Change is not a bad thing, and looking at the recent financial woes of the Gala Coral group, perhaps the fact that they have appointed Mindshare and i-level the new ad business, may bode well for them. i-level will me undertaking online media issues and Mindshare the offline business, and between them this is with a total of £8 million. So lets hope we will be seeing some fantastic new promotions and ideas coming through.

Since the launch of the 2006 Sharon Osbourne campaign we haven’t seen much of great note happening, and the promotions at the Gala Bingo site, almost appear to be static. These new companies will be dealing with Gala Bingo, Gala Casonos and Coral Bookmakers and have taken over this portfolio from Incumbent MediaVest who operate from Manchester. This company did not re-pitch for the business, but will continue to work with Gala till the end of April 2010 when the new company takes over. i-level’s appointment was made in October 2009 and they are part of the Engine Group.

In the meantime the Main Even promotion is the newest at the site, it is not free bingo but it does promise good value for money during 12 game sessions which feature buy one, get one free. The games run Monday through Thursday and take place in the afternoon in City, Amazon, Castle & Station clubs at 12midday, 2pm and 4pm, with guaranteed jackpot prizes of £2,050.00, £2,750.00 and £2,750.00 respectively. There are also evening sessions where the guaranteed cash prizes are even higher at £3,800.00 each, and these games are pretty good value for money all in all. Compared to some sites in the UK, this is a good promotion, but one can’t help thinking that with the kind of money Gala Bingo has backing them, that they might be able to put on bit of a better show! Perhaps i-level, will make a difference.

We all love a great promotion and have come to expect online bingo in the UK to have a bit of life in it, if you like yours lively, try Live Bingo, you won’t regret your decision. This site is packed to the brim with cracking promotions, and it all starts when you make your first deposit. This is a pound for pound cash match and is worth as much as 100% of £100! You decide how much you want to deposit and how much bonus you receive!

Play in the Fairground for games with are fair for all and all players are only allowed to buy 6 bingo tickets. It doesn’t get much fairer than that and you will find these in the Lava Lounge from 10am to 11am, then buy one get one free in Midday Maddness in the Lava Lounge and Wonderland at; you guessed it – 12 midday. Time Teaser features a super three hour session where the time tells you home many tickets you have to buy to get one free bingo ticket. So Buy 3 at 3pm to get on free, 4 at 4pm to get one free and 5 at 5pm to get one free. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

All day and night long, great promotions like these take place at Live Bingo, the offer a list as long as your arm and they happen every day, with a fantastic array of chat games and other games too. Find out all about it in the “Weekly Goss” and visit the community section to see what’s going on. If you have had a great win, brag about it, this will earn you £5 in a feedback freebie, and there is nothing wrong with getting free bingo money just for bragging, if you are a winning member, get yours today, if you aren’t a member, perhaps now is the time to change things?

Dave Devilfish Ulliot is big news in online gaming and with the new addition of Bingo to the suit of games at the Devilfish site, even more so. Not your average bingo site, this vibrant looking site has Dave’ signature all over it. He actually calls the bingo numbers too, so this might be a rare treat (laugh) for you, however be warned, he best not give up his day job. If you aren’t sure who Dave Ulliot is, he is a British Born champion poker player.

If you are already a member at Devilfish poker or casino, you won’t need to re-register a bingo account, just use your existing username and password and play bingo. They use Parlay Entertainment software ver.5, so you may be please to know this is a multi-currency site. All games are played in Euros, so this shouldn’t be a problem for anyone.

New devilfish Bingo players all receive a 100% cash match bonus valued at €50, with the minimum deposit amount being €20, and bonus money is released once the new member has played through 95% of their initial deposit. They offer free bingo on Fridays with €10 prize pots of five free games, and a whole host of side games. There are also some cheap as chips games up for grabs for 1c, but on the promotions side, that’s about it for now, however it is early days yet. Make sure when you register and make your first deposit that you use the promotion code and this is “Bingo50”, this has to be entered to claim the bonus.

They offer both popular versions of bingo 75 and 90 ball, side games include slots, mini slots, scratchies, keno, video poker, blackjack, craps and pull tabs. Lots of games to play and lots of games to win, let’s see what happens with this site in the future.

According to a sample survey of 400 UK men, 144 men said their wives would rather play with their bingo dabber than with their men-folks equipment, and football widows are turning the tables. Frustrated British bingo widowers are saying that their wives would rather settle down to a night of playing online bingo than a night of passion in the light of the growing phenomenon which is this game.

Blaming the PC for the lack of quality time spent with a loved on is nothing new in this day and age, but previously the male counterpart was the one to blame. Now as more women enjoy chatting to their friends and playing with an altogether different set of balls, 70% of the men surveyed are saying that online bingo is the reason for this.

The online bingo phenomenon is said to expect a growth of 25% in 2010 as it spreads into Europe and more people in the UK have access to high speed broadband at home. As far as serious relationship consequences go, the game may have an impact, but will bingo really be cited as a co-defendant in divorces cases? I suppose that only time will tell!

In the meantime guys, if you want to turn the tables on the wife and exchange your libido for your laptop, try Bloke Bingo. This is a site built especially for men, but women can have a go to o if they like, and prizes, besides cash are all the manly things that men like, things like PSP’s and X-boxes and stuff. Get your own back for the wife closing the fun-park by playing at Bloke Bingo and show her whose boss, you never know, you might like it more than you thought.

Bingo.com has got it all and they have free bingo for all too, there are two free bingo rooms and these are Cupids Free Bingo and Rovers Free Ride, so visit both these rooms to get the most out of your free play. You do have to be a member of the site to play and as free bingo prizes are paid out in bingo bonus funds, it cannot be withdraws, But it can be used to play in many of the brilliant big jackpot games which are up for grabs at the site and there are a wonderful £200 000 worth of these.

Interesting to not is that Bingo.com will be partnering with the Income Access bingo affiliate company to presents booths to both the LAC and IGE which will be held later this month in London. We are going to be seeing a ton of new games launched for these events and learning more about the bingo affiliate industry.

Join Bingo.com today and you will still get a no deposit bonus to try before you buy and this is a generous £15. This is no strings attached, absolutely free money and indicates that this site is confident that once you have tried the games you will sign up as a member. Once you do, an unbelievably warm welcome gift awaits you and this is a 250% cash match which allows you to magically turn £10.00 into £35.00 right away. You are also able to earn this on your second and third deposit and this is unheard of in the online bingo industry, so Bingo.com members are in for some very special treats.

Besides all the super-sized guaranteed and progressive jackpot prizes on offer, this site also hosts 1TG games which makes winners out of losers. There is nothing worse than having one to go and another winner pips you to the winning post. So consolation is the name of this game and even 1TG losers are given a small win.

Now that all the fuss has died down over X Factor in the UK, it is time for a new season of American Idol to hit the small screen. Always a delight to watch, even just for the horror often seen on Simon Cowel’s face thus new season promises entertainment with some big surprises along the way. To celebrate the discovery of some previously undiscovered talent, Betfred Bingo is running a quiz night in Sundays – the perfect day for quizzes if you ask me. This will afford you the opportunity to let your talent shine and a weekly prize is up for grabs. This new game takes place from 8 to 10pm and the prize is £25.

Just like American Idols where the talent gets narrowed down to one outright winner in the end, Betfred Bingo is going to be sorting out the men from the boys in their quiz contest. They in effect are looking for their “Bingo Idol 2010”. Each weekly winner will be recorded and at the end of it all the player with the most quiz wins, wins again, and this time the prize is £200!

Every quiz day counts and you need to make a deposit at Betfred within 15 of the game session taking place. You also need to buy some bingo tickets into the game session to qualify to play and have the answers you give be meaningful. So check out the terms and conditions and make sure you are in with a chance to win. This is a chance for quiz queens to shine and become the Betfred Bingo Idol. Get your entry into the hall of fame by playing this Sunday and knock the sock of them with the brilliance of your knowledge. Also remember to start playing for the Cruise Prize too, this competition has already begun and they have three pairs of tickets each to give away, valued at £12 000!!!

One of the best things about becoming a new member of Giggle Bingo is that they encourage you to grab life by the balls and they will help you do this. The new registration bonus is very generous, but you also stand to win up to £1 000 by registering a bingo ball for life with your lucky number. This number remains yours and if you bingo on it, you win extra bingo prize money.

Most people know what their lucky number is, and you would be surprised to find out just how many people choose the number seven. If you register a number at Giggle Bingo and you choose the number “7”, you don’t have to worry about sharing the prize with other players who have the same number, because it is only when YOU win on that number that the prize kicks in.

Seven is a very strange number and has been revered throughout history amongst various cultures. Even the Bible quotes this number regularly and attaches some kind of divine importance to it. God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th, Noah was requested to take 7 pairs of every animal species aboard the Ark and the Ark sailed, for seven months, and so on. The Hindu religion places great importance on 7 – there are 7 chakras, 7 branches of knowledge and 7 Holy cities, and ancient Egyptians divided the sky into 7 parts. So this number definitely has some awesome powers!!

If you are stuck for a number for your ball for life at Giggle Bingo, give 7 some careful consideration, you may even want to research it yourself. Unfortunately for me, my lucky number is 560 546 253 090, and there aren’t that many numbers in a game of bingo. When I tried to register my lucky bingo number at Giggle I was told I would have to wait until a game was invented which had that many numbers in it. So patiently I wait!

This January at Crown Bingo, it is not enough that they have been giving away gifts all through the festive season, they have still more to give. These are gifts that keep giving, and the games play at 8pm in Room 2. Full house winners in these games will be walking away with gifts to last the whole year long. But this game is not only for winners, as all members who buy tickets into this game and don’t win will be entered into a raffle, where another two lucky winners will be drawn.

On Friday the 8th January they gave away a year’s supply of cakes; delivered to your door – can’t tell you I am sure if this is a good prize or bad after all the eating I have been doing. But it is a great excuse to have friends over for tea. Then on the 15th the winner received a box of Hotel Chocolate treats – one box a month for a whole year. Now chocolate is different, especially dark chocolate, it is filled with antioxidants, you simple have to eat it for good overall health. On the 22nd January a years supply of Lush goodies will be given away and on Friday the 29th of January, in the last game, a years supply of brilliant free bingo at Crown will be given away, with runners up each winning a £10 bingo bonus.

This is a dream prize for any bingo player, can you imagine how much you might win with this prize, and it doesn’t cost you a penny? You have to be a depositing player at Crown Bingo to qualify to play, so make your first deposit today and not only do you get to take advantage of this promotion. You also get to enjoy the Crown Bingo January sales.

This is not an online bingo story, but I believe it is definitely worth a mention and New South Wales bingo caller says that retirement is “out of the question”. She was born in 1910 on New Years Day and accordingly turned 100 year young this year. If this isn’t proof that bingo keeps you young I don’t know what is!

She calls the bingo three times a week and is still vital and full of energy she has seen a lot of changes in her 100 years on this Earth and lost her father to the flu epidemic in 1917, and her husband to radiation sickness in the 1950 after he was exposed to nuclear weapons testing. She has seen a few wars come and go in her time and thinks they are a terrible thing, another thing I agree with.

Her secret to longevity is having a good breakfast, not smoking, her love of the game of bingo, and always doing the same things, making sure you keep active. She has been calling bingo for 40 years now and says it is a good laugh, as far as Cecily is concerned laughter is the best medicine and she always tosses a few jokes into her calls, as if they weren’t funny enough. She has received congratulations from the Queen, the Governor-General and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

I believe one of our UK online bingo sites should give her a ring and ask her to record the bingo calls, perhaps 888 Ladies Bingo, it strikes me that they might be just the right site to benefit from Cecily’s bingo calling skills. I am going to ask Agent 008 from the site to look into it, I wonder if they will take the bait?

Turn your pennies into pounds by playing at Little Big Bingo, this is a relatively new site from the reliable Cashcade Brand and these guys have what it takes to offer free and bargain bingo. The site offers both 90 and 75 ball bingo and if the games aren’t free (which they are every 15 minutes) they are cheap. Cheap bingo at this site means games for ticket prices as low as 1 and 2p. Make a first deposit of £10 at Little Big Bingo and receive £20 absolutely free, this is a 200% cash match, and with £20 you can buy 2 000 1p bingo tickets!!

Every Friday as a gateway to the weekend this site offers a special prize game with £1000 in the prize pot. This is the Penny Power Guaranteed jackpot special and it plays at 9pm. Because it is a guaranteed game a thousand prize has to be won and it has to be won every Friday with tickets costing a mere penny, can you believe this great value for money?

Little Big, as if they weren’t already generous enough, also offers cash backs on a Wednesday. This is for all the lovers of instant games. Instant games at this site means slots, multi-line slots, super slots, scratch cards and table games! Play on Wednesday and get 10% of your cash back if you don’t win.

All day long a series of penny and tuppeny games play, these are games with guaranteed prize funds and they are pre-buy games. So you can stock up on tickets in as many games as you like and you don’t have to be present to see yourself win. This is super for players who are at work or otherwise occupied, and all you have to do at the end of the day is check your account to see if you are a winner. What could be easier? This is the best way I know of to turn your pennies into pounds; can you come up with a better suggestion?