Social Media- The Future Of Online Bingo
19th January, 2010
A major selling point when choosing where to play bingo is how sociable it is. This applies to both land and online, as for many communities the humble bingo hall was the best place for socializing and hosted lots of activities extending much further than your dabber! Online bingo operators are trying to recreate the same atmosphere trying to make the online game more sociable than ever.
Online operators know that big bonuses and free bingo are great but if there’s no one to share it with playing bingo online can become very lonely, so making sure the site is sociable is key to keeping players happy.
Despite Facebook’s recent decision to ban online bingo advertising on its site, placing the industry on their ‘morally unacceptable’ list, Facebook still acts the sociable part of playing online bingo. This is because sites including foxy bingo, wink bingo and posh bingo all utilize their very popular Facebook fan pages and also uses twitter to promote their brands and reach out to the customer.
Wink bingo seems to be leading the way with social media with their own social network, ‘wink me’. 2010 is certainly going to be the year operators use social networking to their full potential to create player networks and create word of mouth among the bingo community.
If players do take part in this word of mouth activity on the web they’ll be greatly rewarded, for example many people shared their photos of the recent snow, scooping them a huge 10,000 bps. The friendly more the merrier mentality of playing bingo is epitomized in referral schemes many bingo sites run to help attract a wider audience to the game.
Prepare to start spreading the word in 2010, social networking is the future of online bingo!
By Carol
