London, 7th October 2009

VIRGIN BINGO IS HITTING THE SMALL SCREENS!

Time for the Big Push: Virgin Bingo is airing its first national "Free Bingo" TV advertising campaign across homes in UK this October!

In order for you to benefit from the halo effect the campaign is very likely to generate, we have gone the extra mile to provide you with all the related tools you need to optimize exposure, with banners, splashpage, youtube video and mailers. If you're using our Bingo affiliate code, no need for you to do anything, we will overwrite all banners with our TV campaign creatives and redirect all traffic to the TV ad splash page, complete with embedded video! (let us know if you want to use another page destination for your banners, we can set that up for you). Non-bingo affiliates remember, Virgin Games crosstracks all your players, so wherever your players end up (Casino, Poker, Bingo), you'll get first rate commissions. Let Virgin Bingo get them through the door this October!

The TV campaign will run from the 12th October 2009 for three consecutive weeks on all main terrestrial and freeview channels including ITV and Channel 4 (amongst others).

Here's the code for embedding the above TV ad on your site:

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Now promote away and enjoy the complimentary exposure!

London, 24th September 2009

Bejeweled now available at Virgin Casino (and Virgin Bingo)!

Bejeweled is based on the popular gem swapping game played by millions the world over! The game displays five rows of coloured gems and ten possible paylines, giving you endless ways to win. When a group of gems (3, 4 or 5 gems) match, they disappear allowing more gems to fall into their place, allowing you the chance to win again if more gems match.

Game Specifications

• Bejewelled has 10 win lines.
• You can bet in your currency from 0.01 to 5 units on each win line.
• Click the BET arrows to increase or decrease the size of your stake per line.
• Click the LINES arrows to select the number of lines you wish to play.
• Click ‘PLAY’ to start your game.

Rules

• LINES can be changed by using the arrows
• BET amount can be changed by using the arrows
• PLAY begins the game with the current BET and LINES
• BET MAX begins the game with the maximum LINES and current BET
• Payouts are displayed on the PAYTABLE • Payline wins are multiplied by the amount bet per line
• Highest win amount is paid on each selected payline
• Bejeweled wild symbol substitutes for any symbol on the payline.

Coin denominations

• GBP: 5p/ 10p/ 20p/ 30p/ 40p/ 50p/ 75p/ £1/ £1.5/ £2/ £2.5/ £3/ £3.5/ £3.75
• Euro: 5c/ 10c/ 20c/ 30c/ 40c/ 50c/ 75c/ €1/ €1.5/ €2/ €2.5/ €3/ €3.5/ €3.75
• USD: 5c/ 10c/ 20c/ 30c/ 40c/ 50c/ 75c/ $1/ $1.5/ $2/ $2.5/ $3/ $3.5/ $3.75

Affiliate banners like the one above - along with the above game specifications - are already available in our marketing tools section. Go grab'em Tiger!

London, 18th August 2009

Rainbow Riches® Win Big Shindig™ coming to Virgin Casino!

Pots of gold and the luck of the Irish await in Rainbow Riches® Win Big Shindig™, coming to Virgin Casino on 27th August 2009!

A lucky leprechaun is eager to share bountiful payouts and entertaining game play in this 5-Reel, 10-line slot game. Win up to 25,000 credits by getting 5 Logo symbols on all lines at max bet, or by receiving a gold pot in the Pots of Luck Bonus. Gamble your wins at the odds you choose, up to 8x.

Game Specifications

• One of the most successful and popular games in UK casino history
• 10 lines of lucky slot action
• Fun Irish leprechaun theme
• Win up to 25,000 credits by getting 5 Logo symbols on all lines at max bet
• Win up to 25,000 credits in the Pots of Luck Bonus
• AutoPlay feature automatically initiates play for 10, 25, 50 or 100 games
• Win up to 1,000 credits in the Gamble Feature
• Gamble your wins at the odds you choose, from 1.25x to 8x

Pick Me™ Bonus

• Three Hat Bonus symbols landing anywhere on reels 1, 3 and 5 trigger the Pick Me™ Bonus
• Player picks one of the three Hats
• Player can win 10x or 20x their bet, or a trip to the Pots of Luck Bonus

Pots of Luck Bonus

• Leprechaun dances a jig as gold, silver and bronze pots spin around
• Player wins the value of one pot, up to 25,000 credits

Top Award

Up to 25,000 credits for a single bet by getting 5 Logo symbols on all lines at max bet, or by getting the highest value pot in the Pots of Luck Bonus at max bet. There is no award cap in this game.

Coin denominations

• GBP: 1p / 2p / 5p / 10p / 20p / 50p / £1 / £2 / £5
• Euro: 1c / 2c / 5c / 10c / 20c / 50c / €1 / €2 / €5
• USD: 1¢ / 5¢ / 10¢ / 25¢ / 50¢ / $1 / $2 / $5

Rainbow Riches, Win Big Shindig, and Pick Me are trademarks or registered trademarks of IGT and/or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries, and are used with permission. Copyright © 2009 IGT. All rights reserved.

Affiliate banners like this one:

- along with the above game specifications - are already available in our marketing tools section. Go grab'em Tiger!

London, 17th August 2009

Virgin Casino Video Ad now available

Need dynamic content for your site? You can now embed Virgin Casino's latest video ad on your website, straight from Youtube. Check out the embedding instructions on the Virgin Games Youtube channel page (right hand side, next to the video).

London, 1st July 2009

STOP PRESS: £10 CPA EXTENDED!

In addition to the Free Bingo, which on its own is a natural converter, July is also bringing you the extended £10 CPA for each new Bingo Cash player*!

Is the £10 CPA on top of my exisiting revenue share? OH YEAH, THAT'S ON TOP OF YOUR EXISTING REVENUE SHARE!

*In the context of this offer, a New Bingo Cash Player is a New Virgin Games customer who signs up during the month of July 09 and plays at Virgin Bingo during that time.

London, 30th June 2009

Free Bingo has arrived at Virgin Bingo!

Virgin Bingo is running Free Bingo Every Wednesday Night throughout July in the Marrakesh room, with over £1,000 in guaranteed prize money.

Free games full schedule:

Room	Week Day	Time	Jackpot
Marrakesh	Wednesday	18:02	£50
Marrakesh	Wednesday	18:30	£50
Marrakesh	Wednesday	18:48	£50
Marrakesh	Wednesday	19:06	£50
Marrakesh	Wednesday	19:24	£50
Marrakesh	Wednesday	19:42	£50
Marrakesh	Wednesday	20:00	£50
Marrakesh	Wednesday	20:12	£25
Marrakesh	Wednesday	20:24	£15
Marrakesh	Wednesday	20:36	£50
Marrakesh	Wednesday	20:48	£5
Marrakesh	Wednesday	21:00	£15
Marrakesh	Wednesday	21:12	£50
Marrakesh	Wednesday	21:24	£5
Marrakesh	Wednesday	21:36	£50
Marrakesh	Wednesday	21:48	£50
Marrakesh	Wednesday	22:00	£25
Marrakesh	Wednesday	22:12	£25
Marrakesh	Wednesday	22:24	£50

In addition, we have a new set of creative available like the one above in the Bingo marketing tools PLUS Free Bingo Mailer for you to send out to your database, so just email us affiliates@virginbingo.com if you would like to take advantage of this opportunity.

London, 10th June 2009

Optimus Prime, Megatron, Cybertron?
This can only mean one thing: the Transformers™ are landing at Virgin Casino on 18th June 2009 for the ultimate payback!

There’s more than meets the eye in this 25-payline game as wild symbols suddenly transform and multiply your wins into fortunes!
Spin for free in the Ultimate Payback Bonus™ until one of the Transformers prevails in the battle, up to 100 spins.

Game Specifications

• Play in the Universe of the Classic Transformers
• 3x5 Multi-Line/Multi-Coin slot game
• 1 to 5 credits per Line
• 125 credit max bet
• 25 Paylines Full of Action Packed Transforming Symbols in Both Main and Bonus Games
• Optimus Prime and Megatron Transforming Wilds Make the Entire Reel Wild
• Cybertron Variable Wild Offers Up to a 10x Line Multiplier
• Optimus Prime and Megatron Battle to the Finish in the Ultimate Payback Bonus™
• Spin for Free in the Bonus Until One Transformer Prevails in Battle
• Player always has equal chance to select between three randomly selected multipliers

Ultimate Payback Bonus™

• Optimus Prime and Megatron Transforming Wild symbols make entire reel wild
• Cybertron Variable Wild symbol – from 2x up to 10x
• More Transforming and Cybertron Wild symbols on bonus reels • Optimus Prime and Megatron fight in the “Ultimate Payback Bonus™” battle
• Player Chooses winner and receives bonus pay if their champion wins
• Up to 100 free spins!

Playing the Ultimate Payback Bonus™

• Bonus symbols landing simultaneously anywhere on the first and fifth reels trigger the “Ultimate Payback Bonus™”
• The bonus is played with a bet equal to the initiating bet
• Before the bonus begins, the player chooses which Transformer they think will win the battle (Optimus Prime or Megatron)
• The bonus free spin reels contain the same feature symbols as the base game:
• Optimus Prime and Megatron Transforming (expanding) Wild Symbols
• Cybertron Variable Wild Symbol (up to 10x)
• At the beginning of the bonus, Optimus Prime and Megatron square off beneath the reels as they prepare to fight
• During a free spin, when a “Fight” symbol lands anywhere on the fifth reel, Optimus Prime and Megatron fight
• If the player’s chosen Transformer wins the battle, they are awarded a pay
• If the player’s chosen Transformer wins the battle undamaged, they are awarded a special “Perfect!” pay
• The bonus continues until one of the Transformers has defeated the other in battle (or 100 free spins are played)

Top Award

The top award is capped at 250,000 currency units for a single bet.
This maximum applies to a single spin of the base game as well as the cumulative total of all wins in the base game and the Free Spins bonus.

Coin denominations

• GBP: 1p / 2p / 5p / 10p / 20p / 50p / £1 / £2 / £5
• Euro: 1c / 2c / 5c / 10c / 20c / 50c / €1 / €2 / €5
• USD: 1¢ / 5¢ / 10¢ / 25¢ / 50¢ / $1 / $2 / $5

Affiliate banners like this one:

- along with the above game specifications - are already available in our marketing tools section. Go grab'em Tiger!

London, 29th May 20009

EXCLUSIVE JUNE RATE: 35% REVENUE SHARE+ £10 CPA!!

Virgin Bingo is now officially on the Virgin Games single wallet system, and this means that you are now earning prime commission rates on your player’s lifetime activity, whether they play at Virgin Poker, Virgin Casino or Virgin Bingo.

EXCLUSIVE VIRGIN BINGO RATES: 35% REVENUE SHARE...+ £10 CPA!

The New Virtue Fusion powered Virgin Bingo is now in full swing, with the highest number of players online recorded last week. To keep the momentum going, we are delighted to introduce this extra CPA offer in June, hoping it will provide you with the fuel you need on your quest for new sign-ups:

£10 EXTRA CPA per new Bingo cash player* in June! (on top of your existing revenue share).

A new set of creative is now available in the Bingo marketing tools including banners, logos, screenshots and editorials.

We believe that this exclusive offer, combined with the pulling power of the brand new Virtue Fusion powered Virgin Bingo, will have a seriously positive impact on your June commission. If things go as well as we plan we’ll extend the offer until end of July too!

There’s no better time to start spreading the good word about the new Virgin Bingo:)

*In the context of this offer, a New Bingo Cash Player is a New Virgin Games customer who signs up during the month of June 09 and plays at Virgin Bingo during that time.

London, 21st May 2009

VIRGIN BINGO NOW ON VIRTUE FUSION PLATFORM!

Virgin Bingo has successfully migrated into the exciting Virtue Fusion Network and the NEW site look and feel has already scored high marks with our revenue maker – The Players!

The site new features include the traditional UK 90 ball game available in the Necker Island and Marrakesh rooms or at light-speed in the Galactic super-fast room along with Ulusaba room where the 80 ball action takes place and the 75 ball is offered in the Miami room.

High Revenues:

We here at Virgin are projecting growth in revenues since the VF software allows players to play simultaneously up to:

- FOUR bingo rooms plus ONE side games or
- ONE Bingo room plus THREE side games

Players can chose from a huge selection of over SIXTY side games and slots including the very popular branded games Monopoly, Elvis - A Little More Action, and Dungeons and Dragons. This means, revenue wise, improved share of our player’s wallet!

New Promotions:

Virgin Bingo site is over-populated with great new promotions from £6,000 guaranteed Daily Jackpot to the recession proof Penny Bingo. And believe or not, there is even the FREE Daily Necker Island Scratch Card with a £500 maximum payout!

To celebrate the Virgin Bingo re-born, we are giving away a TWO Family Holiday in sunny Florida! Every ticket purchased until 31st of May will get one entry into our Dream Holiday prize draw on Monday 1st of June!

New Welcome Bonus:

New welcome - 100% match deposit bonus up to £100. Please update your websites with the new bonus!

New banners:

"Red Hot", "Discover", and "Florida Holiday" are now available in our "Bingo Marketing Tool" section. Go Grab'em!

London, 14th May 2009

VIRGIN BINGO WILL BE SWITCHING TO VIRTUE FUSION PLATFORM ON MAY 20!

The NEW Virgin Bingo website looks refreshing with FIVE bingo rooms Necker Island, Galactic, Miami, Ulusaba, and Joker Jackpot including Jetsons and Reach for the Stars progressive jackpots!

That’s not all... Virgin Bingo will be joining the Virgin Games single wallet system on the same day, meaning that you will start earning prime commission rates on your players, whether they play at Virgin Poker, Virgin Casino or Virgin Bingo.

Last but not least, stay tuned for more news on the re-launch campaign including increased revenue-share rates!

London, 23rd April 2009

Dungeons and Dragons will be released at Virgin Casino on the 28th April 2009.
Get ready!

Go on a quest for immense riches within our world of bold warriors, ancient fortresses and challenging monsters. Explore the bonus Dungeon, uncover treasures and battle monsters to collect additional free spins and multipliers. Complete your quest by spending your spoils in the Fortress Free Spins™ bonus, starting with 5 to 25 free spins and up to a 20x multiplier.

Game specifications

• Immersive fantasy world based upon the legendary Dungeons & Dragons series
• 3x5 Multi-Line/Multi-Coin Slot Game
• 100-Credit Maximum Bet
• 5-Credits Per Line
• select one of three Hero avatars
• 20 tantalizing lines of slot action where you are the hero
• Free spins and multipliers galore in the Fortress of Fortunes™ Bonus Dungeon
• Super-rich reels with Stacked Wilds® in the Fortress Free Spins™ bonus
• Bonus paytable features extra ways to win and a top award boosted to 10,000
• 20x worth of bonus multipliers await you in the Fortress Free Spins™ bonus

Fortress Free Spins Bonus™

• Three or more bonus symbols anywhere on the reels trigger the Fortress Free Spins™ Bonus
• Bonus starts with an award multiplier and a number of free spins based upon the number of initiating Bonus symbols
• Before starting the free spins, additional free spins (up to 25 available) and multipliers
• (up to 20x available) are earned in the Fortress Dungeon
• Contents of Dungeon cells are randomly selected at start of the bonus
• Players discover and interact with the contents of unexplored Dungeon cells

Dungeon Phase of Bonus

Enter a room with a Monster and battle ensues.
Player rolls a 20-sided die, the result of which is added to the Hero Strength to form an attack strength. If the attack strength equals or exceeds the Monster’s defense strength, the monster is vanquished and the player is able to collect the multiplier in the cell and continue on. If the attack strength is not big enough to beat the Monster, play proceeds to the Free Spins Round. There are no monsters in the first level.

In the final level, the monster is the dragon. Whether or not the dragon is defeated, play proceeds to the Free Spins Rounds. However, the player will earn an additional 4x multiplier if successful in vanquishing the dragon.

Enter a room with a free spin chalice, multiplier treasure chest or extra-strength weapon and the player earns, respectively, the additional free spin(s), multiplier(s) or strength value shown. Enter a room with a stair way and after collecting any free spins, multiplier or strength; player descends to the next lower level. The cell at the bottom of a stairway is always empty. In the lower Dungeon levels, there are usually two or more stairways from the level above. However, you will only ever see the bottom of the stairs you descend and never those of any of the other stairways. There are no centre room stairways.

Monster strength increases the deeper you descend into the Dungeon. A monster in a centre chamber is stronger than any other monster on that level. Even so, there is a small payback advantage to always explore a center room when possible. There is never more than one enchanted weapon per Dungeon. Each of the three heroes has the same odds of winning against the various monsters. Dungeon animations & weapons differ with each of the three player-selectable heroes

Free Spins Phase of Bonus

• Free spins are highly enriched by the addition of Stacked Wilds® to every reel.
• Bonus paytable is significantly boosted with higher top awards and more ways to win
• During the free spins bonus, three or more bonus symbols anywhere on the reels re-trigger the Fortress Free Spins™ Bonus
• Maximum of 180 free spins can be awarded
• Initiating bet for all free spins is exactly the same as the bet placed when the bonus is triggered
• If the top award limit is reached during the bonus, the game ends at this point irrespective of whether there were any free spins remaining.

Top Award

• Players can win a maximum of 250,000 currency units for a single bet. This maximum applies to a single spin of the base game as well as the cumulative total of all wins in the base game and the Free Spins bonus.

Coin denominations

• GBP: 1p / 2p / 5p / 10p / 20p / 50p / £1 / £2 / £5
• Euro: 1c / 2c / 5c / 10c / 20c / 50c / €1 / €2 / €5
• USD: 1¢ / 5¢ / 10¢ / 25¢ / 50¢ / $1 / $2 / $5

Affiliate banners like this one:

- along with the above game specifications - are already available in our marketing tools section. Go grab'em!

London, 21st April 2009 Free Upper Class Vegas flight for every WSOP player.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world and as such Virgin Poker is NOW running WSOP online satellites.

Now until 21st June 2009

Get your players to join one of these satellites and if they win either a €5,000 or €10,000 WSOP package, Virgin Poker will throw in 100,000 Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Miles – that’s enough for the winners to get there for free, and in style!!!

New set of creative like the one above is already available in our poker marketing tools section. Grab them now!

London, 07 April 2009
Celebrate this Easter at Virgin Bingo

We recognise that your job is made easier if we can offer your users an attractive incentive to sign up with Virgin Bingo, therefore we have lined up exciting Easter Weekend promotions

Golden Egg - Thursday 9th April

We're hiding two Guaranteed Bingo Pots of £250 during the course of the day together with more tastey offers including 12 tickets for £1.

Uncover these Easter treats at Virgin Bingo this Thursday 9th April between 11am and Midday and between 5pm and 6pm!

Good Friday – Friday 10th April

Good Friday? Quite simply, it’s the BEST Friday by far! On Friday April 10th, we’ve got a free £1 to all players and a 100% cash match.

What’s more there’s our famous and unique “Strip for a Strip” offer with 2 bingo games between 8pm and 9pm. All our fabulous Bingo players will also be entered into our Prize draw to win one of these great cash offers:

- 1st Prize of £50
- 2nd prize of £25
- 3 Runners up prizes of £10 each

Don’t forget that all new players are welcomed with a 100% Cash Match up to £125 which is nicely followed up by a 50% Cash Match on 2nd deposit up to £65!

Please shoot us an email at affiliates@virginbingo.com if you need anything else to help your drive for new players.

London, 6th April 2009

VIRGIN CASINO NOW ON VIRGIN GAMES SINGLE WALLET SYSTEM

What are the implications for you, our beloved affiliate?

1/ Prime commission on Virgin Casino and Virgin Poker cross-play

You are now getting your prime commission rate on your players whether they play at Virgin Casino or Virgin Poker, no need to promote the products separately. Better still, A shiny new Virgin Bingo joins the party next month (until then you’ll still have to keep on promoting Virgin Bingo independently, and the reports will be kept separate).

2/ Casino and Poker base commission rate upgraded from 30% to 35%

Our Virgin Games base commission rate has been increased from 30% to 35%. That’s an extra 5% in your pocket. This took effect on the 1st March 2009, so March commissions will be calculated on that basis. Even though it will be integrated to our single wallet next month, the Virgin Bingo base rate has also been increased to 35%.

3/ Virgin Casino signup bonus upgraded to 100% match up to £100

Please update your Virgin Casino bonus information to reflect this change.

All our served banners have been updated, please make sure you replace any outdated banners that you might host, and change the details of our bonus offer on your website(s) and player communications.

Virgin Games has also completed the implementation of a revolutionary bonus tracking system where players can activate, pause and track in real time all wagering based bonuses they're entitled to.

4/ New Snapshot and Player reports

Both reports now display aggregated data on Casino and Poker stats from your players.

Please note: since Virgin Casino integration to the single wallet took place mid-month, March stats for Virgin Casino are split in two. All Virgin Casino stats pre-12th March 2009 (including 1st to 12th March) will be accessible in the "Casino pre 12th March" archive report (text link on the right hand side of both reports). All data post March 12th are displayed in the new reports. This means you'll have to consult both reports for your March Casino stats. Slightly confusing we admit, but this will affect March only, all data will be centralized in the new reports from next month on.

5/ Virgin Casino and Virgin Poker stats are now real-time

Need we elaborate on this one?

Nothing but good news we hope you’ll agree. Any questions, shoot away: affiliates@virgingames.com

Pierrick Leveque
Head of Affiliates
affiliates@virgingames.com
http://www.virgingames.com/affiliates
Winner “Best Bingo Affiliate Manager"CAP Awards 2009
Winner “Best Casino and Gaming Affiliate Program" A4U Awards 2008
Shortlisted “Best Affiliate Program" eGaming Awards 2008

Important Service Notice

Virgin Affiliates Casino player reports will be unavailable for 7 days (starting Thursday 12/03/2009) for essential upgrade work. Tracking will remain unaffected while this is taking place, and all your new players will show up in your reports as soon as the new system in live. Virgin Poker and Virgin Bingo tracking and reporting will work just as usual too. We apologize for the inconvenience. As part of this upgrade, please note that the Virgin Casino signup bonus will increase tomorrow (Thursday 12/03/2009) from 100% match Bonus up to £50 to 100% match Bonus up to £100. We thank you in advance for updating your sites accordingly.

“What is going on?” I hear you ask. Only good things :)
Read on for a full explanation…

VIRGIN CASINO JOINS VIRGIN GAMES SINGLE WALLET.

What’s happening at Virgin Games?
What does it mean for the players?
What does it mean for you, the affiliate partner?
When is this happening?
What is going to change, and how?

What is happening at Virgin Games?

Virgin Games is historically a marketing company that has promoted gaming services from three different gaming operators (Wagerworks for Casino, Boss Media for Poker and St Minver for Bingo).

We have made the big jump Last November when we officially became an operating company in our own right. That’s when Virgin Poker was added to our new shiny single account/single wallet system.

This is now Virgin Casino’s turn. From tomorrow onwards your Virgin Casino players will be able to switch seamlessly between Virgin Poker and Virgin Casino play, using the same wallet and same Virgin Games account and qualifying for common bonuses. As an affiliate you will be rewarded for all their Poker and Casino activity without having to promote the products individually.

The circle will be completed in May, when Virgin Bingo joins the party. At this stage Virgin Bingo remains independent from the rest, and you should still promote it as an individual product.

What does it mean for the players?

Becoming an operating company not only means Virgin Casino customer will now be helped by our new in-house call centre from tomorrow, it also means we will own and manage player databases and payment processing systems.

Improved customer experience

Customer service is at the core of the Virgin philosophy. Up to now, this part of our Virgin Casino support business has been in the capable hands of Wagerworks, but the time has now come to get our hands dirty and leverage what Virgin is best known for. Our plan is simple: inject Virgin’s tradition of great customer care to the world of online gaming, and make sure our visitors are welcomed, entertained and supported the way they deserve to be.

Centralized, owned and managed player database

Each of our gaming products has required individual registration. Until now it was hard for our players to browse seamlessly through our game offerings. This is about to change. No more Virgin Casino, Virgin Poker or Virgin Bingo players, we’re building a happy home where all of our players will become Virgin Games players, regardless of their game-play preferences. Once all our products are integrated, new players will only need to register once, after which they will have access to our full library of games. Whether they prefer slot games, multi-table poker or a quick game of bingo, they’ll only ever be a few clicks away from thrilling entertainment.

Centralized, owned and managed new single wallet

Imagine owning three different wallets for your shopping: one to buy bread, one for vegetables, and a third one for milk. Doesn’t make much sense, does it? Not to worry: as Bob the builder would put it, our single wallet will fix this! Under the new system, all deposits, awarded bonuses and winnings - regardless of the type of game played - will be safely stored in the new Virgin Games single wallet, which will allow your players to use their funds wherever they want, whenever they want. Just like in real life, only without the queue at the supermarket checkout.

What does it mean for you, the affiliate partner?

From increased cross-product revenues and holistic player reports to across-the board prime commission rates, this brings our affiliates nothing but good news!

More cross-product revenue

By making it easier for our players to get in touch directly with us, register, deposit, withdraw and - most importantly - switch quickly and seamlessly between game types, this is guaranteed to generate increased cross-product revenue for the affiliates sending us players.

Only prime commission rates

We are keeping the 50% welcome rate for 2 months, after which our standard base rates jumps from 30% to 35% flat for both Poker AND Casino, and we are dropping the tiered system.

Virgin Bingo rates remain unchanged at this stage.

Confused? Here’s an example :

You are a new affiliate who sends us a new player from a Cleopatra or Elvis banner from your site. Chances are this player likes playing slot machines. As the affiliate who sent us this player, not only will you get 35% (or whatever rate you’re on) revenue share on his slots game-play, but you will also - should this player decide to play poker a few days later - get a full 35% on his poker rake. Whatever game the player you sent decides to go for, and whatever the software provider, you will receive prime rates for their play, across all games all the time.

New reporting

Even though most of our promotional strategy through the affiliate system will remain unchanged (we will still provide game specific banners and marketing tools), the boundaries between products and type of players will slowly fade, and your reports will change accordingly.

When is this happening?

Virgin Casino will be integrated tomorrow 6am GMT. From this time onwards everyone you send who registers at Virgin Casino will become a Virgin Games player, earning you automatic commission on both Casino and Poker gameplay.

What is going to change, and how?

Player report *

* Will be released next week. Feel free to contact us at affiliates@virgingames.com if you need a breakdown of your Virgin Casino registrations while the report is unavailable.

Your new “Virgin Games” Player Report will now show Virgin Games players who have played at Virgin Casino AND Virgin Poker (as opposed to one report for Virgin Casino and another one for Virgin Poker). Virgin Bingo will remain as a separate tab until it joins the party next May.

Filters will be added to the Player Report so you will be able to run it only for Poker or Casino gameplay, or both.

A drop down archive report will also be available for you to check your old stats:
- pre Virgin Casino integration - taking place tomorrow,
- pre Poker integration (i.e. before 19th November 2008, but that’s already available in our system)

It might get a bit confusing at first but you will soon be able to make sense of it all. In any case, help is - as always - just a click away: affiliates@virgingames.com.

Snapshot report: unchanged.

Creatives report: unchanged.

Payment report : unchanged.

Marketing tools

Important: Virgin Casino signup bonus is changing from 100% match bonus up to £50 to 100% match bonus up to £100. Make sure you modify our bonus information on your sites accordingly.

Virgin Casino Banners will be automatically updated with the new bonus, nothing for you to do here (unless you host the banners yourself, then read the end of this email).

Casino Bonus aside, no other change, each product will be promoted individually, the only difference is that a player coming from a Virgin Poker banner could make most of your commission on Virgin Casino without you having anything to do about it. Groovy!

Tracking

There will be no change to our trackers. We take pride in the backwards compatibility of our system, so you will not need to do anything when switchover happens tomorrow. You can keep on using the same tracking links you’ve always used, as we took care of plugging them into our new database.

Graphics, Banners, Branding

New structure generally involves new branding, and we won’t be the odd ones out: new logos, new messages and imagery are part of the reshuffling, and that’s exciting news. Again you will not need to move a finger. We’ll make sure our banners, logos and other graphic materials are overwritten with the flashy new version, so the updated versions will show automatically on your site.

Note: if you are hosting the banners locally, it is your responsibility to get the updated version from our site.

We remind you that Virgin Casino will increase signup bonus from 100% up to £50 to 100% up to £100. Make sure you pick up and host the new banners!

We understand it may be more practical / reassuring for some affiliates to host the banners themselves; but if you do you will be responsible for the extra work that goes with this decision, i.e. you will need to manually update all of your outdated banners. This is really important as the last thing anyone wants is a visitor getting to our site through an interest for an outdated promotion. This is as bad PR for us as it is for you (the affiliate), as we will have to apologize to the player and explain that you should have updated your site and didn’t.

That’s it for now, but do not hesitate to contact us if you have more questions: affiliates@virgingames.com

London, 05 March 2009
Virgin Casino table games banners now available

Promoting Blackjack, Craps, Roulette on your site? Good plan :) Even better now that we have created a set of banners specific to Virgin Casino table games, complete with game logos and bonus information.

These and many more are now available in our Casino Marketing Tools section. Go Grab'em!

London, 21 February 2009

ICOP Poker - €600,000 Guaranteed Prizepool!

We know it’s a bit early, but we could not keep quiet about this fantastic promotion we have lined up for your players in March! So get ready to prepare your players for the ‘International Championships of Poker’ (ICOP), where we are guaranteeing a cool €600,000 in prize pool.

Held over the period of the 9th to the 15th of March, the ‘International Championships of Poker’ is a truly inclusive poker promotion, designed to test players overall poker skills. Buy-ins for this promotion range from just €5 with tournament formats ranging from Hold’em to 7 Card Stud!

Plus Virgin Poker is holding back 3% of the prize pools, which will be given to the top three overall performers. So whoever wins this promotion, will have the ultimate poker bragging rights!

Affiliate banners like the one above are already available in our poker marketing tools section. For further information on this excellent promotion click here.

London, 17th February 2009

Battleship - Search & Destroy™ at Virgin Casino

Battleship - Search & Destroy™ delivers a boatload of excitement, featuring 25 paylines, stacks of three Wild symbols on every reel, and TWO exciting bonus rounds! Line up Stacked Wilds® on the reels to trigger a huge number of simultaneous wins and some amazingly big payouts -- up to 125,000 credits at max bet!

Battleship - Search & Destroy™ introduces an innovative game play feature allowing players to CHOOSE between two entertaining and lucrative bonus experiences: one that benefits from Battleship strategy and another that works well for novice and expert players.

Engage in thrilling ship-to-ship combat in the Winning Encounter™ Bonus and earn up to a 5x multiplier! Spin free until you sink the enemy ship, the enemy sinks you, or you have spun 100 times. A single payline win could pay you up to 25,000 credits at max bet!

OR, stage a daring sneak attack on a fleet of enemy ships in the Sink the Fleet™ Bonus. Strategically fire at the enemy fleet hidden on the grid. Win over 16,000 credits at max bet if you sink the entire fleet.

Game specifications

• Based on the popular strategy game
• 3x5 Multi-Line/Multi-Coin Slot Game
• 25 Paylines
• 5-Credits Per Line
• 125-Credit Maximum Bet
• Stacked Wilds® on Every Reel
• Win up to a 5x multiplier in the Winning Encounter™ Free Spins Bonus
• Stage a daring sneak attack on the enemy fleet in the Sink the Fleet™ Bonus
• CHOOSE between two bonus rounds

Sink the Fleet™ Bonus

• Stage a daring sneak attack on the enemy fleet
• Strategically fire at the five ships hidden somewhere on an 8x8 grid
• Sink the entire fleet with less than eight misses and win over 16,000 credits
• Apply your favourite Battleship strategies to maximize your reward

Winning Encounter™ Free Spins Bonus

• Experience the thrill of ship-to-ship combat
• Spin free until you sink the enemy ship or the enemy ship sinks you!
• Watch your multiplier grow up from 1x to 5x for each hit on the enemy
• Win up to 100 Free Spin maximum

Top Award

• Players can win a maximum of 250,000 currency units for a single bet. This maximum applies to a single spin of the base game as well as the cumulative total of all wins in the base game and the Free Spins bonus.

Coin denominations

• GBP: 2p / 5p / 10p / 20p / 50p / £1 / £5
• EURO: 5c / 10c / 20c / 50c / €1 / €5
• USD: 5¢ / 10¢ / 25¢ / 50¢ / $1 / $5

London, 9th February 2009

Virgin Bingo has lined up thrilling promotions in February, check out!

All Day Penny Bingo

It’s Penny Day Thursday 19th of February at Virgin Bingo!

That’s right…Virgin Bingo has gone crazy!

Virgin Bingo is running the well-known ‘All Day Penny Bingo’. There are no catches, each and every single game all day long will cost you a pennyJ in the main 90 ball Room!

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£500 Guaranteed Jackpot Everyday

Everyday at 10pm!

Check out Virgin Bingo online, the atmosphere’s electric and there are loads of exciting games to choose from with amazing cash prize including a £500 guaranteed jackpot everyday throughout February!

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£5K Guaranteed Jackpot

Every Wednesday at 9pm!

Virgin Bingo is giving away a Guaranteed £5,000 every Wednesday in February!

Every ticket for this giant pot costs just 25p or to make it easier to win, we’re giving you extra value when we give you a free strip of Bingo tickets for every strip you buy for this extra special game!

Virgin Games Scoops Affiliate Prize At 2nd Annual CAP Awards -
Pierrick Leveque, Head of Affiliates is Named Best Bingo Affiliate Manager.

London, UK (PRWEB) February 6, 2009

Virgin Games' Head of Affiliates, Pierrick Leveque, scooped the prestigious 'Best Bingo Affiliate Manager' prize at last week's annual CAP (Casino Affiliate Programs) Awards.

The black tie event, which was held at London's fashionable Truman Brewery, recognises excellence in the iGaming affiliate market amongst operators, vendors and affiliates themselves.

Virgin Games also gained nominations in four other categories: Best Poker Affiliate Program; Best Casino Affiliate Program; Best Overall Affiliate Program; and Best Overall Affiliate Manager.

"Virgin Games has worked hard to develop and improve our Virgin Bingo affiliation this year, so we're delighted that our efforts have been acknowledged", said Pierrick after collecting the award in front of 400 of the most influential members of the iGaming industry. "The CAP community is a driving force in the gaming affiliate business, and to be selected by the affiliate partners we are working with makes this an award win we're particularly proud of.

"Virgin Games has ambitious growth plans for 2009 - most importantly, the implementation of a single wallet / single sign-on player system - and our affiliates will be rewarded for the loyalty they have shown to our brand. We genuinely value their support."

The CAP Awards are particularly recognised in the industry because they strive to represent the views of affiliates as accurately as possible. The nomination process taps directly into the affiliate community, with 8,000 members polled via www.casinoaffiliateprograms.com and www.pokeraffiliateprograms.com.

The Virgin Games' Affiliate program is run by Virgin Games, a wholly owned subsidiary of Virgin.com Ltd. Virgin Games Affiliates has been in operation since 2005, and offers affiliates the reporting and marketing tools they need in order to promote Virgin Games services efficiently and effectively.

For more information on the CAP Awards please visit http://www.capawards.com.

London, 3rd January 2009

London, 22nd January 2009

MegaJackpots® Cleopatra® coming soon to Virgin Casino

Cleopatra®, Virgin Casino's most popular game, now offers a chance for MegaJackpots® riches that would make even a Pharaoh blush.

Line up 5 MegaJackpots symbols on the centre payline with max bet, and you win a life-changing MegaJackpots® fortune!

Three or more Sphinx appearing anywhere on the reels trigger the Cleopatra® Bonus, earning you 15 free spins at 3 times their normal value (except for the top award)! And with max bet, each free spin is also another free chance to win the Jackpot!

The world's most popular jackpots married to the most popular slot game ever - now, here is a gaming experience fit for a King, or a Queen, or for anyone who wants to be richer than royalty.

Game specifications

• 3x5 Multi-Line/Multi-Coin Slot Game
• 20-Line
• 5-Credits Per Line
• 100-Credit Max Bet
• 2x Wild MegaJackpots Symbol (except 5 MegaJackpots symbols)
• Players Can Win the Jackpot from a Free Spin

Free Spins Bonus

• Three or more Sphinx symbols scattered anywhere on the reels triggers the Cleopatra® Bonus
• Player is awarded 15 free spins
• Awards are paid at 3x for all free spins (except for 5 MegaJackpots symbols)
• Three or more Sphinx symbols during the free spins retrigger the bonus and award the player an additional 15 free spins
• Maximum of 180 free spins can be awarded
• For max bet play, the Jackpot can be awarded within a free spin

Top Award

• Five MegaJackpots symbols on the centre payline at max bet win a life-changing Jackpot of over £1.5 million.

Coin denominations

• GBP: 2p / 5p / 10p / 20p / 50p / £1 / £5
• EURO: 5c / 10c / 20c / 50c / €1 / €5
• USD: 5¢ / 10¢ / 25¢ / 50¢ / $1 / $5

London, 22th January 2009

New Bingo Affiliate Manager!

As you might remember Lina Eriksson couldn’t resist the call of her Swedish motherland and left Virgin Games at the end of 2008. Building up on the amazing work she did while with us was never going to be easy, but we’re delighted to inform you that we have found the person just for that.

Everyone welcome to our team David Volovici, a seasoned Bingo Affiliate Manager most of you will remember from his Gala Bingo days.

David will be available from now on to answer all your Virgin Bingo related queries. Don’t hesitate to ask!

London, 15th January 2009

Newcastle Festival Banners are Live!

The first Virgin Poker Festival of 2009 Kicks off at Aspers Casino Newcastle Upon Tyne on the weekend of the 4th April. So get your players ready for a weekend of poker mayhem! Virgin Poker have added a massive £5000 to the overall tournament prizepool! Qualifiers are up and running on Virgin Poker. To see the all the Virgin Poker Newcastle Festival information click here.

Affiliate banners like the one above are already available in our poker marketing tools section.

London, 17th December 2008
Virgin Games Xmas fun

London, 11th December 2008

Virgin Games’ December ‘08 Affiliates Newsletter.

Welcome to Virgin Games’ December ‘08 Affiliates Newsletter!

December is now upon us, and, by the time we realise it, it’ll be 2009.

2008 has been a great year for Virgin Games, and it’s just fair we acknowledge this by rewarding all our players - old and new - with a great Christmas giveaway. Let 2008 go with a bang with our Christmas Cracker promotion! 14 days, 14 great prizes to be won: cash, V*points, Wiis, LCD TV, etc…read below for more details.

Also this month, enough news to fill a XXL Christmas stocking: A tracker update, a Lil' Lady® makes her appearance in Virgin Casino’s slot section, 5 CAP awards nominations for our affiliate program, a reindeer bounty expected at Virgin Poker, a warm welcome to our brand new customer service team, a £1,000/day giveaway at Virgin Bingo, a shiny new Virgin Poker website and a goodbye to Lina.

Read on…

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URGENT TRACKER UPDATE

As part of the single wallet system implementation Virgin Games is currently going through, we will stop supporting some of our earlier affiliate trackers. As mentioned in the service newsletter we sent a few weeks back, a specific set of trackers is already not supported anymore, while a few more will become redundant in March next year. While this can seem a while away, we advise you to start updating your trackers as soon as possible to prevent possible broken links next year.

Tracker format now unsupported (Virgin Poker only):
http://travis.bosscasinos.com/re.asp?name=POK&camp=XXXX&go=XXXX

Tracker format still supported (until 1st March 09):
http://www.virgingames.com/Tracker/Redirector.aspx?campaignId=XXXX&MediaId=XXXX&TargetUrl=http://www.virgingames.com/XXXX

Supported tracker format (provided by the affiliate system for the past 10 months):
http://www.virgingames.com/Tracker/Redirector.aspx?campaignId=XXXX&MediaId=XXXX&URL=XXXX

To avoid disappointment we strongly advise you to replace your old trackers by the new version ASAP.

XMAS CRACKERS

Let your players enjoy an amazing Christmas with Virgin Games Christmas Cracker Advent Promotion. It all runs for 14 days from December 10th right up to Christmas Day and great prizes are to be won, from V*Points to cash, Nintendo Wiis to Laptop computers. There’s a different prize to be won every day during the promotion.

Check out our Virgin Games' Christmas crackers promotion page for full details.

To stand the chance of winning one of these great prizes, all your players have to do is play between the 10th and 23rd December. They’ll get 1 entry into the daily prize draws for every £1 wagered. So the more they play, the more entries they get and the more chances they’ll have of winning! At the end of the promotion, they will stand in line to win the grand prize of an LCD Flatscreen TV!

Banners like this one:

Are now available in our marketing tools section. Please note: these banners will be automatically replaced by standard promotional banners once the promotion expires on 25th December.

CAP AWARDS NOMINATIONS

The shortlist for the second CAP Awards ceremony has been released last month, and Virgin Games Affiliates is nominated in no less than 5 categories this year, namely:

- Best Poker Affiliate Program
- Best Casino Affiliate Program
- Best Overall Affiliate Program
- Best Bingo Affiliate Manager
- Best Overall Affiliate Manager

The winners of the 14 categories will be announced at an extravagant gala black tie dinner during CAP Euro London 2009. If you’re a CAP Member and you think Ted and I have done well to meet your expectations this year, you can vote for us here: http://www.capawards.com/nominations.php

Press release.

WINNERS, WINNERS, WINNERS

Congratulations to Poker4, VinBingo8, Portalgam who respectively win the £100 Casino, £50 Poker and £50 Bingo best improved affiliate Competition Prize for November 08. Kudos to you! You too can make it to our Affiliates Hall Of Fame.

Go on, make your mum proud!

NOVEMBER COMMISSIONS

Affiliate commissions for November 08 will be paid within the next two days. To check the amount you have accumulated last month, have a look at your payment report.

TIP OF THE MONTH Have you noticed our re-vamped "editorials" and "specifications" marketing tools section? Now available are standard Virgin Casino, Virgin Poker and Virgin Bingo reviews as well as full game editorials and specifications, including an extensive review of Virgin Casino's latest slot game Lil' Lady®.

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NEW SLOT GAME: LIL' LADY®

Players will love to catch this bug! Lil’ Lady® offers a 40 payline theme, Stacked Wilds for amazingly big wins and a super-rich Free Spins bonus. On every reel there are stacks of four or more Wild symbols. These Wild symbols can line up to trigger a HUGE number of simultaneous wins!

Get three bonus symbols on the middle three reels, and your skin will be crawling with anticipation as you progress to the Free Spins bonus. You are awarded 5 free spins on the lucrative bonus reels. The Free Spins reels are richer than the standard, with extra Stacked Wilds and extra bonus symbols. You can potentially retrigger the Free Spins bonus multiple times and win up to 255 free spins. With all of this big money potential in Lil' Lady® you'll be buzzing with excitement!

Game specifications

• 4x5 multi-line/multi-coin slot game
• 5-Credits Per Line
• 40-paylines for more action
• Stacked Wild symbols for amazingly big wins
• Super-rich reels in the Free Spins Bonus
• Gambler-focused game with retriggering free spins
• Appeals to fans of Wolf Run® and Cleopatra®
• Multi-denom/multi-currency, 200-credit maximum bet
• Retriggering Free Spins (Up to 255 max)

Free Spins Bonus

• Three or more Bonus symbols scattered anywhere on the middle three reels trigger the Free Spins bonus
• Player is awarded 5 free spins
• Reels are richer than standard, with extra Stacked Wilds and extra Bonus symbols.
• During the bonus, three Bonus symbols scattered anywhere on the middle three reels retrigger the Free Spins bonus, awarding an additional 5 free spins
• Bonus can be retriggered, up to a maximum of 255 free spins

Top Award

Players can win a maximum of 250,000 currency units for a single bet. This maximum applies to a single spin of the base game as well as the cumulative total of all wins in the base game and the Free Spins bonus.

Coin denominations

• GBP: 1p / 2p / 5p / 10p / 20p / 50p / £1 / £2 / £5
• Euro: 1c / 2c / 5c / 10c / 20c / 50c / €1 / €2 / €5
• USD: 1¢ / 5¢ / 10¢ / 25¢ / 50¢ / $1 / $2 / $5

Banners like the one above are already available in our marketing tools section, and you'll find the editorial above in our - wait for it -"editorials" section. Go get'em!

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NEW VIRGIN POKER WEBSITE!

It’s been a couple of busy weeks at Virgin Poker headquarters!

The Virgin Poker website needed a makeover; we have therefore released our new website to coincide with the launch of Virgin Games’ single wallet system (details on single wallet system here: https://www.virgingames.com/poker/importantchanges.aspx)..

Our new website has been designed with the aim of becoming one of the best player converting websites in online poker. It features better onsite customer interaction, sharper graphics and more content for all users. We will also be operating a Virgin Poker media page with video tutorials, podcasts and onsite updates of future Virgin Poker Festival.

Check it out here:http://www.virgingames.com/poker

IN-HOUSE CUSTOMER SERVICE TEAM

Everyone welcome our brand new customer support team! Part of the single wallet project that Virgin Games started implementing; getting our own in-house call-centre was a priority. It is now a reality with a team of 11 talented individuals who have been hired and trained over the past 2 months to provide trademark Virgin support to our players. The team is now operational on Virgin Poker since the 19th November, with Casino and Bingo support to be added over the next 6 months. Happy times!

CHRISTMAS PROMOTIONS

More Festive Fun on Virgin Poker! These two promotions will keep your players busy in the run up to Christmas:

Special Reindeer Bounty MTT

On Monday the 22nd December 2008 we will be replacing the LUNCH TURBO 1000 GTD with a Special “REINDEER BOUNTY" MTT.

This tournament will have a €5 entry, with a €1,000 Guarantee, and up to €5,000 added value bounty prizes on the following players: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen.

Week of Wii-rolls Every evening between the 8th & 12th of December 2008 at 18:30 GMT we will be running freeroll tournaments where the first prize will be a Nintendo Wii. To qualify for one of the tournaments, all players have to do is play one raked hand on Virgin Poker!

Please contact affiliates@virginpoker.com for more details on the promotions above.

SEASON GREETINGS

Finally the Team at Virgin Poker would like to thank all our affiliates for making 2008, our biggest and most successful year so far…We guarantee you that 2009 will be even bigger!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

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We are spreading the Festive Fun with a packed 31 days of fantastic Bingo promotions throughout December. From FREE Bingo play that every Bingo player loves, to great cash prizes for playing on any of our Slots games including all our great new Progressive Slots!

£1,000 GUARANTEED JACKPOT EVERYDAY IN DECEMBER

Plus we’ve got a guaranteed jackpot Bingo Game running everyday for £1,000. There’s going to be 31 winners of these terrific pots during December sharing a total of £31,000. Join in the Fun every night at 9pm in the Virgin Bingo 90 ball room. You’d be mad to miss this chance!

BYE BYE LINA, HELLO STRANGER

One shouldn’t argue with homesickness, and we didn’t as we bid Lina Eriksson, our Bingo Affiliate Manager, a warm goodbye. She actually needs the warmth as she decided to go back to her cherished Swedish homeland. Lina has been instrumental in building lasting relationships with some of the best Bingo affiliates out there, and her contribution to our affiliate program success in 2008 is not underestimated. We hope you’ll join us in wishing her the best of luck for her future endeavours. Our new Bingo Affiliate Manager will be starting early January, and I’m pleased to inform you that, if you promote Bingo, you are probably already acquainted with this person.

Who’s the mystery addition? Only 2009 will tell!

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That’s it for our December newsletter. A bit of a mouthful I admit, so I won’t keep you away from festive treats for much longer; just enough to thank you once more for making 2008 our most successful year and send you our best wishes for the festive season.

QUOTE OF THE MONTH "Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa?" (Homer Simpson)

See you in 2009 for more fun and games!

Pierrick Leveque
Head of Affiliates
affiliates@virgingames.com
http://www.virgingames.com/affiliates
Winner “Best Casino and Gaming Affiliate Program" A4U Awards 2008
Shortlisted “Best Affiliate Program" eGaming Awards 2008
Shortlisted in 5 categories CAP Awards 2009

London, 17th November 2008
Important Service Notice

THE VIRGIN GAMES AFFILIATE WEBSITE WILL BE UNAVAILABLE ON TUESDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 2008.

A full service is expected to return at 9:30am GMT on Wednesday 19th November 2008.

Banner serving, traffic and registration tracking will remain unaffected by this essential maintenance work.

“What’s going on?” I hear you ask.
“Nothing but good news!” is the answer! Read on for a full explanation…

What’s happening at Virgin Games?
What does it mean for the players?
What does it mean for you, the affiliate partner?
When is this happening?
What is going to change, and how?

What is happening at Virgin Games?

Virgin Games is historically a marketing company that has promoted gaming services from three different gaming operators (Wagerworks for Casino, Boss Media for Poker and St Minver for Bingo).

We are now making the big jump and we officially become an operating company in our own right from next month. It’s Woohoo time, for our players, for Virgin Games too, and for you too!

What does it mean for the players?

Becoming an operating company not only means we will manage our own unified customer service/call centre in house from Wednesday 2008, it also means we will own and manage player databases and payment processing systems.

Improved customer experience

Customer service is at the core of the Virgin philosophy. Up to now, this part of our business has been in the capable hands of Wagerworks and St-Minver, but the time has now come to get our hands dirty and leverage what Virgin is best known for. Our plan is simple: inject Virgin’s tradition of great customer care to the world of online gaming, and make sure our visitors are welcomed, entertained and supported the way they deserve to be.

Centralized, owned and managed player database

Each of our gaming products has required individual registration. Until now it was hard for our players to browse seamlessly through our game offerings. This is about to change. No more Virgin Casino, Virgin Poker or Virgin Bingo players, we’re building a happy home where all of our players will become Virgin Games players, regardless of their game-play preferences. Once all our products are integrated, new players will only need to register once, after which they will have access to our full library of games. Whether they prefer slot games, multi-table poker or a quick game of bingo, they’ll only ever be a few clicks away from thrilling entertainment.

Centralized, owned and managed new single wallet

Imagine owning three different wallets for your shopping: one to buy bread, one for vegetables, and a third one for milk. Doesn’t make much sense, does it?
Not to worry: as Bob the builder would put it, our single wallet will fix this! Under the new system, all deposits, awarded bonuses and winnings - regardless of the type of game played - will be safely stored in the new Virgin Games single wallet, which will allow your players to use their funds wherever they want, whenever they want. Just like in real life, only without the queue at the supermarket checkout.

What does it mean for you, the affiliate partner?

From increased cross-product revenues and holistic player reports to across-the board prime commission rates, this brings our affiliates nothing but good news!

More cross-product revenue

By making it easier for our players to get in touch directly with us, register, deposit, withdraw and - most importantly - switch quickly and seamlessly between game types, this is guaranteed to generate increased cross-product revenue for the affiliates sending us players.

Only prime commission rates

Our commission structure will adapt to this new system. We will drop the boundaries system, reassess all rates for active affiliates and provide flat revenue-share rates across the board.

Confused? Here’s an example

You are a new affiliate who sends us a new player from a Cleopatra or Elvis banner from your site. Chances are this player likes playing slot machines. As the affiliate who sent us this player, not only will you get 35% (or whatever rate you’re on) revenue share on his slots game-play, but you will also - should this player decide to play poker a few days later - get a full 35% on his poker rake. Whatever game the player you sent decides to go for, and whatever the software provider, you will receive prime rates for their play, across all games all the time.

New reporting

Even though most of our promotional strategy through the affiliate system will remain unchanged (we will still provide game specific banners and marketing tools), the boundaries between products and type of players will slowly fade, and we’ll provide you with a holistic view of your player’s activities.

When is this happening?

We will rollout single sign-on/single wallet integration over the course of the next few months. First to be made available will be Virgin Poker, on the 19th of November 2008. Virgin Casino will follow after about two months, then Virgin Bingo about two months after that.

What is going to change, and how?

Reporting

As soon as Virgin Poker is migrated to the new platform on the 19th of November, you will notice the appearance of a new “Poker ‘New’!” tab in our snapshot and player reports.

Player report

Since all new Virgin Poker registrations and transactions post 19th November will feed our shiny new unified player database, all registrations and transactional activities prior to the 19th November will be relocated to an archived player report, available via a text link on the right of your standard player report page. The archive report will have the exact same functionality of the current report (date range filter, blushing textboxes, etc…)

All Poker activity post 19th November will be available in the new “Poker” tab (you can’t miss it; there’s a “New!” tag on it).

It might get a bit confusing at first since active players will show in both poker reports, but you will soon be able to make sense of it all. In any case, help is - as always - just a click away: affiliates@virgingames.com.

Snapshot report: Same as above.

Creatives report: unchanged.

Payment report

No drastic change here, except for your November payment report: it will show two separate entries, one for payable commission accumulated pre-19th and another one for post 19th November 08.

Payment

No change there, apart from the fact that your Virgin Games affiliate payments will now show on your bank/Neteller statements as coming from “Virgin Games Services Limited” instead of just “Virgin Games”. Guess you would have worked this one out anyway!

Marketing tools

Because of the way new databases work, we will not be able to support the Virgin Poker direct download marketing tool anymore, at least for a few months. We have therefore disabled the category, and ask you to remove any Virgin Poker direct download link we might have provided you with in the past. Direct download will make it back as a marketing tool, and we’ll let you know when this happens.

Tracking

There will be no change to our trackers. We take pride in the backwards compatibility of our system, so you will not need to do anything when switchover happens on the 19th November. You can keep on using the same tracking links you’ve always used, as we took care of plugging them into our new database.

Note: There is however one type of Poker tracking link that we will no longer support: those provided in 2006, long before we launched our own internal cross product affiliate program.

Explanation: before we launched our own affiliate system the Virgin Poker affiliate tags were being generated by the Boss backend system. Since we are switching database, there is no need for our tracking tags to go through the Boss database anymore. If you’re one of a few early affiliates left using a Virgin Poker tracking tag that looks like this:

http://travis.bosscasinos.com/re.asp?name=POK&camp=XXX&go=XXX

you should stop using them and replace them with the version that has been generated by our affiliate system since 2007. If you started promoting Virgin Poker through the current affiliate system, there is no need for you to do anything. If however you started promoting Virgin Poker before we built our own affiliate system (thanks for your loyalty :)) you might want to check that your tags are up to date.

Graphics, Banners, Branding

New structure generally involves new branding, and we won’t be the odd ones out: new logos, new messages and imagery are part of the reshuffling, and that’s exciting news. Again you will not need to move a finger. We’ll make sure our banners, logos and other graphic materials are overwritten with the flashy new version, so the updated versions will show automatically on your site.

Note: if you are hosting the banners locally, it is your responsibility to get the updated version from our site. We understand it may be more practical / reassuring for some affiliates to host the banners themselves; but if you do you will be responsible for the extra work that goes with this decision, i.e. you will need to manually update all of your outdated banners. This is really important as the last thing anyone wants is a visitor getting to our site through an interest for an outdated promotion. This is as bad PR for us as it is for you (the affiliate), as we will have to apologize to the player and explain that you should have updated your site and didn’t.

That’s it for now, but do not hesitate to contact us if you have more questions: affiliates@virgingames.com

London, 10th of November 2008
€75,000 rake race kicks off!

Starting today (Monday 10th November) the top 100 rakers in the next 7 days will share €50,000. What’s more the 50 players that play the most raked hands in the next 7 days will share €25,000. That’s a rather tasty €75,000 of added value for the biggest players up for grabs on Virgin Poker!

This promotion will run for 7 days finishing at 1 minute to midnight on 16th November. To see the prize payouts and full information about this promotion click here. Please note that this is on top of the Virgin Poker V*Point Race which also rewards high raking players. So prepare your VIP’s for some serious action on Virgin Poker this November!

…yet to be announced, as the gala dinner for the next CAP Awards will only take place in January 09 :D.

The shortlist has however been released earlier on this week, and Virgin Games Affiliates is nominated in no less than 5 categories this year, namely:

- Best Poker Affiliate Program
- Best Casino Affiliate Program
- Best Overall Affiliate Program
- Best Bingo Affiliate Manager
- Best Overall Affiliate Manager

If you’re a CAP Member and you think Lina, Ted and I have done well to meet your expectations this year, you can vote for us here.

Press Release:

Virgin Games Shortlisted In Five Categories at CAP Awards 09

London, 29th October 2008 – Virgin Games has been nominated across five categories at the CAP (Casino Affiliate Programs) awards. Nominated and voted for by affiliates and industry peers, the awards set out to reward excellence in the iGaming affiliate market amongst operators, vendors and affiliates themselves.

The winners will be crowned in January 2009 at the second CAP Awards ceremony. These latest nominations top off a great year of industry recognition for the Virgin Games Affiliates program including scooping the award for 'Best Casino and Gaming Affiliate Program' at the A4U Awards (June 2008) and a shortlist nomination for 'Best Gaming Affiliate Program' at the Egaming Awards (September 2008).

Pierrick Leveque, Head of Affiliates, Virgin Games, commented:

"After such a rewarding year we are quite simply ecstatic to be up for another 5 affiliate Awards from the largest online gaming affiliate community on the internet. For our work to be recognised by CAP Members is an honor for Virgin Games, a heartwarming pat on the back for our affiliate team and a testimony to the quality and commitment of the affiliate partners who decided to team up with us this year. Competition in the online gaming marketplace can be fierce, and this makes our nominations all the sweeter. We wish good luck to all other nominees, and look forward to the Awards dinner next January."

The Virgin Games' Affiliate program is run by Virgin Games, a wholly owned subsidiary of Virgin.com Ltd. Virgin Games Affiliates has been in operation since 2005, and offers affiliates the reporting and marketing tools they need in order to promote Virgin Games services efficiently and effectively.

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London, 20th October 2008
A4U Expo: Mission completed

Thanks to all of you who paid us a visit at the recent A4U expo. Virgin Games was exhibiting there for the second year, and we really enjoyed the attention, the buzzing atmosphere, as well as the quality of the sessions and discussions.

Thumbs up to Matt, Claire and co for a neatly organised event.

London, 8th October 2008
What's under the bonnet?

We’ve made this readily available to prospective affiliates since we started operating, but it’s probably time we advertise it properly, as a few affiliate managers recently confessed to have opened a dummy affiliate account with us to check what we hide under the bonnet.

Nothing new and no problem here: we think that prospective affiliates should try to find out as much as possible about a potential new partner before committing, and that competition monitoring should be less of an industry taboo (We’ll miss the inventive fake details though :D, but that will save everyone time).

With that in mind, we;re happy to provide non-yet members with free public login details for the Virgin Games affiliate system. Username: guest / Password: guest

If you’re not signed up with us, pay us a visit using the login details above and get a sneak preview of our reporting systems, our extensive creative database, not to forget our blushing textboxes (you’ll like them).

We hope you like what we have on offer, and we’ll -as always- welcome your constructive feedback :)

London, 6th October 2008

€5000 Rake Race Banners - Live!

Our V*Points table just keeps on getting better! Every month Virgin Poker is giving away €5000 of added value for the top monthly rakers! This is an exclusive Virgin Poker promotion, so your players won’t need to play every day or play the ludicrous high stakes in order to win the money. This is another great value added incentive for Virgin Poker players.

Affiliate banners like the one above are already available in our poker marketing tools section.

London, 23rd September 2008

New Vegas Slot: Triple Fortune Dragon

May the God of Wealth and his Golden Fortune Dragon bring you great luck and prosperity in this amazing MultiWay® game with 243 ways to win big! Instead of betting on individual pay lines, MultiWay offers you 243 ways to win for only 25 credits. Winning has never been easier as you can win on every possible payline.

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• Popular in Land-Based Casinos the World Over
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Top Award

Players can win a maximum of 250,000 currency units for a single bet. This maximum applies to a single spin of the base game as well as the cumulative total of all wins in the Free Spins Bonus.

Currencies and Coin Sizes

• GBP: 1p / 2p / 5p / 10p / 20p / 50p / £1 / £2 / £5
• Euro: 1c / 2c / 5c / 10c / 20c / 50c / €1 / €2 / €5
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Affiliate banners like the one above are already available in our marketing tools section.

London, 22nd of September 2008
Heading off to Barcelona for EIG and CAP Euro

It’s that dreaded time of the year again. We’re leaving the warm and sunny English shores behind and head off to chilly Barcelona for EIG expo and CAP Barcelona. Not everyone’s idea of fun, but someone has to do it :D

Join Lina, Ted and Pierrick at the Virgin Games CAP Euro stand (36). If you’re unfortunate enough to have made the trip to Spain’s icy shores too, we’ll do our best to make you forget you’re there with smiles, freebies and friendly chats.

For those of you attending the first ever GPWA sponsored Affiliate Zone at this year’s EIG, Pierrick will be roaming the alleys from Wednesday afternoon, and will talking on the affiliate director’s panel on Thursday morning. If the jaw’s not frozen.

For those of you who won’t make the trip, we thank you in advance for your understanding if it takes us slightly longer than usual to answer your queries. Everything will be back in order next Monday.

London, 22nd of September 2008
Egaming Awards: Veni, Vidi, not quite Vinci...

Much to our finance director's relief, we won't need to buy a new mantlepiece just yet.

As you might remember, Virgin Games Affiliates was shortlisted for the "Affiliate Program of the Year" at the Egaming Awards, which took place on Friday 19th September at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London. Veni, Vidi but not Vinci this time, as Ladbrokes were awarded the top gong. Congratulations to Andre and Co from Ladbrokes from all of us here :)

London, 3rd September 2008
PR: Virgin Games Affiliates Shortlisted for eGaming Awards 2008

London, 3rd September 2008 – Virgin Games (www.virgingames.com) has been shortlisted for the affiliate program of the year award at the eGaming Review Industry Awards. The awards, now in their 4th year, are judged by an independent panel consisting of some of the most experienced practitioners across the sector and are established as the premier online gaming event of the year. The winner will be announced at the eGaming Review Industry Award ceremony on Friday 19th September at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.

The eGaming Industry Review Awards reward excellence and innovation within the online gaming industry with 18 prestigious awards up for grabs. Up for the affiliate program of the year award for the first time, Virgin Games is one of only four companies to be shortlisted, where nominees were judged on innovation, creativeness, marketing strategy and overall effectiveness.

Pierrick Leveque, Head of Affiliates, Virgin Games, commented:

“We’re delighted to have made it to the final table of the 2008 eGaming Awards. It is an honour to be shortlisted in the “Best Affiliate Program” category alongside Everest, Centrebet and Ladbrokes. More importantly, it is a testimony to the quality and commitment of the affiliates who have decided to partner with us since we launched last year. We work hard to ensure our Affiliate operations match Virgin Games’ reputation as an online gaming operator. In that regard, our presence in this year’s shortlist is very uplifting. We are looking forward to the results of the Awards on the 19th of September.”

Virgin Games was recently voted ‘Best Gaming Affiliate Programme’ at the affiliate marketing industry’s a4uAwards 2008 - the most prestigious affiliate awards ceremony in the UK.

The Virgin Games’ Affiliate program is run by Virgin Games, a wholly owned subsidiary of Virgin.com Ltd. Virgin Games Affiliates has been in operation since 2005, and offers affiliates the reporting and marketing tools they need in order to promote Virgin Games services efficiently and effectively.

For more information on the eGaming Review Industry Awards, visit: http://www.egrmagazine.com/about/awards.html.

London, 1st of September 2008
Guaranteed £10,000 Jackpot at Virgin Bingo

Saturday the 27th of September at 9pm in our 75 balls bingo room someone will walk away with £10,000!! The tickets are only 50p and it gets better – buy 3 tickets and get 3 tickets for free!

Affiliate banners like this one are now available in our marketing tools section.

Click here for more info.

London, 30th August 2008

3 Wheel Roulette™, now available at Virgin Casino

Roulette, the most popular casino game in Europe, just got three times better.

Our 3 Wheel Roulette™ offers you 3 times the excitement and 3 times the chance to win on every spin.

Not only have we tripled the action, we have also supercharged your award potential with our new Colour Up Bonus™. Based on the combination of the final numbers from the 3 wheels, a single Colour Up Bonus bet makes you eligible for a half dozen different awards including 100x and even 1000x pays.

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• 3 wheels gives the player 3 times the excitement
• Colour Up Bonus™ bet offers awards of up to 1000x
• Enjoy ultra-realistic ball movement based upon motion capture of actual roulette wheels
• Turbo play mode option to accelerate the pace and excitement
• Faster play when players rebet and spin with a single click

Game Features

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• Exciting anticipation for outer wheel outcomes similar to a Big Six money wheel
• Colour Up Bonus™ offers six payouts from 1x up to 1000x

Top Bonus Award

• Players can win up to 1000x (currency units) by betting on the Colour Up Bonus™. All standard single-zero roulette pays also apply.

Visit the 3 Wheel Roulette™ game page for more information.

London 28th August 008

€150,000 September Sizzler

Virgin Poker is adding a massive €150,000 to its poker room this September! Virgin Poker are running promotions on our Cash, Sit & Go and Multi tables, so there will be added value for all types of poker players. For all the information on this excellent promotion please click here.

Affiliate banners like this one are now available in our marketing tools section.

London,14th August 2008

New Bingo V*Points Creatives

New funky creatives featuring our V*points loyalty scheme have just landed!
Affiliate banners like this one:

Are now available in our marketing tools section.

London, 14th August 2008

Elvis A Little More Action™ banners now available

Good banners come to those who wait, as the saying goes.
It took slightly longer than usual, but Elvis A Little More Action™ banners like this one:

Are now available in our marketing tools section. Go Grab’em!

London, 30th July 2008
Virgin Games Affiliates July '08 Newsletter.

Summer is Here!

...Well at least that’s what they say on the news.

Hopefully things will catch up in August: we Londoners could do with a tan (a real, healthy suntan that is, not the "£25 a session / Star Trek bed /glow orange in the dark" version).

Not to worry though; plenty of news to keep you busy in August: Elvis is back for a Little More Action™, Bingo deep-linking enabled, The Virgin Poker Festival London edition coming soon, affiliate competition winners announced, a Bingo site redesign plus conferences, exhibitions and expos.

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JUNE 08 AFFILIATE WINNERS

Congratulations to Casinotabs, Thelodger and Gamer who respectively win the Casino, Poker and Bingo best improved affiliate Competition Prize for June 08. Kudos to you!

Every month, the affiliate who shows the best improvement in active cash player registrations from one month to the next will receive £100 (Casino) or £50 (Poker and Bingo) worth of Virgin vouchers (or an extra £100 added to their monthly affiliate commission, if preferred).

Check out our 2008 Hall of Fame!

BINGO DEEP-LINKING FUNCTIONALITY ENABLED


We are very delighted to announce the release of our affiliate deep-linking functionalities to Virgin Bingo. Want to know more? Scroll down to the Virgin Bingo section for full details.

GOING PLACES


Virgin Games will be exhibiting at CAP Euro Barcelona and the A4U Expo London, and roaming the alleys of EIG Barcelona again this year.

CAP Euro Barcelona 08 is an exciting, interactive four day event taking place on September 25th – 28th and is free of charge for all affiliates. Set in Europe's most cosmopolitan city, our Catalan host guarantees all the sun, sangria, and cultured refinery you could wish for. More details...

EIG Barcelona 08 will take place between the 23rd and 25th September (just before CAP Euro Barcelona), and is adding this year an Affiliate Zone to its world-renowned conference and exhibition experience.
Now established as the premier global i-gaming networking and learning experience, EIG already draws in over 1300 senior-level gambling executives from around the world. More details...

The A4U Expo London 2008 will take place on the 14th and 15th of October at the London Excel conference center, and will feature speakers from across the globe, over 1000 international delegates, and interactive Q&A sessions and panels. More details...

Do not hesitate to contact us if you want to set up a meeting at one of these events. Alternatively, you can walk up to our stand once there; we'll welcome you with a smile and a freebie!

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FANCY A LITTLE MORE ACTION? ASK ELVIS

The King is back at Virgin Casino, and he means business.

ELVIS® - A Little More Action™ showcases the excitement of Elvis and his music across 50 paylines and 5 reels with stacked wilds and the super-rich, retriggering Action Free Spins Bonus™.

This multi-denomination and multi-currency extravaganza will have everyone shouting "Encore!" as the stacks of wild symbols line up to trigger huge multi-line wins. Retrigger the bonus for up to 255 action-packed free spins!

Game specifications

• 4x5 multi-line/multi-coin slot game • 50-paylines • 5 credits per line • 250-credit maximum bet • Stacked wild symbols

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• Player is awarded 5 free spins
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• During the bonus, three bonus symbols scattered anywhere on the middle three reels retrigger the Action Free Spins Bonus, awarding an additional 5 free spins
• Maximum of 255 free spins can be awarded
• Initiating bet for all free spins is exactly the same as the bet placed when the bonus is triggered

Top Award

• Players can win a maximum of 250,000 currency units for a single bet. This maximum applies to a single spin of the base game as well as the cumulative total of all wins in the base game and the Action Free Spins Bonus.

Coin denominations

GBP: 1p / 2p / 5p / 10p / 20p / 50p / £1 / £2 / £5
Euro: 1c / 2c / 5c / 10c / 20c / 50c / €1 / €2 / €5
USD: 1¢ / 5¢ / 10¢ / 25¢ / 50¢ / $1 / $2 / $5

Virgin Casino released ELVIS® - A Little More Action™ on the 29th July, and affiliate banners advertising the game will be made available shortly. Look out for updates on our home and news pages.

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BINGO SITE REDESIGN

The new bingo site will look fab and most importantly it will be easier than ever for your players to find their favourite game straight away: This month, we are adding a new tab for each type of game on the top of the homepage. Each type of game will have its own page i.e. bingo games page, table games page, slots games page etc...

Furthermore, these pages will be available for deep-linking, which means you will be able to redirect your visitors from the new set of game banners (coming soon) directly to the corresponding game page. More on this below.

You will be notified as soon as the new game banners go live, but the new Bingo site game pages will be ready before the month is over. Watch out for new deep-link destinations in our marketing tools section!

BINGO DEEP-LINKING FUNCTIONALITY ENABLED


We are very pleased to announce that we have now added affiliate deep-linking functionalities to our Virgin Bingo tracking.

You now have the same options as for Virgin Casino: you can select which page on our Virgin Bingo website you want your banners to point to. All you need to do is select the destination page in the target drop down menu when picking up your banner code.

Here are the pages we have already made available for deep-links:

Bingo Home Page
Promotions page
Loyalty page
Community page:
VIPs page
Timetable page
Refer-a-friend page
Winners page
Contact page
FAQs page
Registration page
Games page

Try them out for increased signup rates :)

NEW BINGO CREATIVES COMING SOON


"About time!" you might say, and we won't contradict you.

We are happy to inform you that there will soon be a whole new range of Virgin Bingo banners available for you to choose from.

If there's anything in particular that you want, now is the time!
Drop us an email at affiliates@virginbingo.com and let us know what type of creatives you would like to find in our marketing tools section…We'll do our best to accommodate your needs. Promised.

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VIRGIN POKER FESTIVAL – LONDON EDITION!

The Virgin Poker Festival is coming to London Loose Canon's Poker Club on the weekend of the 27th to 28th of September 2008. Qualifiers for this Festival are now up and running on Virgin Poker.

The Virgin Poker Festival London will consist of a 2 day deepstack tournament with £5000 in added value and is quickly gaining the reputation as one of the best and most fun poker weekends around!

The weekend will consist of the following:

• €150 two day, deep stack main event,
• £5,000 added to prize pool,
• £1000 of value added bounties,
• Bad beat prize of return flight to Vegas,
• Added value, low stakes side events,
• Wii Bowling, bar promos and heads up challenges

There will be no direct buy-ins. All players must qualify online. The value of one seat is €150.

Festival Weekly (€15 + €1.50):
Every Sunday at 19.30 (BST).
1 seat for every 10 players.

Festival Satellite (€1.65 + €0.15):
Everyday at 20.30 (BST). Win a seat to the Festival Weekly tourney.

Festival Super Rebuy (€7 + €0.70):
Every Thursday at 20.15 (BST).
1 rebuy allowed when a players has under 500 chips + 1 add on after 60 minutes.

Affiliate promo banners are now available in our marketing tools section.

FESTIVAL AFFILIATE INCENTIVES
With the high demand for Virgin Poker Festival seats we have decided to add some fun affiliate incentives this August:

• Generate £100 or more in poker commission during the month of August you will be able to host a ‘free seat' added value tournament for your players on Virgin Poker.

• All affiliates (poker, casino & bingo) that have generated + £100 in affiliate commission in August, will gain entry into our ‘affiliate 100+' poker freeroll on the Sunday 14th of September 19:00 for your chance to win one of three Virgin Poker Festival seat's that will be up for grabs.

Come and see what all the fuss is about!

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That's it for our July newsletter. Loads of information to process we know, but we hope you will still find time to grab a bit of sunshine between website updates. Enjoy summer while it lasts!

Have a great weekend :)

Pierrick Leveque
Head of Affiliates
affiliates@virgingames.com
http://www.virgingames.com/affiliates

London, 28th June 2008

New Vegas Slot: Da Vinci Diamonds!

Immerse yourself in the opulence and beauty of Da Vinci Diamonds®. Experience the unique wonder of the Tumbling Reels™ where you can win again and again on a single play. Featuring 20 paylines of richly detailed Renaissance elegance and a retriggering Free Spins Bonus where you can win up to 300 free spins!

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• Three or more Bonus symbols anywhere on the Free Spins Bonus reels retrigger the bonus.
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• During the Free Spins Bonus, all 20 lines are active. The bet per line in the Bonus is equal to the bet per line on the reel spin that triggered the Bonus.
• The reels are richer and there are more ways to win. In addition to paying on lines, the three portrait symbols act as scatter pay symbols. For these scatter pay symbols, the player only needs to get three or more of the same symbol anywhere on the reels to win!
• Free spins are played out automatically.

Top Award

• Five Da Vinci Diamond logo symbols on any played payline,
• With maximum bet, wins the top award of 25,000 credits.

Affiliate banners in all shape and forms, like this one:

…are now available in our marketing tools section. Go Grab’em!

London, 28th June 2008

3 Cards 2nd Chance now available at Virgin Casino

Turn a weak hand into a winner with this exciting three card game! Double your initial bet to receive a new hand as you try to beat the dealer.

The lucrative Best Hand Bonus side bet offers awards up to 35:1 based on the highest rank of the strongest final hand, whether that hand is yours or the Dealer’s!

London, 27th June 2008

Virgin Poker account payment method suspended

From the start of July 2008, Virgin Games will not be allowed to pay its affiliates on Virgin Poker gaming accounts. This decision has been taken following new network rules taken by the Boss IPN Network that prohibit any non poker related payments into player accounts. This option will therefore disappear from the payment method option menu.

London, 25th June 2008

New Preset date filters now available on all affiliate reports

Patience towards popup calendars on our reports was wearing thin. Granted, they look fancy and do the job ok, but they’re not the fastest tools in the box, you will admit.

Following your feedback, we have now implemented a preset date-range drop down menu...Easy as 1-2-3: select your preset range, watch the date fields blush with delight (try it out, you’ll see what I mean) and click submit.

Calendars haven’t been retired though: you can still override the presets by entering the dates from the calendars and get the custom date range report of your choice, like in the good ol’ days.

London, 23rd June 2008

New Bingo Affiliate Manager!

Ted and I are delighted to inform you that Lina Eriksson has just joined the Virgin Games Affiliate team.

Having been involved in the online gaming industry for the past 3 years - of which more than 2 years in Bingo/Casino Affiliate management - Lina joins us in the much awaited Bingo Affiliate Manager position, and will be there to assist you with anything Bingo from now on.

Got Bingo questions/requests/issues? Email Lina at affiliates@virginbingo.com.