Content writer (freelance, New Zealand-facing)

The role

We are looking for a freelance writer to work with the desk on New Zealand-facing material: operator pages, explainers about payments and verification, and news where something in the law or in an operator’s terms has actually changed. The work is remote and paid per commissioned piece, agreed before you start writing. We do not advertise a rate on this page, because it depends on the length and the amount of document reading a piece needs, and a figure printed here would be a number without a source.

What the job consists of, in practice, is reading primary material and then writing plainly about it. An operator’s terms and conditions, a licence register entry, the Gambling Act 2003, the Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 and Department of Internal Affairs (Te Tari Taiwhenua) publications are the raw material for most pieces. If you enjoy the part where a clause turns out to contradict the landing page above it, this is the work; if you were hoping to write bonus copy, it is not.

What we would ask of you

• A figure comes with the document it came from. Every number in a draft — a wagering multiplier, a withdrawal cap, a licence number, a date — arrives with a link or a quotation. Where it cannot be sourced, the sentence says so instead of rounding it.
• No experience you have not had. We do not publish test deposits, play sessions or support-chat anecdotes, so a draft never claims one. Where a question can only be answered by holding an account, the piece says the question is open.
• Offshore is stated, not implied. Until 1 December 2026 there is no domestic online casino licence in New Zealand, so every operator we write about is licensed elsewhere; a draft says that early and says what it means for a complaint.
• The age limit and the harm line are not decoration. Gambling content here is written for adults 20 and over, and a piece that describes a way to lose money also tells the reader where help is.
• English that a reader in Auckland would use. Not machine-translated, not rewritten from another comparison site, and not padded to a word count.

How to apply

Use the form on our contact page and tell us three things: what you have written before that involved reading a document rather than a press release, which of the subjects above you would be comfortable starting with, and roughly how much you can take on in a month. A link to two pieces of published work is more useful than a CV, and a short sample written from a licence page or a set of terms is more useful than either. If you have no published work at all, say so and send the sample; the desk has taken on people that way before.

We read applications as they arrive rather than in batches, and we answer the ones we want to talk to. Pages here carry the desk and a date rather than a personal byline, and why we work that way is set out in full — it is worth reading before you apply, because it is the part people are most often surprised by. Recruitment agencies and content-farm offers: please do not, the answer will be no.

What we do not do

• Nobody here holds a casino account. No money of ours goes through an operator’s cashier, nothing on this site is a report of a play session, and no number here came from one. Where a figure appears, it comes from the operator’s own published terms, from the Gambling Act 2003, or from a Department of Internal Affairs (Te Tari Taiwhenua) publication, and the page says which.
• We do not score casinos out of five. A star rating implies a measurement we have not made. Pages list what an operator offers and what its terms say, and they name the thing we could not confirm instead of rounding it into a number.
• We do not publish invented authors. There are no bylines with portraits here. Pages are produced and checked by the editorial desk, and the date beside a page is the date it was last checked, not a decoration.
• We do not take money to change a conclusion. We are paid a commission when a reader opens an account through a link on this site. That pays for the work; it does not buy a placement, a ranking or a sentence.
• We do not tell you that offshore gambling is risk-free. Until licences are issued from 1 December 2026, every online casino that accepts New Zealanders is offshore, and that is the single most important fact on this site.

Gambling harm

Gambling is not a way to make money, and the Gambling Act 2003 restricts what may be advertised to New Zealanders for good reason. Nothing here is advice to gamble. You must be 20 or over to open an account with an offshore casino, deposit limits are worth setting before you play rather than after, and if gambling has stopped being entertainment for you or for someone close to you, the Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and available 24 hours: 0800 654 655 or gamblinghelpline.co.nz.