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FEATURE WHITE-LABEL OPERATOR: IS IT FOR YOU? In a recent survey of a large number of affiliates, iGB discovered more than a third of affiliates were considering becoming an operator, with 11% already in the process of doing so. As someone who has already made the leap, Oshi’s Nick Garner has some useful advice for those looking to follow in his footsteps. ABOUT A YEAR AGO I wrote about the pros and cons of setting up your own white label, based on my own experience of moving from igaming marketing into becoming a white label operator. When I look back on that article, I think to myself how little I knew. So now I’m going to go through some of the points I made a year ago and give you an update on how I feel about white labels, affiliates getting into white labels and the best operator tips I know. I had been in igaming marketing for many years and I was able to resource the start-up of Oshi Casino. The casino started in October 2015. I figured it’s always better to go with something that is growing rather than shrinking, i.e., cryptocurrency versus poker, so I found SoftSwiss, which is a bitcoin-first white label provider,