Following the announcement of the Gamblers Connect Contributors Program, an exclusive initiative limited to just 12 industry experts for 2026, we are proud to unveil the next name on our roster.
We promised our audience a curated selection of practitioners with real skin in the game, not a revolving door of guest bloggers. Today, we deliver on that promise by welcoming Valentina Diaco, Founder of Profit Matches, as our latest official Contributor.
A Decade of Building Growth Engines
Valentina is the kind of marketing leader who has spent the last ten years actually building the strategies most of this industry only theorises about. As the Founder of Profit Matches, she drives strategic growth, brand development, and data-driven digital marketing across the iGaming ecosystem, combining commercial instinct with deep technical execution.
Her track record spans the full spectrum of modern iGaming growth: strategic marketing planning, brand positioning, market entry, and the integration of emerging technologies like AI and Web3 into scalable acquisition frameworks. She does not just understand digital marketing as a discipline; she understands how to make it move revenue in one of the most competitive verticals online.
That combination of senior-level strategic thinking, hands-on execution, and a genuine builder’s mentality is exactly what we look for when selecting Contributors.
Marketing Strategy Through a Founder’s Lens
One of the key reasons we selected Valentina Diaco for this program is the perspective she brings. Most marketing insight in iGaming comes from in-house teams executing someone else’s roadmap or agencies optimising someone else’s brand. Valentina approaches it as a founder who has built a company from the ground up, where every strategic decision carries real commercial weight and every campaign has to generate measurable results.
Her expertise in brand development and market positioning is particularly relevant at a time when the iGaming space is oversaturated with operators and service providers all competing for the same visibility. She understands what it takes to differentiate and sustain a brand in this environment, not through vanity metrics, but through structural positioning that compounds over time.
As one of our 12 voices, Valentina Diaco will share practical insights into strategic marketing in iGaming, brand-building, data-driven growth, and the role of emerging technologies in modern acquisition. Bypassing recycled best practices to deliver genuine educational value.
Readers can expect her first analysis piece to drop soon. Worth watching for.
