The Financial Times have a piece on the Rank Groups profits for last year, that sees the trend of losses continue. Rank chief executive Ian Burke mentions that 2008 will be a “challenging year” for business. As a part of their plan, the group has sold their pension plan to Goldman Sachs, which will free […]
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3rd Annual Online Bingo Summit Details – Get £100 Off Your Pass
After our last update on the change in date on the 3rd Annual Online Bingo Summit, I’m now able to point you to the Bullet Business page on the event. The date and locations are now firmed up, as are many of the speakers. You can see the full agenda details of the event at […]
Lost Bingo Halls And A New Bingo Hall History
I had an idea to do a new section of the site towards the end of last year, and got around to actually doing it this last week. This new section is called Lost Bingo Halls, and the idea is I will over time add new pages, dedicated to those halls that have closed down […]
Sun Bingo And A Valentine’s Day Proposal
I missed this one last week, but it’s a heart warming story of love and romance that happened on St Valentine’s Day. It’s an age old story, boy meets girl, both fall for each other, girl proposes on Valentine’s Day in a leap year (because that’s when girls can!) Boy says yes. The only difference […]
Bingo Night Comes To UK TV – Live!
I’m not sure if it’s the same as the American and Australian National Bingo Night show, but the UK will shortly be having it’s own live Bingo programme on terrestrial TV. Bingo Night Live will be a new, free to play TV show airing on ITV in place of the ITV Play programmes. The format […]
More Online Bingo Ads, More Of The Marketplace Alienated…
Why is the vast majority of existing online bingo marketing continuing to get the message so wrong by so heavily targeting the female demographic? I don’t mind saying that it’s getting me cross – I can’t see the sense in trying to sell a product to only 50% of the potential marketplace. Why is online […]
Foxy Bingo To Float, And Sponsoring The Jeremy Kyle Show
I’ve been offline for a couple of days as it’s half term, so I’ve been catching up on stuff today. We seem to have been mentioning Foxy Bingo a lot recently, with their new advert and news of losing Jordan as their figurehead. Well, ever ones to keep themselves in the public eye, there’s big […]
Bingo News Round Up – Conversions, Sales And Taxes
Been a few interesting stories around the last week or so that I haven’t touched on, so I thought I’d just quickly mention them all in one go, headline style. First, news of the fate of two old halls, both of which have been closed for some time. Firstly, the Hayweights Bingo hall in Musselburgh, […]
The Caller’s Decision Is Not Final
If you’re a bingo caller, the real flashpoint and problem area of the job is dealing with missed claims. There are a number of reasons why claims can be missed be it quiet calls or late calls. When it happens it can be a moment of disquiet in the audience and you need to be […]
Club Closure News
I’ve spotted a couple of news stories the last week about Bingo clubs closing down. The latest is on the Welsh island of Anglesey. The BBC carries a story of the Empire Cinema in Holyhead having closed. Whilst the piece concentrates on the closure of the cinema, the reason for its closure is the earlier […]
