The ongoing financial crisis for land based bingo seems to be deepening at the moment. I’ve recently featured stories looking at Gala Bingo’s finances and their problems. but today it’s the turn of a smaller player, The Buckingham Bingo chain. The Telegraph carries a report about the chain’s current debt problems, concerned with Buckingham Bingo’s […]
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4th Annual Online Bingo Summit Information
Having just got the CAP Euro event out of the way, and the BingoPort.co.uk player awards, I’m now turning my attention to the next big event in the online bingo world, the 4th Annual Online Bingo Summit, which is due to be held June 16th ? 17th at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London. The […]
Cheeky Bingo – The Free Bingo Sensation
It’s rare I’d even bother mentioning the launch of a new network online bingo skin on this blog, but I’m breaking with convention here to do just that. The site in question is Cheeky Bingo, the latest site to be launched by Cashcade (the people behind Foxy Bingo) and I have a strong feeling that […]
VAT Deadline And Gaming Act Update
The Bingo Association have posted a couple of news posts the last couple of days that will be of interest to the operators out there. First up, there’s a reminder that all VAT Reclaims for the period between 1973 – 1996 have to be lodged by the cut-off deadline of March the 31st. I have […]
Gala Bingo Loses Its Credit Insurance Cover
Just a quick heads up on this story about the withdrawal of Gala Coral Group’s credit insurance by the insurers Euler Hermes. Gala aren’t alone in this, a number of other big retail chains have also had their cover pared back as a result of the current financial situation. Over at Bingo News they have […]
The Results Of The BingoPort.co.uk Player Awards 2009
Well, it’s been a busy weekend for me here in London, catching up with people who work in the online bingo field and finding out about some of the interesting things planned for online bingo players in the near future. More on that in later posts. The main draw for myself happened on Friday night, […]
BingoPort.co.uk Player Awards
Following on from my moan about the pointless Which Bingo Awards earlier this month, it’s refreshing to see another large online bingo portal come up with something a bit closer to the kind of awards I’d like to see for the industry. The BingoPort.co,uk Player’s Choice Awards is open to the site’s large membership to […]
Should Retail Bingo Take A Lesson From The Underground Rebel Bingo Club?
I was intrigued by a story on the wires today about a special Bingo night called the The Underground Rebel Bingo Club. The weekly event takes place in The Mission Room in Exmouth Market in Finsbury, London. The event is a mix of cabaret and Bingo that’s fast attracting the sort of audience that traditional […]
He’s Back – Foxy Bingo’s £10million Marketing Spree
I’ve spotted a lot of talk on a number of bingo blogs about a teaser advert featuring a spinning mirrorball flying to earth, with the sting “He’s Back” and “£1 Million Must Be Won”. There was a lot of speculation around who the ‘he’ could be on a number of sites, and you could enter […]
A Couple Of Good News Bingo Stories
It’s always good to see positive stories about the game of Bingo, and the last couple of days there’s been a couple of nice features around the online press worthy of mention. First up, my favourite UK online bingo provider tombola continue to lead the marketplace and grow. In fact it’s growing so much that […]
