The Gambling Portal Webmasters Association featured Cocktailspins founder Tamás Horváth in its Affiliate Interview Series, published in Issue 66. The conversation covers the odd name, doing the work without a team, and what building an affiliate platform from zero actually looks like in one of the most competitive niches online.
The full interview is published by GPWA Times.
Read the interview →Most interviews in this industry open with traffic numbers or a growth chart. This one opens in a family home in Hungary with a garden, fruit trees and animals — and with a carpenter.
“My father was a carpenter. From the age of 18 he had cut fingers, and despite that he got up every morning and worked a full day, every day, so I could eat, get dressed, and eventually go to Corvinus University of Budapest.”
— Tamás Horváth, GPWA Times Issue 66That answer sets the tone for everything after it. The stubbornness, the preference for doing the work personally rather than outsourcing it, and the willingness to keep going when the numbers argue against it — all of it traces back to the same place.
Why an iGaming platform ended up called Cocktailspins, and what the industry made of it.
Web design, IT and consulting — and the habit of wanting to understand how something works before improving it.
Running the technical build, the content, the outreach and the partnerships without a team.
What building from zero looks like when it isn’t working — the version most case studies leave out.
Anyone can claim editorial standards on their own website. Independent coverage by the industry’s own standards body is a different kind of statement.
The GPWA is the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association, and its Seal of Approval is an editorial standards certification rather than a paid badge — it requires demonstrating that coverage isn’t shaped by commission structures. That’s the reason Cocktailspins works on fixed monthly placement fees only, with no CPA and no revenue share, and why published review scores run from 9.9 down to 4.2 with the low ones staying up.
More on the certification is on our GPWA page, and the full set of independent verifications — BePal Partners, Affiliate Roulette, Amigo Gaming and VL Partners — is on our verifications page.
Being interviewed is one side of it. We also run our own series with people who operate in this industry — partner managers and game studio teams rather than press officers. One of those, with Narm Chok at Amigo Gaming, was published by Amigo Gaming on their own news channel.
The series lives on our interviews page.
Read the full conversation in GPWA Times Issue 66.
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