PRESS RELEASES
December 10,1999
Giftcertificates.com Enters Agreement as Premier Prize Supplier for Bingo.com
Friday, December 10th, 1999, Tallahassee, FL. – Bingo.com Inc. (OTC BB:BIGR), the online center for bingo action, announced today a strategic alliance with GiftCertificates.com, a leading e-commerce provider of gift certificates, to provide Super Certificates to bingo game winners.
This agreement, upon release of the Play-4-Free games for the North American market, will provide GiftCertificates.com’s online shopping destination, featuring an unsurpassed selection of high-quality products and services, to the registered users on Bingo.com as they play and win a variety of bingo games. As part of the agreement, Bingo.com will utilize the SuperCertificate, an emailable gift currency that can be redeemed for original gift certificates to 100s of leading merchants, restaurants, spas, and hotels found on GiftCertificates.coms web site. After winning, the bingo player will receive via email a SuperCertificate. The recipient then visits the GiftCertificates.com site and has the flexibility to select his or her favorite gift certificate. GiftCertificates.com then mails (or emails) them their selection. SuperCertificates represent an innovative way to use the Internet to electronically send a gift to the places people like to shop–the leading “brick and mortar” merchants that represent the bulk of retail sales, including Barnes & Noble, Bath & Body Works, J.Crew, Macy’s, Brooks Brothers, The Sharper Image and many more.
December 1, 1999
Bingo.com Shows 72% Increase In Web Traffic
Wednesday, December 1st, 1999, Tallahassee, FL. – Bingo.com Inc. (OTC BB:BIGR) shows web traffic (page views) increasing 72% as a result of additional marketing efforts, and in anticipation of the release of the Play-4-Free games for the North American market.
The number of visitors to Bingo.com is increasing in anticipation of the new Play-4-Free games and web site for the North American market. Web traffic statistics show the average number page views per day increasing by 72% from the month of October to November. October average number of hits per day were 27,410 and average page views per day were 3,560 as compared to November’s average hits per day of 51,550 and average page views per day of 6,107. This shows an increase of 72% (in page views) as a result of implementation of the initial elements of the marketing strategy which is currently running adds with Gamesville, Val-Pak.com, Prodigy and COX Interactive Media, and bringing additional content to the site through a working relationship with InfoSpace.com. Bingo.com is also noting an increase in the number of return visitors and the length of time these additional visitors are spending on the site which will lead to proving Bingo.com as a ‘sticky’ site. In line with this marketing strategy, Bingo.com is placing additional priority on increasing public awareness preceding the release of the new Play-4-Free bingo games for the North American market in December.
November 17, 1999
B Cox Interactive Sales Partners with Bingo.com Through Media Agreement
Wednesday, November 17, 1999, Tallahassee, FL. – Bingo.com Inc. (OTC BB:BIGR) today announced a promotional partnership with COX Interactive Sales which will create more then 12.75 million impressions per month and place Bingo.com advertising on sites including Gamesville.com, Val-Pak.com and COX Interactive Media, as well as on the Prodigy Internet service, giving Bingo.com a strategic position on some of the most valuable real estate on the Internet.
With this agreement, advertising will initially be focused on promoting Bingo.com within the North American market through high profile ads with a variety companies, which will create broad exposure for the company. For example, Bingo.com has purchased a special advertising feature on the Prodigy Internet Homepage (prodigy.com) that allows Bingo.com to promote itself directly to Prodigy members (currently 1.2 million managed subscribers). The advertising from Bingo.com is yet another way Prodigy Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGY) is pursuing its strategy to create new revenue streams from the redesigned Prodigy Internet Homepage. Gamesville.com (gamesville.com), another premier advertiser, is the leading provider of online massive multi-player real-time games for prizes, named by MediaMetrix as the “stickiest” site on the internet. With over 30,000 coupons, Val-Pak Coupons On-Line (valpak.com) is the largest database of money-savings offers for local products and services on the Internet. Bingo.com will also place advertising on COX Interactive Media (cimedia.com), which owns and operates a network of 32 local city sites across the US. (Atlanta, Austin, San Diego, Seattle, Pittsburgh, among others).
November 15, 1999
Bingo.com Signs Agreement to Integrate Services from Infospace.com
Monday, November 15, 1999, Tallahassee, FL. – Bingo.com Inc. (OTC BB:BIGR) today announced an agreement to integrate a range of InfoSpace.com’s consumer services. InfoSpace.com is a leading global provider of Internet infrastructure services for consumers, merchants and wireless devices.
This agreement further promotes Bingo.com’s objective to provide Internet users with a destination site that will be easily recognized as an informative Bingo related home page. InfoSpace.com will provide Bingo.com with access to a wide variety of information and services such as shopping, entertainment, find a friend, chat services and much more. Bingo.com will then have the ability to use any of the services that are of an interest to the registered users of the Bingo.com site.
November 1,1999
Bingo.com Licenses Game Technology
Monday, November 1st, 1999, Antigua, – Bingo.com (Antigua) Inc. (parent company: OTC BB:BIGR) today announced that it has reached a non-exclusive agreement to license its proprietary Bingo game technology to Paramount Trading Inc. in exchange for licensing and royalty revenue.
Paramount Trading Inc. runs a variety of entertainment-based games, including BingoHour. BingoHour offers large jackpots on the Internet, currently at $100,000 for the coverall game every Saturday, and runs six games an hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. BingoHour is currently in the process of launching its first foreign language site and, thereafter, intends to add a new language site every few weeks to expand international access to its games.