Most Visible Online Bingo Sites

Foxy Bingo lost its place as the most visible online bingo website to UK users after being overtaken by Bingo.com. Below is top 5 most visible online bingo sites in June.

1) Bingo.com (68%)
2) Foxy Bingo (64%)
3) LittleWoods Bingo (49%)
4) Gala Bingo (47%)
5) Wink Bingo(47%)

PartyGaming Purchases Foxy Bingo For £94.9 Million

Cashcade, the parent company of Foxy Bingo, has been purchased by PartyGaming.

PartyGaming will pay an upfront cash payment of £71.9 million and up to £24 million in earn out payments dependent on the company’s future growth.

Jim Ryan, PartyGaming’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “Cashcade provides us with an excellent platform to build a meaningful share of the $1.5 billion global online bingo market. Our M&A objective is to acquire companies that can put us into a top three position in each of our four product verticals and deliver substantial revenue and cost synergies. Our longer-term strategic objective is to become the market-leader in online poker, casino, sports and bingo.”

Patrick Southon, Cashcade’s Managing Director, said: “This is a very exciting day for Cashcade and we are delighted to join the PartyGaming organisation. We believe there is a substantial opportunity to leverage our existing business now that we are part of the world’s leading online gaming company.”

The earn out period is said by Cashcade management to be over 18 months and is dependent on the company meeting its internal targets.

Foxy Bingo £5000 Bingo Jackpot

Foxy Bingo is running a Thursday night £5000 guaranteed Jackpot game.

Make your first deposit of £10 and Foxy Bingo will double it. Free £10 is enough to buy 20 bingo cards for Thursdays big £5000 game. This will give you a good shot to win the jackpot, do not you think?

Lucky £25,000 Winner

Foxy Bingo player known in the online bingo room as “PeteLily” had pre-purchased a bingo ticket for the monthly jackpot a year ago. Several days ago he checked his online bingo account and found £25,000 in there. When he double checked his account, he found out that he had won the online bingo jackpot for which he had played almost a year ago.

PeteLily is planning to spend his winnings on a cruise vacation with his entire family.

Foxy Bingo Awards

Cashcade, Foxy Bingo’s parent company, won four out of seven awards at Bingo Summit awards. They won Online Bingo Operator, Best New Site (for Cheeky Bingo), Best Marketing Campaign and Best Innovation.

One rival operator said: “It would have been nice if someone had told us that we could nominate our sites so we could compete against Foxy Bingo. I guess it was better than last year when no-one had even been told there were some awards.”

Another onestated: “Cashcade have been the most generous site to affiliates in the past 12 months and there were plenty of them at the conference, so it was pretty much guaranteed that they would win. If you’d been a bookmaker you wouldn’t even have been offering odds. Still, fair play to them, they have done a great job.”

Online Bingo Becomes More Popular

Online bingo is becoming the fastest-growing form of internet gambling. Auction of Cashcade, owner of the popular Foxy Bingo and Getminted, has sparked wide interest.

Cashcade is expected to fetch £70 million to £100 million with PartyGaming tipped to seal a deal. 888 Holdings and Paddy Power are also bidding for Cashcade.

The online bingo sector was worth $1.4 billion last year on a global basis. It is expected it will reach $1.7 billion this year and $2 billion in 2010. The UK accounts for about 20 per cent of the market.

UK Top Online Bingo Sites

We continue publishing regular reports of UK top online bingo sites according to information supplied by Hitwise. We have a new leader! Below are top 5 most visited online bingo sites for the week ending May 16, 2009.

1. Gala Bingo (15.34%)
2. Tombola (14.61%)
3. Jackpot Joy (10.09%)
4. Foxy Bingo (6.51%)
5. Cheeky Bingo (5.77%)

UK Top Bingo Sites

We start publishing regular reports of top UK bingo sites according to information supplied by Hitwise. Below are top 5 most visited online bingo sites for the week ending May 2, 2009.

1. Tombola (15.02%)
2. Gala Bingo (14.88%)
3. Jackpot Joy (8.55%)
4. Foxy Bingo (7.78%)
5. Cheeky Bingo (5.61%)

Foxy Bingo Donates To Comic Relief

Foxy Bingo donated a cheque for £150,000 to British charity organization Comic Relief. The funds were raised through bingo promotion on the site earlier this year.

Comic Relief was founded in 1985 with an aim to help famine victims in Ethiopia.

£20 Free Bingo Bonus From Foxy Bingo

Foxy Bingo launched new sign-up scheme bonus today. All new pllayers will get £20 free and no deposit is required!

Foxy Bingo followed the same strategy some other bingo operators had undertaken lately. Crown Bingo and Gone Bingo recently offered £1 and £15 free bingo bonuses respectively. Both operators do not require to make any deposit to claim their bonuses.

Besides described free bingo bonus, Foxy Bingo will match player’s first deposit up to £150.