WhichBingo.co.uk has launched its annual ‘Online Bingo Oscars’, which reward excellence among online bingo sites.
The awards were begun in 2003 and are open to all of the more than 250 ‘pay-to-play’ online bingo sites currently operating in the UK. Players can vote for their favorite site through December 31, 2008, with winners being announced in January 2009.
Players can always expect some festive time offers and discounts. JackpotCity.com Online Bingo offers all the players, a chance to win Crimbo shopping fling that is worth £2500. You have to do nothing other than playing online Bingo. New players can also participate in this festive bonanza by creating a new user account and starting playing games. If you are already playing games with JackpotCity, just continue playing to grab a chance to win the prize.
Bingo Magix realise that attracting new customers and keeping your existing ones are both vitally important to running a successful business, and so they’re making sure that they do both by offering dazzling sign-up bonuses and extremely satisfactory loyalty bonuses. Once you sign up they’ll give you £15 worth of free play, which compares very healthily with many of the sign-up bonuses on the net. If after you’ve used up your £15 you’re keen to play on they will meet your first deposit with a crunching 300% First Deposit Bonus - topping anything I’ve seen up until now.
Bingo, other than entertaining hundreds of thousands of people across the globe also found to be very helpful to help children. Online Bingo operator Foxy Bingo could amazingly rose £12,951 this year for Children in Need campaign. The TV show was telecasted on last Friday, 14th November and about 11 million people across the United Kingdom enjoyed it.
With online poker having reached critical mass and appearing to be maxed out, the next phenomenon seems as though it will be online bingo. Competition for online bingo developers and operators is toughening up and we are seeing huge amounts of cash prizes, promotion prizes and free money being given away in the attempt to draw new members to sites.
Google seems to have had a turnaround regarding their policy of not allowing online bingo and gaming advertising. This rather dramatic situation appears to be as a result of the present economic climate in UK, in fact the same situation applies to the rest of the world too. Large advertisers have had to tighten their belts and some have cut their advertising budgets by as much as half.
I picked up on a news article regarding bingo in the local press; this news item tickled my fancy because the young man who wrote it, quite simple does not know what he is talking about. He calls the game of bingo “simply faceless gambling”. Drawn to playing a game of bingo at his local club by one of the many TV adverts we see so many of today. The young reporter went to a local bingo club and instead of the bright and air fun experience he expected, he says that he found a half empty bingo hall, frequented by people who in the most sat alone, and spent the evening watching people spend too much money, while being tutted and shushed for talking, laughing and even dabbing too loudly.
Interactive gaming operator NetPlay has two launches happening this week. The launch of an TV show called “Supercasino” and a daytime show called “Live TV Bingo”. NetPlay have extended an airtime deal with Turner Media on the “Nuts” TV channel. This new airtime deal will see “Supercasino” playing from 11pm on a Friday and Saturday on both Sky and Freeview.
The Lancashire company that operates Kelly’s Eye Bingo, Lottery King and Sceptre is the latest addition to the UK Stock Market. They operate “bespoke charity draws and games” in pubs and working men’s clubs throughout the entire UK. Although there was turmoil in financial markets on Tuesday, this company managed to float successfully on the AIM (Alternative Investment Market), and now they are ready to meet any financial challenges. They opened with 77p per share which gave the company an overall value of ₤2.253 million.
Top Ten Bingo is a UK land based bingo operator, and unfortunately they are in an ongoing struggle to keep their clubs open. They employ 820 people and have fortunately managed to stay open without having to get rid of staff, but they are having a hard time in the bingo industry at present.
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