Jackpot Joy have just joined a growing number of online bingo sites who can proudly announce ‘As Seen On TV’ on their site. They are about to embark on a TV advertising campaign over the coming weeks, hoping to entice a whole new strata of players to their site to play The Price Is Right […]
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Bingo Scotland Dismiss Claims Of Online Bingo Explosion
The online bingo site Bingo Scotland have a new press release out talking about their experiences of picking up customers following the start of the Scottish smoking ban. Whilst many in the industry are talking about an explosion in players come the start of the ban, Bingo Scotland are urging caution, as in their experience, […]
GalaBingo.Com Gone To The Highest Bidder
Bingo Port have an interesting exclusive about the sale of the domain GalaBingo.com. It seems the UK’s Gala Bingo have been after the domain for a while, and through a domain auction the domain has been sold for around £33,000. At present though, it’s not known who was responsible for the purchase. It will be […]
Bingo Under The Spotlight
There’s been a lot on Bingo in the mainstream media the last week. We already mentioned the Guardian’s piece on St Minver’s survey, but there’s been a couple more notable items since then that I’ve not had a chance to mention and catch up on. First up, the business section of The Times Online has […]
St Minver’s Bingo Survey And Its Flaws
The Guardian website run an article yesterday on the returns from a recent Bingo survey run by the online bingo network St Minver. The results show that as many as one in ten Bingo players will give up playing at Bingo halls because of the smoking ban – and one in three will play less […]
The American Invasion
Bit of a day looking at some important Bingo news from across the pond – partially because it will impact on UK Bingo players and partially because they roused my attention enough to mention them. We’ll start with some fall-out from the farce in hypocrisy and moralization known as the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement […]
Globalcom Limited Bought By 888
Big news in the online bingo world – the Bingo network provider Globalcom Limited has been bought by the online gambling firm 888.com. The Chief Executive Officer of 888, Gigi Levy said it was purchased with the aim of “diversifying our product offering”. 888 are not the first of the UK’s big, publicly traded, online […]
Ladbrokes Bingo – As Seen On TV
Online Bingo is getting some major exposure on TV the last few months, and Ladbrokes Bingo are the latest to raise brand awareness with a couple of TV adverts that start running this week. What’s more, it’s the first time in its 120 year history that Ladbrokes have advertised directly on the television, so this […]
Crown Bingo’s Network Name Change
One of the smaller online bingo networks, Crown Bingo not only provide their own game, but network with Bingo Loopy and Simply Bingo under the name of the Crown Bingo Network. But, deciding the name not apt enough, Crown Bingo Network is now the Better Bingo Network. From their press release: The Crown Bingo Network […]
Blokes Dig Bingo Too
Well, no surprise for me, but it seems to have taken Yorkshire Evening Post by surprise enough to write a big article about Bingo Crazy Blokes. It’s an interesting read on a number of levels as it highlights a couple of major issues facing the game. Firstly is the outdated and frankly clichéd view of […]
