You’ll have to excuse the lack of action around these parts recently, there’s a couple of big things happening at the moment that are affecting my ability to post here. First up, Blogger dropped a bombshell that they would no longer be supporting FTP publishing to external sites from the end of March. As the blog section of this site relies on it, it means I can no longer publish from Blogger to
Keeping things Online Bingo Summit related, Bullet Business sent over this interview with Bob McCulloch, the CEO of the recently purchased Virtue Fusion, for my money one of the top 3 bingo solutions out there. He talks about the growth in the market, the future of the industry and what makes the event so important.
With the online bingo industry set to yield nearly billion by 2012 the future
Online bingo has been rife with takeovers and buyouts recently, and this latest one sees one of the best online bingo providers bought by a wider gaming operator who’s bingo offering is far from satisfactory. Virtue Fusion have in the last couple of years become one of my favourite bingo platforms, powering some of the countries biggest bingo brands (Mecca, Ladbrokes and William Hill Bingo to
The evening of Friday the 29th January saw the 2nd Bingoport.co.uk Player’s Choice Awards, held during the 2010 London Affiliate Conference. I was able to attend last year’s event, but due to the pending birth of our 2nd child, I had to miss this event. But fear not, I sent along my colleague to follow the evening and report back on the awards.By all accounts the evening was another gleaming
If you’ve read our scholarly and in-depth article on the early history of Bingo in the UK, like myself you were no doubt surprised to learn that bingo was played by British troops in the trenches of World War I. The game proved and excellent morale booster and social event for the entrenched soldiers, despite concerns about game fixing and unfairness.Roll time forward almost a 100 years to the
If you’ve not spotted it already, there’s some potentially massive news from the Government today, that could literally change the look of online bingo in the near future. The Minister for Culture, Media and Sport Gerry Sutcliffe today released a statement about his plans to undertake a review of the current licensing system for remote gaming regulation. Back in April 2009 he announced a review
If you follow the bingo news then you can’t help but have noticed a couple of stories the last week revolving around taxation and the bingo industry. With last week’s pre-budget report, the industry had hoped to see the Chancellor reduce his prior rise on the bingo tax which shot up to 22% from 15%. There was a slim slither of hope and action from the Chancellor, he dropped it from 22% to 20%,
You may have spotted a pretty minor news article t’other day about a local councillor in Sudbury, Suffolk who’s been banned from using some of the saucier bingo calls at local council bingo nights. His bosses thought that sayings like ‘two fat ladies’ for 88 or ‘legs eleven’ for 11 could be taken as offensive, leading to complaints, and as a pre-emptive measure asked him to stop using them, to
In other news, there’s been a few major stories to do with bingo company takeovers and sales. First up, and a major pointer towards the consolidation taking place in the online bingo market is the yet to be finalised sale of the standalone Cassava powered site Wink Bingo, which was snapped up by the 888 Bingo network for a staggering £60million. The sale has to go through some finalisation and
Well, after two and a half years, our resident Bingo Caller Of The Year Brett Hyrjak has written his last piece for the site. And if I say so myself, what a great piece it is! Full of pictures of Brett’s adventures over the past couple of years writing at the site, and boy has it been a fun ride.As Brett mentions in his piece, a lot has changed in the world of retail bingo since he first started