Bingo News: July 2009 Archives

We have all seen the excellent television adverts for our favourite bingo sites and have more then likely been influenced by them many times without even realising it but have you ever wondered how much these bingo sites actually spend in order to ensure we play on their site as opposed to the competition? New research shows that the bingo ad spends of four sites is greater then that of their next twenty biggest rivals.

This morning the bingo drums were beating with news that it's All In for Foxy and PartyGaming as CashCade finally agreed the sale to PartyGaming last night. The price tag? An impressive £95.9 million! Shall I bore you with figures? No, for me, as a bingo player I want to know how the sale is going to affect the brands under the CashCade hat; big names like Foxy Bingo, Think Bingo and the new Little Big Bingo. 

Every one knows that Bingo is one of those games that people can't get enough of and they just want to play it over and over again until it gets boring, which it obviously never will. This old age bingo party is proof that bingo can never ever get boring, no matter how old you become. The Mecca Bingo hall in Knotty Ash, Liverpool is the lucky hall to have Sally Melia as a member to their hall.

One of the lesser known Cashcade bingo sites, Bingo Scotland, has recently upped the ante to coincide with a soon to launch TV campaign. The new welcome bonus at this online bingo site sees new players offered £20 free at Bingo Scotland and they don't even have to dip into their bingo budgets to claim the bonus. Simply register a new account at Bingo Scotland and the £20 bonus will be credited to your account instantly!

As we have covered in a previous story there is now a brand spanking new Mecca Bingo hall in Beeston and the launch saw many new members sign up to the land based bingo hall. However a recent article in This Is Nottingham claims that staff from Gala Bingo have been attending the new Mecca Bingo hall.

Have you ever thought that your car is not fit for the road or even only dump worthy? Then you need to get to this online bingo promotion to see if you could win one of their generous giveaways. Seize the summer at Sun Bingo is all about giving you the chance to win a wonderful car which you could use to transport you and your family backwards and forward to wherever you need to be.

Don't we all just love hearing news about people winning large jackpots which make there life so much easier. This one has one half of the story but it seems to have caused more trouble for the woman who won it. It's a shame really, which such a large prize, a delay can make you feel like you are never going to get the money and this lady saw her bingo cheque bounce in Michigan.

One of the newest online bingo sites to launch has just announced their latest bingo promotion and it's one that has a different "spin" on things than usual. The Spin a Win at EyesDown Bingo promotion isn't really about the online bingo games on offer at this new site but focuses it's attention on the wide array of slot games they have available.

If you haven't been over to Tombola Bingo recently then you won't have seen that this online bingo site has now lost the fairground theme and has gone all tropical on us! It's not a bad look and the change comes after the ASA banned the adverts for the site after a complaint was made that the fairground theme could appeal to children. To celebrate the change you can grab free bingo cards from Tombola Bingo and your chance to win a share of over £100,000 being given away!

As we all know, and would shout from the rooftops if given the chance, taxes are the devils work and the last thing anyone needs is more of them on their favourite game. If anyone were to raise the tax on bingo they would be in for some trouble. Alistair Darling is the one who is in for some Voodoo Bingo treatment. Over the past three years, more than ninety bingo halls have had to close due to the current economic situation which is terrible news for the bingo heads in the UK and one in particular is very concerned about her local hall.

As we all know, Monday the 13th July marked the release of the film Bruno in the UK which seems to be a big hit but one woman isn't so excited about it herself. You may also know that a woman called Richelle Olson pressed charges on Cohen for unspecified damages and loss of marital relations after an incident at a bingo hall. Recent news it that the Sacha Baron Cohen bingo charges bought by Olson have been reduced after a video of the incident came to light.

It seems that nowadays the youth of Britain get a bit of a bad rap and this recent occurrence shows why. The Granada Bingo shooting is a prime example of why teenagers aren't trusted by the general public and also how online bingo is safer then going to a hall. In the town of Merseyside a man was shot after finishing work at the Granada Bingo hall. 

Costa Bingo launched just a few weeks ago and already they are becoming a fore runner in the world of free to play bingo sites. Today they launch a new promotion at their online bingo site and it ups the stakes when it comes to "costa nothing free bingo". All players at Costa Bingo can play free bingo for real cash prizes without making a deposit but for those players who have taken the plunge and put some of their hard earned cash into the site, well, they are about to reap some great benefits.

Kiss My Bingo has been around in the world of online bingo for many moons but it has always lacked something; the lifeless brown, boring home page was always a stumbling block for many who  took at trip to the site. Great news though, there has been a Kiss My Bingo makeover and finally the site looks like it could finally have found its place in the world of online bingo. 

Free bingo, cheap bingo, penny bingo - all the order of the day around the world of online bingo and of course you can find all of this at the most impressive of bingo sites - Foxy Bingo. The latest promotion to come from this online bingo site sees prices drop at Foxy Bingo in an effort to help all their online bingo players stretch the bingo budget that little bit further. Whilst the prices drop at Foxy Bingo, the great bingo games continue as do all their usual bingo promotions.

Party Bingo is a well established online bingo site and whilst I may not agree with their "bingo highwayman" style of trying to ensure that players make cash bets at their site I couldn't not tell you about their latest offer. Party Bingo offer £20 free at the moment to all new players registering an account at their online bingo site.

Well it seems quite a while ago that we wrote about the launch of Bingo Nexus and finally there is information available on the domain registered for this site. Taking a look around the site there is a section dedicated to Bingo Nexus partners but as yet there doesn't appear to be any. Further investigation of the site gives a glimpse of what the game play should be like when someone finally becomes on of the Bingo Nexus partners.

Bingo Hollywood is a new stand alone site that will soon be launching on the Globalcom network according to reports at EGR This is the same network as the superb Foxy Bingo and Wink Bingo as well as the likes of Cheeky Bingo. As of yet there is nothing on their homepage to tell us what exactly they will be offering but using the Globalcom/888 (Dragonfish) software you can be sure it will be a quality operation offering impressive games and excellent jackpots.