UK bingo: 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. 

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.

Sun Bingo a top UK Bingo Site.

Reasons to join and play Sun Bingo
• Five great sun bingo co uk games
• Twenty nine sun bingo com chat rooms
• Over sixty sunbingo chat room moderators
• Hundreds of sunbingo com jackpot winners and regular promotions
• Thousands of SunBingo co uk players every day
• Over £100 million won so far by www SunBingo players

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

 

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.

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.

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.

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.

To play with the Sun Bingo Team simply Complete the on site registration form. Create easy to remember bingo log in details. Your bingo username will appear in the bingo chat rooms, so please do not use a email address or anything offensive for other bingo players. After these simple steps you will be welcomed to the Sun Bingo world. It has never been easier to play Bingo Online. SunBingo is safe, secure and very easy to use.

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.

Could GalaBingo still be planning to float? Over two years ago Gala Bingo put out a timetable for a potential £5.5bn float of Europe's biggest bingo group which suggested this is the time they would look to do it.  With the smoking ban and VAT issues of the last year could this be the time they bring this massive Bingo company to the market?
 

Gala Bingo full-year pre-tax profits are up over 10 per cent, but the Bingo group warned the smoking ban and the removal of lucrative gaming machines from their bingo clubs had impacted on growth.

The privately-held bingo group said it was very cautious about the wider bingo market conditions going into 2008 and would press the UK government for the abolition of VAT on bingo products. Gala Bingo claims there are some 100 bingo clubs whose survival was at stake across the UK but they do not envisage any Gala Bingo clubs closing.

The High 5 Jackpot has been simultaneously won by 2 different Gala Bingo Clubs.

The jackpot of £508,914.76 was won on the number 5 on 50 calls on the afternoon of 26th November, and was shared by two winners and their clubs Gala Bingo Salford and Gala Bingo Rhyl. The house prize of £3,150 was also shared by the two individual winners. The two winners who called Full House on the number 5 each went home £128,803.68 better off, including their share of the house prize.

Online bingo is the game of bingo played on the Internet. Online bingo is a multi billion pound business.

Unlike bingo balls used in regular bingo halls, online bingo sites use a random number generator. Online bingo halls usually offer online casino games as well as the bingo, but the actual bingo play works almost exactly like playing online poker or online casino games, with everything being virtual. One notable feature of online bingo is the chat functionality. Successful online bingo sites foster a sense of community and interaction between players.

Research into social interaction in local communities, conducted by The Henley Centre, has highlighted a steady decline in community.

Traditional forms of social interaction are important for communities but are under threat, according to a new survey commissioned by The Bingo Association.

Since 1996, one 72-year-old Scunthonian woman has played at the local Gala Bingo hall once a week, reports National Bingo her regular attendance paid off on Sunday December 2nd, as she scooped the UK bingo jackpot of £17,500.

 

Speed Dater focus on 90-Number Bingo this is the bingo game traditionally played in the United Kingdom and Australia. The game is similar to North American-style 75-Number Bingo, where players purchase cards/tickets.