In the UK online bingo is advertised openly and many online bingo providers place very clever and sometimes humorous advertisements on television. In the US where online gaming is still illegal placing such ads would be next to impossible. Last year a major online poker website managed to get a few ads aired before federal regulators shut them down.

Online bingo players in the UK and Europe find it difficult to understand the animus the US government has towards online gaming. After all the modern game of bingo originated in the United States and has provided churches and charitable groups with one of the best fundraising devices available. In the UK Foxy bingo was one of the early pioneers of television advertising for online bingo.

In the UK where online bingo is incredibly popular, competition between online bingo websites is keen and television ads were inevitable. Most of the major UK based online bingo providers now run online bingo television ads with increasing regularity. Many of these ads are cleverly done as evidenced by the new Wink bingo TV ad. The ad was inspired by Fred Astaire in the movie Royal Wedding. The ad shows a woman so excited by her online bingo win that she dances on the on the walls and even the ceiling of her room.

A quick search on the popular video sharing website YouTube reveals a wealth of UK online bingo television ads. Dozens of these ads have been posted by online bingo fans and US bingo players are sure to be amused by these ads which often contain the kind of humor Britain is famous for.

Who Knows, possibly in the near future the US will reverse its position on online bingo and we will begin to see American produced ads using all the glitz and glamor that Hollywood is famous for.