Affiliate Disclosure
This page explains how Vipleague Sports makes money, in plain terms, because you are entitled to know and because a disclosure nobody reads is not much of a disclosure.
How it works
Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and go on to sign up for a service, we may receive a commission from that provider. It costs you nothing — you pay the same price you would have paid by going to the service directly.
Commercial links on this site are marked in two ways. Visually, they appear as
buttons rather than plain text links. In the page markup, they carry
rel="nofollow sponsored", which is the standard machine-readable
signal that a link is commercial. Search engines read that attribute; so can you,
if you inspect the page.
What an affiliate link does not mean
This is the part that matters, and it is where most disclosure pages get vague. Being specific is more useful than being reassuring, so:
- It does not mean we recommend it. Recommendations come from the facts — what a service carries, where it works, what it costs. Whether we are paid has no input.
- It does not affect ranking. On our comparison pages, services are ordered by what a viewer actually gets. A free option that is better than a paid one appears above it. If that were not true, you would be able to see it immediately, which is rather the point.
- It does not buy silence. We write about the drawbacks of services we have deals with. If a service has a bad free tier, a confusing tier structure, or a history of withdrawing from markets, that goes in the text.
- It does not apply to most of what we write about. Most services mentioned on this site have no affiliate arrangement with us at all. They are listed because they are relevant, and they get plain links.
Why we list free options at all
This deserves an answer, because it is a fair question. If we earn from subscriptions, why would we tell you that you can watch the World Cup free on a public broadcaster?
Because a guide that only tells you the paid answer is not useful, and a guide nobody trusts is worth nothing. The free options are the reason people search in the first place. If we hid them, you would find them elsewhere and not come back here for anything else.
Questions
If you want to know whether a specific link on this site is commercial, or you think a commercial relationship has influenced something we published, please contact us. That is a legitimate question and we will answer it directly.
See also the editorial policy and how we verify.