The authority on online bingo in the UK, Bingo Port has reported that players at bingo sites that operate in the United Kingdom are spending more then £600 million or USD $1.2 billion dollars per year on bingo tickets.

The data also showed that Sun Bingo is still rated number one in the UK with 19 percent of the market share that is based on the values of tickets they sell and the prizes that were distributed back to their players.

"We've seen unprecedented growth in the online bingo industry here in the UK in the past year," said BingoPort.co.uk Managing Director and co-founder, Scott Logan. "The fact that online bingo players are purchasing bingo tickets in the realm of £600 million annually is truly amazing considering the credit crunch, but not surprising considering the licensing of the online gaming industry in the UK."

The figures take into account collation of gameplay data that is gathered from bingo site monitoring services that track all of the major online bingo operators in the UK 24 hours a day, seven days a week/

"This is the most accurate estimate to date of the size of the online bingo industry in this country," said Logan. "As the only company so comprehensively monitoring this data, we are able to gain a unique insight into the industry that isn't possible otherwise, especially since most online bingo operators are not public companies and are reluctant to release information about their turnover."



- 2008-06-11