Hi all,
Plenty of news from Virgin Games Affiliates this month, so let’s get started with the headlines:
Welcome Ted! | Sub-affiliate system | Elvis Multistrike | Flash poker banners | Virgin Bingo news | Virgin Casino wins online advertising award |
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Welcome Ted
Everybody welcome Ted Menmuir, our new poker affiliate manager. Ted has been involved in the online poker industry for a while now, and his expertise in the field will allow us to optimize our poker affiliation strategy. Now is the time to start promoting Virgin Poker…You can contact Ted directly at [email protected] with any poker-related query.
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Refer-a-Webmaster
We are delighted to inform you that Virgin Games’ sub-affiliate system will be available within weeks. This will allow you to receive a 2.5% commission on the revenue generated by the webmasters you send us, all from the comfort of your existing affiliate account. Time to pick up this phone and ring your webmaster buddies: old friendships might suddenly take a rather rewarding twist! Watch this space for launch date.
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Elvis Multistrike coming soon to Virgin Casino
Elvis will enter the Virgin Casino building at the end of July/beginning of August. Get ready for the marketing frenzy as Wagerworks teams up with one of the world’s most recognizable franchise for an action-packed Multistrike Rock’n’Roller of a slot game. Make sure you take up our invitation to the glitzy premiere: banners will be made available ahead of release day. Don’t miss out on the stampede. Bring it on, Baby!
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New flash Poker banners available soon
Only a few days before our spin off poker banners make it to the Virgin Poker “marketing tools” section. Check them out later on this week. We’ve also modified some of the existing banners slightly. If you’re already using them, just sit back and relax: they would have updated automatically.
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Exciting Virgin Bingo news
Exciting news for our bingo marketers:
“Atlantis” scratchcard
July 1st will see the introduction of the monetised scratchcard “Atlantis”. To add to our current free scratchcard game adding a real cash game. The stake is a standard £1. The prizes are £2, 5 10, 15, 20, 25, 50 and £10,000.
Spice things up with “Pattern” 75 ball bingo
75 ball game soon on Virgin Bingo. Pattern bingo adds a bit of extra ‘spice’ to the bingo game. Using bingo patterns in the bingo games is a fun way to keep it interesting for all the players and is also a great way to incorporate special Virgin promotions when playing bingo.
Swim up the 25p stream
A new stream is launching in July where all games of 90 ball bingo will also be able to be purchased at 25p. This should lead to greater pot sizes and more variety for bingo players.
New Classic Keno
A brand new classic keno game is set for launch July 10th. Watch out…
Million miles promotion
To coincide with these developments Virgin Bingo is running a Million miles promotion for all players who purchase bingo cards throughout July. The details for this promotion will be up on the site in July. Banners will follow.
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Virgin Games picks up a prestigious ‘Yellow Pencil’ at the D&AD Awards
The award was won in this year’s ‘Online Advertising’ category for its groundbreaking Virgin Casino interactive video ad campaign.
The D&AD Awards, widely known as the ‘Pencils’, is one of the most internationally respected awards within the design and advertising industry, recognising the very best campaigns from around the world. Virgin Games was one of only 59 companies to receive a ‘Yellow Pencil’ out of over 25,000 pieces of work entered, and one of only two companies to receive a pencil for Online Advertising this year. No other online gaming company was even nominated for an award.
And guess what, those video banners have been available in our affiliate platform for months. If you haven’t seen them yet, go get them now!
Any question, query, drop us an email at [email protected], we’ll be happy to help.
Poker affiliates, remember, emailing home is now at [email protected]