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As the trend grows towards conversational AI over traditional search, Marlin Media’s marvn.ai represents the iGaming industry’s first purpose-built response, explains CEO Ionut Constantinescu.
But for B2B stakeholders, the real question isn’t whether AI will reshape iGaming, it’s whether operators are prepared to adapt as player behaviour shifts. Writing for iGaming Expert, Ionut Constantinescu explains why waiting isn’t an option.
The quiet shift that’s already happening
Whilst the iGaming industry debates the theoretical implications of AI, player behaviour is already changing. ChatGPT reached over 5.19 billion visits in February 2026, and more than 1.1 billion people are expected to use AI by 2031. Even if only a fraction of those are iGaming-related searches, that’s already enough to begin altering how players discover casinos.
People are already using AI in their daily lives for a variety of tasks. It’s only a matter of time before they start asking AI casino-related questions. And right now, general-purpose AI is getting those questions wrong.
The problem is twofold. General-purpose AI tools hallucinate casino recommendations, lack real-time bonus data, and can’t verify licensing or regulatory compliance.
Meanwhile, the SEO-driven affiliate sites that once dominated discovery are losing trust as players recognise commercially incentivised rankings for what they are. For operators, this isn’t a future threat, it’s a current blindspot.
Why a lead-gen company is building an AI answer engine
Marlin Media’s decision to launch marvn.ai in November 2025 wasn’t a pivot into trendy technology. It was a strategic response rooted in years of first-hand experience with what works and doesn’t in casino discovery.
We’ve been the [traditional] affiliate. We know what operators and players need because we’ve been developing deep domain expertise through our publishing brands for years.
That foundation gives us something general purpose AI companies don’t have: direct access to operator data, bonus structures, licensing information, and crucially, an understanding of what players actually need to make decisions.
The result is an AI chat assistant that scans a proprietary database containing thousands of data points per brand across hundreds of casinos and slots, verified daily by in-house specialists.
Unlike systems relying on scraped or outdated content, marvn’s knowledge base is curated, structured for conversational retrieval, and updated in real time as regulations, bonus terms, and market conditions shift.
Since its launch, marvn has been iterating rapidly. The product’s database and tool capabilities are expanding every day. New information is added daily and product enhancements are released every few weeks.
From January this year, the tool became 60% faster and our Discover feed acts as a starting point for new searches.
What It Means to ‘Be On’ marvn
While marvn helps players find casinos, bonuses, and games that match their specific preferences, its underlying database also enables operators to validate and maintain the accuracy of their own data – supporting both the platform’s long-term reliability and operators’ discoverability.
The shift from general to vertical AI isn’t just about how players discover casinos. It’s about how businesses inform what potential customers get to know about them.
For operators weighing whether to engage with marvn, the proposition is less as advertising spend and more as infrastructure positioning. Being ‘on’ marvn means a brand is embedded within the verified database that powers the answer engine.
When players ask domain-specific questions, for example, ‘which casinos accept Skrill?’ or ‘show me high-RTP slots with free spins, operators in the system surface based on fit, not SEO manipulation or paid placement. But the deeper value is influence over how the product can represent brands.
Early collaborators can ensure their licensing, payment options, unique product offering, bonus terms and more, are accurately reflected as the platform scales.
This isn’t about buying an ad, it’s about positioning your brand in the way casino players will search in the future.
The broader shift: from rankings to verified data
Trust in iGaming discovery is migrating from commercially incentivised rankings toward verified, neutral data sources. Traditional affiliate ecosystems are losing credibility as players recognise the business model behind ‘top 10’ lists across all industries.
General-purpose AI is filling some of that gap, with varying levels of success. While it will continue to improve, it won’t have the depth and data required for an industry like iGaming.
Vertical AI solves this by building domain expertise and verified data into the system itself. marvn doesn’t just understand language.
It has contextual intelligence that is only possible through specialisation, not by training a general model on everything and hoping it gets iGaming right.
General-purpose AI will provide breadth. Vertical AI will provide depth. And in complex sectors like iGaming, depth wins.
The shift toward AI-driven discovery is no longer theoretical. Players are already changing how they search, and platforms like marvn are beginning to structure how iGaming data is organised and how answers are delivered.
In that environment, visibility is no longer just about being present – it’s about being accurately represented within the data that drives the answer.
As conversational discovery scales, the operators that engage early won’t just appear, but help define how their brand is understood within platforms like marvn, where this new discovery model is already taking shape.
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