Bingo In Prison?
Most of us who play bingo whether land based or online bingo would find it hard to imagine hardened prisoners playing any kind of bingo. In what has to be one of the strangest stories of the year, one prison in the UK has proposed spending £5,000 ($7,034 US dollars) to fund bingo prizes for [...]
Online Bingo Creating Jobs
The recent global economic crisis has resulted in massive job losses. Many industries worldwide are laying off long term employees and economic growth is at a standstill. The US has shed over a million jobs in 2008 and recently released government data paints a very bleak picture for 2009. The situation is similar in the [...]
Taxes, Taxes, and More Taxes!
In previous articles we have discussed how smoking bans have wreaked havoc with the brick and mortar bingo industry. As has been pointed out before approximately 75% of bingo players smoke and since the passage of a strict smoking ban in the UK several bingo clubs have been forced to close their doors forever. In [...]
The ‘Bingy’ Awards For 2008
Its time for BingoLingo to announce their picks for the annual ‘Bingy’ awards. The ‘Bingys’ were launched in 2007 to celebrate excellence in the online bingo industry. This year we have pared the choices to a field of 10 winners. BingoLingo used several criteria in selecting the winners for 2008, sign up and deposit bingo bonuses, [...]
Bingo Players Arrested in Turkey–Again!
Six British tourists have been arrested in Turkey for playing bingo. The tourists were arrested at a bar in Altinkum, a popular tourist destination. Bingo is seen as an unregulated form of gambling and is illegal in Turkey. The six British tourists that were arrested were reportedly detained by Turkish Authorities for several hours, before [...]
Play Penny Bingo at BingoHouse
The news from the economic front keeps getting worse day by day. Layoffs, bailouts, and dismal economic figures, are all taking their toll on the average person. Everyone is looking for inexpensive entertainment and online bingo players are no exception. People are spending less on entertainment and other non essential items. There is some good [...]
Smoking Bans Killing Charitable Bingo Games
We have all read about the chaos the UK smoking ban caused for the land based bingo industry. Many publicly traded bingo companies saw their stock dive overnight and layoff reached the thousands. Many rural bingo halls shuttered their doors forever leaving rural residents with limited recreational choices. The same scenario is being repeated across [...]
Online Gaming Goes Mobile
The gaming industry, including online bingo, is seeking creative ways to survive and thrive in today’s dismal economy. In the US experts predict that many of the smaller casinos both online and offline will suffer economic collapse and cease doing business resulting in the loss of thousands of jobs. To counteract the downward spiral, many [...]
Who’s Playing Online Bingo?
In the UK, bingo is a big business but just how big is it? It has been estimated that there are about three million bingo players in the UK. Bingo enjoys so much popularity in the UK that players wager an estimated 1.4 billion pounds a year. That amounts to almost two billion US dollars [...]
Online Bingo, UIGEA, and the Economy
Recent global economic developments have forced the US government to rethink many of its policies. At present the US economy is in chaos and the US has lost over a quarter of a million jobs so far this year. Despite the massive $700 billion dollar bailout and other measures the economic slump continues. One would [...]
