A comparison desk with a narrow remit

What this site is

Spin Watch House is a commercial publication. It compares online casino brands that hold a remote casino operating licence from the Gambling Commission and that are therefore permitted to offer casino play to people in Great Britain. Every operator-specific fact we publish comes from the Commission’s public register of gambling businesses, and each operator entry links directly to its own record on the Commission’s website so you can read the source rather than take our word for it.

The name occasionally gives people the wrong idea, so it is worth saying plainly: a watch house was somewhere a watchman kept an eye on things. It was never an office of state, and neither is this. We have no regulatory function, no statutory powers and no connection to the Gambling Commission, to Parliament, or to any government department.

How it is funded

By affiliate commission. When you follow one of our operator links and open an account, the operator may pay us. That arrangement pays for the research, the writing and the hosting, and it also creates an obvious conflict of interest, which is why we would rather set it out here than bury it.

Two things follow from that. First, the order in which operators appear is our editorial judgement and is influenced by which operators we have a commercial relationship with at all — it is not a neutral market survey. Second, the factual layer underneath is deliberately built from a source we do not control. We cannot make a licence older or a permission broader to suit a commercial partner, because the register says what it says. Our affiliate disclosure goes into the detail.

What we deliberately do not publish

A great deal, and it is the most important decision behind the site. We do not publish welcome offers, wagering requirements, minimum deposits, payment methods, withdrawal times, game counts, live dealer table numbers or software provider line-ups.

• Those details change frequently, often without announcement, and frequently differ by account, device and region.
• A number that was correct when we wrote it and wrong when you read it is not a small error — it is the thing that made you deposit.
• Nobody publishes a dated, authoritative feed of them, so verifying them properly is not possible at the standard we hold ourselves to.

So we send you to the operator’s own terms for anything commercial, and we spend our effort on the part of the picture that is public, dated and checkable.

Who this is useful for — and who it is not

It is useful if you want to know which company you would actually be contracting with, whether its licence is current, what it is permitted to offer, and how long it has been permitted to offer it. That is a question almost nobody answers and it takes about two minutes to check once you know where to look.

It is not useful if you are hunting for the biggest bonus, and it is the wrong place entirely if you are looking for tips, systems or predictions. There is no such thing as a casino strategy that beats the house edge, and we do not pretend otherwise.

What we cannot do for you

We cannot intervene in a dispute with an operator, recover funds, unlock an account or escalate a complaint. We have no standing to do any of it. If you have a problem with an operator, raise it with the operator first; GB-licensed businesses must give you free access to an approved alternative dispute resolution provider if you remain unhappy. If the difficulty is with your own gambling rather than with a company, the support organisations listed at the foot of every page are the right first call.

Getting in touch

Corrections, licensing queries and commercial enquiries all go to the same place: desk@spinwatchhouse.com. If we have published something that does not match the register, tell us and we will fix it — the corrections page explains how that works.