The latest bingo site to move into TV advertising is Bet365 who have “bingo heads” to promote the site. The ad is basically people in everyday situations that have bingo balls instead of heads- bit disturbing, but hey!! At least it is a change from the usual “woman playing and winning”, which reminds me, one of Wink bingo’s adverts has been pulled after the ASA deemed it to be promoting “gambling in the workplace”!!

The ad in question is the one in the maternity ward with the nurse playing on a laptop and winning on wink bingo. The ASA was asked to check if the ad breached rules by bingo being played as a priority over professional commitment, finding that the ad did portray and condone gambling in the workplace and have banned the ad!!

The countdown is over for Tombola Bingo as their online bingo software has become exclusive to them. As of the 25th August Sun Bingo and NotW bingo will cease to use the platform, but play continues at Tombola Bingo itself. 

Tombola Bingo have been working hard on some great promotions for the coming weeks. As of today they will cash match your first deposit with a 100% match bonus up to £25. It doesn’t matter if you are an existing Sun or NotW bingo player as you can take advantage of this offer on your first deposit at Tombola Bingo itself.

All of the chat moderators on on the site are part of the Tombola team and remain the same, with the only difference being that you need to log onto Tombola Bingo direct, rather than Sun or NotW bingo to play.

Tombola Bingo have 31 fully moderated chat rooms and some great promotions in the pipe line, so tombola bingo is definitely worth a go!!

Bingo.com have released promising 2nd quarter figures showing that revenue and customer sign ups have increased over the first quarter.

The second quarter figures show a 5% increase over the first quarter, with the CEO stating “We acquired thousands of new real money players, increased our revenues, decreased our net loss, and further developed the entertainment available at Bingo.com,”.

The company is still focused on expansion, however and are still trying to break into the UK market, although they have not yet secured a license to operate in the UK.

All in all though the figures look good for all in the online bingo world, lets just hope this continues throughout!

CasinoChoice.co.uk- a leading site providing information and reviews of the top UK casinos, has added some more information for online gambling enthusiasts. The site will now offer online bingo players a site to read reviews of the top rated bingo sites available on the Internet.

The site features some of the of the top UK bingo sites, including Ladbrokes, Dream Bingo, William Hill, 888 Ladies Bingo, Sun Bingo and Foxy Bingo.

The bingo sites will be rated on graphics, playability, game variety, quality of promotions/bonuses and payment options, and will be given a final score to help players find the best place to play bingo online. Players will also be able to view all the current promotions and bonuses that each site has to offer, as well as viewing screenshots of the bingo rooms to help them make their decision of which room to play in.

CasinoChoice.co.uk is well established as one of the UK’s most reliable online casino portals and by adding bingo room reviews to their site, they have furthered their dominance in the online casino portal world.

For further information and/or questions, please visit www.casinochoice.co.uk.

It seems that Jackpotcity and Crown Bingo aren’t the only sites to have some changes.

Sun bingo and NotW bingo are also going to be having a re-design due to their transfer from the Tombola platform to Gamesys at the end of August.

We are as yet to see what the sites will look like, but we have been assured they will be using different software to Jackpot Joy, who are also currently on the Gamesys label.

There will be benefits of 100% cash match up to £100 and all the regular bonuses currently available at Jackpot Joy, to all new customers, so why not go along on August 26th to see the changes!!

This week sees some improvements (if that is the right word!!) to two of our most loved bingo sites.

I have heard on the bingo vine that JackpotCity.com and CrownBingo.com both have some new features coming to their sites this week. Coincidence i hear you ask, well not really as they are both on the Virtue Fusion platform!!

So what changes are coming? Well Jackpotcity will be bringing you new rooms;

• Bob’s Bingo in a Box- special room dedicated to the roomies hosting 90 ball bingo. 
• Bella’s Ball Room- where 90 ball bingo will be played, It’s the room you love and know but we’ve jazzed it up a bit- This is about glitz, glamour and big pots.
• Room Four: Elbo Room- In 75 Ball Variant there are five winning combinations per ticket: Single Line (horizontal, vertical or diagonal), Two Lines, Three Lines, Four Lines, Full House – all horizontal.
• Room Five: School Room- Pattern Bingo. Patterns come from four categories – Various Patterns, Multi-combination Patterns, Alphabet and Numerical.

As for Crown Bingo, they will also be opening their fourth room offering pattern bingo, as well as offering two new mini games. Lucky Ladies 88 and Tarot Fortune are both 5 Reel, 9 Line slot games that include a Progressive Jackpot and Bonus Game.

Both sites will be offering payment by UKash, making it easier and more convenient to budget your bingo games.

So why not pop down to the sites from Thursday to see all the changes!?

888 Holdings Plc have announced that their second-quarter sales rose 33% following the introduction of bingo increased the amount of new players opening accounts.They state that net gaming revenue climbed up to $67 million from $50 million last year.

The introduction of the 888ladies online bingo site helped restore revenue after the company lost half its sales when the U.S. barred foreign gaming Web sites in 2006.

The report also shows that second-quarter operating income increased 36% to $69 million. The company had 5.2 million player accounts as of the end of June, up from 4.9 million three months earlier.