 mourners at Howard’s funeral.
(Howard Gurevich was in marketing for many years before turning his talents to the art world. In recent years, he was best known for Gurevich Fine Art in the Exchange District and his support of local artists.)
Besse Gurevich celebrated her 100th birthday – which took place at the height of the Covid shutdown – quietly. 
While she used to enjoy reading. she is unable to do so any more. She can still listen to television.
And while she has few family members to visit her any more, she does have a group of friends interesting enough from the local theatre scene.  For many years, she was a close friend of the late Doreen Brownstone, one of the leading figures in theatre in Winnipeg for more than half a century.  Besse became part of the group that would visit Doreen every week and, since Doreen passed on three years ago, the members of the group have continued to visit Besse on a weekly basis.  

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Winnipeg author’s first novel gripping tale of romance, action and intrigue, set in 15th century Spain and Morocco

“The Chronos of Andalucia” author Merom Toledano

By MYRON LOVE “The Chronos of Andalucia”, a novel just released by first-time author Merom Toledano, is a historical romance set in late 15th century Spain and Morocco, filled with passion, action, intrigue, unexpected twists and turns – and, of course, with the requirement of any medieval story – a quest.
The easy-to-read, 190 page book follows the adventures of Catalina, a young woman living by her wits on the streets of Granada in the year 1487, (just after the Christian armies of Ferdinand and Isabella had recaptured all of Spain from the Moors) – while trying to evade the agents of the Inquisition, who had murdered her Jewish mother and Christian father 10 years earlier.  She was left with an insatiable desire to learn about astronomy, along with a mysterious map and an astrolabe (an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements) – the importance of which will only be unveiled if she can get to the city of Tangier in Morocco.
Early on, there is a reference to Abraham Zacuto, a prominent Spanish rabbi famed for his knowledge of astronomy and astrology.
The action begins when she has a casual interaction with a former Spanish soldier, Diego.  When the forces of the Inquisition approach, she flees with the soldier – who is also her love interest – and who helps her to escape.  They turn for help to a childhood friend of Catalina’s – Roberta, a nun, who helps them on their perilous  journey to Tangier – a journey that includes being captured by pirates, surviving a shipwreck, being separated for a long period of time and, of course, finding each other again and realizing the success of their joint quest.
In his writing, the author paints vivid word pictures of the different characters and beautifully invokes the colour, sights, sounds and scents of the time and the places. 
What I found truly remarkable about the writing of “The Chronos of Andalucia” is that English is not Merom  Toledano’s first language.  The Israeli-born author – he grew up near Haifa – came to Winnipeg with his young family just eight years ago.
“I have had this book in mind for several years now,” says the satellite engineer whose working career takes him to many different parts of the world. 
He notes that he has always felt a connection to Spain, Spanish music and literature – a reflection of his family’s modern origins in that country.  His great-grandparents, he relates, lived in Toledo – hence the family name, Toledano.  His parents lived in Meknes in Morocco while his father attended university in Tangier before making aliyah.
Toledano just published “The Chronos of Andalucia” in April on Amazon. He reports that the book – which is available here at McNally Robinson – has been selling well –close to 100 copies – with orders coming from a bookstore chain in England, a bookstore in Denmark, and one in Italy.
“I have had between 30 and 40 positive reviews so far,” he reports.
Toledano adds that he envisages “The Chronos of Andalucia” to be the first in a series – a la the writer Danielle Steele.  He is already working on a sequel – which is hinted at the end of “The Chronos” and, he reports, he is establishing his own independent publishing operation.        

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