New Bingo Sites for January 2021

With so many new bingo sites launching it is difficult to keep track. Therefore we’ve done the hard work for you and below you’ll find the latest sites to go live.

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Where can I find the best new bingo sites?

New bingo sites are launched on a monthly basis. In fact in recent times the online bingo market has been completely flooded with an abundance of new sites. There are now close to 400 different brands available for customers to join. But with such a choice how do you know which is the best to join? What is the best offer? Is it easy to withdraw your winnings? With so many newly launched sites these can be difficult questions to answer. So instead we’ve looked to put together a guide to assist the customer in making the right choice.

What The Software Providers Offer

Lets be honest, how many times have you joined a new bingo site to find that it is not really that new. In fact the only thing different is the logo and design of the home page. Once you’ve become a member and made your deposit you find it to be exactly the same as the last site you chose to join. This is tiring, confusing and also very frustrating.

In affect the online bingo market is dominated a number of major software providers. These are dragonfish, cozy games, virtue fusion and microgaming. To a much lesser extent there is also jumpman gaming, gamesys and bede gaming. Because so few bands dominate the market it therefore means customers are likely to come across ‘carbon copies’. But what are the variants between the software providers and want can you expect?

Dragonfish – all new draongfish bingo sites will offer you 90 ball and 75 ball versions of bingo as well as ‘high 5 bingo’. Depending on the individual site or network you may also gain access to a unique jackpot room. Sadly the unique rooms are limited in their number. One advantage of a dragonfish site is the number of slots available. Top names for the casino world such as NetEnt and IGT have their games featured at dragonfish sites. This is worth bearing in mind if you’re a fan of slots. One downside is that many new sites launched with dragonfish tend to be networked. This means that the promotions and offers are pretty much identical to many other sites already available. That also applies to the design of the games lobby – very uninspiring.

Cozy Games – cozy offer the biggest choice of bingo games. At each site you’ll find 90 ball, 80 ball, 75 ball, 50 ball and 30 ball bingo. The range of slots on offer is not quite up to the standard of some operators. So far they only offer a number of microgaming slots to fit in alongside their own software. In fact it is cozy sites that are the biggest culprit for simply ‘churning them out’. They are often released with the same lobby, same games and same promotions as the many sites that preceded them. There are only a very small handful of sites which actually offer a unique games room – one being big love bingo.

Virtue Fusion – this software provider has more bingo players than any other software provider, with giants of the bingo world gala using this software. There is the traditional 90 ball and 75 bingo games that site alongside a number of unique games. One such game is rainbow riches and also on offer is the very popular deal or no deal bingo, based on the hit TV show. The range of additional slot games is very good and many virtue fusion sites offer their own unique promotions and bingo rooms. All the big jackpot games are linked in to one another to create some very large jackpots.

No matter the software provider, all are making strides to ensure the games will work on a mobile device. Many are now implementing HTML5, the coding behind mobile gaming, to their sites. There is no doubting that some sites are better than others. For example cozy offers the most games but no chat facility is available to mobile players. The player interaction is a key element for bingo players so this is definitely a thumbs down. Leading the way is virtue fusion who are making the transition to mobile bingo as smooth as possible.

The Deposit Bonus Honey Trap

A classic way for a new bingo site to obtain new customers is to offer a large bonus. This can be a no deposit bonus or a deposit bonus. A no deposit bonus is when a customer is awarded ‘free money’ for simply joining up. It is not free money that is awarded, but is ‘free bonus funds’. The two are very different and have an impact on the wagering requirements involved.

A deposit bonus is where the customer is awarded bonus funds after they have made an initial deposit. The bonus amount will be triggered by a deposit of £5 or £10. Quite often when a bingo site first launches they will offer a generous bonus to entice new customers through the door. It’s no different to newly launched product that offers a big discount to encourage some to buy their goods. You should always remember that any form of bonus will have a wagering requirement attached to it. This affects you’re ability to make a withdrawal on those bonus funds, so please take the time to carefully read the promotional terms and conditions very carefully.

However the future will soon see a bit change for bonuses awarded to new customers. In January 2016 a tax is being introduced on the bonus funds that a bingo site chooses to give away. This will mean that bingo sites will have to now pay tax on any bonuses they award. At present it is not uncommon to get £25 free or even £50 free in bonus funds. But as the UK Government looks to tax this, this amount will surely decrease and will perhaps disappear altogether. At present bonuses is a key tool to entice new customers to join a newly launched bingo site. But hopefully this will be good news for the customer. It will mean that without the reliance on bonuses a bingo site will actually have to offer something that little bit different from the crowd rather than simply being just another ‘carbon copy’. But it will mean the end for those customers who enjoy big bonuses.

The Important Role of Licensing & Regulation

Before a new bingo site can launch it needs to be licensed by the UK Gambling Commission. The UK Gambling Commission has authorised a number of territories where bingo sites can operate. The most common are The Isle of Man and Gibraltar. This is very important as the UKGC sets out very strict criteria that need to be met before it will issue a license. Typically these revolve around the ability for customers to self exclude themselves and set daily and monthly limits to curb any unhealthy spending habits. Most importantly they have now enforced rules which makes withdrawals a lot easier than in the past. Formally silly amounts of money would need to be deposited before you could even think about making a withdrawal. Since the UKGC clamped down on this practice it is now not uncommon to deposit just £10 before being able to withdraw your winnings. It is therefore crucial when looking for new bingo sites that you check to make sure the site is fully licensed by the UKGC. For extra peace of mind all the sites listed on this page are fully licensed and classed as safe to join by the UKGC.