News today that the UK’s biggest and best bingo site has been sold. Flutter, the parent company that owns Paddy Power Gaming, has bought the Sunderland based online bingo operator for £402m – read more here. The site’s founder Phil Cronin will be leaving the company when the sale completes, after a life-long career in […]
Tag: tombola
Appear In A tombola bingo Advert
It often seems like you can’t turn the television on without seeing yet another bingo advert telling you how fantastic their brand is. Well, now you have a chance to feature in the latest advert from tombola who are to start filming soon as they are looking for players to join in the fun and […]
tombola bingo Top In Europe
When you think of the humble beginnings of the tombola brand, printing bingo tickets for the Sun newspaper, it’s hard to believe how much the company has grown. Already one of the biggest bingo operators in the UK the brand took tombola Bingo to Europe two years ago and now it’s been confirmed as the […]
Bingoport.co.uk 2010 Player’s Choice Awards
The evening of Friday the 29th January saw the 2nd Bingoport.co.uk Player’s Choice Awards, held during the 2010 London Affiliate Conference. I was able to attend last year’s event, but due to the pending birth of our 2nd child, I had to miss this event. But fear not, I sent along my colleague to follow […]
2009 Online Bingo Award Nominations Announced
With the 2009 Online Bingo Summit barely weeks away, the nominations have been announced for the 2nd Annual Online Bingo Industry Awards. Interesting to note there’s been some changes in the way the votes will be awarded this year. Following last year’s event I had concerns that the voting for the event was unfair as […]
Online Bingo Battle – Virtue Fusion Vs St Minver
One other thing that’s caught my attention as well the last couple of weeks is the movement of sites from the St Minver network to Virtue Fusion. Rather than throw it in with the other rash of stories in the last post, it’s something I wanted to look at in a bit more detail, given […]
Posh And Gala Offering Free Bingo With Cash Prizes
Well, I had wondered how long it would be before Cheeky Bingo found itself a competitor. Cheeky Bingo made a big splash a couple of months back as the UK’s first play for free and win cash site, in which time it’s grown from nothing to a major player in the online bingo marketplace. I […]
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, […]
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 […]
The End Of The Day Cliché Awards – Online Bingo Advert Clichés
Sigh… There’s been a whole slew of Bingo adverts on the TV recently, and not a single one of them has managed to move me to write anything positive about them. Instead all I’m seeing is cliché after cliché trotted out to try and inspire me to try one cookie cut Bingo site after another. […]
