Screen Digest report more Bingo Growth

Screen Digest are well known as one of the globe's most inciteful and respected media analysts and their latest report has taken a snap-shot of the online bingo industry. And the consensus? Well, it just re-affirms the growth patterns and continued popularity and expansion of internet bingo parlours.

The company's report looked at both and-based and online bingo sectors, revealing that web bingo is the most rapidly expanding niche within the online gaming sector. What's more, the finding stick the knife in anyone who has been suggesting the market is becoming saturated with gamers and has stopped growing.

'Bingo in the Digital Age: Global Market Assessment and Forecasts', which was written by Rachael Church-Sanders, revealed that in 2008, UK web bingo parlours made a cool £220 million turn-over, but critically it's set to happen again in 2009, despite the world-wide economic crunch. As the report says, 'The online bingo sector has been enjoying a period of rapid growth in the UK and other key markets, and we expect to see this trend continuing, particularly outside the mature UK market'.

Although we'll have to wait a little while for 2009's hard bingo facts, between June and Christmas 2008, new gamers at UK bingo parlours soared by a massive 80% on the internet. Essentially, Screen Digital's report just confirms that web bingo has yet to scratch the surface in terms of popularity, fun and rewards - Read Bingo Reviews.

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