About us at OCRM

By Amelia Smith - Last modified 14 November 2025

We kicked this site off in 2017 from a tiny office in Auckland. No big plan or flashy funding, just the idea that someone needed to cut through the nonsense and show which online casinos actually hold up once you start using them.

Since then we’ve worked through well over a hundred+ casinos. Most didn’t make the cut. If a site feels unreliable, pays slowly, hides odd terms, or just gives us a bad gut feeling, we leave it out. There’s no point sending anyone to a place we wouldn’t use ourselves. Learn more about how we test and rank.

Our checks are pretty straightforward. We sign up, make deposits, request withdrawals, take screenshots along the way, and write down what actually happens. Some casinos make that process smooth; others… not so much. Either way, we show the results as they are.

People visit our site for different reasons. Some want fast payouts, some prefer bigger bonuses, and others just want something that loads properly on an older phone. So our reviews focus on the practical things you notice once you’re actually playing, not whatever the casino claims on its homepage.

Over time, more Kiwis have started using our reviews, and that pushed us to take our checks even more seriously. We keep an eye out for licence issues, security problems, and even smaller things like dodgy live-chat providers that might mishandle data.

If you’re curious about the way we work behind the scenes, our editorial guidelines cover the steps we follow before a casino ends up on the site.

And if you’ve been using OnlineCasinosRealMoney.co.nz for a while, thanks. We’ll keep doing the testing and digging, on more brands, so you can just pick a casino that feels right and get on with it.

» Our team members
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» What we do in numbers

Our team members

Amelia Smith

Amelia Smith (Born in 1991, Auckland NZ), a driven and ambitious individual, joined the onlinecasinosrealmoney.co.nz project in early 2019, injecting a fresh perspective into the team. Having pursued a degree in marketing at the esteemed University of Auckland, Amelia's academic background provided her with a solid foundation for her role in the online gambling industry.

To read more about Amelia, visit Amelia Smith her page.

William Thompson

Once upon a time, in the early months of 2017, a driven and enterprising individual named William Thompson (Born in 1988, Queenstown NZ) embarked on a journey that would forever change his life. Armed with a deep passion for gambling and a legal mind honed at the University of Otago, William became the founder of the renowned casino comparison website, OnlineCasinosRealMoney.co.nz.

To read more about Amelia, visit William Thompson his page.

Other team members

In addition to our two full-time employees, we also collaborate with freelancers who contribute to our website on a project basis. Furthermore, we offer internship opportunities at our Auckland office, where a basic understanding of gambling is required. Our Wellington office (marketing) is currently not available for internships. For more information, please reach out to Amelia.

What we do in numbers

Are you curious to know about the exciting developments our website and team have experienced since 2017? Here's a brief overview of our major accomplishments and key statistics up to November 2025.

Accomplished	Number
Number of visitors	750.000
Casino redirections	295.000
Number of brands reviewed	139
Number of brands denied	108
Number of articles written	265+
Total number of workers on this site	9