Looking back at 2011 Bingo Awards

Despite economic slowdown woes, 2011 was a good year for online ventures including most of the top online gaming websites. Almost every single one of the sites in the top-ten list made profits and there were some new websites that reported double digit growth. According to statistics, in the month November alone, more than more than 286,000 individuals logged on to a bingo website and spent close to £47 million. Considering this as a benchmark, the kind of interest and revenue coming out of the industry on an annual scale is huge. The performance of online gaming companies for a particular year is often assessed by the prestigious bingoport.co.uk awards. Bingoport.co.uk has been around for three years and is considered industry standard with the awards being given away based on votes sent in by players. This award truly reflects how the gaming industry is shaping up and what different trends are evolving within the gaming circle. As the awards are given on the basis of votes cast by players, winners tend to get immediate public response (even if it is a newly launched website).

Let’s have a look at the year gone by and who were some of the big gainers and why they were able to make it to the A-list. The new website category was won by Wonder Bingo with intense competition from around ten other competitors. Wonder Bingo had some unique promos such as ‘Guaranteed £1000 Bing Hour’, Spin to Win, and many others. These offers must have been the reason why voters backed them up for the title. Foxy Bingo won the Best Chat Host team award for the year. Chat hosts are increasingly becoming an integral part of any bingo websites premium features. Chat Hosts create often create personal relationships with members and make the games engaging and exciting.

Tambola Bingo won what every other bingo website came hoping to take home-The Best Overall Bingo Operator award. This award is given away based on the overall performance of the operator and player satisfaction. Its safe to say that Tambola was expected to win the title as their service quality and gameplay options are far superior when compared to competitors. Tambola Bingo also bagged the best online bingo TV commercial with ‘We are Tambola’. The best promotion of the year was Win a Car a Day promo from William Hill Bingo. 2012 is also expected to be a year of growth for the online bingo industry with many new entrants and seasoned hosts fighting it out for players’ approval. Moon Bingo, 888 Ladies Bingo and LadBrokes Bingo are extremely popular with gamers and it wouldn’t be surprising to see one of them taking home couple awards next year round.

Keeping aside award winners, one thing certain; gamers are not just content on spending time and money with a website just because the website has been around for the past couple of years. Bingo players are happy to migrate to newer websites giving away better offers and promos. It looks like Chat Hosts and socializing features in the online gaming industry are here to stay and they would play a very big role in assisting online gaming companies retain their customers and even bringing in revenue.