Power Affiliates 2016 - Poker

EGR Digital Marketing reveals the most powerful poker affiliates in part four of this year’s Power Affiliates

180Vita

Founder/Principal: Jamie Nevin
180Vita was founded in 2010 and has expanded from being a singular online poker affiliate to a digital marketing company which has more than a dozen brands across a number of verticals. However, poker continues to be the firm’s bread and butter with popular sites including PokerVIP, WeakTight and PokerTube continuing to perform well.

CardsChat

Founder/Principal:
Online poker forum CardsChat has approximately 150,000 members and over 2.3 million poker strategy posts, while the portal also performs strongly in SEO. The site is also available as a mobile app which allows players to access private messages on the go with easy access to news, tips and industry information.

Gipsyteam

Founder/Principal: N/A
Gipsyteam.ru attracts nearly all its traffic from Eastern Europe – with the majority from Russia – and off ers its customers daily poker news, player interviews, tournament reports and educational videos. According to the website, Gipsyteam.ru has approximately 180,000 monthly visitors and 1.4 million visits per month.

Hastoplay

Founder/Principal: Juan Carlos Barros; João Manuel Nunes
Hastoplay was founded in 2004 by professional basketball players Juan Carlos Barros and João Manuel Nunes with the aim of promoting poker in Spain and Portugal. The company runs dozens of Spanish and Portuguese online poker affiliate sites including PokerPT.com, which has 35,000 members, Poker10.com and a number of sports affiliate portals as well.

iBus Media

Founder/Principal: Jon Squires
iBus Media’s flagship brand PokerNews was created in 2002 and remains one of the sector’s leading media websites. The award-winning PokerNews gets around 8.5 million monthly page views, 2.2 million monthly sessions and has a strong presence across social media. Parent company iBus Media also owns BookieSmash, CasinoSmash and Trading HD.

Keiem

Founder/Principal: Ferdinando Muroni
Malta-based Keiem’s Assopoker, which was founded in 2005, claims to be the first Italian online poker portal and has partnerships in place with the majority operators in the market including Eurobet, Sisal and SNAI. Assopoker is available as an app, while its parent company also owns a number of B2C sites.

MaisEV

Founder/Principal: Jefferson Haach
MaisEV predominantly targets the Brazilian market and according to a number of web analytic sites generates more than 90% of its traffic from the country. The online poker affiliate also has an Android app and has partnerships with bet365, 888poker, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.

PocketFives

Founder/Principal: Riley Bryant, Adam Small and Cal Spears
PocketFives makes its second Power Affiliates appearance following its debut in the list last year. The online poker forum and community was launched in 2005 by university graduates Cal Spears, Adam Small, and Riley Bryant and has recently expanded into daily fantasy sports following the growth of the vertical in the US.

PokerListings

Founder/Principal: Matt Showell
Operating as an online poker guide since 2003, PokerListings appears to still attract a healthy fl ow of traffic and features over 500 free strategy articles and more than 4,000 news articles. The Malta-based firm provides the latest news from the world of poker and live reporting coverage from some of the biggest tournaments including WSOP and EPT.

PokerStrategy

Founder/Principal: Damian Sokol
Founded by fixed limit high stakes player Dominik Kofert, PokerStrategy.com started life as a forum for German-speaking poker enthusiasts. Today the site is available in 15 languages and has one of the biggest poker communities in the world with more than seven million members.