Online Bingo first came into existence in the year 1996. After that there has been a steady rise in its popularity. Comfort of playing, anywhere access, 24x7 availability, lucrative promotions and bonuses are the reasons why online Bingo sites have become so much popular.

The game of Bingo has been especially popular in United Kingdom, right from the time when it was invented. Thus, players tend to prefer this game over other gambling games in UK. In the year 2004, there were around two hundred and fifty online Bingo sites that were operating from UK. There had been an astronomic rise in the popularity of the online Bingo gaming after that. To cash in the ever increasing popularity of the online Bingo market, the online Bingo sites kept on increasing. Within a few years this number increased by leaps and bounds. At the beginning of the year 2011, this number increased to more than four hundred. Thus, the number of the sites operating from UK almost doubled.

Even at the time of economic recession, the popularity of this game increased. This shows that economic downturn had not been able to adversely affect popularity of the online Bingo sites. Analysts and experts have claimed that the popularity of online Bingo sites will increase at an ever increasing rate. According to informed expectations, the total number of online Bingo players from United Kingdom itself will become 250,000 within a year.