Online Bingo Trends in the United Kingdom
A looked at business reports and surveys from a variety of sources from the end of last year to most lately to get a feeling of whether online Bingo is still growing in popularity or reaching saturation point.
Surveys show that online Bingo is way more popular the further north you go in the UK, with London only having a mere 4% of online Bingo players. Why is that? Are the other attractions of London so many and varied that Bingo will always be way down on peoples lists of things to do? Was it always that way? It would appear not- Bingo was very hot in London and the South coast resorts in the 50′s and 60′s, it seems that the move from live Bingo to online has not swept London and the South along with it as it would appear to have the central and Northwards parts of the United Kingdom.
One of the draws of online Bingo is its accessibility. You don’t have to wait for the Bingo hall to open its doors at 2pm to get a game, only to be emptied out onto a cold and bus-less street at 11pm as it used to be in the area of London where I grew up. After you have signed up to a site, you can normally be playing a game within a few minutes of switching on your portable or PC, day or night. And that shows in surveys- almost half those surveyed claimed they generally played every day! The same number, nearly half, recounted they had met and made buddies while playing Bingo online, meaning that the trend in social networking like thru twitter and Face book, was fit and healthy and growing in online Bingo. When asked how would they need their lives to switch, over half believed to be better off, and have more spendable earnings. Thus the urge to win giant is still fit and healthy and living in online Bingo players!
Info drawn from net sites appears to show that the UK is the fastest growing market for online Bingo, and the expansion of new sites nearly weekly, seem to ratify this. Will there come a point where all of those who wish to play online Bingo have found their favorite sites, and newcomers will go to the wall because there are insufficient new players to lure, too much competition, and the larger established sites have sufficient resources to give handsome loyalty rewards to keep their players from straying away!
Eventually, it seems 8 out of ten players in England are ladies how things have changed from when I used to go to live ( or “land-based Bingo” as it is called nowadays ) Bingo, when the entire family was there, husbands and fathers as well!