Casino and iGaming ads

Casino Ads That Bring In First Deposits, Not Just Sign Ups

AI ads, UGC, statics and video for online casinos, sportsbooks and social casinos. Run on Meta and every other channel that will take gambling traffic, judged on cost per first deposit.

Casino creative burns out faster than any other vertical. Your offer looks like every competitor's offer, your ads get fatigued in days, and half the industry is still optimising for registrations that never deposit. We produce new casino creative every week, run it through a testing structure built for gambling ad policy, point it at pre-landers that actually sell the welcome offer, and report one number: what a depositing player cost you.

AI + UGC
New casino creative every week, not every quarter
Cost / FTD
The only number we report on
5+
Brands we buy paid traffic for daily
Our money
In paid social every day before yours
Ads Manager Casino ████ ▾ Last 30 days ▾
Campaigns 4Ad sets 14Ads 52
+ Create DuplicateEditA/B Test Search and filter
CampaignDeliveryResultsAmount spentCost / FTD
Testing | AI UGC | UK 25+Active318First deposits$21,940.20$69.00
Scaling | Winners | CA-ONActive264First deposits$16,103.30$61.00
Statics | Welcome offer | BRActive402First deposits$9,648.00$24.00
Reg optimised | Old setupOff1,940Registrations$8,212.70$118.00
Optimising for first deposit, not sign ups984$55,904.20$56.81

Illustrative account view. Campaigns optimised for first deposit, sign up campaigns switched off.

The proof is in the pudding. Here is what owners say.

Real owners, real names, real builds. We do not invent testimonials and we do not buy stock faces.

★★★★★

Cooper and the team rebuilt our platform end to end. Fast, no hand holding needed, and it does exactly what we asked for.

Owen
Founder, 8WTC
★★★★★

They redesigned our whole store. It finally looks like the brand we wanted and the layout actually pushes people to buy.

Kenan
Founder, E-Motors
★★★★★

Working with Cooper is the easiest partnership I have. He builds it, it converts, we scale it. No agency nonsense.

Guliver K.
Co-Founder, Seen
★★★★★

Launched our whole site and funnel. Everything I asked for got built properly the first time.

Emira
Founder, KYRRA
BUILT BY COLLAR

Pock did $2.3M in 45 days on a store this team built, designed and marketed in house.

Pock
Collar owned brand
BUILT BY COLLAR

Tekko did $2.3M in six weeks. Same team, same playbook, our own money on the line.

Tekko
Collar owned brand
Why most casino ad accounts stall

Four things stall a casino ad account. All four are fixable.

It is rarely the targeting. It is creative fatigue, the wrong optimisation event, compliance gaps that get accounts killed, and a page that wastes the click.

1

Creative dies in days, and nobody is replacing it

Casino audiences see the same slot reel, the same jackpot counter and the same 100% match bonus all day. Frequency climbs, CPMs climb, and a winning ad is dead inside a week. Most operators ship a handful of new ads a month and wonder why cost per player keeps rising.

What we doWeekly batches of AI ads, UGC and statics, with hook variations on every concept that works. Enough fresh creative entering the account that a fatigued winner gets replaced before it drags the account down.
2

The account is optimising for the wrong event

Registrations are cheap and mostly worthless. If the pixel is told to find sign ups, it finds people who sign up, grab nothing and leave. Your dashboard looks great and your cashier looks empty.

What we doFirst deposit set up as the conversion event through the pixel and conversions API, with value passed back where your platform allows it. The algorithm learns to find depositors, and you see cost per FTD by campaign and by creative.
3

Ads, accounts and pages keep getting shut down

Gambling is the most restricted category on every platform. Run without the right authorisation, with the wrong geo, the wrong age setting or a creative that breaks a local rule, and you lose the ad, then the account, then the page.

What we doBuilt inside the rules from day one: platform gambling authorisation, licensed markets only, 18+ (or local minimum) targeting, local ad codes respected, backup assets configured before you need them. Boring, and it is what keeps you spending.
4

The click lands on a lobby, not a sales page

A cold player taps an ad about a welcome offer and lands on a homepage with 400 game tiles and a cookie banner. The ad promised one thing and the page shows them everything else.

What we doPre-landers and offer pages built per angle: the welcome offer explained properly, the terms shown clearly, registration in a few taps. One click, one message, and the bonus the ad promised is the first thing they see.
What we actually run

Four things, every week, run by us.

You give us access and we operate. Creative, copy, casting, structure, budget calls and the pages the ads point at. No deck at the end of the month, just cost per first deposit.

Pillar 01

AI ads and UGC, every week

The only lever that still moves cost per player. We produce it in batches, built for gambling audiences, and we keep it inside the rules.

  • AI UGC built from real footage, so the people on camera read as real people and not renders
  • Real creator UGC: reactions, explainers, first deposit walkthroughs, bonus breakdowns
  • Statics daily: welcome offer, free spins, game launches, jackpot and sportsbook event creative
  • AI video, VSL style explainers and song style ads where the audience actually watches
  • Hook variations on every winning concept, same angle, new opening, because that is where the cheap wins live
  • Talent cast to local rules, for example people in UK gambling ads must look 25 or over, and we cast for it
We write, cast, produce and edit everything ourselves. Handing an agency your old banners and asking them to run it is how casino accounts flatline.
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Pillar 02

Meta and every other channel that takes gambling

One structure, held steady, optimised for first deposit. Then we add the channels that make sense for your licence and markets.

  • Meta (Facebook and Instagram) run under your gambling authorisation, in your licensed markets only
  • Two testing campaigns and a scaling campaign, every new batch enters as an ad set so learning stays intact
  • Optimised for first deposit, not registration, with conversions API so the signal survives iOS
  • Google Ads under gambling certification, plus TikTok, Snapchat and native networks wherever their gambling rules allow your market
  • Creator and streamer campaigns where your market permits them
  • Kill fast on no spend and no hook signal, and winners graduate to scaling instead of being nursed
Every platform has different gambling rules by country. We map what is allowed for your licence before a single ad goes live, so you are not learning it from a ban.
Ads Manager Casino ████ ▾ Last 30 days ▾
Campaigns 4Ad sets 14Ads 52
+ Create DuplicateEditA/B Test Search and filter
CampaignDeliveryResultsAmount spentCost / FTD
Testing | AI UGC | UK 25+Active318First deposits$21,940.20$69.00
Scaling | Winners | CA-ONActive264First deposits$16,103.30$61.00
Statics | Welcome offer | BRActive402First deposits$9,648.00$24.00
Reg optimised | Old setupOff1,940Registrations$8,212.70$118.00
Optimising for first deposit, not sign ups984$55,904.20$56.81
Pillar 03

Pre-landers and offer pages

A cold player does not deposit off a game lobby. The page between the ad and registration is half the result, and most agencies will not touch it.

  • Offer pages built per angle: welcome bonus, free spins, sportsbook event, game launch
  • Terms shown clearly and early, because players who understand the offer deposit and stay
  • Registration flow audited, every extra field and redirect costs you players
  • Pages that mirror the ad they came from, so the promise does not change at the click
  • Fast, mobile first, built for the phones your players actually use
  • Click to reg and reg to FTD tracked per page, so we know which page earns the budget
We build and run the sales pages for our own brands every week. The page is not something we hand off and hope.
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Welcome offer
100% up to $500 + 200 free spins
1Sign up in 40s2Make a deposit3Bonus lands
Claim the welcome offer ›
18+. New players only. Wagering and full terms shown before you deposit.
Click to reg 34%Reg to FTD 29%
Pillar 04

Tracking, CRM and the second deposit

A first deposit is the start. The money is in the second, fifth and twentieth, and in numbers you can actually trust.

  • Pixel and conversions API checked for double counting before we touch budget
  • Cost per FTD and early player value reconciled with your back office, not the ad platform's opinion
  • Email, SMS and push flows for welcome, second deposit, reactivation and lapsed players
  • Safer gambling messaging built in: limits, reminders and opt outs, the way your licence requires
  • One report: spend, registrations, FTDs, cost per FTD, by campaign and by creative concept
  • Honest scale and kill calls, including when the answer is to stop spending
If the ad platform is claiming depositors your back office never saw, we will tell you, even when the honest number makes us look worse.
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FTD to 2nd deposit 46%30 day retention +18 pts
The receipt

We buy paid social traffic with our own money every single day.

The creative batching, the testing structure and the kill rules we run for casinos are the same ones our own brands live and die on.

$2.3M / 45 days
Pock, a store this team built and markets
$2.3M / 6 weeks
Tekko, another brand we own
$500K+/mo
Top brand we run traffic for
$442,904 / 30 days
Posted publicly on LinkedIn, $106,359 net

We will open our own ad accounts on the call. Numbers on a website are easy, so we do not expect you to take ours on faith.

Why Owners Trust Collar

Every agency says they are different. Here is ours in plain English so you can hold us to it.

01

We Are Buyers, Not Consultants

We run 5+ brands and spend our own money on paid social daily. The playbook we run for your casino is the one our own payroll depends on.

02

Creative Volume Is The Strategy

Casino creative fatigues faster than anything else. We are judged on how many tested concepts hit your account each week, because that decides cost per player.

03

Built Inside The Rules

Licensed markets, platform gambling authorisation, age gates, local ad codes, safer gambling lines. Compliance is not a footnote, it is what keeps your account alive.

04

First Deposit, Not Sign Ups

We optimise and report on depositing players. Cheap registrations make a nice slide and an empty cashier.

05

No Lock In Contracts

If it works and it is priced fairly, why would we need to trap you? Happy clients stay. That is the whole strategy.

06

You See The Number, Not A Deck

Spend, registrations, FTDs, cost per FTD, by campaign and by concept. No vanity metrics and no 40 page report nobody reads.

Cooper Sipos
Cooper SiposFounder of Collar Agency

I Spend My Own Money On This Every Day.

I'm Cooper. I do not run an agency that learned marketing by reading about it. I own and operate 5+ live ecommerce brands with a team of 10+, and every one of them lives or dies on paid social, the same channel I am offering to run for your casino.

Before any of this I was on the tools: building houses as a carpenter, then running electrical through homes and commercial buildings across Sydney. Then I sold real estate at TRG Sydney, circa $100,000,000 AUD sold in my first year, including a record $20 million penthouse. That job taught me the only thing that matters in marketing: nobody buys the product, they buy trust in whoever is selling it.

Then I spent over five years grinding at ecommerce before it clicked. When it clicked it clicked hard: one store went from $5K to $150K in a single month, then past $500,000 USD a month. One brand did $2.3M in 45 days. I post the real numbers publicly, because talk is cheap and screenshots are not.

So when you hire us you are not buying a strategist's opinion. You are buying what we already do with our own capital, on our own brands, every single day.

I do not sell marketing that looks clever. I sell marketing that puts money in the account, and it happens to look good.

The receipts - tap the pile

Questions casino operators actually ask

Can you actually run casino ads on Meta?
Yes, for licensed operators in markets where online gambling is legal, with Meta's prior written gambling authorisation and age targeting set correctly. If you do not have authorisation yet, we help you put the application together. We do not run unlicensed or grey market traffic, because that is how you lose the account and the page in one afternoon.
Which other channels do you run?
Google Ads under gambling certification, TikTok, Snapchat, native networks, creators and streamers, wherever each platform's gambling policy allows your market. The rules differ by platform and by country, so we map that out for your licence before anything goes live.
Do you use AI ads and AI UGC?
Yes, and we are open about it. AI UGC built from real footage, AI video and AI voice, alongside real creators. Everyone on camera is cast to local rules, for example looking 25 or over for UK ads, and nobody is shown in a way that targets or appeals to minors.
Do you work with sportsbooks, social casinos and affiliates?
Yes. Real money casinos, sportsbooks, social and sweepstakes casinos, and affiliates promoting licensed brands. Each has its own platform rules, and we build the account around those from day one.
How much creative will you produce?
Batches every week: statics first, with UGC, AI ads and video layered in. We commit to a volume in writing before you pay anything, because creative volume is the thing that decides your cost per player.
How long before I know if it is working?
First batches go live within the first two weeks once authorisation is in place. Hook signal shows within days. Cost per FTD needs a few weeks of volume before anyone should be making big decisions on it. Anyone promising a number in week one has not spent their own money on paid traffic.
Next step

Send us your offer. We will send you 5 ad concepts.

Five casino ad concepts built around your welcome offer and your markets, plus a look at your current account and the three fixes we would make first. Free, and yours to keep either way.

Get 5 free ad concepts

Licensed operators and affiliates of licensed brands only. 18+. We take a limited number of accounts at a time, because weekly creative production does not scale by hiring juniors.

Your Casino. Your Offer. 5 Free Ad Concepts.

Tell us your brand, your licence and your markets, and the welcome offer you are running. We build five ad concepts around it: hooks, scripts and visual direction across AI ads, UGC and statics.

If you give us read access to your ad account, we also go through your creative, structure and tracking and tell you why cost per first deposit is where it is. If you want us to run it, we run it. If not, you keep the concepts and owe us nothing.

Where should we send your concepts?