It’s that time of the month again at Foxy Bingo.  Friday night is their monthly ￡25,000 guaranteed jackpot game that takes place on the last Friday of each month.  It’s the ever popular 90 ball bingo game where the first line takes ￡2,500, two lines will get you ￡7,500 and full house will score you a whopping ￡15,000.  The game takes place at 8 pm for anyone who can make it.

If you can’t be there, don’t worry.  For this game, Foxy Bingo offers pre-buy tickets, up to a month ahead of time.  Tickets are ￡1 each and you are allowed up to 24 tickets.  With the pre-buy option in place, this will allow you to be in the running even if you can’t actually be on the site at that time.    Log in later that evening or the next day to check your account.  If any of your pre-purchased bingo tickets win anything, you will see it in your account.

So Bingo has a number of very good promotions going on right now.  Not only do new members get 20 free bingo cards to start them off, they also get a match on their first deposit up to ￡100 plus 50% matches on future reloads.   It doesn’t stop there, though.  Promotions going on right now include ￡100 jackpot games every day and Monday Happy Hour from 4 pm to 6 pm where you get double loyalty points in all the chat games.

Other promotions include the humongous ￡1 million coverall game that is played three times per week on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays as well as special weekend promotions that change every week.  Another popular monthly promotion is the Bingo Pays the Bills promo.  Each month there is a prize draw and three lucky people get their water, gas and electricity bills taken care of by So Bingo.

You don’t want to miss the Summer Heatwave promotion at So Bingo, either.  You need to watch for the sun pattern and bingo on that in order to win flights to the most popular destinations across Europe as well as large loyalty point awards.  The Summer Heatwave promo is only for July so you should make a point to check that out over the next couple of days.

Golden Hat Bingo has both new games and a pretty innovative promotion going on right now.  They’ve introduced two progressive jackpot scratchcard games, thanks to their association with Virtue Fusion.  Arabian Delights and Beat the Banker are exciting, instant win scratchcard games with the added thrill of the progressive jackpots that grow constantly.

Golden Hat Bingo has also leaped on the free bingo trend.  They’re offering a daily free hour of bingo for all players where you can win real cash prizes without shelling out a single penny on tickets.  You know that’s always popular!

They also have one of the most innovative promotions that we’ve seen.  All depositing online bingo players are put into a weekly prize draw.  The lucky weekly winner gets ￡100, not to take home, but towards an incredible Ferrari ride.  The winner can enjoy riding in a Ferrari F430 which can accelerate from 0-60 in 3.6 seconds or drive a Ferrari Enzo which can accelerate from 0-60 in 3.14 seconds!  Woosh!

Cheeky Bingo has been offering four bingo rooms where players can enoy free bingo but apparently this is proving even more popular than they thought.  They’ve just added two more rooms to the free bingo offering for a total of six free bingo rooms on the site.  Jackpots run from ￡1 to ￡15 for most of the games but there is also the Big Freebie room where the prize is a very nice ￡50.  To win the Big Freebie prize, however, you must be a depositing player even though that game doesn’t cost you anything.

Don’t worry, there are higher jackpots available at Cheeky Bingo if you do choose to play with real money.  They offer bingo rooms at 1p, 2p, 5 p and 10 p per ticket as well as a 50p weekly game that has a  very attractive ￡5000 prize.  As with most online bingo sites, the higher the ticket price, the higher the prizes available in the room.

NeoGames has just come to a licensing arrangement with Betsson to provide them with their popular scratchcard product.  NeoGames is the premier devoloper of unique and exciting scratchcards.  Now Betsson will be able to offer a large stable of the newest scratchcards at both their onllne casinos and their online bingo website.  Many of the scratchcards will be customized just for Betsson and will be available in 17 languages.

Michael Labrecque, CFO of NeoGames, said that they “are thrilled to have such an esteemed and successful operator like Betsson as a partner and look forward to a long and productive working relationship”.

After reviewing advertising agencies for more than two months, Jackpot Joy Bingo has announced that they have appointed a fairly new company, Campbell Lace Beta, to take care of its advertising campaigns.  The agency will be dealing with business worth at least ￡5 million pounds for Gamesys, the owner of Jackpot Joy.

Campbell Lace Beta is to be focused on growing and developing the Jackpot Joy brand in the online bingo industry.  They will be using creative, innovative advertising targeted not only to acquiring new players but to also work on customer retention.  It will be interesting to see what comes up in future advertising campaigns.

Are any of you twits?  No, I’m not insulting you.  Twits are people who use the new social media phenomenon, Twitter.  Billed as a micro-blogging platform, users can send short messages to whoever their followers are whenever they want to.  The growth of Twitter has been nothing less than explosive and we’ve seen more and more online bingo sites jump onboard.

Now Twitter is joining the online bingo craze with a brand new application called TwitterINGO.  This is the very first online gaming app for Twitter but we doubt that it will be the last.  Developed by a marketing agencey out of Atlanta, GA in the US, the app is a bingo game that uses keywords in the squares rather than numbers.

The game winners don’t win cash, at least not yet, but they do get a unique badge to display on their Twitter profile or on other sites which proudly declares “I won TwitterINGO”.  For right now, the game is only played once weekly on Tuesdays, at 3 pm EST (8 pm for those in the UK).  To learn more about gaming related tweets and applications, follow http://twitter.com/gaming_alerts from your Twitter account.

July has brought forth a plethora of incredible online bingo promotions and we want to make sure you have a chance at as many of them as you can.  Some of these are brand new and some we’ve mentioned before but we feel are worth a reminder.  Get your share of the great summertime promotions found all over the web.

888 Ladies Bingo is having a Pink Champagne promotion right now.  From now through July 30, the top 50 players will be entered in a raffle.  Three players will be drawn to win a case of M. Maillart pink champagne – yummy!

There is still plenty of time to earn tickets for Wink Bingo’s gigantic ￡25,000 bingo jackpot that will be played in September.  You earn tickets by making deposits and also various ways to use points to buy tickets, as well.

Sun Bingo still has 90 out of 100 brand new Fiats up for grabs in their summer promotion.  Every day a car is being given to one lucky player so be sure to play as often as you can in the next several weeks.

Foxy Bingo has Super Prize Night on Monday nights right now with each week having a different fabulous prize up for grabs.  This week’s prizes were 10 Sony PSP portable game systems with Skype and microphone already built in.  They haven’t announced next week’s Super Prize yet but you can be sure it will be terrific.

You still have a few more days to qualify for Mecca Bingo’s holiday jackpot game on Friday.  You simply need to win with at least one line in order to be eligible for that game where there will be all kinds of holiday vouchers given out to various Pontin parks throughout the country.

Posh Bingo is still running their Dreams of Dosh promotion in the Posh Boutique bingo room along with the Make a Mint promotion.  There have already been several winners of ￡1000, ￡500 and ￡250 with these awesome games.  Plenty of room left for you to win, too, so get over there before you lose your chance.

No matter where you are in the world, you would have to be living under a rock to not know that the US President Barack Obama has had a lot of controversy in his administration so far.  Now his opponents have come up with a bingo game that makes fun of some of Obama’s most often used phrases.  The major policy right now that is being fought over is that Obama wants to reform the healthcare system in the US.  No one disagrees that something needs to be done but the opposition to Obama’s ideas on the situation are very vocal and strident.

According to the information we could find, the so-called Strawman Bingo Game originated within the office of the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.  The card is designed like a typical 25-square ticket with the free space in the center that the Americans favor with the popular 75 ball bingo game.  Squares have phrases instead of numbers consisting of such gems as “naysayers”, “defend the status quo” and “special interests”.

The idea is for viewers to copy and print the card and then fill it whenever Obama has a televised appearance.  You would cover the square with the phrase if you hear Obama say it during the broadcast.  Obviously, there aren’t any prizes in the Obama bingo game.  Everyone has the same card, for one thing!  I shouldn’t think any of Obama’s supporters would be paying attention to this Straw Man Bingo.

Quite obviously, we are not at all endorsing this idea or the principles of the publicity seeking politicians who came up with this idea.  What we do find intriguing is the idea that they used the game of bingo in the first place.  It shows you just how many people recognize the game of bingo and know how to play the game.

Last year, Tombola was the platform behind one of the UKs hottest online bingo site, Sun Bingo.  Sun Bingo left Tombola though and left players wondering what would happen to them.  Tombola quickly created their very own online bingo brand and presence and it’s obviously been quite successful.

Recently an independent statistic company, Hitwise, released the information that Tombola Bingol is the most visited online bingo site in the UK.  That meteoric rise in popularity is amazing but Tombola isn’t stopping there.

They’ve set in place an advertising campaign to start next month costing them over 7 million pounds.  There will be adverts in every media form including television, print and online.  If Tombola isn’t a familiar brand to everyone in the UK now, it certainly will be by the time they are done.

One thing that has gained Tombola a lot of publicity recently was for the currently running promotion, a Free Bingo competition with a ￡100,000 prize.  The brand distributed millions of free tickets through the UKs most popular weeklies.

Tombola is even turning the filming of the television adverts as a publicity move by following the filming on their website.  You may want to take a look at the site as they are giving one winner a family holiday to an as yet undisclosed destination – the same as the one where the adverts are being shot.

The fledgling bingo brand has also introduced innovative games which is certainly helping to increase their popularity.  One recent introduction that has proved to appeal is Bingo Roulette.  They worked on the game for several months to come up with something that would truly be unique.

Bingo Roulette takes the best of roulette and bingo and melds them into a brand new game that is causing quite a stir with players.  They offer Bingo Roulette in three separate bingo rooms: the Mirage, the Venetian and the Bellagio.  Each room has a different ticket price with a jackpot that rises with the price.

With new, creative games and the massive advertising and publicity campaign, Tombola has certainly come far in just a year.  From running other brands to creating their own unique brand, Tombola seems to be a shooting star in the online bingo universe. Or perhaps that should be comet, as there is no sign of Tombola burning out any time soon.

There has been a lot of speculation the past few months over which company would end up acquiring Cashcade but the rumours are over now.  Party Gaming is paying about  ￡100 million for it altogether, with ￡75 million now and the remainder to be paid at the end of next year pending a performance review.  Cashcade brings such well known bingo brands as Foxy Bingo, Cheeky Bingo and Getminted into the Party Gaming stable.

Party Gaming has been looking for expansion opportunities in earnest since finally settling a case with the US Department of Justice a few months ago.  Another company that Party Gaming was rumoured to have been interested in was GigaMedia but nothing has come of that so far.

This move to acquire the well known online bingo company is a testament to how far the game of online bingo has come in the gambling industry.  What was once considered a game for ladies to dabble in gambling has become a serious industry with some serious money flowing through it.  Jackpots in the millions of pounds have become commonplace in the online bingo world and not just in casino gambling.

As the demographics for online bingo have recently shown, it is a younger crowd that is flocking to the bingo sites these days with the majority of players now under 45 years of age.  It is starting to be recognized as a real form of gambling and the men are beginning to take notice.  Some online bingo sites are recognizing this change in demographic and are actively marketing to the male players rather than just the women the way they have for years.

Anyone remember the television game show Blankety Blank?  The contestants had to fill in the blanks from statements read by the celebrity panelists.  The show gave out notoriously lousy prizes that was a running joke, even by the host.  Well, Gala Bingo is reviving the classic television show by introducing a fun new scratchcard game.  Thankfully, the prizes do sound like they’ll be a lot better in the Gala Bingo version than they were back in the day of the show.

The new exclusive scratchcard game isn’t the only thing up Gala Bingo’s sleeve, either.  They have a whole host of promotions going on to boost your bingo enjoyment and budget.  There is free bingo every day and on Mondays you can get ten percent back on any losses.  Those promotions are a great way to make your bingo entertainment pounds go further.

They are also having Summer Days Out vouchers available each week.  This week’s voucher is for Ten Pin Bowling and they are available to be won through Tuesday the 28th.

Check out the site today and you will also find great features like Windicate for team bingo lovers and the new TV Bingo Club which is open around the clock for your bingo pleasure.

We’ve just learned that Parlay Entertainment , a leading online bingo software provider, has just opened Parlay Gaming Services North America which will be supplying it’s clients with online bingo solutions.  Their clients will be able to access the online bingo platform as a tool to get new customers as well as aiding in customer retention.  The online platform can also be linked to land-based operators and other businesses.

The company has already announced that it has its first North American client but has not released any details as of yet to the identity of that client.  Since North America has only Canada, Mexico and the United States, it will be interesting to see where the clients will come from.  The US would be a likely source except for the laws there which have come down heavily against most forms of online gambling.  There are no land-based bingo halls there as bingo is mainly used as a fund-raising method for non-profit organisations like churches.

There has been much ado in the US over this issue as the people in general do not like the idea of the law.  It was passed ostensibly as a way to save the citizenry from the evils of possible gambling addition.  It is interesting to note, however, that it is perfectly legal in the US to purchase lottery tickets online or to bet on horse races.  Seems rather contradictory, does it not?

There are many who are lobbying to have the ill-conceived UIGEA repealed and bills have been introduced to counteract its measures.  After the summer break, Congress is expected to vote on the new proposal.  One has to wonder if Parlay Entertainment may have some kind of insider knowledge in the circumstances as if the measure does not pass, their new company will have a much smaller market demographic in North America.

Since it’s launch, Sun Bingo has paid out more than ￡100 million in prize money!  They want to celebrate their huge success and they want all of us to celebrate with them.  To that end, Sun Bingo began a fantabulous promotion a couple of days ago and it runs right through September 27 so we all have a shot.  They are giving out 100 brand new cars between now and then in a prize draw.

To earn entries into the prize draw to win a 2009 Plate Fiat Panda 1.1 Active Ecos, you have to play.  Each day that you spend at least ￡2 on bingo games or ￡10 on slots, you earn another entry.  If you go in to Sun Bingo and play a bit of bingo every day, that will increase the number of entries you have and therefore increase your chance of winning one of those new cars.

A name is drawn each day from Tuesday to Friday, with three draws on Monday to cover the weekend.  You have just as much chance as any other player with this promotion although the more you play, the more entries you get so you just may want to schedule some Sun Bingo time into your daily routine this summer.

If you haven’t tried Sun Bingo yet, this would be an excellent time to check out this popular online bingo site.  They match you up to ￡100 so that’s a great attraction right there.  Also, make sure you get into their ￡1000 guaranteed full house prizes each night.  That will count towards your daily entries for the car drawings as well given you the chance to win a cool grand.