Posted October 19, 2009 and tagged as Gala Bingo.
Gala Bingo have taken a look at ‘average win’ figures for the past year and their lucky results are now in with the town of Harrogate being deemed the luckiest place of the lot. Exeter came in second on this poll, whilst Dudley romped in as a very respectable third. Could these lucky bingo hotspots have something to do with the water?
Harrogate is well known for its sulphur springs and spa history, Exeter is a riverside location whilst Dudley is known for its historical canal network. In feng shui mythology, it is believed that moving water can bring you a wealth of luck and if these results from Gala Bingo are anything to go by the (water – luck) element, could have just played a part!
Luckiest Gala Bingo Playing Towns
1. Harrogate
2. Exeter
3. Dudley
4. Cleveland
5. Norwich
6. Crewe
7. Inverness
8. Motherwell
9. Stevenage
10. Portsmouth
Gala Bingo also took a look at their luckiest bingo playing regions and the results were as follows.
No 1 North East – No 2 Wales – No 3 Northern Ireland – No 4 West Midlands – No 5 South West – No 6 East Midlands – No 7 North West – No 8 Scotland – No 9 South East – No 10 Greater London
Gala Bingo stated that all these ‘lucky bingo’ results were based on average player wins in their bingo clubs throughout the past year – (1st October 2008 to 30th September 2009).
Lesley Hall, online PR manager at galabingo.com, said: “As we award more than 500,000 winners per month, it was really interesting to discover Harrogate is the UK’s luckiest town. Who knows what makes the town so lucky, but perhaps it is the magical properties in the water?”
Gala Bingo are currently one of the biggest players within the bingo field both offline and online in the UK. At present they say that they payout over £65 million every single month and they also have over 500,000 winners monthly. Gala Bingo have always remained at the top of the bingo game during the years and we are sure their bingo players will be interested in reading about their luckiest bingo towns and regions in Britain.
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Posted October 16, 2009 and tagged as Costa Bingo.
Costa Bingo have just made TV History by airing their first ever online bingo TV advert. Costa Bingo launched on the net just a short while ago as a free bingo sensation and they are reiterating this fact throughout their TV advertising campaign. Costa Bingo have already established themselves and found a niche in the bingo marketplace and this latest move is to push their online bingo site further forwards within the world of bingo.
Their online bingo adverts have been running on prime time TV slots throughout the day and evening across terrestrial channels and Sky. So Costa Bingo have certainly put a big ad budget in place for this initiative.
Debbie Gent, Operations Director at Costa Bingo said, “Our popularity has increased dramatically over the past few months and we are optimistic that our TV advertising will take costa bingo and free online bingo to the next level.” Free bingo is a fantastic way for users to experience the highest level of bingo game play online without the financial risk that plagues pay-to-play operators. We are seeing more and more players make the jump from paid bingo sites to Costa Bingo purely because of the high quality entertainment on offer and the massive jackpots which we regularly pay out to our winners.”
Costa Bingo have stated that over 3,500 players are now logging onto their online bingo site each day to take advantage of what they offer, which is a good mix of free play and real play bingo games. We have also more recently seen an increase in the amount of weekly guaranteed jackpots Costa Bingo run to £3,000 worth of jackpot prizes.
Free bingo play has been somewhat a bit of controversial issue. Players have been given the line of (play free bingo – win real cash) to sign up at respective bingo sites, only to find free cash prizes up for grabs are minimal and ever being able to win enough money to withdraw free bingo winnings near on impossible.
However, that is not what Costa Bingo are about, as they have made changes to the way the offer free bingo on the net, which should in theory suit all playing tastes. Online bingo sites like Costa Bingo certainly look to be the way the online bingo industry is moving forwards at present.
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Posted October 14, 2009 and tagged as Foxy Bingo.
Foxy Bingo are renowned for stepping up to the mark and supporting some of the most worthwhile charity campaigns running. We have already seen the team at Foxy support comic relief earlier this year and throughout October they will be playing it pink in more ways than one as they aim to raise as much cash as possible for Breast Cancer Care.
The breast cancer care awareness campaign will begin on 18th October. The national bingo game have released a breast cancer care scratch card type game in support of this charity and Foxy Bingo will be doing their bit by running a number of bingo related activities.
Foxy Bingo have pledged to donate 1p for every 10 bingo tickets purchased by their players on the letter (P) pattern throughout this month. They will also be donating 1p for every single bingo ticket purchased for their weekly Monday night £1,000 guaranteed online bingo game.
The chat hosts at Foxy Bingo will be a participating in a number of offline (playing it pink) fundraising activities. Some of them will be dying their hair pink, walking through the Blackpool illuminations and holding bric and brac sales. A Pink Ball themed party has already been hosted in Spain by Foxy Bingo chat hosts and they managed to raise 3,250 euros from this event.
Breast Cancer Care is the UK’s leading breast cancer charity. It is their aim through research to one day hopefully find a cure for this disease which has touched the lives of millions of people throughout the world. Research as they say is the start of finding a solution, so all monies raised for this charity will be put to very good use. Breast Cancer Care also hopes their research will lead to improved diagnosis, treatment and prevention of breast cancer.
A coffee morning and wear it pink day has also be planned to take place at the Foxy Bingo offices and they said, this will include all the guys going it pink! All funds raised by Foxy Bingo, their chat hosts and with the help of their bingo players of course during October will be donated to Breast Cancer Care.
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Posted October 12, 2009 and tagged as Mecca Bingo.
Mecca Bingo have reported trading is up for them despite fewer members (overall) throughout all their brands passing through their doors recently. Their customers may have visited less, but they certainly spent more which is why like for like trading is running in line with their expectations and is up by around 2% in the 14 week period up until 4th October.
G Casinos are the new generation casino and Mecca Bingo in Beeston in the new generation bingo club. Mecca Bingo plan to move forwards with their new generation bingo concept as their Beeston bingo club is proving to be a massive success.
At present Mecca Bingo have around 103 land based bingo clubs situated throughout the UK, Gala Bingo are the biggest bingo club with around 147 bingo clubs still in existence. Gala Bingo may top Mecca Bingo in the number of bingo club stakes, but by the looks of the latest figures released from Mecca Bingo they are topping them in the attendance stakes.
According to one report from the Mail Online, Mecca Bingo Beeston is currently attracting around 5,400 members every week compared to a combined total of 6,000 members for three Gala Bingo clubs based in Nottingham.
It is not hard to work out then that profit wise Mecca Bingo should be way out on top. One club, one set of staff, one set of bills etc (5,400) customers per week, compared to Gala Bingos three clubs, three sets of staff, bills and so on.
To this end it is no wonder Mecca Bingo will moving their business forwards in the direction of (new generation bingo). The Rank group are now due to re-launch their Catford bingo club in South London and clubs situated in Birmingham and Scotland could also soon become new generation style clubs at a cost of around £1.5 million per club as early as next year.
Mecca have also seen a 4% rise in spending by their customers and this is said to be due to an improved range of gambling machines on offer. The Rank Group will also continue to invest in conversion of their sites into the all new G brand casinos.
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Posted October 9, 2009 and tagged as Tombola Bingo.
By the looks of it Tombola Bingo are about to go down the online bingo TV sponsorship route like a fair few bingo sites before them. Tombola Bingo have just released details of a sponsorship deal between themselves and Emmerdale, which is one of the UK’s best loved soaps. If you are an Emmerdale Farm lover you will know that everything about this soap is based around their small rural community, which is what Tombola Bingo liked.
Tombola Bingo boast to have one of the most popular online bingo communities online, which is why a community based TV show obviously fitted the bill when they went looking for someone to sponsor. Emmerdale pull in around £6.5 million viewers every single night they air, which means Tombola Bingo will have the opportunity of reaching millions of viewers in one fail swoop with this deal.
Unlike the BBC who we have to pay a yearly TV Licence fee, ITV and all other channels earn most of their money through advertising and sponsorship deals like the one of the bingo cards with Tombola Bingo and Emmerdale. So you could say these kind of things can be very beneficial for both sides.
Foxy Bingo were one of the very first online bingo sites to go down the sponsorship route when the took over sponsorship of the Jeremy Kyle show after Learn Direct pulled out due to a controversial issue.
We have seen Wink Bingo also sponsor quite a few TV shows. First they become the sponsors of All Star Family Fortunes, next they went onto to sponsor the very popular new game show ‘The Cube’ and this coming weekend they will be sponsoring Harry Hills TV Burp.
Tombola Bingo are also looking for some of their own real bingo players to star in the sponsorship bumper ads which will feature on Emmerdale. For your chance to become a Tombola Bingo TV star you need to be a registered member at their online bingo site in the first instance and then follow the instructions laid out by them once you have logged into your Tombola account.
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