Topic: What is the difference between Referral and Affiliate? (Read 418 times)

I think many of the users here have already give their answers and most of them are right, I think it is time to lock this thread as your question has been answered already but most of the users that replies here in your thread. You can find it at the bottom part of the thread.

In layman terms:

1. Affiliate
People who are bound to that particular site through contract of some kind. This is super professional and comes with a fixed pay, they might be telling about the site publicly as well.

2. Referral
Way easier to do but doesn't come with a contract of any kind, if you add the sites code with your particular one on going to that site and if someone clicks and registers, then viola! You get 1 referral, it's harder and it's not that professional.

Affiliate>>>> Referral

I think both of a little differences, Affiliate is most likely partnership with which company, here you will get a private link to share with your friends/followers and i think profit is bigger then Referral. It’s mainly for influencers i think. On the other hand in Referral, who just will invite with their some close friends to get commissions.

A referral can be an affiliate or not, an affiliate is always a referral. A referral means that you will get something in exchange for sending customers to them. That something may be simply a one-off award or a percentage of the opening balance of the player. An affiliate usually means that you will be getting a cut of the customer expenses in the site or book, that is a more recurrent method of referral payment.

You are right that if gambler try to abuse referral system then those who will abuse will suffer more and more while the real user will not fall on any suffer. And many scam accusation from newbie account might be posted here for same case. I mean they abuse the system and for that reason they face many problem including fund lock, account lock etc.

They have the same purpose but different reward, affiliate program are more profitable but of course its not easy to qualify since they have the requirements while the referral system you only need to share your link and if someone registered under your link and deposited the money, that’s the only time you will get your reward. Casinos are doing this as part of their marketing strategy, don’t try to abuse it because they can caught you for sure.

This is a good explanation between this two, and casinos really have this option since they want to market their site and if you are going to join their affiliate program, that only means you have a good connections and huge number of followers by this, you can earn a lot. Well, referral system are the basic one you can also take advantage of this especially if you know someone who are into gambling as well, just try to understand the rules so you won’t get disqualified if ever.

It's not shitposting, you're just frustrated.

The problem is S H I T P O S T I N G  

There cannot be two opinions on that "question", so yeah - this is shitposting at its best.

In which one you disagree? That affiliate has a chance to get more profit?
I'm talking based on my experience as an affiliate and also uses referrals, my experience is not just about gambling particular but mostly finance apps that offers much as an affiliate. And its proven that affiliate have more chance make profits.

In much legal form, affiliates needs to provide legal documents, have platform where they can promote the service e.g. facebook/twitter page, website and needs approval from the service before they can promote the service. Having affiliate link is also not just particular to get new invites, but also bought products/service. While referrals is particularly on inviting new users on the platform

I almost want to say that the Affiliate program are a step or two higher that the referral program.    So anyone can basically join the referral program, because you simply spread your referral link and you are a part of it.

When you are recruited or if you apply for the Affiliate program to advertise for the casino... you have to adhere to some requirements..before you are approved to join as an affiliate. (Example : You have to get say 100 000 followers on Youtube or some Streaming Platform on Social media... etc..)  

The Affiliate have a lot of extra benefits when they join the Affiliate program. 

Both are marketing strategies and many people think they mean the same thing this is why they are wrongly used interchangeably.
There are few differences between the two. For example, a referral program is dedicated mainly for the service customers or players in case of a casino. A player can join the referral program, he will get a referral link and he will get a percentage from the money spent by all those who registered through his link.
On the other hand, affiliate programs are dedicated for influencers (streamers, bloggers, instgrammers...). They doesn't have to be customers of the service.

There's a thin line differentiating these 2 terms. I am seeing that affiliate has better privileges than referral system. However, it depends on how the casino is describing these 2 features. And sometimes, they just use it without thinking the difference. So if you are interested in this feature, you should check the casino itself on how they offer privileges and earnings and the conditions you need to meet to enjoy this feature.

Between the two I prefer to be an affiliate than to be a part of the referral system, some projects do an invite-only affiliate they invite influencers, vloggers, and celebrities whom they pay based on their contract to the project, while in the referrals system anybody and everybody can take part regardless of your status, your rewards are fixed based on your referrals actions or based on the rewards set up by the casino or any other project.

Indeed! If you ever tried to change the word "Referral" with "Affiliate", the meaning would be pretty much the same and even anyone that understand both terms would  understand the meanings regardless of words being interchanged. That's why I'm curious how some could see it be different to each other while if you use both the words the contextual meaning will end up the same.


How about this? Will that pertain to a different thing?

From what I have encountered from the casinos here, mostly, you can interchange these terms.
The difference is how each casino give the benefits of their affiliates/referrals and how they define it.
So if you want to get the benefits of this feature, better check the conditions of the casino itself.
Because their terms vary from one another, the privileges attached to it and other things related to this category.

I have my opinion too, for me, being an affiliate is like you are related to the company, or you have a partnership or work with them. While for referral, you can refer them even if you are not connected and earn a commission from your referral.

However, at the end of the day, it still defends what the gambling sites could offer and how they'll describe their referral or affiliate system as it might differ from one gambling site to another.

In general sense it is really just the same since you are referring or hooking up someone to play on a certain platform or site
but they do have differences in terms on how about they would get their commission.

Ex.
Affiliate - How they do make money?

Online casinos offer affiliates deals based on revenue sharing, CPA, or a hybrid of the two. CPA or cost-per-acquisition is a fixed commission paid for each depositing player.
Source: https://www.casinorankings.com/affiliate/
So we do already have the idea.

I disagree. It is pretty much the same. It just depends on which is which was REFERRED. Basically, Referral System mentioned by the OP is the one A USER USES to get AFFILIATES. Hence Affiliates are those THAT ARE REFERRED. But some platforms uses both terms is just their referral system in such ways like "affiliate links" or "referral links" that pretty much pertains to the same thing.

After reading some replies I am now confused. LOL

This is what I understand. Both are the same but when I am referring something, I am suggesting it to someone who is close to me. When I am an affiliate I do not care about who I am referring to. I create marketing campaign and drive traffic to the page.

Like all the explanations from the other members, there is a difference but they are still working on a company if you are affiliated you are more like a partner of the project on bigger terms than when you are working in their referral system, as an affiliate, you don't need a code all the time you can be an influencer where they reward you based on your status, but if you are part of their referral system your rewards is very specific like you are going to get 10% of your referral wage.

^ Because this question is very common and even when you research on Google you will find out the answer.
But still, you are thankful instead, there are too many users trying to define what is the difference between an affiliate and the referral that you have asked for. Though I don't know what is your purpose for asking this, is if you are trying to figure out they are almost the same goal but have different meanings. So don't be surprised if there is someone curious about what you have asked because it is obvious that it is very to answer it.

I think it wasn't simple as people will join you or sign up under you. You won't get rewarded that way but the rewards can only come once those people that you referred actively play on the casino. Your earnings will depend if how big their wagers are but the bigger the wager is the more the rewards that you will reap.

You think having a lot of siblings is a good thing only of this purpose? Lol but what about the sacrifices of the person that raises them. You didn't think about that? But you can still refer other people other than your siblings. Affiliates needs attention but what about referral? You also need it. This is the tricky part about this business.

I always thought that these 2 are the same. But since you started this topic, I had to look in google for it's different. I won't include the definition in this post but I will try to explain it by example based on my full understanding here.

Referral: Your referral link which you used mostly to send to your friends, relatives, etc. Yourself if you're not a streamer, vlogger, etc.
Affiliate: It is bigger type. It is used widely by streamers, vloggers, etc. wherein they advertise the site at the same time of gaining commissions from everyone who registered using their referral link.

No, both of them. Affiliate link, can be considered as personal link too since it has unique code/numbers provided just for you.

The main difference is when you say referral link, that means you are an existing user of the casino who just want to refer someone to get paid, then you can still play and do stuff in the casino.

While being an affiliate uses different platform/website to get those affiliate media assets, generate unique links, and you can even request on what kind of banner caption you want to make ofc, its free of charge.

Both can be used to attract user and for making them attract the person who will do  this may get some additional benefit for example the user may get referral commission for using the referral link of the person but if the user want to promote as affiliate then s/he cant share any personal referral link. The main difference is that for referral user can share referral link (personal link) while affiliate cant.

I was curious about other opinions in this thread. Is there a problem asking such things? You should go and live your life and stop wasting it reading every single comment in this forum.

Like coin-investor said, affiliate is a term commonly used by companies whom one partnered with as a marketer, while the term "referral" is common with medical institutions, like referring someone to a particular hospital for treatment of a kind of illness.

So using the two analogies above, I will say that affiliate is partnering with a company as their recruiter of customers, like as it is in the job of affiliate marketers, your job is to introduce the company to potential customers, this customers dont have to know you, and you don't have to know them, affiliate marketing can be in the form of face to face conversation with potential customers or publishing contents on the internet (with your special link) about the company and making it attractive enough so readers can become customers of the company.

On the other hand, referral is more like a family and friends thing, normally, you don't refer someone you don't know, to some people, referring a person is like surety-ing the person, this means you have to know the person you are referring, there are some platforms where if you refer a person to that platform, and that person commits a crime and disappears, you who referred the person will be held accountable to know the where about of the person you refered and to provide him or her so he or she can face the law, so referral, (on a normal circumstance), is the lite version of standing as surety for someone.

You asked the very same question multiple times in numerous threads, including my thread about gambling affiliation - I am confused?

Referral system's main goal is to let the existing user invite other people and they will have benefit from it, at the same time, the person they also invited will benefit if they will use the code provided for them. Typically, referral system uses code whereas the person invited will input and then later on, he/she will enjoy the perks in accordance to the terms and conditions.

Meanwhile, signing up as an affiliate at the very beginning will give you the advantage to earn something if someone would sign up using your link. This is usually held by a third party wherein a specific percentage is given to the affiliates that serve as their compensation in spreading about the specific product or services. If referral is through codes, affiliate mostly uses links to be clicked by the person invited. Once their link is clicked and the invited made a purchase or fulfilled what's asked, the affiliate will earn from it.

These two are different but  between these two referral and affiliates only thing they are same is you can gain profit in the end based on how many people used your referral links or joined the platform. In referral its a good profit is many people will used the code or links and you are advantage if you have many siblings or you're very known man. An in affiliates you need catch their attention to joined your platform.

Referral is different than Affiliate campaign. With Referral campaign, you simply put a ref link and invite people to join a platform. It is simple.

In contrast, with Affiliate campaign, there are more rules, more tiers to earn passive income from people you successfully invite to join a platform. In general, there are possibly higher income from affiliate campaign if you have a big (high traffic) website, a big community etc. KOLs, influencers earn a lot of passive money from affiliate campaign.

Additionally, people at top tier of affiliate campaign can be provided privileges from the company, better and faster support, gifts, etc.

Don't post with referral link on the forum. It is not allowed here

As far as I know, it's the same, it's the same as looking for people to be referred to one of the websites to register
and get rewarded that amount of money
but after I read above I understand better there is a slight difference between referrals and affiliates

You are right. I just forget that there are like celebrities that are affiliated with that casino or just connected to it but they haven't invested in it. It is just like they advertise it because they are affiliated with it. It is not all about having money to invest, but it is about giving something to each other and recognizing each other. Referral is easy to discuss.

I don't think that there is really a need to invest just to become affiliated with a casino. But on the other side, maybe yes but more on investing your time and effort as you work on your network to be a productive affiliate just like working on referrals.

Being affiliated is like having that direct relation to the casino, it's limited to the few people that have given the signal by the casino.

Whilst for referrals, it's for every user.

Affiliate is really about partnership with the casino or the website. It is more profitable, I think, because you need to invest in it. You need to withdraw, I think, your money from that casino. It is more like a stake. Where the US referral system is concerned, you are just a member, and one of your tasks or so that you will be able to earn or get something in return is asking other people to sign up or join in the casino under your referral.

Affiliate programs are different from the referral because it involves more investment, strategies and time but the rewards will be higher, usually when a casino starts an affiliate program then users can create their own strategies to bring traffic to the site and get paid for every registration meanwhile the referral is just being the part of casino and ask your known ones to play there and you will get rewards for every bets they are losing.

With affiliates, you can do something more to increase your profits with the help of the one who took you in. On referrals, the one who referred you earns while you spend, and you can't do anything to change this way, or to even make profits. It's way more beneficial to be an affiliate than to be a referral for most scenarios, so if someone sends you an affiliate link, better register on those instead of referral links.

Every customer can be a referral but not all customers are affiliated with a site, let me explain further.
Once you sign up on a casino you go to the profile you find your referral link there you share and anyone that registered using your referral link will become your downline but in other to become an affiliate client you need to sign up especially for that with documents and your commission is paid on a periodic template.

These are the same to invite other people and at the same time to gain the benefits it has different called into the different purpose but mostly the referral is the most common term. In affiliate you can get a small portion of the deposit of the person you invite, in referral system you invite people by that you can get a reward but you cant get a percentage of their deposits.

See mate, I would try to be straight enough as much as I can.
Normally referral is defined as when you refer someone about a particular site, here it works like individual to individuals, for ex:- you just send your referral link to your friend while talking verbally.
In the other end, Affiliate is something similar to referral, but here you promise the site/company that you will bring more users through your link . Sometimes in Affiliate deal, you also get a specific percentage as discussed with the company.
Normally a big YouTuber or influencer does the affiliate promotion.
This is from my knowledge and experience that i am sharing on this matter.
Hope this helps you OP to understand the matter better.

This is mainly based on my own understanding but isn't an affiliate something like a partner? In this case partner to the casino itself that helps them advertise or something (Referrals fall under these "somethings"). A Referral is also a partner, but in this case, it's not to the casino itself but rather to another user.

There was one scenario I remembered back then where an article said that streamers/YouTubers that you see gambling in their channels are affiliated partners to the casinos, hence they use not their money but rather money given by the casino to be spent on, well, their casino, which would what be the content for that specific episode/day. I guess you can say Referrals is one (or maybe a few, if there's even any) levels below Affiliates.

I think it is gambling related as we can see in most of the gambling site have this one under promotions people might not aware what is this especially for newbie players so I think this topic is good to differentiate the two. I see some users who are earning passively through affiliate programs as long as the people that you invite is constatnly playing.

ya.ya.yo!

Seem not a gambling related subject.
I think referral  program is under affiliate program. In gambling the product that a blogger promotes is the casino itself and its games so inorder for the affiliate marketer to track records use his referral link in making users sign up. In general I think its just affiliate program.

I'd I have to join the affiliate program of Blackjack.fun, I'd use my referral link too.

I got curious about it too but one thing that I am sure here, both referral and affiliate could bring you money in long term. Usually I don't use referral or affiliate, I think I see more referrals from YouTube streamers who are reviewing the gambling site and see affiliate in gambling review websites.

Both have something to do with being part of a group whether it is a casino or other financial group but if you are an affiliate to an online company there's an option that you cannot use a referral link you can be affiliated as a manager or a support but if you are part of the casino's online referral system you have to use their referral links to track your performance and get into their reward system.

They already explained what is the difference between affiliate and referral. Referral is about referring a friends or family to the site and those who are referred and purchase something will make the person who referred you gain profit depends on the how much you will earn from your referral while affiliate is about introducing the site to anyone who is interested in it and they will be compensated whenever they bring new customers. To read more, try reading here https://referralrock.com/blog/referral-program-vs-affiliate-programs/

Both profits, but affiliates has more chance to make profit than referrals.
Affiliates has lots of benefits, it has wide range of rewards also like tiers/levels for every user they invites, the promo used of their invites, and you dont need to have an account on the platform, every bet they made, mostly it is used in different platform to promote the specific service, say a casino.
While referral is just a fixed rate or percentage whenever a user invites to the platform, every bet they made. A referrer also is a  existing user of the platform/casino.

^ Affiliate is most likely on the link, that it's accessible by the random people and those who used the site through the link via affiliate marketing without knowing them it is an affiliate, it means there is no correlation to the referred person.
Meanwhile, the referral is different from the affiliate, though they are the same aiming of profit it has differences. Referral marketing is in relation to the one who was referred, it could be friends or family and it should be direct contact to the referral not just clicking a random affiliate link.

Both have the same meaning of association but the first one af·fil·i·ate is more on a business side or organization, while the second one re·fer·ral is more on a medical side, but now both are being used to recruiting someone or being an affiliate to any organization, it's like I am affiliated to this casino as a recruiter and John is my referral.

Hi

I've seen a lot of casinos with a referral system already in your account settings but there is another tab at the bottom of every casino and you can also sign-up as an "Affiliate".
What is the difference between those two?

Thanks!