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ESL Gaming and Maincast extend media rights agreement for four years

ESL Gaming, the world’s leading esports company, has today announced that it will extend its exclusive collaboration with Maincast for a further four years. With the current agreement running until 2023, the addition of multiple years ensures fans in Russia and the rest of the CIS region can keep enjoying ESL Gaming’s full premium product portfolio in their local language until Intel® Extreme Masters (IEM) Katowice 2027.
As part of the extension, Maincast keeps the exclusive rights to broadcast ESL Gaming’s tournaments on its Twitch channels in Russian and other CIS languages. Moreover, the agreement covers the complete product portfolio consisting of ESL Pro Tour Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO), ESL Pro Tour StarCraft® II, and ESL Mobile, as well as ESL Gaming’s competitions for Dota 2.
ESL Gaming and Maincast joined forces in 2020, and their partnership has already seen ESL Gaming’s audience in the CIS region grow vastly, and the total amount of views doubled since then. Hitting a peak of 382,000 concurrent viewers during IEM Katowice 2020, Maincast delivered some of the best numbers for CS:GO globally. Additionally, ESL One Los Angeles 2020 became the most-watched online tournament in Dota 2 on Maincast’s Twitch channels with over 13 million views. These are but a couple of the success stories that show how Maincast excels in Russian-language broadcasts.
“Maincast is one of our biggest media partners and expertly localizes our competitions to fans all over the CIS region,” said Frank Uddo, Senior Vice President Global Media at ESL Gaming. “They are great to work with and we are particularly excited to see, through this seven-year partnership, how committed they are to significantly invest in esports long-term. It is a testament to how integral esports has become within the region and we look forward to building even more success in the future with them.”
“In 2020 Maincast signed a multi-year partnership agreement with ESL Gaming to broadcast their tournaments in Eastern Europe. In this period we’ve created an industry-defining product, finished numerous projects in close collaboration and provided on-site coverage of dozens of events,” said Andrii Grygoriev, CEO and co-founder of Maincast. “We are excited to announce that our partnership with ESL Gaming is extended up till Q2 2027. We’ve already begun working on long-term projects and looking for new ways of refining and improving our product. We will do our best to give our viewers even more high-quality broadcasts and on-site content, which you’ll always be able to find on our channels.”
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Champions League Drama & EPL Showdown — WinSpirit Launches Betting Series with 2,500 USD in Freebets

March brings some of the most anticipated football clashes across Europe, including Champions League knockout battles, Premier League showdowns, and UEFA Nations League fixtures. To mark the occasion, WinSpirit has introduced a dedicated Weekly Tournament Series, giving bettors the opportunity to compete across four weeks and claim a share of the Freebet prize pool.
4 Weeks. 4 Tournaments. 2,500 USD in Freebets.
As the football calendar intensifies with Liverpool vs. PSG, Arsenal vs. Chelsea, and Germany vs. Italy, WinSpirit introduces a new Weekly Tournament Series designed to bring even more excitement to sports betting. Across four weeks, participants can compete in a points-based system, with the top 10 players in each tournament earning Freebets.
Tournament Schedule & Prize Pool
- March 7–11 – 500 USD in Freebets
- March 14–18 – 500 USD in Freebets
- March 21–25 – 500 USD in Freebets
- March 28–April 1 – Grand Finale: 1,000 USD in Freebets
How to Join the Action
- Place bets with min odds of 1.50
- Earn 1 point for every qualifying bet (1 EUR = 1 point)
- Climb the leaderboard and finish in the top 10 to win
The Weekly Tournament Series will be available on the WinSpirit platform according to the schedule. Stay tuned for more upcoming tournaments on the WinSpirit website.
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How to Drive Traffic Without Caps and Earn Without Limits? Betmen Affiliates x Marsa Team

If you – as an affiliate marketer – can generate quality traffic, then you can easily secure offers with competitive CPA rates. However, these often come with limited daily caps – a well-known pain point in the market. Advertisers are afraid of running into high costs, are reluctant to share other GEOs with advertising networks, or simply don’t trust you.
The problem of limited caps becomes even more apparent when resources allow affiliates to drive traffic in large volumes, and due to constant caps, partners have to gather dozens of offers at once in order to earn.
In this article, Betmen Affiliates and Marsa Team explain how to go about building relationships in the iGaming market. We discuss how the two companies worked using a spend-based traffic payment model with no volume limitation, and why such conditions are a real growth opportunity for affiliate marketers.
How Teams Typically Take on Offers and What Problems They Face
When an Affiliate Sales Manager agrees on an offer’s terms, rates and an offer’s technical aspects, the next step for partners is the test run. This usually involves 25-50 FTDs (first-time deposits). After the traffic is delivered, the advertiser checks the profitability over 1-2 weeks, analyzing player behavior, the percentage of bonuses that were used, and other metrics.
If the traffic quality is deemed suitable, the affiliate is given a small daily cap. The CPA rate, however, remains unchanged or increases slightly, resulting in little profit to the affiliate marketer in this collaboration.
We can see two issues with this partnership model:
1. Limited scaling opportunities. Very often, the advertiser is not willing to provide a significant increase in the cap — for example, offering 70 daily FTDs instead of 50. Volumes such as these are insufficient for a large team of affiliate marketers. This means new offers must constantly be found leaving the affiliate team to, each time, have to adapt to a new product and new conditions. Circumstances such as these make it hard to predict profits.
2. Even a converting offer might not be profitable. Let’s say an affiliate team has a good deal whereby they provide high-quality traffic and bring in a positive – though not high – ROI of 30%. With a volume of 50 daily FTDs, income is indeed insignificant. With a CPA of $100, in a month, an affiliate team could earn:
This offer results in a profit of around $1,000 per day. Working with the advertiser under these conditions is pointless if the offer can’t be scaled. However, if volumes were increased tenfold with profits of $349,000, the situation would certainly be more appealing, right?
The Uncapped Model Used by Marsa Team and Betmen Affiliates
To transition to an uncapped model, partners had to achieve a certain level of traffic quality without increasing the cost of acquiring deposits to critical levels. Team leads from both sides communicated regularly to solve problems together: they worked on targeting by excluding smaller cities, adapted age groups, and adjusted creative approaches. The Marsa Team was open to suggestions, and the quality of traffic started to improve.
Quality traffic always leads to higher lead costs, so Betmen Affiliates suggested that the Marsa team switch to a spend-based payment model and drive traffic at any volume – a proposal which was much more interesting and profitable than working on a CPA basis.
The spend-based model works like this: after selecting the GEO and setting the deposit price, partners receive a fixed percentage of the amount their advertising expenses for meeting their target. The quality of the traffic is evaluated as a percentage based on the 14-day Deposit OAS: for example, if you agreed on terms of 25% on the amount spent with a 70% 14-day Deposit OAS, you would earn $2,500 for every $10,000 spent on advertising.
The main difference with the spend-based model is that the same lead may cost $100 under a CPA model and twice as much when working on a spend-model. This means that the team sets its own cost per lead. The only condition is higher traffic quality: the advertiser will expect that these types of players will show better results than those acquired through CPA.
How to Get an Uncapped Offer and Other Traffic Conditions
We have two main recommendations:
- Build a relationship of trust with the advertiser. Approach requests to improve traffic quality not as a signal to terminate the offer but as an opportunity for long-term cooperation. The advertiser can always help with recommendations and advice — optimize campaigns together, and the partner will notice that you’re interested in mutual success.
- Test multiple approaches and analyze all available metrics. If you want to drive traffic using the spend-based model with no caps, you’ll need to find an approach that gives you the most cost-effective FTD acquisition price and provides the advertiser with the required quality.
It may take months before you and your partner come to a mutual understanding, but the numbers speak for themselves as it is well worth it!
Where to Get an Uncapped Offer?
At Betmen Affiliates, we aim for long-term and mutually beneficial cooperation. All you need to do is bring in quality traffic, and in return, we’ll purchase all your traffic volume. Register on the Betmen Affiliates website to kickstart a productive, successful collaboration.
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Salsa Technology ready to engage with industry leaders at SAGSE Latam

Salsa Technology is attending SAGSE Latam 2025, one of the most important gaming events in Latin America, taking place on March 19-20 at the Hilton Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Representing Salsa Technology at the event, CTO Diego Mourglia will connect with current and potential clients, providers, and key industry partners. He will also be available to discuss Formula-Bet, Salsa’s robust technology ecosystem, which includes Salsa Omni, a fully certified PAM that integrates seamlessly with Salsa Gator, an extensive proprietary gaming aggregator, as well as with top sportsbook providers and payment solutions.
“SAGSE Latam is a key event for the region, and I’m excited to once again meet with industry leaders in Buenos Aires,” said Diego Mourglia, CTO of Salsa Technology. “Salsa was born in Latin America and has an unmatched understanding of the market dynamics in Brazil, Argentina, and other markets across the region. Our technology is designed for the realities of the local industry, and our team is strategically located to provide expert support in Portuguese and Spanish, as well as in English, aligned with the region’s time zones and business needs.”
With a strong focus on Latin America, Salsa Technology continues to support operators looking to expand in regulated markets with fast, reliable, and compliant solutions tailored to the region’s needs.
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