Bettys Online Bingo Blog: November 2008 Archives

With more and more online bingo sites now offering mobile bingo I thought it would be interesting to see who actually offers it although hand on heart I have to say it really doesn't appeal to me, I much prefer my game of bingo to be online. Now whilst looking into this I got a little side tracked by a rather interesting website offering mobile bingo with a difference.

When I'm playing online bingo at Foxy Bingo I tend to listen to Foxy Radio because the offer some great promotions exclusive to their Foxy Radio listeners and one of those is the Tombola at Foxy Radio. The next game of Tombola at Foxy Radio is this Thursday at 8pm and it's a rollover with £300 up for grabs so if you haven't tuned in yet then maybe this Thursday you could pop your Foxy Radio cherry?

Yet another woman's magazine has joined the ranks in the JackpotJoy powered online bingo sites and this time it's the turn of SoapLife Bingo. What always astounds me about this type of magazine launching an online bingo site is that none of the JackpotJoy sites offer anything different than each and every site using the platform. When you visit SoapLife Bingo the only difference is the top banner.

The news broke a little while ago that Bingos.com has moved into the Swedish bingo market and along with the news came many reports of the number of land based bingo halls in Sweden; over one hundred according to some. This made me wonder how many online bingo halls I could find for the Google search term "Swedish Bingo". I have already reviewed a few online bingo sites that are Swedish but here I will look at some of the sites I found.

Rumour around the online bingo industry is that Virgin Bingo are planning on breaking away from the St Minver network and launching their own bingo platform. The Virgin Bingo rumour is just that, a rumour but I am hearing it more and more via the bingo drums and this move would definitely be an interesting one if it goes ahead. I as a bingo player will be rushing to try the new bingo platform!

Every now and then The Boss and I have a bit of a catch up on the phone and todays saw him set a challenge for me. Of all the bingo adverts on our television screens at the moment which do I think cost the most to make? Well I have no clue so I want you guys to help me out by choosing which of the following bingo adverts you think cost the most to make?

Did you know about the 888ladies blog? I didn't, it was something I stumbled across today when trying to find details of the latest bingo promotion from the 888ladies bingo site. Of course, being a blogger myself, I had to take a nose around to see what the 888ladies blog had to offer. At the time of writing about it the latest post on the 888ladies blog was about getting the 888ladies fairy released from prison!

This promotion started on 10th November but don't worry, you haven't missed out, it continues right up until the 7th December and to enter you just need to play bingo for your chance to get in on the Money Spinner at William Hill Bingo. Throughout the promotion period you can win tickets for the big playoff game taking place on 14th December.

Quite accidentally I stumbled upon the fact that Daily Express Bingo have dropped their welcome bonus of £25 free to all new players. Daily Express Bingo isn't a site I visit very often but it is one that previously held one of the most impressive no deposit welcome bonuses as well as a 300% first deposit cash match on first deposits. However now there is no welcome bonus and your first deposit gets just 100% cash match.

Is it really only just over a month until Christmas? Where has the time gone? It only seems likes yesterday online bingo sites where offering barbeques as promotion prizes yet here I am about to tell you the details of the Tombola Bingo Christmas promotion! I can see my time blogging over the next month being entirely Christmas orientated.

I've been watching the National Lottery advert with the slogan "Welcome to the Lotto way of thinking - Think Lotto" over and over and was racking my brains trying to think of what the song is behind it! And then it hit me like a brick - its Ooh La La by Rod Stewart and The Faces - now I can watch the advert in comfort without stressing over what the Think Lotto music is.

Some online bingo sites offer a bingo forum for their members but with others there are only their home pages to promote all their latest bingo offers. I have however just found one offering something a little different; it's the Bingo Playground blog! Being a blogger myself I thought it would be interesting to take a read.

How many times have you registered with an online bingo code or made a deposit and been asked for one of their bingo promotion codes if you have one? What are bingo promotion codes and where do you get them from? Recently one online bingo site provided promotion codes in many of the women's magazines offering £5 free at the site just for entering one of the bingo promotion codes.

Foxy Bingo have a radio station and recently we saw the launch of Bingo Radio and this made me think - why doesn't Foxy Bingo run a game of Radio Bingo on their station? Let me explain the concept I have in mind and who knows Foxy HQ might see this and use the idea on Foxy Bingo Radio. Remember that if they do then you heard it hear first and all credit should be awarded to Betty Pandora ;)

Yesterday saw the launch of a new game show on ITV and the interest here at onlinebingo.net comes from the sponsorship by William Hill Bingo. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the game format and how the game works. ITV Spin Star airs every weekday at 3.15pm (just in time for the kids coming home from school) and runs for 30 minutes.

I'm not one to normally cover the advertising campaigns for the National Lottery but one caught my eye recently simply because of the catchphrase at the end of the advert; Think Lotto. Now the reason it grabbed my attention, apart from being quite a good advert, was that Think Lotto is very similar to the name of one online bingo site - Think Bingo. Do you think maybe Camelot caught onto this? It's more likely to be that it's a catchy slogan rather than relevant to the online bingo site of Think Bingo.

Many online bingo sites try and provide the best online bingo promotions to entice new players to their site and keep the interest of their already loyal players. One of the sites I have recently revisited has both daily and monthly specials on offer. The Gone Bingo offers consist mainly of bingo bonus money and not hard cash or great prizes that many offer.

Saturday morning and the usual rubbish on my doormat that's been delivered by the postman; but wait there is something a little different in amongst the supermarket flyers and bills. This morning I found something from 888ladies on my doormat and not the usual type of thing I receive from many online bingo sites but something interactive.

As someone who enjoys online bingo and is interested in domain names related to all things bingo I am often found looking through for new domains relating to online bingo. One of the ones that I thought might be interesting was called Bingo Monster and I was shocked to find the domain already registered and in use. Although the Nominet registry shows it for a UK individual the site is showing a game called "the attacks of the BingoIds".

As part of the network of sites that use the Globalcom bingo software Bingo Fabulous are able to offer great promotions to their online bingo community and part of that are the weekend specials that happen each and every month. In this article I will let you know some of the promotions at Bingo Fabulous and the weekend specials that you can be part of.

The Posh Bingo promotions offer up some great prizes and chances to win bingo points that you can exchange for bingo money and some of the promotions are on going whilst others change from month to month. Like many sites on the Globalcom software platform Posh Bingo also offer the big £1 million coverall game three times a week.

I recently bought you news of a new free bingo game from onlinebingo.co.uk and I am here today to take my seat in the first meeting of SBA - for those of you that don't know this stands for Skill Bingo Anonymous. My name is Betty Pandora and I am addicted to Skill Bingo; I am constantly trying to beat the highest score and last week even had my name in position 1 for all of 12 hours!

HJM Caterers have recently been taken over by Praesepe Plc, a London based management firm, after securing a £25 million deal. 31 stores in total were included in the sale and the news is that there is to be a new look to things. Reading through some of the industry news apparently Cashino launches new look for the old HJM Caterers which will be a high impact design to give them a stronger presence in the high street.

Many online bingo sites will send their registered bingo players a bingo newsletter from time to time pointing out all the great upcoming promotions and news from their site. Some of the bingo newsletters I read with interest and often I am quite impressed with the offers from many online bingo sites. However every now and again an online bingo site sends me a newsletter and all I get from it is a giggle.