Buying iGaming traffic in 2025 is less about chasing clicks and more about choosing channels you can scale and keep compliant.
Get startedIt's the stream of users who land on your iGaming offers from paid placements—ads that drive registrations and first-time deposits.
In practice, gambling traffic comes from push and in-page push, popunder, native/display, Telegram Mini Apps, and (where policies allow) search and social. The quality of gambling traffic depends on the source, targeting, creative relevance, and compliance.

These are the primary gambling traffic sources used at scale.
(Popunder, Push/In-Page Push, Interstitial/Social Bar, Native/Display). Practitioners favor Pops and Push to start.
Telegram's ecosystem has exploded in Gambling/Betting. You can run four formats inside bots/mini-apps.
(Google/Meta). Quality can be strong, but policies are strict and enforcement is real.
Forums and blogs, movie/streaming and file-download sites remain practical thematic sources.
Hotspots skew toward Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Current top GEOs for Gambling include India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Brazil, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Russia.
For Betting, strong performers include Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Brazil, Turkey, Nigeria, Congo, and Sri Lanka.

RichAds price points (their iGaming guide):
start from $0.005 CPC
from $0.5 CPM
from $1.5 CPM
from $0.001 CPC
Pick the primary success action and set a daily cap per campaign so tests don't overrun.
Launch with broad targeting, collect enough data, then dial in by GEO/device/time/zone.
If the budget is small, begin with Push on CPC to gather data safely.
Implement S2S postback; watch the whole funnel.
Work with whitelists/blacklists/graylists; retest publishers periodically.
Use CPM to gain volume/data; switch to CPA if the conversion is simple.
If you explore Google or Meta, expect reviews and stricter enforcement.
Fix the biggest drop-offs, improve landers/localization/payments.
Prepare 5–10 creatives for launch and use proven angles for Push and Telegram:

Requires proper certification, alignment with local laws, responsible-gaming info, and targeting only approved countries.
Requires written permission and proof of licensing, strict 18+ targeting, and promotion only in approved regions.
Avoid misleading claims and follow regional restrictions, even on native/display.
Audiences are engaged, but policies evolve and some activities are restricted.
Impressions → clicks → CTR → signups → conversions (FTD)
If improvements don't move results, re-evaluate traffic quality and distribution.
Decide to scale or stop based on conversion economics, not clicks alone.
Buy where scale and control meet: ad networks (Pops, Push/In-Page Push) for fast testing and volume; experiment with Telegram Mini Apps; use native/display for support and mainstream platforms only if you can meet their strict rules.
Start broad, track with S2S, give campaigns 3–5 days to collect data, then narrow by sites/segments and grow only what brings real registrations and first-time deposits.
Localize for hot GEOs, keep claims responsible, and let the numbers—not hunches—tell you when to scale.
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