Facebook Bingo

Online bingo sites started to use facebook as a great social media way of interacting more personally with their members.

This certainly paid off for them, as it gave both the gaming site and players the ability to have a direct voice with each other.

If you have a favourite online site and you use facebook, it would definitely be worth checking if they have a facebook fan page (which they probably will), as you quite often find exclusive offers and promotions running.

Whilst bingo sites delved into the social media world of facebook, they themselves went into the bingo marketplace in their game app centre.

If you go to their app centre and type in the word ‘bingo’ you are greeted with a whole host of different bingo games to select from.

Bingo Blitz takes the lead, as they come up first on a splash page. They are promoted as the number 1 bingo game on facebook and have over one million users!

Buffalo Studios are the people behind Bingo Blitz and this popular bingo product is now available to play your iPhone, iPad / android hand held devices as well as facebook.

Some of the bingo game apps on facebook really are an innovation. Take Zynga Bingo for instance, it is filled with exotic rooms to frequent such as vegas lights, Farmville bounty, pirates paradise and many more. This is a game which has fun powerups, these explode into multiple daubs on your bingo tickets. They have also kept the social aspect alive and provide chat rooms where you can have a natter whist you play.

The burgeoning social gaming sector just seems to keep on growing and growing, but facebook have the final say which could leave many gaming operators and affiliates alike out in the cold if they decide to implement a structured across the board charge for all gaming products promoted with them.

We have already started to see Facebook test the waters in this area, with £10,000 + charge rates emails being sent out to some sectors of the gaming industry that have fan pages / groups to promote their gaming wares. It they do not pay up, facebook can disable their page instantly, which no doubts is a worrying thought for many in the industry.