Bingo News UK

Despite all the doom and gloom that seems to surround us, we can always count on bingo to be there.
The online bingo industry has found itself on the minority side of things, when it comes to succes this year.

With bingo sites offering amazing promotions and offers it really no wonder, more people than ever are clicking on and joining in.
Hundreds of sites are launching themselves into the industry and fighting fiercely to gain their share of the online bingo population.

One such site is Posh Bingo, who recently re-launched their site, and have dedicated two of its bingo rooms to free bingo, giving away £40,000 a month in cash prizes.

All day, every day, players are given the opportunity to win real cash for free.

If you were to ask some people in the world of bingo they would say the the free bingo concept was starrted by Cheeky Bingo who only themselves launched in February.

The industry as a whole even spent over £7million last year on advertising, with the likes of Foxy Bingo spending a quarter of that alone.

With other sites like, Minxy Bingo, Wink Bingo and Bet365 Bingo all advertising on tv as well at the moment.
I think it safe to say the UK online bingo industry is going strong, helping keep a silver lining in an otherwise grey cloud economy.

I’m sure you’ll agree when I say Mecca Bingo is probably the largest bingo brand in the country. It’s been around for years and is still going strong.

Recently they even had a re-vamp of their online bingo website.
Now while some will say there was no need, or that it has made the site somewhat too simplistic. I’d say yes the site was fine how it was, but the revamp has, if anything made it better.

The site is easier to navigate, there is a larger range of games, and a whole line up of new promotions. Personally I think players will like the re-vamp, it’s bright and colourful, but changes with each page so it doesn’t get repetitive

Mecca Bingo are also doing a first in launching an Online Bingo Championship. Apparently it’s never been done before and they’re giving players the opportunity to qualifier for it in the first 3 weeks of April.

A 3 Huge jackpot games for the qualifiers will see more than £30,000 up for grabs.

Mecca Bingo definitely know how to launch, don’t they?

A new report from Whichbingo.co.uk has found that the uk online bingo industry spent more than $10million on television advertsing for 2008.

According to the report by Which bingo the biggest spender of all was Foxy Bingo spending a whopping $3.27million.

But it seems new bingo site Tombola.co.uk planned to make a statement by spending over $2.5million too.
Between the two, Foxy Bingo and Tombola.co.uk, they spent more than the rest of the industry put together.

Judging from these figures, its understandable why the online bingo market is still growing at the rate it is. With operators pumping so much into advertising, they are bound to get a large number of players joining the ranks.

Other big spenders included Think Bingo and Party Bingo both spending around the $1million mark.

What was surprising in the report hoever was that, both Gala Bingo and Mecca Bingo, two of the largest bingo operators in the UK, were not on the ‘big spenders’ list. Neither spent anything on television advertising for 2008.