What icreekside.com covers
icreekside.com publishes news and explainers about the gambling industry. The focus is on how the sector works rather than on how to play: who the operators and suppliers are, how money moves through the business, how regulators and courts treat different products, and what changes when a rule, a tax rate or a court ruling lands.
Because the subject is the industry in India, a large part of the coverage is state-level. Gambling law in India is largely a state matter, so the same product can sit in very different positions depending on where a reader is. We follow state legislation and amendments, litigation over the distinction between games of skill and games of chance, state lotteries and their distribution, and licensing regimes where they exist. Alongside that, we cover the national layer: taxation of real-money gaming, payment and advertising questions, and the activity of offshore sites that market to Indian users without a domestic licence.
Explainers are written for people meeting a term for the first time — rake, gross gaming revenue, affiliate marketing, white-label platforms, KYC obligations — and news items are written to say what happened, who it affects and what is still unresolved.
Who the site is for
The readership we write for is in India: people who follow the sector as players, people who work in or near it, and people who simply want to understand a story they have read elsewhere. That includes journalists and students looking for background, people in payments, media and technology whose work touches gaming businesses, and readers trying to work out whether a particular product or operator is regulated where they live.
We assume no prior knowledge and no particular position on gambling. Coverage is written to be useful to someone who gambles and to someone who never will.
What this site is not
icreekside.com is an independent site and is not a gambling operator; you cannot place a bet here. There are no games, no accounts and no deposits on icreekside.com.
icreekside.com may earn a commission from links to operators. This never changes what is written. Commercial links do not determine which stories we cover, how a company is described, or what an explainer concludes.
Nothing on this site is financial, legal or gambling advice. Readers with questions about their own situation — including whether a particular activity is permitted in their state — should consult a qualified professional.