April 2009 Archives
Have you seen the Bingo Shop at Sun Bingo? We were expecting a shop in which you could by goodies like T-shirts and keyrings showing the Sun Bingo logo but this is far from what is on offer when you login to your online bingo account and visit the Bingo Shop at Sun Bingo. In essence it's a pre-buy bingo lobby where players have the chance to pre-purchase their bingo tickets.
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The newest site reviewed here at onlinebingo.net offers many ways to enjoy free bingo from the deposit bonuses right through to the chat games at Quicksilver Games. At any given online bingo site chat is an integral part of building a community and chat games ensure that bingo players participate in chat even if it is only to win bonus money that is awarded to the winner.
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Today the inbox was set a light with the news of another big winner on the Lucky Ladies 88 slot game available on all the Virtue Fusion online bingo sites. Whilst we received an email from Bingolore to say the Virtue Fusion big winner was at their site we then received another not so long afterwards claiming that it was a big winner at Crown Bingo.
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PaddyPower Bingo originally launched its online bingo site using the Parlay Entertainment bingo software but this month (April 2009) the powers that be at the site made the decision to make the switch to the Virtue Fusion (VF) bingo software. Unlike many sites who make such drastic changes to their online bingo sites PaddyPower Bingo gave no indication of the change nor was the information leaked to the elite few in the bingo industry.
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"I can be your hero" is definitely a theme song for Wink Bingo for any fans of Enrique Iglesias as the latest promotion from this online bingo site sees Wink Bingo offer Enrique tickets as the prize in their latest promotion. If you are a fan of the instant win games available at Wink Bingo then you will love the criteria to win this great prize from them; simply spin in the highest amount of wins in the promotional period and the tickets are yours.
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ITV Bingo first became popular amongst online bingo players with the success of Bingo Night Live but today notification was issued to all players that their online bingo site is to close. Can the news that ITV Bingo closes be attributed to the fact the Bingo Night Live is no longer being shown nor is it likely to reappear according to the powers that be at ITV? We think this is probably the case.
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QuickSilver Bingo is available to play at QuickSilver Games and the new bingo site is bought online by Talarius using the Virtue Fusion bingo software as part of the big network. Talarius owns over 180 adult gaming centres and over 10,000 gaming machines in the UK. Quicksilver Bingo, or Quicksilver Games as the domain is, is licensed in Malta whilst Talarius is wholly owned subsidiary of Tatts Group.
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What's happened with the new 888Ladies Bingo adverts? It would appear from looking at the new set of 888Ladies Bingo adverts that the site really has lost the plot when it comes to marketing their brand. Whilst the Vic Reeves campaign was funny but not exactly in keeping with the brand the new 888Ladies Bingo adverts seem to have really lost the connection between the player and the brand.
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Let us start by saying "only in America"! A normal game of bingo in the Del Rio Senior Citizens center turned into what can only be described as a bingo brawl according to a news reel we found on YouTube. Listening to the news we were shocked to hear of three older ladies getting into a scrap over a game of bingo, we've heard of pub brawls but never before a bingo brawl especially with old ladies as the people fighting!
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On a monthly basis one online bingo site offers all their depositing players the chance to win £1,000 for just 1 pence. The win a grand with Wink Bingo game for this month takes place on 1st May and with tickets at just 1 pence each with a maximum purchase of 24 per game one lucky player will be taking home £1,000 after spending just 24 pence on bingo tickets at this online bingo site!
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Tomorrow is Monday and on a Monday, for those of you who don't know, it's Super Prize Night at Foxy Bingo and this week the prizes on offer can only be described as "gaming galore at Foxy". This week's prize night at this famous online bingo site offers up not one but TEN gaming consoles as prizes during three hours of bingo games. Ticket prices for this week start from as little as 5 pence per ticket and don't rise above 25 pence.
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Not so long we covered a news item about a Quicksilver Bingo award but the news on the bingo street is that Quicksilver Games has now launched offering both casino and online bingo to new members. Obviously for bingo players the interesting part of Quicksilver Games is the bingo section of the site so we will take a quick look at what this new bingo site has to offer.
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A new promotion launched today with 888 Ladies and it offers a combination you wouldn't normally expect to see on stage at the O2 Arena, London; 888 Ladies and Beyonce! Ok so maybe we aren't about to see a few fat ladies dancing around with Beyonce but we are going to see two lucky players at this online bingo site each win a pair of tickets to see Beyonce on 25th May 2009.
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Be part of a fabulous weekend at Bingo Fabulous this weekend and you could be taking home some free cash, a picnic hamper or a share in a while heap of bingo points up for grabs from 24th until 26th April. Weekend promotions are not a new addition to Bingo Fabulous, they run this type of promotion each and every weekend. So what exactly is on offer in the fabulous weekend at Bingo Fabulous?
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Probably the best online bingo site available across the World Wide Web, Foxy Bingo, is always creating new and impressive bingo promotions for their bingo players and today we can bring you details of yet another great offer from the site fronted by the Foxmeister. The 5p frenzy at Foxy Bingo plays today and for one day only and as the name implies it's ticket prices of 5 pence all day long!
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Tombola Bingo seem to be leading the way when it comes to providing a completely unique online bingo gaming experience and this is proven yet again as Tombola launch Bingo Roulette. The new game at Tombola Bingo joins the ranks of the current offerings at this online bingo site that include Cinco, Hamster Races and Rollercoaster.
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Littlewoods Gaming recently launched a new online bingo site on the 888Holdings/Globalcom platform and yesterday saw the launch of GameOnBingo on TV. Not an interactive bingo game but the GameOnBingo TV advert and we thought we would take a look and see how it faired against many of the others available on our television screens at the moment.
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After a very successful relaunch one online bingo site has now launched its commercials onto our television screens, this seems to be all the rage lately. The PoshBingo TV advert is set in what looks like a very classy restaurant. The restaurant appears to be deserted and we are shown a waiter lining up glasses on tables and a pianist who nods off at his piano.
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It's possible, and has happened, to find love in an online bingo chat room but when we came across a web site called Bingo Dating we were curious to see what exactly the site was all about. We were expecting a site aimed at online bingo players to find love with like minded people but what we in fact got was another online bingo portal although the sites slogan is "online bingo meets online dating".
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Welcome to the world of online bingo EpicBingo! Yet another online bingo site that has chosen to launch on the Cozy Games software platform. EpicBingo offers new players a £20, no deposit required, welcome bonus but you do have to register your credit/debit card to claim the free money. An interesting point to note is that if your credit/debit card has been registered at any of the other sites on this platform you will not be able to use it at EpicBingo therefore being unable to claim the £20 free!
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Monday is upon us again and we all know that this means another super prize night from Foxy Bingo! This week you can smell great with Foxy as the prize night on Monday 20th April boasts both aftershave and perfume as the prizes. For just 5 pence per ticket over three hours of prize bingo you could find yourself splashing it on ready for a night out on the town with the lads or lasses thanks to Foxy Bingo.
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In the interest of fairness it would be remiss of me not to tell you about an online bingo sites promotion simply because I personally wouldn't play at the site. So today I bring you details of the BingoBeez Lottery, a promotion from one of the newest online bingo sites that offers online bingo players the chance to win a share of $170 each and every month.
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Over the next two weeks you will find prizes galore at Sun Bingo as they run their new promotion, Happy Mondays at Sun Bingo. This new promotion offers internet bingo players the chance to win one of twelve iPod Touch's on Monday 20th April and then one of twelve Nintendo DSi's on the following Monday, 27th April. There are no huge wagering requirements or prize draws to enter the Happy Mondays at Sun Bingo promotion.
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We had previously reviewed PoshBingo here at onlinebingo.net but on 16th April 2009 this internet bingo site metamorphosed into something completely different for online bingo players. The previous version of PoshBingo, although also on the 888/Globalcom software, was a networked bingo site linked to many different bingo skins but the new PoshBingo is a standalone site on the same bingo software platform.
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How do free bingo tickets for the chance to win $80,000 and prizes sound to you? Well you can get all this and getminted on a cruise thanks to GetMinted Bingo and their latest online bingo promotion. The prize for this superb promotion is a seven night, all expenses paid, Mexican Riveria cruise leaving from Los Angeles on 1st November 2009. One lucky winner will be setting sail with GetMinted Bingo so get your dabbers ready for 21st April 2009!
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It would appear that viral campaigns are all the rage when it comes to online bingo be it a bingo site or a bingo portal and the latest campaign is Be a Star at BingoSky. This online bingo site is asking all of their players to upload a video clip to YouTube that is 15-30 seconds long of them talking about why they love playing at BingoSky.
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Which Bingo has always been a market leader when it comes to all things related to online bingo and its not surprising to hear that they are the first online bingo portal to launch their very own podcast. Of course knowing the team at Which Bingo personally having met them at the Online Bingo Summit last year I was interested to listen to the inaugural Which Bingo podcast.
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Before the new Minxy Bingo advert was launched the online bingo site ran a campaign to find a star for the advert and details are now available at their online bingo site of the winner. I read through the story about the winner of this great comp and took a look at her pic, then I watched the clip and found it really difficult to spot the Minxy Bingo advert winner.
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Throughout the whole of April at King Jackpot online bingo players need to watch out for three special bingo patterns in the latest promotion from this LeapFrog Gaming site. Spring at King Jackpot boasts a bevy of prizes for the bingo players who secure the most wins on the three special patterns throughout April. The three patterns are the Tulip, Sunshine and Watering Can patterns and each win on any of these will secure one point for you.
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Now we all know how popular online bingo is in the UK but today I stumbled across a site called BingoAustralia and it would appear the game is getting quite popular down under too. BingoAustralia is powered by the Parlay Entertainment software but an older version that the new version 5 that is now available and all new members to the site are instantly credited with $20 free as soon as registration is complete.
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Another new land based bingo club is planned with the name Kingsway Bingo Club on the site of an old nightclub in Frome, Somerset according to the latest news from thisissomerset.co.uk. According to the article a mystery consortium has plans to open the first bingo hall in the town of Frome in May 2009 and there is a real air of mystery surrounding the group who have just secured an 11 year lease on the old Level One club in the precinct.
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After my first post about the new addition to Tombola Bingo, My Tombola, there have now been some additions to the Terms and Conditions of using My Tombola at this online bingo site and interestingly enough whilst my posting of the web address to onlinebingo.net was removed another that didn't contain the http:// part of a web address has been left active.
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A couple of days away from work and I'm back to find yet another new online bingo site has launched; this time the name is BingoBeez and the bingo software of choice for this new site is the Byworth Investments software. BingoBeez allows you to choose the currency you wish to play in at registration and is very similar to other online bingo sites on this platform like Cashmill Bingo. You can play both 75 and 90 ball bingo but only when you have made a deposit at the site.
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Although prize draws aren't a favourite online bingo promotion of mine some prizes on offer are worth chasing the entries for and win a Wii at All Bingo Club is one of them. The Wii games console from Nintendo seems to be a hot favourite amongst offline gamers least of all because of the popular Wii Fit games and sports available. What better what better way to shape up in your own living room whilst having fun at the same time!
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There is not a lot you can get for a penny these days; there is no such thing as a penny chew and it even costs 10p to spend a penny! Wink Bingo however is bringing some value back to this little coin with a superb 1p game that comes with a massive guaranteed jackpot of £1,000 as part of April's Monthly Madness at Wink Bingo.
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You probably associate bunnies with Easter but for me bunnies mean only one thing these days and that is bingo. Buster Bunny runs one of my favourite online bingo sites and each month he puts together a superb range of promotional prizes that appeal to me as a male bingo player. This month he is offering some superb gadgets so if like me you are a nerd head over there for Bunny Bingo's April promotions.
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It would be silly really to have a hunt at Foxy Bingo, not to mention illegal, considering their mascot is a fox but this is a different kind of hunt from the best online bingo site available. This is a free bingo hunt at Foxy Bingo as the site is offering four free bingo games over the next four days! Three of the four free bingo games hold £250 jackpots whilst the other has a massive £500 on offer each day.
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One of the many online bingo portals out there is currently running a promotion to find the star of their soon to launch marketing campaign and if you feel so inclined you could be the star but you have to be prepared to get your bingo wings out! The campaign called the Bingo Wings star comes from UnluckyForSome and whilst the idea was designed to be fun and in keeping with bingo I personally think it's quite demeaning.
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To celebrate Easter one online bingo site is offering four days of free bingo at their site over the long weekend. You can play bingo for free at William Hill Bingo from 10th April until 13th April once every hour from 9am in the morning right through until midnight at this online bingo site. What's more William Hill Bingo also offers No Lose Bingo this Saturday night in the Community Room.
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Reading through the bingo news today I was shocked to hear of a new online bingo site being launched by STV, the Scottish news channel. STV already have an online bingo presence by way of STV Bingo powered by the 888/Globalcom software but have now launched BingoMood this time on the JackpotJoy bingo software! It's becoming more and more popular it would seem to launch on multiple platforms when it comes to bingo.
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There are many bingo forums around online today and it was at one of these that I heard news of yet another new online bingo site that has launched, SmartLiveBingo. Visiting the home page and it didn't scream of a bingo software that I have previously seen so I was keen to register and check out what the site had to offer. Registration was simple enough and you are sent a link to activate your account....
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The latest news to break regarding interactive gaming on your television screens is that NetPlay are to buy Challenge Jackpot from Virgin Media. The assets for Two Way Gaming from Virgin Media Television will transfer to NetPlay for a 9.9% stake in the company and a staggering £2 million worth of shares. It wasn't too long ago that Virgin launched Challenge Jackpot but already they have a member base of 16,000 players.
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When playing online bingo there are many aspects that are different to land based bingo and one of those is the verbal agreements that are set up between friends to share any winnings when playing bingo. With news today from 9news that such an agreement saw bingo lead to murder aren't we glad that online bingo doesn't really allow for such verbal agreements to take place! According to the report a lady was murdered by her bingo partner after refusing to share a $500 win with him.
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All our readers know that I am a huge fan of Foxy Bingo and the Foxmeister so as you can imagine I was more than a little excited to read the news the Foxy Bingo rank number one in the online Marketing Magazine for their latest advert! From 23rd March until 29th March the Foxy Bingo advert held top spot with some 11% more votes than the 2nd placed advert.
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To celebrate Easter and St George's the Virgin Bingo April promotions are based around these two celebrations. Offers include free bingo strips, guaranteed jackpot games and much more besides over three special days at this online bingo site. Their version of an Easter Egg hunt comes in the form of two £250 guaranteed bingo jackpot games that will be played on 9th April so mark the date in your diary if this takes your fancy!
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Social networking for online bingo has been something that has seen quite a rapid growth over the last 12 months or so and one online bingo site has chosen to launch their own version; a cross between Facebook and Twitter called My Tombola. This social networking at Tombola Bingo means that all registered players have the chance to upload up to six photographs, update their statuses and add friends to their list.
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This is Nottingham reported on 3rd April plans for a "super" Mecca Bingo hall that is to be opened in Beeston. So what makes this bingo hall better or more likely to succeed than the heap of clubs we have seen close over the last 18 months? According to the article about the super Mecca Bingo hall plans are a foot for the new hall to be the first in the UK to offer other entertainment alongside the usual bingo game.
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Bingo Hero is one of the many online bingo sites powered by the Cozy Games bingo software and whilst this software may not offer the option to manually mark your bingo tickets the Bingo Hero 75 ball bonuses are worth a try this month. Every weekday there is a new Bingo Hero 75 ball bonus available each having a different requirement to win the extra bonuses on offer throughout the week.
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Voting for your favourite soap stars opened back in February and the competition is hotting up but one online bingo site is offering 4 tickets to their players in the 888Ladies Soap Awards promotion. It could be that you are a big fan of one of the soaps or simply that you love them all, it doesn't matter because if you fancy seeing your favourite star in the flesh then get on over to 888Ladies and start collecting your soap points!
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Quite a few online bingo sites have today run promotions based around the Grand National and my favourite was the Grand National sweepstakes at Tombola Bingo. This promotion saw every single depositing player given a Grand National horse in the sweepstakes and if their horse romped in in the first five then they would be credited with a bonus! The Grand National winner was actually a 100/1 long shot called Mon Mome.
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The news today is an exciting one, PurelyBingo have changed software platforms and for the first time in the UK online bingo market we, as bingo players, have been presented with something completely new and exciting when it comes to bingo software! The new PurelyBingo software platform is PlayNGo and whilst this has been used for Swedish online bingo sites PurelyBingo are the first to get it in the UK.
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Yesterday I told you about the free money being offered from one online bingo site that launched their new television marketing campaign and today I bring you the YouTube clip. Now as online bingo players we are spoilt for choice when it comes to bingo sites to play at but how does the Mirror Bingo TV advert fair in comparison to other adverts for online bingo? In all honesty, before I ramble on, I would say it is "ok".
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What is it with the world of online bingo and the constant up and down of the welcome bonuses? Yesterday two major players in the world of online bingo made bingo welcome bonus changes at their bingo sites? To quote a colleague in the industry "I know now why they are called bonus whores - the bonuses are up and down like a whores draws!" and how right they are. So is this a good thing or a bad thing for the online bingo industry?
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I am sure you have seen the recent Gala Bingo Splash the Cash television adverts and thought to yourself "I would love to try and grab a grand". Well now that dream could become a reality and all you need to do is head to the Meadowhall shopping center in Sheffield on Saturday 4th April and register at for the Splash the Cash at Gala Bingo promotion.
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Today sees the launch of the new Mirror Bingo TV campaign and to coincide with the new advert the online bingo site is offering all new players who register £20 free at Mirror Bingo. Unlike the previous welcome bonus at Mirror Bingo this £20 is a no deposit required offering; new players need to make no financial commitment to claim the £20 free at Mirror Bingo, as soon as a new registration is complete the money will be in their bingo balance.
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Between us TheBoss and I are privy to breaking news in both the land and online bingo industry. Today I have some seriously interesting news hot off the press and for the land based bingo industry it could mean an upturn! Curious yet? Well the best online bingo site available today is about to launch into the land based bingo industry with an offline electronic bingo hall; Foxy Bingo is to open in Kensington, London!
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Fancy winning £30,000 for buying a 25 pence bingo ticket? Well that's exactly what's on offer in the Bingo Champions at Mecca Bingo promotion. Throughout all of April this online bingo site are running the Online Bingo Championship and the overall prize pot in the promotion is a whopping £31,000! What's more, the final of the championships are offering completely free bingo games. Sound too good to be true? Think I'm playing an April Fool?
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