Daniel van de Beek

Lead Reviewer & Founder

I spent the better part of 15 years figuring out how online betting markets work. Not from the outside, but from inside them. FlyingWager is where that ended up.

I studied Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and graduated in 2012. Somewhere during those three years I got pulled into online gambling. Not because of any assignment, just because I found it genuinely interesting. The market was growing fast, there was barely any regulation yet, and I wanted to understand how it all worked. So I started building affiliate sites, testing bonuses, comparing what platforms promised versus what they actually paid out. That's how I learned it.

After graduating I worked as a freelance writer for various blogs and platforms, mostly in tech and iGaming. It felt like a natural continuation of what I was already doing. I kept building things on the side until around 2015, when life got in the way for a while.

I never stopped following the industry though. I kept writing about it here and there, kept track of where things were heading. It was never really off my radar. Just quieter for a few years.

You can read more about my background at danielvandebeek.com.