The 8day.gg editorial team
Three people are directly responsible for the content on 8day.gg. Every ranking, every review, every timing figure, and every compliance judgement passes through at least two of them before publication. We work as authors and fact-checkers of each other's pieces, with clear specialist areas and overlapping review responsibilities to keep the standard consistent across nine markets and eight languages.
Three specialists, cross-checking every page across nine markets.
Marta Kowalski
Marta oversees editorial across all nine markets. Eleven years in iGaming coverage, works in English and Polish, edits the localised versions of every page in close collaboration with regional contributors. Her byline is on almost every hub page on the site.
Raymond Delacroix
Raymond runs the payments desk. Twelve years in fintech before joining our team, with a specialism in how money actually moves between casinos and player accounts. Fact-checker of choice on crypto, iDEAL, Paylib, and cross-border settlement coverage.
Aisha Halima
Aisha leads responsible gambling and compliance. Fourteen years in regulated markets, verifies every licence in the regulator's own register, tests every RG toolkit personally, and authors our trust-focused pages including Portugal's casinos-legais and France's casinos-fiables.
How the team works
Every page on 8day.gg passes through at least two of the three editors before publication. The author writes the piece and completes the operator tests it describes; the fact-checker independently verifies the licence claim, sanity-checks the figures, and confirms that the compliance and payments assertions match our internal reference documents. When author and fact-checker disagree on a substantive point, the third editor is brought in to arbitrate. Where all three disagree, the operator does not receive a ranking placement until we can resolve the disagreement with additional testing.
This process is slower than the alternative of a single author working alone. It is also the reason our rankings are shorter than most competing publications: operators that would pass a single-editor process sometimes fail the two-editor cross-check, and we would rather publish a shorter list of operators we all agree on than a longer list padded with entries that only one of us finds convincing.
Native-language coverage
None of the three core editors writes native Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, or Thai. For these markets, we work with regional contributors who write the local-language pages under the same standard, with the core team providing operational testing data, compliance verification, and payment measurements that inform the local copy. The core editors read enough of each language to sanity-check translations against source data, but the finished text in each non-English market is the work of a native-language writer working closely with our team.
This structure keeps quality consistent across markets that a purely translation-driven approach would not serve well. Danish idiom is different from Swedish idiom is different from Norwegian idiom, and while machine translation would produce readable output, it would not produce the natural cadence that native readers recognise as trustworthy.
Independence and disclosure
None of the three core editors accepts payment from operators, ADR bodies, payment processors, or regulators for editorial coverage. Commercial relationships that affect the site are managed by a separate commercial function and disclosed on our affiliate disclosure page. This separation is enforced structurally: the editorial team does not have access to commission data or affiliate performance figures, and the commercial team does not have the ability to alter rankings or add operators to recommendation lists.
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