Bingo Networks are groups of bingo sites that share bingo rooms with each other. For example – If you sign up to Tidy Bingo and your best friend signs up to Showreel Bingo, you would have both joined the ‘15 Network’. You will end up in the same rooms together, playing and chatting with each other. You may have joined through different bingo sites but you were ‘networked’ together into the same room.
Some network sites have just one or two networked rooms, for example, the ‘Gossip Bingo Network’ consists of 3 sites; Gossip Bingo, Diva Bingo, Bingo Giving. While other sites offer nothing but rooms hosted on the network; the dragonfish/globalcom network has over 20 sites (and counting) that huddle everyone into the same rooms.
As a player, bingo networks can seem like a mystery. ‘But I play at this bingo site and you’re telling me that I’m also competing against players at that bingo site too?’ Yes. That’s right.
Many bingo sites that are part of a network can offer both standalone and/or network bingo rooms. For example, Iceland Bingo offers Dragonfish network rooms plus its very own standalone room – The Freezer. Standalone rooms give bingo sites the chance to stand out from other sites on their network by offering special games and promotions that are exclusively available to their own players.
The big advantage to offering network bingo rooms is higher player traffic and bigger jackpots. For the big bingo networks, this offers the ability to link up rooms for big games and it allows for huge specials such as the £1 million game on the Dragonfish Network, something that is only made possible through the size of the network. For smaller bingo networks, having these network rooms can make the difference between being able to offer around the clock bingo or not.
One of the most famous bingo networks has to be the Virtue Fusion Bingo Network, which is home to the hugely popular Bingo Linx games and sites like Bet365 Bingo, Paddy Power Bingo and Gala Bingo to name a few. The Bingo Linx games are based on the national games found at land-based operators, where special rooms are opened at certain times for these big network jackpot games that can be played every day of the week.
The Dragonfish Bingo Network has faced criticism for its repetitive nature, being home to a huge number of the biggest names in online bingo such as 888 Bingo and Nutty Bingo. However, this so called ‘boring’ bingo network is still the biggest and most played bingo network in the world. Make your own minds up!
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