⚡️ Why is your advertising campaign getting traffic and clicks—but no conversions?

In new video, we break down the most common mistake that prevents optimization algorithms from working and walk you through the complete process of setting up a profitable traffic flow between an advertising network and 3SNET.

You'll learn how to choose the right offer, set up tracking and postback, and avoid the mistakes that waste your advertising budget.

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👉 Want to dive deeper? In our article on 3S.INFO, we explain how to choose the right advertising network and break down the differences between Pop, Push, and Native traffic formats.

🔥 New Rules of the Game: What Happened in iGaming This Week

Hey everyone! We've compiled the most notable events of recent days. This week regulators were once again in the spotlight — new bans, licenses, rule changes, and decisions the industry won't be happy about.

📌 New Markets Keep Opening
— Finland has already received around 50 license applications, even though the regulated market won't open until summer 2027.
— Italy's regulator ADM is launching a unified portal for complaints against licensed operators starting September 10.

📌 Bad News for Affiliates
— New Zealand has banned affiliate models where payouts are tied to the actions of referred players. CPA, Revenue Share, and hybrid models are all prohibited. Operators will also be held responsible for advertising placed by third parties on their behalf.

📌 Major News From Australia
— The gambling reform legislation that has been under discussion since 2023 may never materialize due to a lack of parliamentary support.
— Meanwhile, media reports have surfaced accusing operators of providing VIP clients with drugs, alcohol, escort services, and company-funded accommodation.

📌 Market Trust Under Question
— According to a UK survey, 68% of players believe operators use AML checks and customer protection measures as a pretext to delay or withhold winnings. Meanwhile, 24% of respondents said the grey market and prediction markets are more reliable in terms of payouts.

— How do payments affect affiliate marketing and partner trust?

📌 Regulation Continues
— Kenyan operators have gone to court following a 17 to 500-fold increase in licensing fees.
— China is forming an international coalition against cybercrime. Up to 40 countries may join the initiative.

📌 Russia News
— A law legalizing cryptocurrency comes into effect in Russia on September 1. Operations with digital assets will be taxed at 13%.
— All Russian bookmaker apps have been removed from the Samsung Galaxy Store.

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👉 Which news story surprised you most this week? Drop it in the comments.

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⚡️ Where to Find New Growth Opportunities? Here's a Roundup of the Most Interesting Catalog Updates.

It's been a busy week: new GEOs from LATAM to Nepal, higher payouts, and simplified KPIs. Here's what stands out.

🔹 Germany, Austria & Canada — three new offers with payouts of up to €310. Click2Reg up to 42%, Reg2Dep up to 26%.

🔹 Australia, Canada & New Zealand — a new offer with payouts of up to €280 and Reg2Dep of up to 40%.

🔹 Europe — a new offer from an MGA-licensed (Malta) operator across 4 GEOs, paying up to €240 for cumulative deposits.

🔹 USA — a new iGaming offer with payouts of up to $230.

🔹 Brazil & Mexico — payouts increased to $30 while the minimum deposit has been reduced. Two major improvements to campaign economics in one offer.

🔹 Brazil (regulated market) — Betjam has expanded to Brazil: $25 for cumulative deposits starting from just $1, Reg2Dep 38%. Suitable for PPC/SEO traffic.

🔹 Venezuela — the locally licensed operator Brazino777 has launched a new offer for Venezuela. A GEO with very limited competition.

🔹 South Africa — two new offers from locally licensed operators: FirstBet (Reg2Dep 21–23%) and MzansiBet (licensed by the Western Cape Gambling Board).

🔹 Argentina & Mexico — a new offer with Click2Reg reaching up to 68%. In addition, Argentina and Peru have been added to a multi-GEO offer covering 34 countries.

🔹 Nepal — the GEO has been added to two offers, including Babu88 with an MGA license.

🔹 Africa — the Kenya + Ghana offer is back with Reg2Dep of 45%.

✅ One more thing: if you have traffic from Yemen or Egypt and don't know where to send it, just blink in the comments. We've got options.

More rate and GEO updates — with your manager or in the 3SNET catalog.

👇 Which offers are you testing first?

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🔥What to Read If You Work in iGaming

We've gathered everything we've published recently: an interview with Affilka's CEO, new GEOs, deep dives into AI fraud and stablecoins, promo codes, companies, and the latest job openings. Pick what you want to save for later.

🪄iGaming Heroes
📌Anastasiya Borovaya, CEO of Affilka
📌 More interviews — on the website.

🪄GEO Reviews
📌UK iGaming Overview
📌Hungary iGaming Overview
📌 More reviews — on the website.

🪄Useful reads
📌"Synthetic Affiliates": How AI‑Driven Fraud Is Undermining Trust in iGaming CPA Models in 2026
📌What Affiliates Should Verify in a Kazakhstani Offer
📌What is Virtual Hosting (VPS)?
📌 More useful articles — on the website.

🪄 Events
📌SIGMA North America 2026 — September 1–3 in Mexico City.
📌 More conferences — here.

🪄 Promo codes
📌 AdsPower — use the AdsPower promo code and get 20 profiles + 1 user for a 7-day trial!
📌 More promo codes for operators and affiliates — in the promo codes section.

🪄Companies
📌 PPC Rebels — Agency Accounts and Digital Advertising Solutions
📌 FlexCard — Virtual Card and Payment Service
📌Adsterra — An International Advertising Platform
📌 More сompanies — on the website.

🪄iGaming job
📌 Sales Manager at 01.tech
📌 Affiliate Manager at Winline
📌 Middle PPC Specialist at Performance Maniacs
📌More сompanies — on the website.

Write in the comments what else you would like us to write about.
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🔥 Illegal Gambling Volumes Are Staggering: What's Happening in the iGaming Market

Hi everyone! We've gathered the most notable developments from the past few days in one post. Let's take a look at what's new in the market.

📌 Illegal Market: Scale and Crackdowns

— According to GCI, the total GGR of the US online gambling market reached $125.6 billion in 2025, with $97.4 billion coming from the illegal segment. The legal segment generated $28.3 billion in GGR, while the overall market grew by 39.4% year over year.

— In 2025, the volume of illegal online gambling in the EU reached €91.6 billion, up 14%. European governments may have lost up to €23 billion in tax revenue.

— The Romanian regulator ONJN added around 800 websites operated by unlicensed iGaming operators to its blacklist. This is the largest single addition to the list in the agency's history.

— The Santiago Court of Appeals approved a mechanism for blocking unlicensed iGaming operator websites via DNS. New domains can now be added to the blocklist without a separate court proceeding.

— In South Korea, 806 people under the age of 19 voluntarily admitted to participating in illegal gambling as part of a campaign against unlawful gaming.

— Asian vs. European Casino Player Payment Habits: What’s the Difference for iGaming?

— Brazilian players lost $12.5 billion on betting in 2025. According to the study, illegal bookmakers account for 41–51% of the market.

📌 New Rules for Players and the Market

— The government has transferred the unified online monitoring system for the gambling market to the company "Gaming Analysis and Monitoring System." The contract is valid for 15 years, while the company has six months to implement the electronic system.

— More than six transactions to betting companies totaling over KZT 300,000 ($644) may make it more difficult to obtain a loan. The relevant criteria have already been established by the Central Bank of Kazakhstan.

— Complete Kazakhstan Guide: Offers, Case Studies, Regulation & More

— In Indonesia, nearly 1.5 million families lost access to government assistance due to suspected links to illegal gambling.

— Uzbekistan has issued its first licenses to operate in the regulated gambling market. However, the licenses did not go to the market's biggest players.

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👉 Which news story surprised you most this week? Drop it in the comments.

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⚡️ Where to Find New Growth Opportunities? We've Rounded Up the Most Interesting Catalog Updates.

It's been a strong week: outstanding conversion rates across Tier-1 and LATAM, plus high payouts in Europe. Only the offers worth testing.

📌Argentina — added to a 5-GEO offer. Click2Reg 70–80%, Reg2Dep 25–35% — the strongest conversion rates of the week.
📌United Kingdom — new offer with payouts of up to $270 for cumulative deposits. Reg2Dep 75% — a conversion rate rarely seen in the UK.
📌Europe + LATAM, 11 GEOs — new offer with Click2Reg above 80%, Reg2Dep above 38%, and a repeat rate above 85%. Includes ready-to-use promos: 100 no-deposit free spins with real cash withdrawals and wager-free bonuses.
📌Europe, 18 GEOs — new offer with payouts of €200–300. PPC/SEO/ASO with no KPI requirements.
📌 France — payouts increased across all traffic sources, with PPC now paying up to €280. Brand/Cross/Crash traffic accepted, Reg2Dep 35%. The product has also received a design update.
📌 UK, Netherlands, Portugal & France — up to €330 for a minimum deposit. One of the highest-paying offers in the catalog, available through your account manager.
📌 Five new European offers from a single advertiser covering DK, FI, DE, IE, IT, NO, RO, SK, ES, and CH. Payouts up to €280. Multiple brands allow parallel testing across the same GEO pool.
📌 LATAM — for Peru, Facebook* Apps/In-App/UAC (slots only) are now available. Facebook* Slot traffic is now accepted across all GEOs in the offer. Up to $40 for PPC/SEO traffic.
📌 Senegal, Burkina Faso & DR Congo — new GEOs added to a 6-country offer (for Kenya, Captainsbet operates under a local license).

More updates are available from your account manager or in the 3SNET catalog.

👇 Which offers are you testing first?

* Recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia.

✅ We Refunded an Advertiser for Traffic from One of Our Own Affiliates. Here's Why.

In the CPA model, a network has two clients: the affiliate, who expects to get paid, and the advertiser, who expects high-quality traffic. Most of the time, their interests align. Sometimes, they don't.

The situation. An advertiser accepted and paid for traffic from one of our affiliates. Later, new information about that affiliate raised concerns: another advertiser classified their traffic as fraudulent, and our verification received the same feedback from at least two CPA networks and two direct advertisers—fraud and/or extremely low-quality traffic.

Technically, we could have done nothing. The traffic for the first offer had already been approved, paid for, and no complaints had been raised at the time.

We chose a different approach—and refunded the advertiser.

✔️ Here's why:
→ Advertisers pay for real players, not numbers in a report. If we have legitimate reasons to question the quality of the traffic, that's our responsibility—not the advertiser's risk.

→ Advertiser trust is the foundation of the entire network. The payouts, exclusives, and terms our affiliates receive exist because advertisers trust us.

→ Honest affiliates benefit from this approach. The cleaner the network's traffic pool, the higher the payouts and the more flexible the KPIs become for everyone else.

A special thank you to our industry colleagues.

There is a private community of CPA networks where only networks participate, sharing information about both scam affiliates and scam advertisers. That's where we requested feedback on this partner—and received confirmation from colleagues who had already dealt with their traffic.

📌 We're glad this community exists. Thank you to everyone involved—you reinforced our confidence that we made the right decision.

📌 What we do consistently:
— verify traffic quality not only before approval but also after payouts;
— request and share feedback on partners within the professional CPA community;
— permanently ban accounts when fraud is confirmed—with no exceptions;
— resolve disputes financially whenever the issue originates from our traffic pool.

Fraud is an industry-wide problem, and it won't be solved by anti-fraud software alone. It requires networks that are willing to take responsibility for their traffic and openly share information. Together, we can make the affiliate industry more transparent, trustworthy, and sustainable.

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Advertisers: discuss cooperation and launch your campaigns here.
Affiliates with high-quality traffic: we've prepared the best conditions for you — browse the 3SNET catalog.

What do you think? Should a CPA network refund advertisers for traffic that was already approved? 👇

🔥 Your Legitimate Traffic Can Be Flagged Because of Someone Else's Bots

AI fraud has reached CPA payouts. As the share of synthetic traffic—bots, multi-accounts, and bonus hunters—continues to grow, operators are tightening their anti-fraud systems. As a result, even legitimate affiliates can get caught in the filter simply because their traffic statistically resembles suspicious activity.

📌 Why the Affiliate Channel Is a Vulnerable Point
Fraud can begin long before users reach the operator's website—in the landing page, pre-landing page, advertising account, affiliate chain, or tracker.

— A long attribution chain: the operator sees the affiliate ID, the network sees the sub ID, and the media buyer sees only the aggregated traffic source. No one has the full picture.
— Different KPIs: affiliates focus on CPA and approval rates, while operators care about NGR and player retention.
— Delayed verification: FTDs appear in reports immediately, while KYC, device checks, and payment verification happen later. By the time a payout dispute arises, the budget has already been spent.

📌 What Protects Your Campaigns — and Your Payouts
The core principle is transparency.

🔹 Use only approved traffic sources. Sending offers to sub-affiliates without permission is a major red flag for anti-fraud systems.
🔹 Keep a complete traffic map: traffic source, campaign, creative, landing page, and sub ID. Save dashboard screenshots, logs, and UTM parameters—they are your evidence in case of a dispute.
🔹 Compare data across your ad platform, tracker, and affiliate network reports. Resolve discrepancies before scaling, not after.
🔹 Look beyond CR2Reg: monitor CR2Dep, KYC pass rate, repeat deposits, and NGR. These are the metrics operators use to determine traffic quality.
🔹 Test every new traffic source with a small budget and scale only after confirming the quality of the cohort.
🔹 If you notice unusual activity, inform your account manager before a payout dispute begins. It shifts your position from "defending yourself" to "working as a partner."


In 2026, success is no longer measured only by FTD volume. The ability to prove the quality and origin of your traffic has become just as important. The strongest partnerships will be those where transparent attribution and predictable payouts go hand in hand. That's exactly the role we see ourselves playing.

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Now be honest 👇

Have you ever had your payouts reduced because of "fraud"?
👍 — Yes, but I proved my traffic was legitimate.
⚡️ — Yes, and I never got the money.
❤️‍🔥 — No, but this post definitely got me thinking.
😂 — I am the fraud.

Have you ever had a payout rejected even though your traffic was completely legitimate? Share your experience in the comments—we'd love to collect real-world cases. 👇