Bingo.com is a Winner in the New York Times; Bingo.com Featured at Length in an Article about Virtual Gaming

MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ — Bingo.com Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BIGR), announced today that the company’s Web site has been positively singled-out numerous times in an article by Hilary Appleman that ran in the on-line Business Section of The New York Times on Oct. 25, 2000.

At home or in the office, the United States is game-happy and one of the most popular destinations is Bingo.com. The article in The New York Times pointed out the success of Bingo.com in the growing frenzy of game players across the country. Bingo.com offers a myriad of stylized, play for free multiplayer bingo games, video poker and other casino-style games.

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Investor’s Business Daily Names Bingo.com as ‘Stickiest Web Site’; Bingo.com Ranks Number One

MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Bingo.com Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BIGR), announced today that it was named the “stickiest” Web site on the Internet in a September 25, 2000 article in Investor’s Business Daily that focuses on the results of a recent Nielsen/NetRatings survey.

Bingo.com is an entertainment site and game application service provider (ASP) that attracts Internet users with a variety of free games and other forms of entertainment, designed around casino games such as bingo. The site also includes multiplayer video poker, chat, thousands of sweepstakes, concentration games, and much more. “Sticky,” is a term that describes the ability of a Web site to retain the attention of visitors for long periods of time. Sticky sites like Bingo.com offer greater branding opportunity through advertisers through ads placed on the site, because of the long periods of time users are spending on the site. In theory, this exposure means that sticky Web sites are able to fetch a higher price tag from advertisers on the site.

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Bingo.com Rated as a ‘Buy’ by Kon-Lin Letter

Leading Independent Stock and Market Newsletter Sees Value in Bingo.com

MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Bingo.com Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BIGR), a vertical Internet media and entertainment company, announced today that The Kon-Lin Letter, known for years for its leading technical and fundamental analysis, has rated Bingo.com as a “Buy” in its September 2000 issue. The letter sited Bingo.com’s unprecedented growth rate and stickiness as reasons for its selection.

“The company has achieved phenomenal progress since launching its first Free Bingo games in December ’99 and has reached several remarkable milestones, setting important benchmarks for Internet entertainment with its uniquely innovative concepts,” according to The Kon-Lin Letter. “BIGR appears to be the hottest single site on the Internet and was recently named ‘The Stickiest Site on the Internet’ by Nielsen/NetRatings, Inc., which is certainly not reflected in its stock price as it trades in long-term support where we would Add/Buy for a 1st objective up into the $2 1/2-$3 1/2 area.” Kon-Lin gives Bingo.com an ultimate price target of $6.00 to $7.00. Bingo.com closed yesterday at $.84.

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Bingo.com Reviews Its Second Quarter

MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Bingo.com, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BIGR), ‘the most addicting experience on the Web,’ today sent the following letter to its stockholders, partners, employees and the Bingo.com community:

To Our Stockholders, Partners, Employees and the Bingo.com Community.

Our Second Quarter In Review

Thus far, 2000 has been an historic year for Bingo.com, filled with astonishing growth, corporate stability, and remarkable milestones. Since we launched our site a mere 250 days ago, our presence in the market has grown dramatically. Here are a few points to consider: we launched the new Bingo.com site in December 1999 with very few registered users, and currently we have over approximately 300,000 registered users. We currently grow registrations at a rate of 1.5 new registrants per minute, 24 hours a days, seven days a week. During the second quarter of 2000, we attracted over 2,000,000 unique visitors to our Web site. Our players spend more than 2 million minutes per day on our site, in aggregate. We served our 100 millionth Bingo cards to players earlier this month. We’ve built and launched stunning games, which are critically acclaimed in the market. The list goes on and on…

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Nielsen//NetRatings Ranks Bingo.com ‘Stickiest Site On The Web’

We Bet You Can’t Play Just Once

MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Bingo.com, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BIGR), ‘the most addicting experience on the Web’, announced today that Bingo.com has been ranked the “Stickiest Site on the Internet” for the month of July by Nielsen//NetRatings, as reported by USA Today, August 16, 2000. “Stickiness” is an industry term for measuring how long users stay on a site. This measurement is extremely important to potential advertisers seeking a captive audience.

Bingo.com’s average July user session according to the poll by Nielsen//NetRatings was almost NINE HOURS, 3.7 times that of Pogo.com, the only other game site to appear on the Nielsen//NetRatings radar. The industry average for time spent on web sites is less than four minutes per month. The Nielsen//NetRatings poll was conducted during the month of July, according to the USA Today report. Nielsen//NetRatings collects real-time data from more than 65,000 panel members in the United States. Their U.S. panel sample consists of 57,000 at-home users and 8,000 at-work users. This panel collectively represents the largest representative media research sample of Internet users in the industry. Worldwide, in partnership with ACNielsen eRatings.com, Nielsen//NetRatings measures the Internet experiences of nearly 110,000 actual Internet users.

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