Bingo News: March 2009 Archives

Why are you sat reading this article? You should be logged into your Foxy Bingo account playing the Foxy free bingo fest that started at 10am this morning because this giant amongst online bingo sites has twenty five free bingo games playing throughout that day! Every thirty minutes for today only Foxy Bingo are giving away real cash prizes with absolutely no cost to you the online bingo player. Are you still here?

On my weekly trawl through YouTube for new online bingo adverts or anything bingo related I came across an advert for a new game show called Pinoy Bingo Night. It would appear that this game show is due to launch on Phillipine TV tonight and the clip is just a 30 second advert about the launch of Pinoy Bingo Night. Pinoy Bingo Night is being advertised as the Phillipine version of the American game show National Bingo Night.

A land based bingo hall that has only been open two years is hosting its final game of bingo tonight as the latest blow to the land based industry sees the Buckingham Bingo hall closure. The flagship bingo hall that cost £4.1 million to build is to close on Sunday 29th March because the club is no longer viable. There are in total 40 staff at the Buckingham Bingo hall in Preston, 27 will lose their jobs whilst 13 will be moved to other locations.

Yet another online bingo site has made the decision to withdraw the free, no deposit required, welcome bonus to new players registering an account at their site. The news that 888Ladies drop welcome bonus came this morning and you only have until 1st April to enjoy the current offer of £10 free with no financial commitment at 888Ladies Bingo. So why are we seeing more online bingo sites make this decision?

We see a lot of bingo sites offering charity nights and charity games to raise money for good causes and we have even seen two bingo sites launched dedicated to raising money but how often do we see the bingo bosses leaving the comfort of their offices to help make a difference? Not very often I can assure you. One man that has done just this though is Ian Burke, Rank Group Chief Executive; this bingo boss raised £21,000 for charity.

You have probably read hundreds of stories in the gutter press about Second Life. Essentially Second Life is a 3D world that people can log on to and creates a second life. You can create an avatar, dress it, build a home, a family, get jobs; in fact everything you can do in the real world. Most of the press articles are about people having affairs and how Second Life breaks up homes but did you know there is also a massive bingo industry with a game known as Zyngo.

You have no doubt seen the superb Tombola Bingo television adverts; you know the ones with bright and funky animated fairground accompanied by the extremely catchy theme song 'Tombola' sung by the Spanish star Maria Isabel y Marisol. Sadly these adverts will no longer be shown as the ASA have banned two Tombola Bingo adverts.

On Friday 13th March we all enjoyed the fun and frivolity of Comic Relief on our television screens and up and down the country people where out doing "something funny for money" to raise cash for this great charity. Foxy Bingo supported Comic Relief and had set a target of £150,000 to donate to them; Foxy Bingo hit their target after masses of people joined in the special Foxy Bingo Comic Relief games at their online bingo site.

I think I have made it quite obvious when writing about mobile bingo that I personally wouldn't get involved in playing bingo from my mobile phone however this is just my opinion and it would seem that mobile bingo is growing in popularity. Mobile bingo from Gone Bingo is the latest to launch on this platform and although I haven't tried the games for myself this is information taken from the online bingo site of Gone Bingo.

A new internet bingo site has launched called HopeCharityBingo and what is completely unique about this new online bingo site is that is has launched in partnership with seven charities. These seven charities will each take a share of 25% of the revenue generated by this new online bingo site so as bingo players you will be donating to some worthy causes whilst enjoying a game of bingo. The seven charities that are to benefit are DebRA, Jubilee Sailing Trust, Action Medical Research, Amber, PDSA, Rainbow Trust and St John Ambulance.

Mothers Day at Sun Bingo is, according to their online bingo site, going to host the mother of all nights on Mothering Sunday. So how do they plan to back up this boast? Well there is going to be some mega money on offer on Sunday 22nd March kicking off at 7pm! This online bingo site has recently hit the headlines with news Snap at Sun Bingo produced a £50,000 winner

Party Bingo isn't one of the online bingo sites that I visit on a regular basis; there is no real reason for this other than it's isnt of my favourite sites, I cant really get into the game play. Having said that I popped along to their site and found some new promos at Party Bingo that might interest some of our readers.

As part of my job here I have quite a few contacts in the industry; these range from the big cheeses at bingo portals to management at online bingo sites. One of these contacts includes the owners of Purely Bingo and after chatting with them recently I am about to tell you some really exciting news about some changes at Purely Bingo. When I say exciting, I mean REALLY exciting!

Bet365 Bingo is fast becoming one of my favourite online bingo sites as they seem to be getting the mix of new games and inventive promotions just right to keep me going back for more. For the next two weeks they are going keep fit crazy and fifty five lucky players will be made winners thanks to the Bingohead Race at Bet365 Bingo.

There is another new online bingo site that has launched onto the St Minver network and this time the name is MoyoBingo. What is Moyo I ask myself? I had a quick look around Google and could only really find one - it's the Swahili word meaning heart. Anyway back onto the online bingo site of MoyoBingo; according to the home page MoyoBingo has been seen on TV, it's not one of the adverts I've seen but that's not to say that they won't be launching an advertising campaign soon.

I am sure we can all list dozens of bingo sites that accept Neteller, Moneybookers and Ukash as these tend to be the most popular forms of secure online payment methods accepted but how many bingo sites can you name that accept Paypal? Which is the worlds most successful secure payment system, not many I am guessing. Well today I bring you news of one site that has just added Paypal to their depositing options because from now on you can use Paypal at Tombola Bingo.

Mail Bingo is running a superb promotion over the next four weeks that will see four of their lucky players jetting off to the four corners of the earth to enjoy great holidays in some truly superb hotels. Each week the site is running a prize draw for all players that deposit £10 or more into their account as part of the £30,000 big cash at Mail Bingo promotion. Each week of this great promotion is been run as a separate prize draw.

We are always reading about players who win at land based bingo and you can check out details of online bingo winners at any given bingo site but rarely do we read a feel good story in a local newspaper about a players winning at online bingo.  However a Tombola Bingo winner has recently appeared in the Croydon Guardian speaking out about her £13,000 win at the bingo site.

All around the country there is a search going on for the Mecca Bingo Buddy of the Year after this giant in the industry launched a competition in January of this year to find an overall champion to take the title Mecca Bingo Buddy of the Year. The competition sponsored by Cadbury's and Mecca Bingo has seen bingo clubs up and down the country receiving thousands of nominations and several regional finalists will be entered into the grand final taking place on March 24th.

A great granny aged 79 tackles burglars as they steal her bingo winnings. The super gran confronted four thugs who raided her home and stole her bingo winnings shouting at the gang "Get out of my house". Margret who has severe arthritis in both legs, was helpless because they had cut her phone line.

The name of the latest promotion from one online bingo site gives the game away really; the William Hill Bingo race promotion is offering players the chance to win a VIP day at the races for two which includes a meal for two, race course admission and parking fees but there is a little more to this promotion that just the VIP day at the races. 

The ITV1 Bingo a long running late night show called Bingo Night Live has effectively been axed as part of wide-ranging cuts across ITV heavily featured in yesterday's news reports.  Papers in the UK today revealed up to 80 jobs will be cut from the recently formed ITV consumer division, as ITV scales back its regional web TV series ITV Local and parts of its mobile operation. 

March Madness at Sky Bingo is a very apt promotion title for the offers from this online bingo site. Starting this week and continuing right through until Sunday this online bingo site is offering to DOUBLE all bingo winnings between 6pm and 7pm daily in their Break Time Bingo room. If you are lucky enough to win in this online bingo room in the promotional hour whatever you win will be doubled to a maximum of £100.

We are all aware that Foxy Bingo runs a loyalty points system where you can earn points for referring a friend, registering an account and simply buying bingo tickets but today news hit that there is a new Foxy Bingo Membership Scheme available at the site and of course we had to bring you news of all the benefits the new scheme has to offer players!

As a bingo player myself I have to admit that over the five years I've been playing online bingo my taste in bingo sites has changed. It used to be that I would never venture from the 888/Globalcom platform but of late I have been drawn to the Virtue Fusion platforms. Today the news broke that Virtue Fusion have signed a deal with Mecca Bingo to provide their software for another term which doesn't surprise me in the least.

The Times reported today that Gala Bingo is not worth a bean. The private equity owners of Gala Coral have conceded their investments in the gaming group, which was once valued at £5 billion, they figure their stakes are now worthless, only a year after pumping the company with an extra £125 million investment into the company in a failed attempt to prop it up. 

Challenge Jackpot is a multi platform interactive casino channel that you may have stumbled across whilst flicking through your Sky or Virgin television channels. This channel allows you to play games using your remote control as they are streamed directly into your home. Challenge Bingo seems to be trying to cash in the on the success of Challenge jackpot not to mention the name!

It was with interest that I read today a news article on EDP24 about a postal worker who stole to play online bingo. The most interesting part about the story, apart from the huge sums of money involved, were some statistics about the remote gaming increase. Now most of us who play online bingo take it for what it is, a bit of fun with like minded people and the chance to, maybe, win a little extra cash.

Each and every Monday one of the best online bingo sites holds a super prize night where they giveaway 10 prizes on special games of 75 ball bingo! This Monday rather than super prize night it's iPod Touch night at Foxy Bingo as they give away TEN of these great gadgets in a 3 hour period. Each of these prizes are worth £194 and you could win one for just 10 pence. You did read that right - just 10 pence could see you as a proud owner of an iPod Touch 16GB from Foxy Bingo.