Wink Bingo is offering no deposit free bingo with real prizes. They are also giving a credit to a new players account of 15 pounds. This allows a player try the site risk free and still has the enjoyment of playing online bingo. Wink is one of the more progressive bingo sites that a player can try online. Their promotions are always unique and allow a player to win a great jackpot with little investment.

USA Bingo currently has a group of huge jackpots that total over $99,000 in jackpots. This makes trying this site a possibility for players looking to win a substantial jackpot. There are sites with bigger jackpots and more of them, but this one has the advantage of fewer players trying to win the big prize. The problem with bigger jackpots is they attract a number of players, which makes it more difficult to win the prize. Every player has the odds on winning reduced when there are more players in a game. The site also takes players from the US, which is not true for all bingo sites.

888 Ladies Bingo is offering free Bingo with games that have a jackpot of £300 per game. These are sizeable jackpots when the player gets to play for free and therefore needs to risk no money of their own in the game. These games are offered as an addition to the other games that are offered each week. This promotion is working for this site as the number of players signing on to the site is increasing. The idea of free play for real money at this level is an attractive proposition for many bingo players.

Jackpot Joy Bingo is advertising strongly to make the bingo playing public aware that they offer a large variety of games for the enjoyment and play of players on their site. The promotions are very attractive for existing players and those that are looking for bingo site to call home. Variety of play is a strong incentive to stay and play on any site.

The world online bingo sites are separating into sites that have tremendous jackpots and those that are still using small jackpots with low card prices to keep their existing players. It is very difficult for online bingo sites to compete with sites that are offering gigantic jackpots or free play bingo. Sites like Foxy, Posh and Ladbrokes have a handle on how to offer promotions that attract new players and keep existing players. Gala and others have selective promotions that gain attention like Sun and company giving away 100 cars. These promotions are not inexpensive and smaller sites with a much lower income cannot begin to offer these larger promotions. The result of this heady competition is the players gain and the new bingo sites that come online are very well finance so they can compete with the big players in the online bingo world. The newer sites in the online bingo world are owned by companies that have more than adequate money to back their play in establishing their new online bingo sites.

The competition between bingo sites shows up in a number of ways when comparing bingo sites. The list of elements includes bonuses, loyalty points, free play games, special promotion games and the way they handle support of their customers. Each of these items is worth considering when comparing sites to play on. The newest fad in the online bingo world is the advent of the free play games on certain days or at specific times each day. The play for prizes at no cost to the players is a popular feature and many sites are adding this winning feature to their site for the benefit of the players looking to play on the site.

Bonuses when opening a new account can be tricky as the bonus may be smoke and mirrors as the withdrawal rules are so tight that the bonus in never going to be earned by the player. Be sure and read the rules of any site that is being considered for play. If they are to tight or seem out of line, pass on the site and look for another place to play bingo.

Another obvious comparison is the games that are routinely offered on the site. The site that has better routine jackpots and low price cards makes for a candidate site that should be seriously considered for future play.

The first of 100 cars to be won at Sun Bingo has been won by an 18 year old lady that is currently not working and is recovering from the Swine Flu. Sam Davies says she is not currently employed and could not have afforded a new car at this time. She also stated that she needed to learn how to drive so she could get her drivers license. As seen in this case of a life story every thing is not just black or white for any bingo player.

Free play bingo seems to be the latest fad and promotion by many of the 10,000 bingo sites that are online and live on the Internet. Free bingo comes in many forms, as a reward for active players through loyalty programs, as an incentive for new players to try a site that they are not currently a player on and as a system for rewarding free cards for certain games that the site designates as a free play game. These promotions, like all promotions are not absolutely free, as every one of them sponsored by a bingo site has rules that must be followed to get the free play on the site. The ease to find these free play sites is accomplished by using an Internet search engine, which will give the user of the search engine will result in a list of many sites that offer such a free play.

Rome Online Bingo player Cynthia B, got the surprise of a life time when she went back to her computer after answering her door and welcoming her sister into her home. When she got up to answer the doorbell, she hit the spin button on her computer and set a slot game in motion. When she returned to see how she came out on the spin, she got a shock. The slot game showed that she had hit a jackpot of over $116,000 on the spin. Needless to say her breath came a little faster as she showed the result of the spin to her sister and looked at her computer screen in a state of disbelief. The moral of this story is never let the opportunity for one more spin go to waste. This Florida lady followed this advice and look what she was rewarded for her trouble. Think of all the players that read this story and try the while I am gone approach to playing a progressive slot.

An interesting study that was just completed by a research company called Mintel shows that the regular bingo playing universe is comprised of about 3.5 million players. Of this group, one out of five was between 18 and 24 years of age. This belies the idea that only silver haired ladies play bingo.

Two sites are seen as going car crazy in their current bingo promotions. At Sun Bingo and NotWBingo, players will have until September 27, 2009, to win one of the 100 cars that will be used in promoted games. This promotion will attract great attention from players looking for the chance to win a substantial prize from a one-time win in a single drawing. Other sites will have to find promotions of their own to compete with these car give-a-ways.

The competition for new players and keeping existing players will be ratcheted up by this audacious promotion of 100 cars as game associated jackpots. All bingo sites are using promoted games to keep their customers happy and attract new players. The problem for some sites is the more stable financed sites can do this type of promotion and less stable companies with lower financial ability will be shut out in getting new players or keeping the players that they now have online. This is an old story in the competition in any business group. Bingo just provides a glaring example of what a competitive situation will do to companies and their customers.

The car prizes are going to be given out in drawings from entries that can be earned by making deposits or just by playing. New players opening an account are given three entries and existing players can get entries for deposits and also for just making a game wager.

The deposits need to be a minimum of two pounds for bingo games and ten pounds for slots to earn entries for the car drawings. The cars prizes that will be awarded are Fiat Panda 1.1 100 of these cars makes for a substantial investment in prizes by these two sites. The sites hope that existing players will become more active and new players to the sites will be attracted to open an account. The question that comes to mind is will this promotion pay for itself and make the two sites money from the promotion. This is a large investment of site money to commit in promotions that will be over in about two months.

If the promotion brings in enough new active players, the promotion will be considered successful if the new players continue to play after the promotion is over. This is always a risk that any site takes when committing this amount of money to any promotion.

The players will try for two months to win one of these cars that is for sure. What happens later will be interesting to watch. The players want to win a car. The sites hope they stay and play.

Party Gaming is buying up Cashcade holdings and is negotiating to buy more shares. Party Gaming bought the shares of Cashcade from INM for €15m. INM has more shares and has sold other holdings of other companies to settle a bond repayment that was due for payment in May of this year.
Party Gaming seeks to buy up as much of Cashcade as they can get their hands on at this time. The purchase from INM, International News & Media is part of the strategy to buy up existing shares of Cashcade.

Cashcade is the parent company of a group of very successful online bingo sites like Foxy Bingo, Think Bingo, Bingo Scotland, Cheeky Bingo and Little Big Bingo
Cashcade recently sold this group of sites to Party Gaming for £94.9 million. Online bingo has proven, over time to be a solid investment for Cashcade. Cashcade also operated a group of online casinos as well as the bingo group.

Many bigger companies in the gaming industry are consolidating their holdings in the gambling industry while the economy is in a down turn. They are practicing the time-honored way to make money buy low at distressed prices from others that need to raise money. Cashcade is reported to be very pleased with becoming associated with Party Gaming and the better financial position this business deal will generate for the company.

Party Gaming is trying to consolidate areas that they feel they can operate at a cost savings and increase their revenues. The purchase from Cashcade is an example of the purchases they intend to make now and in the future. This purchase by the strong Party Gaming follows a pattern that is seen in many industries when the economic tide is ebbing. The strong companies go shopping with money or their better performing stock and make deals that they feel will give them even a better presence in their industry or market in the future.

This deal by Party Gaming means that they out bid or maneuvered 888.com
The purchase by Party Gaming ended the try by 888.com to become the new owner of Cashcade.

How this consolidation in the bingo industry will affect players on these sites is yet to be seen. However the likely result will be a better group of bingo promotions for players on these sites. More promotions at better jackpots will also bring in new customer as well as keep existing players actively playing.

Wednesday is a very lively day of promotions on the Internet for many online bingo sites. Here is a sampling of some of the better promotions that sites offer to their players.

Betfred Bingo has a great bingo promotion every Wednesday for its active players. Players that are on chat and playing the Full House bingo between 6 and 7 am and get the winning bingo have the prize matched in bonus dollars. The final requirement is that the player needs to have made a deposit in the last seven days.

Mecca Bingo has a Wednesday evening promotion that sets a game on the hour with a guaranteed prize. This is a 90-ball game.

Golden Half Bingo has a BOGOF game every Wednesday between 5 and 6pm and the winner gets the jackpot doubled when they win.

JackpotJoy has a special game every Wednesday for a jackpot of £5,000. The game starts at 9pm, so register early for this great jackpot.

There are Wednesday specials at Crown Bingo and also at Daily Mail Bingo. For some reason, the bingo community seems to like to run specials on Wednesday.
Every bingo site has to find a promotion that will capture their players attention and keep them coming back each week. These Wednesday specials are just the tip of the iceberg of bingo promotions that are rum throughout the week on any of the over 10,000 bingo sites that are live on the Internet.

Without these promotions that are offered all of the time, the players would get bored and finally leave the site for more interesting games and prizes. Bingo sites know this is the bread and butter reason for many players to return and stay and play. Bingo sites that are light on their promotions have a very difficult time keeping their players satisfied and happy without promotions. The bigger the prize or a different pattern game may be all it takes to make more of the players on a site active and playing. Happy players are more likely to play more often on any site and these promotions are a necessary ingredient to keep the players that way.

Several months ago Mirror Bingo ran a month of free bingo games and they are at it again. They are running free games from noon to ten pm every day and between free games they are running 5p per card games. This promotion worked well for them last time and it will bring in the customers this time, as free games with real money prizes are very popular with players. Mirror has another deal that is popular with players and that is the match of a £10 deposit with £20.

The online bingo world is awash with all manner of promotions to attract players and keep registered players playing at their home casinos. These promotions are big jackpot games to large matching amounts to go with the first deposit. Other online bingo sites are offering jackpots of a new car, a fabulous cruise ship vacation or a vacation trip to Las Vegas. All of these attractive promotions are designed to get new players and keep existing players happy with their current site.

Another promotion that has great acceptance is the loyalty program and this can be added too easily or changed back and forth between two or more different promotions. Players like this element on many sites as there is no cost to the loyalty points except playing the games or bingo that are offered on the site.

The loyalty program can also give out free cards for special games. This and other deals that are attached to the loyalty program make this promotion a very flexible promotion tool for any online bingo hall. This accounts for the players liking this ever present and changing promotion.

Other sites are joining Mirror in the free bingo game rush. This has to now be in fad status and many sites are willing to join in the growing promotion of free games. This is a growing concern among bingo sites and this concern is that other sites that are trying to compete for players by quickly copying successful promotions. There are no copyrights on the promotions by online gaming sites. So they can copy winning promotions or make up their version of an existing promotion.

Mirror is going back to a successful well to get another taste of player’s money. Players are trying to take a no risk situation in bingo and make the most of it by winning without buying any cards. That is one very nice proposition and it is easy to see why this is a player grabber. It is a great promotion for any site and Mirror knows that and has brought it back.

For those players and lovers of Bingo, there is an easy way to stay abreast of what is happening in the bingo world. This includes both live Hall games and those that are offered by the many bingo sites that are sprinkled all over the Internet. There are over 10,000 online sites and this total is growing every month.

The way to get all kinds of bingo news is to use Google’s free service called Google Alert. Just sign up for this service and receive news about every thing that has to do with bingo in any shape or fashion. The launching of a new site, the newest promotions by a bingo site or political news about what local or country governments are doing with respect to bingo in their area of jurisdiction.
This service will also report on big wins by players on the many sites that have such a win. The bingo sites love to tell about a big winner as it whets the appetite of players to try the site to see if lightening will strike twice in the same area. The blog this week is about such a winner on the Tombola Bingo site. The current fight in the House of Commons about the bingo tax and its serious repercussions has been filling the bingo news sources for weeks now that the bingo public has joined forces with the bingo hall owners. This fight will be interesting to see who becomes the winner.

Google provides this service at no charge on any topic or subject. The Alerts come in automatically via the players email account. This makes staying up on what is happening a walk in the park with little to no effort on the part of the player.

Bingo lovers like to read stories about big wins and new places to try their luck. This free service will help anyone that is interested in this topic stay current with the news that may not make the papers they read.

Although the idea of this article was to tell players where and how to get current bingo news, the service can be used for any area the player is interested in staying current on. This includes hobbies, movie reviews or any subject that is newsworthy in and of itself. The automatic retrieval makes this effortless on the part of the subscriber and the fact that there is no charge for the Alerts makes the service even better for the reader.

Try this idea for a few weeks and if you like it, continue, or just cancel the Alert request and go on about your business. There is no on going requirement to keep getting the alerts.

A player that just opened an account at Tombola Bingo got a reception that most players wish would happen to them. The lucky bingo-card holder bought the winning ticket on the 90 ball bingo progressive game and the rest is a player’s dreams come true.

The fact that this was a new player trying the site after just getting the account open makes this jackpot win something out of the ordinary. Many players that open an account are filled with the idea of winning a jackpot like this and this player did just that.

Progressive bingo jackpots are very difficult to hit and this accounts for the fact that the jackpots can grow to substantial levels in a very short time. Players are always willing to go after these jackpots when they grow to the size that this one grew to before the new player got lucky and hit the numbers.

Tombola has a very nice group of games that they handle each week. This specific jackpot had been growing weekly as the players were keen to take this jackpot down. The fact that a new player was the winner makes this story imitate a fairy tale. Imagine just beginning to play on a new site and hitting one of their progressive jackpots. What are the odds of that happening to any new player on any online bingo site?

The question that most players would like to know now is what is this new player going to do with all of that nice prize money? Is there some dream they can now make happen that they could not achieve before or some treasure they wish to now own? What will the money be spent on and how soon will this happen?

Cascade is the parent company that runs Foxy Bingo, Think Bingo and Cheeky Bingo. Their new site called Little Big Bingo is joining this family of excellent bingo sites. The concept of Little Big Bingo will be for players to turn their pennies into pounds won from the Little Big Bingo games. This new site joins the ever-increasing number of online Internet bingo sites that is now cresting over 10,000 sites devoted to this very popular gaming venue.

The bingo cards are going to be priced in pennies and the prize money will be given in pounds. This risk reward ratio is better than many of the established sites have in their better games. The attraction of low priced cards is going to capture a number of players who want to play without risking a lot of money. Jackpots in pounds will be another reason to give this new site some play.

Every new site has to figure a way to get new players to try their site and this penny idea may just work since this site has the backing of a substantial owner.

A couple of interesting facts about the new site are these. The site has not signed a long-term contract yet for what software will be used to run the site. That is very unusual with new sites. Low priced bingo cards are not new, but a site dedicated to the idea is unusual. Also many of the new sites are not backed by a parent company that can really pay the price to get the site off and running and not be worried if they can keep the doors open.

The online bingo world is full of fierce competitors that are fighting to get new players and attract existing players from other sites. A well-attended site is a moneymaker as the expenses of running the site stay low even when more players are online each month. This fact of low cost to run the business is one of the attractions for companies that own a group of sites. Not only that, they can run promotions that the whole group can be part of and share the expense of promotion.

Each new site starts out with hope and faith that their game plan will succeed, bringing the site to that wonderful point of being able to make a profit. It will be interesting to see what becomes of Little Big Bingo.