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March 13, 2000
Bingo.com Partners with ECAL to Add Valuable Service for Registered Users
Relationship to Help Build Brand Awareness And Improve Site Stickiness
MARINA DEL REY, Calif., March 13, 2000 – Bingo.com Inc. (OTC BB: BIGR), Bingo.com Inc. (OTC BB: BIGR), announced a relationship with eCal Corporation, a provider of online calendaring solutions for major Internet sites such as GO Network and CBS SportsLine. The calendar implementation is now integrated into the Events Section of the Bingo.com Web site providing registered users with an opportunity to create, track and participate in on and offline Bingo as well as other related events such as Bingo conventions and Bingo trade shows.
“Online calendaring will become a valuable addition to the Bingo.com community experience,” said Shane Murphy, president and CEO of Bingo.com. “Online calendaring is proven to attract new visitors, enhance the experience of all who use it, and provides one more reason for users to make Bingo.com their first choice of game sites. We partnered with eCal because of their reputation for quality and scalability. The eCal solution will enable us to provide current and future Bingo.com users with a means of being involved in the global, local, and online Bingo.com scene.”
The calendar services are now available free of charge for all registered users of Bingo.com. After a very simple one-time sign-up process, the calendar services are available for everyday use. Bingo.com and eCal will share e-commerce and advertising revenues generated through the Bingo.com eCalendar.
eCal’s patented Internet Calendar Engine (SM) helps people manage their time and share information. Multi-functioned and feature-rich, eCal’s engine provides comprehensive personal information management functionality, including calendar, e-mail, to-do list, individual and group meeting creation, paging and reminder service, plus syncing with other digital hand-held organizers. eCal’s forward-thinking client-centric product has caught on fast; company clients include Disney’s GO Network, CBS SportLine, LookSmart, ZDNet, and RealNetworks. eCal is committed to long-term relationships with world-class partners who provide attention-grabbing, timely content and cutting-edge technical contributions.
March 7, 2000
Bingo.com Announces its “Crack the Vault” Contest with $100,000 Cash Prize
Relationship to Help Build Brand Awareness And Improve Site Stickiness
MARINA DEL REY, Calif., March 07, 2000 – Bingo.com Inc. (OTC BB: BIGR), announced today a promotional campaign aimed at building site traffic and registration activity for its free-play bingo Web site. The promotion, called “Crack the Vault Combo-Match” has a $100,000 cash prize for the person who can accurately guess the combination to the “cyber-vault”. Visitors can register for free to get a chance to guess the correct numbers to crack the vault containing $100,000 in cash.
“This marks the next step in the evolution of our business plan,” said Shane Murphy, president and CEO of Bingo.com. “Although we primarily utilize free-play bingo games to bring traffic to the site, Bingo.com Inc. is a data accumulator first and foremost, with the goal of attracting large volumes of traffic and then collecting demographic information about our registered members. This provides valuable information to a potential advertiser to serve highly targeted advertising that is demographically specific. This comprehensive data in turn maximizes the value of the advertising space on the Bingo.com site.”
February 18, 2000
Bingo.com Retains Market Pathways Financial Relations
Friday, February 18, 2000, Tallahassee, FL. – Bingo.com Inc. (OTC BB:BIGR) announced today that it has retained Market Pathways Financial Relations Inc., to provide a wide variety of investor relations services.
Market Pathways Financial Relations Incorporated provides financial public relations services to a number of publicly traded companies in a variety of industries. The company’s comprehensive range of services includes stockbroker relations, SEC compliance, institutional outreach and support, media relations, shareholder communication and investor lead generation.
February 17, 2000
Bingo.com Featured on “.COM” TV Series with Mark Hamill
Thursday, February 17, 2000, Tallahassee, FL. – Bingo.com Inc. (OTC BB:BIGR) is to be featured on the “.com” television series, now in its fifth season. Star Wars’ Star, Mark Hamill, regularly anchors the “.com” series which explores the latest technological innovations and the rapidly evolving Internet landscape.
January 19, 2000
Bingo.com Traffic Up Dramatically
Wednesday, January 19, 2000, Tallahassee, FL. – Bingo.com Inc. (OTC BB:BIGR) shows web traffic and the number of registered users showing a significant increase since releasing the new site just over a month ago.
The beta version site was released on Tuesday, December 14th, 1999 to allow the public to actively participate in the variety of new Play-4-Free bingo games. Just preceding the launch, the previous format web site traffic was showing an average of 68,870 hits and 7,764 page views per day. General traffic to the new site has continued to increase throughout the first month of operation and is currently demonstrating average hits per day exceeding 3,238,000 and average page views in excess of 232,000 per day. These numbers illustrate a 4600% increase in hits and a 2890% increase in page views from the previous format to a month with the new site. This traffic is translating into more than 1000 new registered users each day and the average length of time spent on the site is 40 minutes. Bingo.com expects all of these numbers to increase as more people find out about the site through additional marketing and promotion activities.