December 2007 Archives

The term 'gone fishing' is synonymous with the idea of going on holiday universally. At GoneBingo, they aim to to make gonebingo.co.uk synonymous with online bingo fun and entertainment. 

At GoneBingo.com the goal is to provide players with 'The Ultimate Online Bingo Experience' and be the world's largest bingo room.

Lets wait and see how they get on. 

Tonight only they have a very special New Years Eve event - they are doubling the prizes between 8PM till 1AM UK Bingo Time for all those with a Bingos.com account.  This event is across both 90 ball bingo rooms and 75 ball bingo rooms.  So if you are not going out tonight and fancy a bingo night in then get on to the Bingos site.

ParlayEntertainment the internetbingo solutions company, formed a partnership with AOL UK for online bingo some 12 months ago to launch an AOL Bingo, on the Bingos branded site. Bingos which was very confident AOL's involvement would have a positive effect on their Bingo Business.

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BingoPort.co.uk - Online Bingo Game Rankings

BingoPort.co.uk monitors and reviews UK Online Bingo sites like our site it has various reviews and covers a vast amount of bingo related information - however their point of difference to a simple review site is the monitor how busy each site is so you can see what the communities of each bingo site are like before you go to them.

PartyBingo.co.uk you can now play bingo straight in your browser. They have all your favourite bingo games with real cash prizes.

The UK's bingo industry could be in real trouble due to bingo player numbers in just 12 months, killed off by the bingo hall smoking ban. A total of 20,000 UK bingo jobs are at risk unless the Government takes action, Bingo industry chiefs warned.

They revealed a third of the UK 548 bingo halls are under threat of closure.

Bingo giant Mecca Bingo has frozen all Bingo hall expansion plans and cancelled dividend payments to shareholders, with its share price halved compared to the same time last year.

Bingo halls have lost 600,000 players since the smoking ban on bingo halls in England and Wales. Smokers who remain are playing less because they spend time outside to smoke.

Before the ban, three million people were playing offline bingo in an average week. Now experts fear the industry could be wiped out in 2008. Steve Baldwin of the UK Bingo Association said: "It's frightening to think that a pastime bingo that has given pleasure to millions could disappear within a year."

Finally a good site for all those Scottish Bingo Players. Scotland has a great enthusiasim for all forms of gambling particularly bingo so its good to see a few Scottish Bingo sites emerging. We now have BingoScotland, STVBingo, Scot Bingo and Daily Record Bingo all of these sites offer something different and its nice to see a good amount of choice out their. 

ItvBingo has linked up with Emmerdale and PartyBingo to offer players a fantastic new site - admitedly the entry video clip does become a bit annoying when you have seen it once or twice but this is a real stamp of credability for online bingo in the UK. Well done ITVBingo.com.

Paddy Power Bingo December Winners

We have put together a full list of all Party Bingo recent winners on their excellent bingo site which is now a non download application well done to PartyBingo.

Gala Bingo ran another successfull day of free bingo yesterday not only was this available online but also through Gala Tv and Gala Bingo Halls in the real world too.  Whats surprising about these days is te small amount of take up I put this down to the realtively small chance of winning in the free to play games not really much buzz from a long shot to win the Gala Prizes on offer.

Bingo Ballroom is one of those sites that always gets a good write upo its one of the first GlobalCom sites to be launched by AquaBingo and is very successfull with many rooms and players to keep everyone busy. 

Film theatres are finding a new use for the big screens - as giant game systems that let hundreds of people play at the same time

Film theatres, mainly in Europe so far, are experimenting with turning their big screens into giant video game systems. It's a way of putting the cinemas to use during off-peak hours and adding new attractions to feature showings.

Bingo Cafe now offer a weekly cash draw at their online bingo site weekly and £1,000 is up for grabs. The cash draw is free to enter.

You can earn BingoCafe cash draw tickets from 6pm Saturday to 6pm Saturday the following week.

Mecca Bingo is hiring voice messaging company Qire to helm its new bingo telemarketing campaign.

The popular MeccaBingo.com and land-based bingo operator has authorised Qire to begin a dialogue with Mecca's customers in order to gain an insight to it their Bingo customer needs.

CrownBingo.com has just launched a new room this is only Crown Bingos second room so they have a ways to go to catch up with sites like Foxy Bingo but its an excellent site and has a lot to offer.

Duke Street Capital has made an offer to buy MeccaBingo, the beleaguered offline and online bingo operator.

Duke Street have previously worked with Brian Mattingley, one-time finance director at GalaBingo in relation to a play for Buckingham Bingo. Duke Street knows Mattingley well. The firm supported him when it financed the management buyout of Ritz Bingo in 1997 from the old Vardon leisure conglomerate.  The Ritz Bingo deal was done, at a time when many people felt that the lottery would kill off the game of bingo. RitzBingo was later sold to Mecca's great rival GalaBingo for a healthy profit.  It is rummored Duke Street have in the past made other approaches to various UK bingo businesses.  So they clearly have a desire to be back in the UK Bingo game.

MeccaBingo has already dinged out Harrah's earlier this year, the American casino company.

The Times claims the Mecca Bingo board is not keen to pursue a deal at this stage and the two sides are thought not to be holding talks. Both parties declined to comment on the report from The Times. Mecca has been the subject of market speculation in recent weeks following a downturn in trading at its bingo arm in the wake of the UK smoking ban. Genting picked up a 10% stake as we prievously reported, though this was more to block Harrah's move apparently while a rich property developer has also built a stake thought to be 10%.

Other parties that could be interested in bidding for Mecca Bingo include 888.com, Aspers.com, a joint venture between Damian Aspinall and the Australian tycoon James Packer, and Ladbrokes.com, the high street bookmaker.

Ian Burke Meecca's top man said the group was not planning to close any of its 100 bingo clubs despite the current tough banking situation for the Mecca Group which forced them to cancel a dividened payment of over £15M to shareholders.

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Chit Chat Bingo is powered by St Minver although according to Online Casino City the site is owned by them as well Online Casino City goes on to then say St Minver own a bunch of sites including Last Minute so I suspect they mean powered by. On the site we can see Chit Chat Bingo is brought to you by Goldbond Marketing in conjunction with its Bingo partner St Minver - their motto is 'My Kind of People' and that is exactly what you will find at the site if you like chatting, meeting new people and playing bingo then ChitChat Bingo is definitely worth a look.

12 Games every day at Littlewoods Bingo where you can win access to a £20K game of bingo which is invite only in other words you have to qualify to get in to the game - sounds a bit like poker eh ? In my view a very well worked bingo comp.  If you want to check it out get down to Littlewoodsbingo.com.

The question everyone is thinking about who plays with Jack Pot Joy is how big will the next Deal No Deal Progressive prize get too ? If you want to check out the level its now at simply go to JackPotJoy.co.uk.

They are having a massive Xmas bash this year there is a large guaranteed Bingo Jackpot of £15,000 so if you are in the mood for a big win get down to SunBingo.com.

Loquax is a competition portal site with links to a huge amount of competitions, according to their estimations they have links to 2 million pages. If like us you are a bit of a competition buff it's well worth taking a look at check out Loquax.co.uk (or Loquax.com) You do not have to register with Loquax to use the site, but if you do register you can keep a tracking record of what you enter and use the forum boards.  Loquax like The Daily Draw and Lotto have partnered with Jackpotjoy for their branded bingo service LoquaxBingo as per usual with Jack Pot Joy sites it is a great place to play bingo. 

As well as powering a site for The Daily Draw called The Daily Draw Bingo Jackpotjoy also run a competition of the same name.  So When we were looking for the site on Google we found out about the £100 daily giveaway. 

GMTVBingo is brought to UK bingo players by JackPotJoy co uk - the site has over 40 bingo rooms and is a very successful partnership one of the earliest signed by the team at Gamsys. As GMTV.co.uk is advertised on TV daily it is probably one of the bigger partners for JackPotJoy com. 

Paddy Power is the largest provider of fixed odds sports betting in Ireland and has quite a large presence in the UK. Paddy Power Bingo builds on the company's commitment to make low-stakes betting more entertaining and accessible.

Paddy Power Bingo uses a plug-in bingo solution from Parlay Entertainment.

Robert Graves, known to everyone as Mr Bob. Was credited with bringing bingo to Cumbria has died recently at the age of 91.

 

When 888 announced an agreement with Rank's online betting shop Blue Square to use its bookmaking capabilities to enable 888poker and 888roulette players to get a punt on the football or the horses without leaving for another website. There was talk of a merger and why not Mecca Bingo has been smacked hard by the smoking ban and a tie up with such an excellent online business could turn Mecca Bingo Online into something very serious. s yet their is no wider tie-up between the two companies, whose share prices have been depressed by 888's withdrawal from the US and Rank's loss of business at its Mecca bingo halls but with Genting and others piling into Mecca shares maybe we should watch this space.

The sale of Butlins, Odeon Cinemas, Pinewood filme-long disposal programme, Rank has little room for manoeuvre studios and Hard Rock cafe may have looked sensible at the time. Boss Ian Burke is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Yahoo are another site which has chosen to partner with St Minver for the software and expertise to offer online bingo and poker to their users.

CastleBingo Have gone with St Minver for their online bingo offering as a big offline bingo operator its good to see some heavyweight brands getting in on the online bingo space. 

Woolworths have chosen St Minver to power thier online bingo site Woolworthsbingo.

Lastminute have chosen St. Minver to power their online bingo offering Lastminutebingo.

Butlins have chosen Saint Minver the managed service group to offer the Butlins holiday goers access to online bingo in the form of ButlinsBingo. 

St Minver offers fully managed 'white label' gaming services for blue-chip media brands and integrated gaming solutions for European sportsbooks. Our offering is built upon solid foundations of robust technology, excellent customer service, a Gibraltar gaming license and Tier One banking arrangements Littlewoods have chosen St Minver as their partner for bingo.

Lycos have chosen Jackpotjoy as their partner for bingo.

Tiscali the guys who own the old Lineone and World Online business have partnered with Jackpotjoy for their bingo channel.

Orange the people with the mobiles and the access business previoulsy known as Freeserve then Wanadoo have teamed up with Jackpotjoy to offer web users access to a bingo service.  this channel has been around for some time and was known as Freeservebingo hten Wanadoobingo.

 

 

Channel Five or Five as they call their channel has teamed up with Jackpotjoy to offer their viewers online bingo.

Yet another Jackpotjpy partnership has been inked between Now Magazine and the kings of Deal or No Deal Jackpotjoy com.  Now is the UK's best known celebrity magazine. It is filled with the biggest celebrity news, the latest gossip, the coolest styles and lots of pictures. It has everything a reader needs to know about celebrity life.  Lets hope Nowbingo can bring some new cool celberity faces into the world of online bingo.

Chat is cheeky, irreverent and fun - a variety pack of 100% true stories, puzzles, irresistible fashion, bargains, bonuses and surprises. Our weekly promise is a jamboree-bag of emotional stories from the poignant to the potty and always plain gripping. Chat is your smart real-life read.  I felt it worth pointing out unlike many similar female magazine titles Chat has yet to get into the Bingo space,  I am sure it is only a matter of time.

Those cheeky chaps from the Tv listings guide sat behind ITV - yes the ones with the cheap holidays.  They have teamed up with St Minver to offer their readers Teletextbingo.  One has to assume the digital switchover may not be good for business down at Teletext HQ.  Maybe this move into gaming could help.

Yes the real life story magazine Pickmeup has also got into the bingo game with a site of their own on pickmeupbingo com - when writing this I was not able to get to the site due to a technical challange so I cannot see what software they are using.

Love It Magazine from News International the guys that brin The Sun to us have launched a bingo site powered by Jackpotjoy.  It surprieses me that they did not simply use TheSunBingo site for this.

Reveal is the only 4-in-1 weekly mag which gives you celeb exclusives each week, gripping real life stories, lifestyle news and tips and your essential 7 day TV guide.  They now also offer an excellent bingo service which is a reskin of the ever popular Jackpotjoy site/ If mixing David Beckham gossip and bingo is your thing this could be a good site to check out.

In 2006 MSN announced that MSN UK launched MSN Bingo on the Bingos.co.uk platform. MSN Bingo Players could access MSNBingo by going to uk.msn.com and clicking on Games. "We are extremely proud to welcome MSN UK to our family of partners," said Dominic Mansour, CEO of the Euro Gaming Limited Group of companies, which operates Bingos.co.uk. "The fact that MSN Bingo UK is now part of our UKbingo platform confirms our status as a market leader in the United Kingdom. It is also recognition of the quality and integrity of our bingo games, and of the vibrant bingo community we host.

All change however come 2007 when VirginBingo took over MSNBingo.

GalaBingo.com is a great place to play online bingo. Why not join Sharon Osbourne for bingo fun. GalaBingo is an industry leader in online bingo games. It is regulated, operated and audited in the UK so it's as safe place to play. Gala Bingo.com uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Digital Encryption protecting all your personal details and money transactions. This is the same security many of the top banks us to protect information that is passed over the internet.

StrandBingo carried out a customer survey after the ban and found 87% of their bingo players said the change on smoking had been positive.

This is the first time a UK Bingo hall has discoved an overwhelming number of bingo players now support the smoking ban.

With 2007 drawing to a close, Gala Bingo has announced the prize money given out so far as part of its High Five bingo promotion.

UK bingo players taking part in the bingo competition have scooped £2.5 million in total bingo prizes in the past three months, Gala Bingo claims.

Paddy Power Bingo are dumbfounded by the decision to ban their Man Breast Advert.

"We are completely astonished by the reaction of the London Underground to our advert," said a spokesman for Paddy Power Bingo.

Jackpotjoy.com has shelled out a record Deal No Deal jackpot of £965,728 to one lucky bingo player.

The site's luckiest ever winner is 27 year old Emira B from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire. She has been enjoying the Jackpotjoy bingo site for the past three years and has yet to take it all in. She definately Dealt correctly on the Deal or No deal game yesterday in fact she earned nearly four times what you could earn as a maximum on the Deal or No deal Noel Edmunds show from Endomol.

Four Mecca Bingo callers took to the stage of the prestigious Bingo Caller of the Year competition, which took place in London on 25th November at Mecca Wood Green.

The Mecca finalists included Mark Lunn from Mecca Wednesbury Cross, Blake Robson from Mecca South Shields, Will Willard from Mecca Cwmbran and James Cook from Mecca Fountain Park.

The callers performed in front of a packed house and a tough judging panel which included Emmerdale star Lorraine Chase.

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Proud mum Mandy celebrates her bingo jackpot win, for a super market shelf stacker Christmas came early.

Mandy Bunker won £10,635 on DailyStarBingo and according to the paper she has already spent her small fortune.

Each new player arriving at the BigHeartBingo site selects the charity sector he or she wishes to support. The top three charity sectors currently selected to receive donations from the site are:

Animal Charities (28% of the vote)

Cancer Research (19%)

Children's Charities (18%)

ASA cancel Underground railway bingo ads. Paddy Power Bingo "Where Have All the Women Gone?" online bingo adverts intended for London's Underground railway system have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority and by Transport for London officials. Bans are not a new experience for the online betting and bingo company, which in the past has had two adverts pulled by the ASA.

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GalaBingo, the UK bingo gaming company behind ever-popularonline bingo hall Gala Bingo, has signed a deal with WagerWorks in which the later will provide Gala Bingo with Monopoly, Wheel of Fortune, Elvis, The 50 000 Pyramid, The Price Is Right Bingo, Jeopardy and Cluedo, together with the recently released Mega Jackpots.

 

Gala Bingo Online actually raised profits but worried that Smoking ban and Tax could hit Bingo growth.

GalaBingo Online is a privately held online Bingo group which also has many offline bingo clubs. Government Bingo changes and charges could hit them hard in 2008 despite 2007 stellar results, changes such as the loss of Section 21 gaming machines and steep increases in VAT duty for Bingo.

Probably the most interesting news for GalaBingoOnline Shareholders concerns Gala's plans for China and Asia. Online Gala Bingo has just secured a licence from the Chinese province of Hebei to open what will be a Chinise bingo club. Chinese gamble with both hands so no doubt this new avenue will be a very successful one for Gala Online. The Chinese are quite superstisious so they will no doubt be enamoured by the numbers involved in Gala Bingo games.

 

GameVillageBingo has got some good bingo stuff going on at their online bingo site this Xmas Bingo season.

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Bet24 Launches Online Bingo Parlay, a supplier of Internet bingo software, is pleased to announce Bet24, a leading Internet bookmaker, has launched online bingo using Parlay's bingo technology. Bet24 is owned by Modern Times Group, an international entertainment broadcasting group with the second largest geographical broadcast footprint in Europe. The bingo site, available at www.Bet24.com, targets Scandinavian audiences and is available in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages.