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I am asking this question because, for me, there could be a possible conflict of interest here.

As a review site running its own gambling site, there might be a concern that they could potentially undermine their competitors on their website to boost their own standing in the competition. This could involve making biased or false statements to praise their own website.

While I'm not certain if this is happening in the real world, it raises the question of whether you would trust a review website in such a case.

One bad thing.

They make their casino and have good ratings. A review casino should not have any connection to a casino, because the credibility of their review can be questioned by everyone/user. I never use any casino-review.

I more like it from user review especially in thread, reddits and other.

I know that there are many trustworthy casino review websites, but I don't rely on them for information. Before approving any gambling platform, it is important to do your research. It is not proper for a gambling site to have its review site, this is because the gambling review site will only publish good things about their own casino while it will only show the weaknesses of other competitors. They might claim to be unbiased but there will still be some level of partiality. I will not trust such a review site because it will be used as an instrument of propaganda.  

It's just bad optics. It would still come off as a desperate attempt to shill their own platform even if their review of other casinos are fair and objective. Imagine Domino's giving out ratings to Pizza Hut and Papa Johns. They wouldn't give them a higher score than their own for obvious reasons so think of how would they look like in the eyes of regular pizza eaters.

Pretty obvious!

If their new site does have that more stars or bigger ratings compared into those old/reputable/popular sites that we do have in the market then it is really that obviously that they are just
simply trying out to boast up their site and giving out those reviews to be that on the positive side. For us gamblers that have already that experience and awareness into this crypto space in related to
market and we could easily point out on which one is legit and which one is new.

If thats the case, then people would really be losing up trust into them considering that they do have a review site plus their own gambling site
but they are misleading out people that they are good and trustworthy. They would really be just simply breaking their credibility.

I think in this case, there could be biase in judgement that is the casino could possibly review another casino in a bad bad just to promote their own casino. They can not be a judge in their own case so therefore, it is best they stick to their review or they face their casino business otherwise they are going against the ethics of professional engagement.

In some cases, they might even recruit reviewers to talk bad about their counterparts in strong competition with them just to discredit them and make them look bad ii n the eyes of gamblers with ill intentions of getting more traffic to their casino.

In all, I think it is unethical to engage in such because as a review site, it is expected that they remain neutral and fair I judgement as it relates to their activities.

How can a gambling site has a review site. People should not use such gambling site at all. Only what I believe is that the gambling site will want to ack like Binance that bought Coinmarketcap and having their exchange at the top for people to see. That is the reason I no longer use Coinmarketcap but using Coingecko which I know is not having an exchange. About gambling site too, I can not believe in their review.

That's not good, casinos are good at marketing their casinos with lies about winning the jackpot, how can they at the same time doing reviews on casinos? It's simply going to be full of lies.

I don't see lies from casinos as a red flag, there is no way they will attract people if they say the truth, they need to craft some lies about how gamblers can easily win some money, that's why a casino can never say the truth about gambling, it's bad for business.

Many gamblers are still thinking that casinos have the best for them in mind, the truth is casinos need to see you lose so that they can keep their company or business alive and running, your losses brings them the income they so desire, that's why you need to only gamble with your sense, don't risk more that you can afford to lose.

I haven't seen any online casino with a dedicated gambling review site yet. Do you know of any, OP? Are they active, and do they have their announcement thread on this forum? If we encounter one, we can scrutinize the reviews closely and look for signs of bias. The biggest concern is bias and false statements to boost the reputation, and it's inevitable to question the credibility of the reviews. Ideally, they should provide unbiased and honest assessments of various gambling platforms, promoting transparency to ensure that the reviews are fair and objective.

You raise an excellent point about being cautious of new gambling sites that seem to have suspiciously positive reviews.  It's wise to approach them with skepticism rather than take all the shining testimonials at face value.  More established, reputable platforms tend to have more balanced feedback.  It's best to look for reviews from multiple sources and to evaluate the overall reputation of the review website before making a decision about which gambling site to use.


I haven't actually seen that before.  Maybe others have.  I think most people can sniff out the real user reviews from the fake ones.  But if you know of a specific example, share it and let's take a look and  could help others from getting scammed.

I've never seen a review site have a gambling site, although there may be things you're worried about that could happen, such as creating fake reviews and ratings to increase the positive reviews of the gambling sites they have, but in my opinion that won't happen in the real world because there are so many people who are smart enough now to know which reviews are fake and which reviews are genuine, I personally prefer to look at the reputation of the site rather than looking at gambling sites from review sites.

As a general rule, any kind of review website should be impartial- this means that they should have absolutely NO connection with any platform they try to review.

For example, if a gambling platform has their respective review website, then they will definitely have natural bias against any of their competitors. I mean obviously, who would undermine their own business to the advantage of others?

Unfortunately, this is what is happening to what you just mentioned OP. A gambling platform that has their respective review website can potentially be biased to the prejudice of others. In conclusion: avoid that review website and gambling platform.

That's it. That's the only way you should see it.

Casinos are not SEO-friendly at all, and Google likes to kick them off in various regions at the request of governments. Therefore they heavily rely on advertisements on social media and other websites to get people to play on their sites. How is a gambling review operation supposed to survive on such a site? Not to mention the conflict of interest issue which you hinted about.

Talking about gambling industry reviews, review websites can be trusted and cannot be trusted, some review websites are paid to post lots of positive reviews, because the reviews written can be deleted and so on, I'm not saying the review was dishonest in writing, but the fact is that it happened.

For me, there are not many guidelines on review websites if you want to play and register at an online casino, I tend to trust more in the experience of people who have played there for years, for me reviews are not the main benchmark in assessing whether a casino is good or not.

Not fan of these review sites and I only follow the genuine one but tbh I'd say there's nothing wrong with it as long as they're not reviewing misinformation along with other websites or should I say their competitors. Of course always give them a benefit of the doubt considering they're running of what could make them stand and what could harm their competitors, but you can distinguished a genuine review to a sloppy review.

Do we have a casino review site that has its casino please tell us what review site/sites is or that so I can unfollow that, it's questionable if a casino review site has its casino even if they do not review their casino they will make it a point to give their casino more exposures or anything that will give them an edge in the competition, a casino review site should be independent if they have association on one casino as part owners they should exclude that casino in his review site and let other review sites give it a rating

It's tough to review a platform where you are a part owner, whatever review you come out people will criticize you, so to avoid this don't associate yourself or do not own one, or better pick which one you should have.

What type of review site?
There are types of reviews based on the personal description or experience of the author (site owner) and can't be commented on by visitors, the author may be paid to carry out the scenario you suspect.
If it was a user based review site say like trustpilot, I would look at the moderation levels. In fact, there is no casino that is truly clean with a 1 star score.

This is pretty hard to believe, next time when you see such things you should also share the link and let's see for ourselves, if this is possible I believe that such casino is hurting itself, because normally review platforms are not always trusted, they do a lot of things to get money so that they can put good reviews online for readers, how can same people run a casino? You see where this is all wrong?

People like us for example will prefer to walk away from such nonsense, because it's obviously not a trust move at all, so the platform will start writing it's review for itself to make it attractive to lure in readers?

Gambling is gambling and casinos don't or won't ever come out and tell you that you will lose more money than you will win in gambling, doing this will scare customers away, the best advice they can give is to gamble responsibly, without going too deep into details.

I had to quickly check one gambling site that I know of that usually drops articles on sports and tips on how to gamble if they also have a review page but it turned out that they don’t.

I don’t think that’s a good idea in the first place, having a review site is more like showing people various sites that they can choose to use for that specific purpose and if a casino therefore decides to implement a review page then it’s same as showing their customers sites that are far better than theirs to choose from, because there’s no way they’re going to be the best in the list of their reviews unless they decide to be partial in the review.

How can a review site have its own casino site, if it did they would give the highest rating to their own casino.

But so far there hasn't been any casino reviews owning gambling? I don't find this unless there is something hidden behind it, even I myself don't believe in any review sites and just look but never a recommendation for myself.

More precisely because it has been in the forum then it is enough to know which casino is good and that I will stay playing there.

Notwithstanding, it will not make any much difference as gamblers will not be forced to believe what was reviewed by them on their own site. I believe gamblers will also rely on another reviewing site for their own collaborated analysis, it is as simple as that.

Reviewing site are at liberty to have a casino just as a casino owner can play in his casino if he chooses, I don't think there is any law limiting reviewing sites from having their own casino too . It is for the gambler who is using the review site to accept or not to accept what they have reviewed on their own site.

If that's the case, you shouldn't trust either the gambling website or its review site because for sure it might be seen as biased. After all, we were the ones who were tricked and made to feel special by their lies, and they frequently paid people to post positive reviews on their website. This is due to the possibility that the review website has a financial incentive to favor its own gambling site over others. For me it's kind of unfair from its competitors but aside from other review sites, which are open about whether or not they are legitimate. To avoid bias and scams, you should select a gaming website that treats its players fairly and openly.

Some gambling sites made their reviews here and I like how honest those who tested the gambling sites are. There are pros and cons and I think that is needed to make the gambling site be better in the future. It is a paid review but still, the forum members are not hypocrites to just say the good things.
Outside this forum, I doubt those reviews. I'd rather just test those gambling sites myself than risk it with a reviewer who is either fake or paid a lot just to say positive things about them. It's not right.
Now, if it's a review site running its own gambling site, it gets more fishy and I would recommend looking for other ways to check its reputation. Of course, they will only reveal the pros of their site and I doubt they will tell the truth.

To those who are in new in this industry, they'd probably be amazed of that particular gambling site but to those who are experienced, we all know reviews posted in a platform could be tampered or personalized by the team itself. Much better if you will ask the players inside that gambling platform or to join communities and ask them directly. You could also engage to that platform to check and see for yourself how good it is. Given these options, I never relied with reviews alone; there are ways to fact check a platform and to avoid unnecessary gambling experiences.
We want to avoid biases which is why we should be not depending with reviews not recognized by the trusted ones. However this is how advertisement works in the first place. Having one goal which is to promote; we are free to engage in those platforms for ourselves and leave if things won't be meeting our satisfactory.
Well, not everyone would notice and be aware that they are having their own platform. There are tons of articles forming reviews and I think it is sometimes obvious if there's something fishy with the statements like if it favors certain names.

I think competition could cause some parties to conflict with each other, they could use the behaviors the OP mentioned. Similar to the story about Pepsi vs Cocacola, in some ways that competition also creates an attractive story, it is the story of marketing that has tricks that we sometimes ignore and pay attention to through aggressive behavior.

Although I'm not the type of person who regularly reads reviews of gambling services, sometimes some marketers still rant about their quality and humorously put down their competitors, depending on the user, because this space is too big for us to choose from.

If the review and gambling sites are owned by the same owner, it is clear that there is a conflict of interest.

You're right it would be a concern and certainly undermine other lesser competitors because the highest would be the casinos themselves on their reviews in such a way they review with lies, but I'm not sure it happens because I've never come across it.

If it exists then I will never trust the casino site including the reviews, I think we here already understand how they do it certainly should be suspicious.

The only time it will be a conflict of interest is when they started publishing negative review against competitor casino while giving themselves the only positive feedback.

But I really doubt a gambling review site will ruined their reputation just because they launch their own casino. I think they will just put their casino on the review site in a form of ads instead of having a review by themselves because their follower will surely use their website without any bullshit fake review for their casino.

IIRC Gosu is the perfect example of this topic but I highly doubt they will put something that will be conflict of interest because efi is professional in his business.

allowing negative comments from users would negate their involvement in the biases which they could say its comes from the users especially if the ratings come from the votes of the users.

internet users work mysteriously and those reviewed casinos will think they are in harsh competition with this review site with a casino. they will be accusing each other in silent using anonymous users.

Definitely avoiding it and there are lot of platforms these days where you can get more information about a casino and not just reviews site, and for me YouTube, Twitter or something similar like them are best way to know more info about them and they are way more interactive especially YouTube where they should something like demo. As casino sites are way too centralized we definitely need other sources of information.

I don't think a review site would have a gambling site and I'm yet to come across any so I can't say for sure if there's any currently in existence because I've not heard or seen any at the moment but then I wouldn't want to doubt the possibility of it happening and it it does I think it's not ideal and personally I will question the credibility of the review sites.

Most review site knows better how much it will tell on their credibility if they add a gambling site to their platforms because it will be more of advertising their site and trying to move a customer base to their site through their criticism and it's definitely going to sound bias especially when they will end up redirecting or making references to their own site, if they are in for a review, it will be fine they stick to review as some persons trust their unbiased judgements to help them pick a gambling platforms they can work with but of they have their own it will look like their criticism isn't a good one.

It becomes very obvious for anyone to tell that if the review site is owned by someone having his own gambling site then the review will be biased.
I will never trust such a site because they will never post a genuine review. So the review site should be from a person who doesn't own any shares on any gambling site.
Talking about biased reviews, it's not necessary that the review sites which don't have any gambling sites are genuine because even those can be biased.
In fact some people are paid to post positive feedbacks and so it becomes really tough to trust a review site.
So far, there's only one gambling review site that I trust and that is BTCGOSU which has earned it's reputation on this forum over the years.

Well i guess it depends on how transparent they are. If they only state the facts and actually give praises to any features that deserve them, i would trust them, as they would have no reason to made them up about their rivals.

But obviously it would be an issue. Not a new i issue, i am certain about that. As Binance bought coinmarketcap and immediately started to fix how trust and volume would be calculated. And while they did some good stuff, main point of keeping their exchange highest at the rankings was quite transparent. Even if it deserved the first place, they didn't do a good job hiding their intentions.

And obviously something like that would annoy other casinos, it would seem like arranging beauty pageant contest yourself where you would make sure you won. It would be silly.

Thing is, i am sure that most famous reviewing sites get DMs all the time about promoting their site. I don't think they would that bold that they would offer direct money for ranking them higher as if they would get caught from that it would be really bad for them. But giving free credits for trying some casinos and writing something nice about them must be happening a lot. And not only with casinos. When i still had an NFT twitter account, i got contacted by a site that offered free nfts just to try them out. I didn't even have to review them publicly if i didn't want, they were just looking for feedback. I gave one feature idea and they implemented that. I am guessing they do that with high rollers and reviewing sites as well.

I don't see it as strange because a review site with a gambling site can undercut its competitors. And that is a normal thing so we as gamblers should be able to look for other review sites that are not biased towards any site. This review site can provide honest reviews to every visitor. It can become a place recommended by many gamblers, making @efialtis and @gamblingbro a review site recommended by many people.

If you doubt the reviews on the review site, you can return to this forum and ask about the casino site. The members here will provide reviews if they have gambling experience at the casino. We know that competition in the online gambling industry has grown so rapidly that each online casino wants to be the best among other online casino sites.

Well even though the casino a owned by a third-party reviews platform does not have anything significant to do with how I feel about them or my trust for the casino or even the review platform itself,  and one other thing is that,  even though the review site may be bias in their reviews of the casino,  it donest mean their will be able to control the review of other competitors and in most cases such casinos are the most watched by those reviews platforms since their are seen as competitor and all their feature will be put to dip testing to find any possible fault to nail them with and so for that their will make sure to give the best of what they have to offer at most and all time.

But for a fact I haven't seen such a platform with that dual services before,  and haven't read about it either,  I only assumed what would likely happen and I made my comment based on my own understanding.

If the review website is big and trusted. will definitely not be affiliated or have a relationship with the owner of the gambling website. they only accept advertising and reviews to get paid.
If it's a new review website, it might be affiliated with gambling site owners.
But if the big ones have been popular for a long time, they must be trusted

There could be a conflict of interest to down cast one company and gives favouritism to another. This is why I don't take reviews so serious particularly the ones I see from a single person. If you want to consider a gambling website and you want to justify them using a review, the best you can do is to check a review platform that allow everyone to drop their options and have a place where people can rate as well and should have a reaction stickers so that when reviews are dropped, any person that has similar experience can click on those reactions to stickers to comfirm that indeed it's true. That way an outsider can make conclusion based on the review and the reactions of people that has visited that page.

You can also make small deposit and find out by yourself. They say experience is the best teacher, so when you deposit small amount of money, you can play one game or two, wager simple games that does have high risk and make withdrawals, don't forget to also scan through the terms and conditions to see some red flags. This way you can do a simple review by yourself and then checkmate it with what others have said about the gambling website.

Ordinarily, most review sites are always sentimental; they choose who to give the best review to based on their personal interest in the casino, which is way more against what a review site stands for. To talk of, when a casino review site now has its own casino, we can predict what's really going to happen in their casino; there will be no two ways about it.
 
If it were possible, there are various limits to things that could be made possible and limits from others to handle, especially casinos having a review site and all of that.
 
But truth be told, if we are to check the background of most review sites, it might amaze us to find out that one of their major sponsors and co-owners are casinos, which are topping their review list and who pay the highest to secure the most rated spot. It's as simple as that only a few review sites have proven otherwise to be given legitimate reviews, which to some point are still questionable.

If they are big or not or even whether affiliated or not, the moment that are biase about their review on the mother casino then they have set the pace for distrust. So in such case, they need to be careful if they want to continue being in business because one bad biase review on themselves puts them in the doubt of their review but as to having a review site from a casino, I don't think it is an issue.

Everything which is bias are shit and this is something that must be avoided because we do know that this is where scams do really came from and if you are really that someone who do able to encounter new service or platforms which are really just that newly launched and then they do really that make out some very positive reviews into their own site then better think not to make some deposits into that.
You are really that putting up on such danger just because you've been that dealing on a site on which it isnt really that even honest or being that transparent.
Its impossible that you wont really be able to determine when it comes to behavior aspect on which it is really just that right that you should really be thinking up this way.

Stick into those known ones rather than on making yourself having some problems on new platforms which they are really that even bias into their review. They have done something which
does really oppose into that basic principle which it isnt really that good after all.

It is not good to judge a casino by the reviews of the casino there.
Reviews of casinos carried out on a site where they are or the website reviews the casino itself are bad for judging.
The best reviews are done by other parties who do not have the casino reviewed in them.

If the person doing the review is themselves, it is the same as telling other people that they are good
It's not good to believe if the method is like that.

The thing about the reviews and I'm delicate, we always do anything so that the reviews adjust to our interests, because things when they go well are not all the time, as I have said on several occasions, some casinos always focus more in pleasing its users with slots, or with a type of game that is popular, currently what I see that is most popular is the slots, previously what was most popular was the game of poker, but this Varies according to the people's taste , all the time we will focus on something that has a lot to do with what can happen for the better or worse of some type of people, for example a novice player has nothing cool, nor what tricks are going to be unleashed on him, In my case it was never the slots, I only liked dice and poker, also black jack, but later I didn't like it because the casinos don't have anything like pvp, which I see as having the option of winning, it's something that always I'm going to see it as a premise.

Now things are very open to other casinos, in this forum I consider that it is the best to allocate our money to a site that is safe, Trustworthy, that has a very high Reputation , because that is the easiest way to having our money secure , of course we are people who are always looking for ways to do things better, but basically we must stick to looking for the platforms that give us more confidence, because we cannot Afford to be Scammed , That would be the last thing , for that Reason things are made very clear from now on, the reviews must know how to use them so that they adapt to our tastes, once we have them I consider that the most important thing to Consider is whether the casino is reliable or No, if it is old and it can offer so much in Terms of Security , for me that is Essential, and well from then on you look for your Games.

@OP
Certainly, this will raise several problems and legitimate questions regarding the integrity of the articles on the review site, especially those of competing platforms. It would be obvious to raise doubts about the launch of a review site by a casino (or vice versa), but this never leads to a firm conclusion that the casino is not honest in its service or that the reviews are biased. This will remain a relative conclusion until something confirms or denies it with evidence and proof.

I do not think it is a wise move to launch both projects at the same time, due to the ability of one to negatively affect the other. Any rational person would think before taking such a step, and in my experience I have never seen anyone do this. Especially since he can adopt alternative plans, the most important of which will be to abandon the review site project by shutting it down or transferring its ownership to a neutral party. Also, managing a casino can free its owners from other projects.

Hmm, maybe there are some honest and genuine reviews from customers, but I'm not sure if those are 100% honest and genuine reviews from their users. Surely there are some of them who are actually from the gambling sites themselves who order reviews or make reviews. So at least there will still be good reviews on the website. and it can be seen that if the website is a reputable site, in fact they have to be prepared for all risks and reviews, but unfortunately many people only care about visible reputation. So the city could say that the city should not trust these reviews too much. 100%.

IMHO, it is still going to depend on how biased they are with their reviews. Because they can make the other casinos have low rates or rank with their own reviews but on them, they're top-notch. This is what we usually see if they own a review's website and then at the same time own a casino. Sure, there is a conflict of interest and we're all free to choose whether we like them or not. If we don't like that they're doing reviews as well while running their own, that's enough reason to find another one.

We can understand how they're going to review their competitors and if you think that it is not justifiable then that's it, they're actually bias. But if given the chance that they're just doing it as well for giving people the equality to review each casino that their customers will choose to gamble, that's nice. But is there one that does it? I don't think a casino is good to have their own reviews with other casinos. It's good to give their customers platform to review them on their own but it doesn't make sense to me if they'll have this service as well and will give exposure for their competitors whether good or bad reviews, it's still publicity and help.

When a gambling review site is running it own gambling site, there might be compromise When reviewing their website especially if their own website does not have what it takes to attract real gamblers based on the dishonest pattern of stealing from their customers. If their is any of this site that review gambling platforms and has it own gambling website active, gamblers would have to be careful when making decisions on what platform to use and bet. It is very important for us to make research before deciding to use any of these sites since they can compromise things.

A gambling website, OP, you mean a casino that also runs a gambling review. It's not wrong, the site can be a byproduct. Where the casino also gains traffic to their main website. Whatever they rank their own casino doesn't matter, provided they've mentioned the casino and review site is run by same administrator. Gamblers who use the review site, would only need to focus on the casino that concerns them, if the review site's casino is worth it the visitors can use them and check if the rating on the review site is true. It's more like having a blog as a casino. No much gap in the difference. However, gamblers still need to do their research on other casino review sites about the casino, whether what is written on their review about their casino is similar to what other review sites have to say. Doing that shouldn't be a big deal. Casino are only using those contents to increase traffic to the main casino. It's more like a social engineered means of reaching out to people.

There would be conflict of interest, a lack of independence and problems with casino regulators.

Such a casino would gain a competitive advantage over their competitors but would be the most hated casino in the history of casinos because whatever honest and genuine reviews they published would be viewed as a direct or subtle attack on their competitors.

That's when our common sense comes in. Of course, if you encounter a website with the reviews of different casino websites, then you should have common sense to detect whether the opinion or review is legitimate. It's really happening, and it's a common thing that reviews from different casino websites can be scripted or there are hired people that will give reviews to a specific website. It's part of a strategy to boost the reputation or ranking of a website.

The question is, will you easily believe in reviews? Of course you can, as long as you prove that they are legitimate. You should do your research on a website aside from the reviews. I personally read reviews and comments from someone on a website where I play casino, and I can see that most of them are fake or scripted. That's when I will use my capability to do research on my own.

There is a conflict of interest, the reviewer cannot look at the other casinos without comparing his casinos and since a casino reviewer is a marketing platform he will likely favor his casino and will use all the other casinos just to advance his casino's interest

There's a possibility that there are review sites that own their casino but they do not attach their review site to the casino as it will have bad feedback on the review site, and about trusting a review site as long as he is not favoring and he retains his transparency and balance on his reviews I can trust the review site, but as always the casino partakes the reputation of the review site and vice versa.

You already answered the question for me because there is a very big chance of the reviews being biased to paint their business as the best. Even If the gambling review websites do not own any gambling platform, experience teaches me not trust them completely because some of these gambling review websites care more about the money that leading gamblers to scam free gambling platforms, and they can get paid to write positive reviews about a casino or sportsbook by the owners.

Well of course stuff like these makes me doubt the validity/credibility of the content they put out, not the reputation of the site.

The thing is that only reputable and honest-to-god casinos will go the extra mile of pushing out relevant content in the world of gambling. But oftentimes their content can be biased towards them since they can easily veer people into thinking that they are the best casino against the competition. Any people who chooses their casino willy-nilly may fall victim to this and actually become enticed by reviews made to make specific casinos look better than they actually are and this could ultimately alter the gambler's experience and expectations.

But at the end of the day I don't really see it as a massive red flag. After all, experience will still be your defining factor to determine whether a site's really been honest to their users or not. So while reviews may steer people into signing up with a particular gambling site, it's still going to be their overall experience that will decide whether it will make them stay or go. So all in all I think users are still kept safe against fraudulent sites.

I don't actually mind it since gambling sites are freely to established its own review site. What should you be concerned of is how users will react on that. It's not these sites will have to adjust but the user itself. Regardless of the purpose of the site building their own review site, users just have to mind their own business as long as we don't see any inappropriate actions there by the site itself.

Being biased? being more positive to its own site? Of course because that was their review site. :) They can put everything positive there about the site and users just have to be vigilant if they will buy those information as reasonable or not.

As long they dont really scam out their users then it would be just fine, its not our first time on seeing that a particular site do really make out those tag lines or banners about being first or the most or something like that kind of lines on the time that they would really be launching. If they do make out their self review then it would be understandable that it would really be something bias
but if you are really just that dont minding about those informations and you've seen that they are really that good looking and have that proper management and team
then it wont really be that a bad idea on testing them up.It is really just that there are people who are really that too negative when it comes to new platforms.

Indeed, there are high chances it's happening for real! When we look for reviews about casinos, first of all we have to make sure the author of such articles is independant from any platforms of the industry. If he is paid somehow to write the article or if he is a direct member of the platform he is reviewing, you shouldn't stick only to his article when drawing a conclusion about a website, rather keep looking for more reviews and compare one to another, so you will know which of them are biased.

However, don't completely disconsider a review written by the casino about itself, because even though they are biased, they may bring important and valuable points about the features offered by the platform. Instead of reading it as a review, write it aware it's a propaganda.

Next, you can ask to other gamblers if they know those features and what was their personal experience with them. This way you will have independant feedbacks which will endorse or not the "propaganda" you read.

review site but having their own gambling site, almost every experienced person will definitely avoid it because if a gambling site has very good reviews while the reviews are from the same owner it will definitely give a lot of doubts and questions whether the reviews are genuine from other people or just manipulation of the reviews alone?
well, of course it is very rare for a review site to have its own gambling site which in the end will only cover its own reputation and will definitely get few customers because in this case it is unnatural.

from most of the replies I read they also said the same thing that never go to a casino that has its own review site and choose on another gambling that has genuine reviews from real customers like on this forum.

I consider it worng in all shades. As long as my opinion is sorted, I'll propose that they included review to get users to their site and they sure used it as a marketing strategy to acrue more clients including the clients of those whose gambling website they are to review.

Be straight with what you want to do, a gambling site or a review site. It is not difficult to state.

It is possible but I have never seen it till now, even if an owner of review site decided to have his own gambling site, he has the right to do it because maybe he is motivated to have his own casino after doing so many reviews. However, if he is professional, it will be better if he does not make the review of his own casino in his own review site as it will be very subjective to make his own casino much better than others.

I haven't encountered this before but if there is a casino that does this of course they will do it in a smarter way so as not to be detected because they understand how casinos that have review websites can give fake reviews to their own casino, especially other casinos that are competitors and in the end, it has a bad impact on their casino because players realize that there are reviews that are not true, but no matter how good they are, they find a way to do this, if it is not commensurate with the service provided to customers, in the future they will lose many users and have difficulty adding new users because users are disappointed.
Gamblers can give a bad review on another website that also has lots of visitors, especially if the review is accompanied by valid data and also confirmed as true by many other gamblers who are disappointed with the casino so a casino having a review website cannot help the development of their casino.

Good and trusted casino sites are a little less suspicious but if there is no proper review their reliability is much lower. This is why the site's review sites should be traced properly. Sometimes a good review site can be a gamble but with it no one knows a safe bet. We commit to sure that you have an exceptional experience with the most trusted and valid operators it is better to proceed on the basis of it.

I don't trust a gambling review website that has their own gambling platform, because maybe what they say is just a comparison and proves that their gambling platform is better than the gambling platform they are reviewing. And also, usually these gambling review platforms are set up only to get traffic from people who are looking for a gambling platform that is suitable for them, so this gambling review platform is not suitable to be used as a reference website for seeing reviews of gambling websites because the information they convey may biased.

I see most of users don't feel it's right when the casinos have their own review sites because it can be used to discredit other casinos and promote their own casinos. But what if the owner behind casino create a review site using a different brands? no one will know it.

It could trick the audience because they think the review site isn't affiliated with any casino, but everyone doesn't know the truth.

There is usually strategical tussles amongst gambling sites which stresses on staying on top of the others so as to obtain the attentions of the (customers)gamblers by the means of adverts reviews.
This system is sensitive because where a casino company fails to focus on a reputable and transparent realistical reviews on their gambling sites to ensure an integrified reputations and at the same time not being being biased to the other (s) rather than craving a personal interests without considering the comfort interests of the gamblers to ensure diligence of customers datas amongst other gambling companies specifically based on a falseful reviews by tarnishing the reputations of the other casino companies on a competitive or jealousy manner could be a biased bounce back against the will of its craves because the gamblers are always in to testified the reviews amongst the casino sites if true or false.

I am not so moved by reviews instead I stays attentive to understand a transparency marketing criticisms avoiding
a cross line of private reviews without misleading of informations and the mockery terms of one another against the casino sites just to take the leads.

That's fine as long as the gambling review casino can act fairly toward its competitors and doesn't try to undermine its competitors. But if the gambling review casino has acted to undermine its competitors by providing fake reviews, the site will be abandoned by its followers, and they will not be able to run the casino well. This can happen anywhere, especially if the review site is run by people who are not professionals in the field of gambling and just want to make a profit. They will not be able to develop their business well, and no one will want to gamble at their casino.

They don't need to make reviews of other casinos that are competitors, but they can provide more useful information for their members or for people who find their review sites. If they can do that, many people will likely like it, and it will become one of the review sites that benefits people.

You will not know this if you dont' have a first hand experience on the gambling site that is on review. So IMO, it's really not good for a review site to own its casinos while actively reviewing others. The biasness will be present, whether they like it or not, it will happen as they want their business to grow since casino operations are more profitable than a review site, as long as both have good audience and market.

It cant be fair if he would really be giving that more positive rating than into those old and known sites into this forum on which on the time that he would really be doing such thing or stuff then it is really that showing
that he's really not that fair or transparent the way they do review on which means that they arent that credible when it comes to review. This is why it would really be that better that you should
really be always sticking on what are the facts, new platforms and sites arent really that bad to launch but it would be better that you should really be that sticking into those sites which are legit
and which are facts. Dont make yourself that easily believe when it comes new things, im not saying that its not legit or trustable but better you should really be vigilant.

If they would really be having that kind of behavior then would be always best that you should be that sticking into those old ones but if you do decide on testing new ones
then always just make use of test amounts that you could really be able to deposit.

I don't think it matters much? I'm certain I'll take the reviews more objectively though and probably cross-reference it with other review sites, but in the end, that's what I do for other review sites as well anyway. I cross-reference them across various reviews that I stumble upon from forums, groups, to review sites themselves.

I'd say what OP says is viable yes,  but it's only ever a problem if said user was using their site as the sole source of a review. Plus if we were to start minding about fake reviews here, then the same could be said with other reviews. Who knows whether they're paid reviews or not.

Well it's quite obvious what the answer is, because even now that most casino don't have their own review site, cases like manipulation of review opinion is still done at a very wide margin Because I believe some casino actually even pay off some reviews site to actually boost their status on the website making them stand out. Although I don't know if any casino own any review site that is widely known and popular for gamblers to go and check insight about casino but am very certain if they do they will definitely not make it widely known so gamblers won't have such ill opinion about them being biased about their actual rating the website.

Indeed, there's a conflict of interest here as you might spread false information about your competitor and that can mislead many gamblers.
If you are into gambling business, better not to have any reviews about the site and instead focus on your own site and earn a reputable distinction because your players will matter the most and their reviews are more important as it can affect your reputation. Anyway, I'm not into review that much because i want to experience the site on my own, and i only trust my own reviews though if its a new site, I always look for the honest reviews of their players.

Yes, that's why, perhaps in this way, review sites can indirectly increase their casino ratings even though they don't look affiliated, but the danger is that if the review casino becomes big and is supported by many crypto gambling communities in the world, it will certainly bring traffic to their gambling site. I think something like this might actually secretly exist on a review site that actually has its own online casino.

So they can take advantage of their review sites to raise their sites and bring down other sites because of competition, but I also don't want to accuse anyone without evidence but that can happen where for businesses sometimes trying to cheat is a natural thing, but luckily I'm not a site fan review because I prioritize this forum to look for sites that have a good reputation.  ;D

When reading casino reviews online, it pays to question the source.  Many sites that review gambling sites actually have financial ties to the industry.  Casinos themselves may operate review sites, or sites may get money through affiliate programs with gaming companies.  This can bias reviews toward positive ratings and

Before choosing where to play, dig deeper.  Go beyond reviews into first-hand reports from players in forums and communities.  Check casino watchdog sites that focus on fair practices not profits.  And verify licenses, years in business, audits and more details.  The more perspectives found, the better your chances of spotting conflicts of interests versus true transparency.

While reviews can provide useful input on options, take them all critically.  Negative commentary can be valuable too indicating something to investigate further.  By gathering more viewpoints from sources with less vested interests, your choice should ultimately reflect what works for your style and level of play.

It's like social media where people started liking or reacting to their own post which sounds weird to me and looks stupid. Of course without a doubt it's kind of bias because it is on the same platform.

Yes, that is unfair because he has given a bad assessment of his competitor, which is not true. His site will not be a recommendation for other gamblers, and they will likely avoid him if they know he is being unfair to his competitors. We're always better off looking for other review sites and comparing the results to see how true they are. And if there is more information we can get, we will know more to determine which casino site we will choose for gambling. We also shouldn't immediately trust review sites like that, so we must immediately find more information.

We should postpone depositing at the casino before we find out other information so that we won't be fooled by the reviews he gives. We must be careful when looking for information in the form of reviews of a casino so that we avoid fraud, which often occurs.

They can simply write good contents about there own casino so expect that there are biases there. Much better if you do your own research for finding out on what is the real score regarding on the feedback you are searching on and don't rely to much on those review site since they can possibly manipulate something there.

Since we are in this forum for sure those written feedback became useless since what matter the most is the legitimate post given by users in their ann threads so we should watch that and give more value rather than seeing those questionable feedbacks written on casino owned review sites.

Before coming up wit a topic of discussion like this, first make sure that there is one of more of such sites you have seen, and if actually there is any or more is such review site that have their own gambling casino that you have seen and sure of, then you are supposed to share it in the op as a reference and an example, not everything that is imaginable that is postable, except on occasion you have a plan of building such a thing and you need to know what the community thinks about such.

And on my last note, I would say that, a review site that have their own gambling casino are not supposed to review their own casino, it's better to allow other review sites to review the casino rather than they reviewing their own casino, it makes absolutely no sense, since there is a very high chances that they won't be completely honest as they should, since it's difficult to find a business that would want to tell their customers that their product is bad in this and that area, so it's better to allow other review sites do that job.

This proves out that they are bias and being bias is something not really that wanted nor be liked because they are really not making balanced reviews and being that realistic and since they do know such site
then they would really be positive into it and if newbies would be able to read it up then they would really be that easily to believe or simply this is really just that misleading. They havent been able to established themselves when it comes to trust and credibility but they had already acted on that way on which this is something not really that showing of being honest.
It is really just that fine that they do own a review site but it should not really be that bias towards their site. People would really get mad if ever they would really be getting fooled or believe
into something which it isnt true.

For me then i would really be giving out some time before making any deposit on a new site on which i wouldnt really that make myself do tend to make some risks on depositing
specially if its new but if you are really that curious or having that possible interest then it would be your choice whether you would really be
making deposits or not.

That screams bias and I wouldn't take their word for it!!

If they really want to be reviewed, why not allow their clients the real users of their products speak their minds out, free from bias and give an honest review...unless what they offer isn't that good and know bad reviews might come from their customers  :P

But honestly you are the cook, you taste the food and tell everyone that the food is a 10/10...this doesn't even make sense and players should stay away from such platforms 😐

Any bias things would really be totally that negative into someones impressions on which its never been that good that they will really be that bias into the things
and people cant really be able to trust them because they are really that indeed misleading people and misleading is never been that an ethical thing to be done.
So no one would really be liking on trusting up such gambling platform if they do have that kind of behavior on which this is something that
must be avoided in the first place on the time that they are hyping their own platform.

Of course, the credibility and accuracy of these reviews will be questioned, especially if they are not new comers in the world of online gambling. will definitely be more careful and also critical regarding the review. different from newcomers who may not be as alert.

Because reviews like that can be engineered, made by their own team, or others to support better reviews on their platform, by providing the addition of an honest review. Personally, I prefer a gambling platform that already has a pretty good reputation on this forum, so the plus and minus reviews are usually honest based on the experience of many memes here. At least that can be a more reasonable review later. Apart from that, we have to understand and be open to various new things here.

I think that when it comes to making reviews you have to be very impartial, and here the majority of users know the cainso very well, they know very well which ones are in the top 3, and well it is very difficult to that some type of site reviewer then they give us lies, I know that there are many strategies that are always based on making this type of strategies, such as looking for an accountant to make supposed reviews to put a particular casino in a good place just to confuse newbies, because it's just the newbies who can get confused, the rest of us don't, so these types of things are what we should see, if the reviewer is good, then he has to be impartial, otherwise We would have some partial reviewers or something like that, for me at the moment he used to tell me that there is a review site and that that review site has its own casio and everything, well it is obvious that stamps will always be put in an important place, and for me It's not something you can trust.

In my very personal opinion, I would not trust a place like that, on the contrary, I would put a magnifying glass on it, because it would be going to another level, it seems to me that it is something dangerous to do, I might think that the things are very different and I wouldn't trust a place like that, because obviously they are going to bloom themselves, the reason is that we will always do anything to do whatever it takes and remove oil from other casinos, but based on lies it is not something good, I say that lies if and only if they oppose in the first positions, it may be that they put themselves in first place and that is not the case, then that type of thing is the one that is pleasant to us, and one as a player who He has some experience in the sites because he no longer trusts that reviewer , but my first impression of a site like this is once not trusting like that, therefore it is my way of thinking , I respect how others think.

If that's how they are then that tells me what kind of casino they're running, the kind that tries to smear the competitor in a subtle way. I wouldn't be surprised that this has been done before, newspaper companies are secretly owned by some companies and they can use that fact to not advertise a competitor or they can also smear campaign them there but I don't think they're going to be open that they're owning a review website because that's a bad rap for them as a lot of people already automatically think this part where they're undermining the competition so they're most likely to be hiding that fact so as not to make their own brand tarnished or worse get into a scandalous position.

I think credibility, accuracy and honest reviews must be questionable exactly for beginner in gambling platform than real gambler have more experienced with gambling site want to review. Usually new gambling platform will try get engagement with paid reviews and participants not limit for experienced or real gambler only but also for all users with good or positive review will get payment.

Better be loyal with gambling platform have good reputation in forum, less problem withdrawing and deposit of user amount until how friendly account keep existing without any problem freeze yet. Trying with new gambling platform is not enough by seeing review only due many gambling have their own teams to make review and some time give paid offer review with priority positive review only will publish at their gambling site.

Well, in the cryptocurrency market, ethics seem to me to be distant for some people. on review sites, the owners of the review sites make reviews based on what will make them more money, if the owner of a casino gets in touch with the owner of the review site to propose that he speak well of his casino in exchange for receiving a payment is protection at the casino, when I talk about protection I mean that the casino will always guarantee that it will pay referral commissions when the owner of the review site creates an account at the casino and has a lot of referrals, with these types of agreements many review site owners review sites have accepted it. They know that even if the casino becomes a scam and makes selective payouts, they will always be able to make withdrawals.

just note that even when many people are accusing the casino of being a scam, on many review sites the casino that is being accused of being a scam will continue to be on the review sites without being accused by the review sites, this is because those review sites are receiving money from casino scam. Now if review sites are capable of doing what I just said, then they wouldn't think too much about listing their own casino and putting really good reviews. Unfortunately, honesty and ethics are something that are distant for many people today. money has become something extremely important to the point that many people sell their souls

I think I've also once agreed with this that it's better to get used to the gambling platforms present on this forum than us going in search of something else busy beating around the bush, it's just because we wanted to have something more reliable of, we can't use a gambling platform we may not have access to them or their representative, here on this forum, for the sake of the ones that have their announcement thread, we can engahe them through their representative and the reviews left on them by other members of this forum could as well be legit.

When money is on the horizon, the concept of ethics often fades into the background. People are ready to do anything for money; including writing fake reviews and deleting scam accusation. When someone plans to make a context page it is hard to stay independent, hard to resist the lust of monetizing your website. I think in I can trust a gambling review site only if I am ready to lose some money doing casino test, as I can fully trust only myself and my experience.

If it's been publicly known that both sites are under the same ownership then we don't have to believe anything that say about their gambling sites and their competitors because its obvious that they will try to boost their own brand over anything and in real world there won't be any cause as you said it conflicts both so people won't obviously trust their reviews.

Some gambling review sites publish casino review posts to get referrals from each visitor, so their aim is to get commissions and monetization from visitors and traffic from search engines, they receive orders from fake casinos to compile fake review posts to increase their reputation and they have to make every visitors must be interested in visiting the casino site, but they do not use fake casinos to gamble, I suggest to be careful looking for information on each casino site in search engines and focus the search for information on the bitcointalk forum which has real reviews from those who have experience reviewing sites starting from coding, service, security, and other things related to reviews of online casinos.

As people start gambling for money, they may compromise the ethics of gambling review websites, which often leads to one-eyed reviews or gagging of red information.

So the only method to gather personal experience of betting is to know the process of gambling and be connected with any casino. other way you could know about betting process from any of your gambling friends. However, you will not find any gambling friends who will speak against gambling or show you negative aspects, lol.

So, in this case, you could trust betting review website or blog. But you have to be aware about review sites or blogs such as the affiliation system, does the site has its own blog/review system or not, and transparency, although you will find many positive and negative comments on review sites, it is also prominent to be cautious and aware of the site's function and purpose. The final thing is obviously personal experience is far better than trusting someone else experience from unknown gambling review websites. you will never know is those story true or false.

Yeah and I prefer to say "definitely" rather than a "possible" conflict of interest.
There must be a hidden agenda behind of that and any sites no matter if it a gambling review site or other site which is under the casino company should be considered as one of their marketing tools.

You are right but usually reviews are covered with facts and information. Read any BTCGOSU review for example, they cover information such as the withdrawal time, minimum amounts, wager requirements and KYC information. With so much data, it's hard to manipulate the rating. I mean you cannot say a casino is 10/10 when they have no promos, slow withdrawals and more.

However, as you mentioned, they can delete negative comments and retain only positive reviews about their casino so it can be manipulated.

I usually try casinos myself with a small amount before depositing big so reviews help but I believe in testing out the casino myself and then decide whether it's worth continuing or not.

Definitely, there is a conflict of interest and such sites should either get their casino reviewed by a third party or just refrain from rating their casino.

I would never trust such a rating because regardless of what they say, it will be influenced. One such example is CoinMarketCap. We know they were acquired by Binance and now if you visit their exchange's rating (https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/) it shows Binance as No.1 which may or may not be true but it looks shady.

That section "Exchanges" didn't even existed I believe before it was acquired so these things are obviously to popularize their own exchange. By the way, never go with one review and check for multiple reviews which will help you understand the site better. You might search 1xbet and find some good reviews but when you search more, you find out about their shady practices.

Some of them are really smart that they use some famous person or have enough popularity to advertise which the influencer would think as a quick cash grab where you would just simply mention their name or make a video of you playing it, cause that's what I'm mostly seeing in the internet nowadays. Even newbies would fall for it as they see streamers play it. When people now tend to say that it is a fake or a rug-pull casino, they would just simply have an alibi that they are paid and not aware of that issue which is a shtty thing to do. People should not always feel FOMO as some people are part of the scammers or paid to lure people into their game and always do their own research, and find out the team of the project if it's legit.

I believe in sites that give some kind of good signals. But don't believe it 100%. Because back again personal observation is better when compared to fully trusting reviews from websites. Even though it includes large and well-known websites.
Just take good and make it a reference of the research you are using. That way the results will be more extraordinary than just trusting others.

It's sad but that's the truth, ethics is intangible while cold hard cash is real as it can be and there's more personal consequences and implications to having no money than having no morality. That's why it's our duty that if we ever see something wrong, we have the responsibility to correct it and at the same time makes it so that there's no way that evil or immorality triumphs, the only reason that's the other way around is because the good men don't do anything. It's not really that difficult to do a page where it's not monetized especially if you've got a principle that you follow to detail, sometimes that's how things should be, that you should be incorruptible through the face of temptations, there's nothing wrong in monetization through advertisement though, it's how you do the advertisement that matters and if they're the casino that reached out to you then they don't have a right to complain about your demands to advertise their casino and their services.

We can use casino sites that have reviews about each casino but we should look elsewhere for information so we can find a casino that suits us. We also can't directly trust their reviews because we don't know how they rate a casino so it would be better if we could get other information about a casino. In finding a suitable casino, we have to try them one by one and do not depend on the reviews given, but they can provide knowledge and information for us, making it easier for us to have a list of casinos that we can check. For this reason, we as gamblers must be careful in choosing a casino and look for honest reviews so that we can find a casino that is suitable for us when gambling.

Some maybe do that for extra profit and exposure to their project. Also as long as they write real time review with no biases intended then I think everything is fine there.

But if they just create that in form of attack on their competitor then I guess they are not good to follow also I would rather think about playing on their casino since that is not how a reputable casino work. That's shady act just to destroy the reputation of other casinos.

Its important for us to know what's right and wrong so that we can filter out those real things also the fake ones so we can avoid getting on risky situations.

Reviews can boost credibility and exposure when done appropriately. They allow firms to demonstrate their strengths honestly. An honest, real-time casino review builds trust and sets a high standard for the industry

I agree with your reservations about this practice's dark side. Any discerning client will be alarmed by reviews used against competitors. I think such approaches reflect poorly on the casino's ethic. As a person who values ethics, I'd avoid such businesses. Consumers must learn to distinguish between legitimate and harmful material. Staying educated and making values-based decisions is key. Finally, we must encourage fair and honest enterprises

Well, we all know that this casino will always be a neological model to follow , our basis for all of this is that many things will always be generated at the expense of what being reviewers can mean, the fact that you have businesses or companies that It has to do with the same thing that makes reviews, for me it is absurd to think that the reviews of the site will never be negative, even if they were, of course I say this in a tone of Speculation , things are obvious, but I think the good Reputation will always be carried out in good way s, things in casinos are now quite competitive, some casinos are very large and have many players, they have built their community, they have their own audience and this has made them clear that things be for them, so now competing against these big casinos things can be very Difficult, the casinos that have the highest Reputation are the ones that are most difficult to compete Against , we have seen that now there are fewer Casinos , I think it is also because The same system makes them demand a lot of money and things are different , because they only survive as always those who have more.

Casinos are platforms that are very given to Things so that things can be seen well, and they can generate a difference. In this case, I am one of those who watches casinos a lot so that they can generate more things to Entertain or keep their clients and that they Increase much more , that is what is sought, personally I have always said something when a casino is in Search of being better , then the good things come to light , such as marketing, being in various contests, doing advertising That it is Necessary so that they can make the difference, attract with good bonuses , but being a little fairer, these bonuses should be with fewer requirements so that the players like it more, is what I say, and they do not have so many Requirements of Bets.