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INSIGHT in front of them. At this point, you’ll most likely cut and paste them into a dead player pool where they shall never be spoken to again. Alternatively, in a new, snazzy cross channel world you could segregate players by postcode then geo target emails or text message campaigns towards them related to their nearest land-based casino, sports betting outlet or bingo hall. In this brave new world, retail marketing teams have the same KPIs as digital teams – they need new customers and are prepared to pay for them. This might be by rev share, more likely through CPA, the market will decide, but it’s safe to say if you have retail traffic there’ll be a market willing to pay for it. 3. Increased opportunities to convert You have an avid, high value casino player. You have a rev share deal for said player. They stop playing at their preferred site. As in point one, in your traditional model your “So you’ve acquired a new online casino player via your smoke and dagger magic of choice…how’s about you send that same player to a land-based casino and collect a further rev share when they play in the real world.” options are limited to trying to reactivate them initially to their initial site, then onto competitors you feel have the best offers and might suit their needs. In an MCS world, however, your options are amplified to conversion opportunities in land based casinos too, and as Churchill once said:“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”. In online gaming, sports books have been trying to master MCS for years. Shared wallets, databases, conversion funnels and the like are commonplace. But for casino and bingo affiliates the opportunity is still in its infancy, and for the astute affiliate, all it means is that there’ll The only iGaming magazine written purely for affiliates. IGB AFFILIATE IS THE MAGAZINE TO KEEP YOU UP TO DATE WITH WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE INDUSTRY. EVERY ISSUE FEATURES THE NEWS, EVENT LISTINGS, POLLS, IN DEPTH FEATURES AND ANALYSIS THAT YOU NEED WHETHER YOU’RE A NEW OR ESTABLISHED AFFILIATE. iGB Affiliate is the industry bible, get a free copy today by emailing [email protected]. be a whole new seam of gold just waiting to be tapped by the early prospectors. HARRY is Head of Digital Marketing at Mecca Bingo. If you’d like to work with Mecca you can get in touch with their affiliate manager Steph at [email protected] or go to their affiliate site here:- http:// meccaaffiliates.com