After a record-breaking 500,000 votes from across the UK (nearly double last year’s total) the WhichBingo Awards 2026 winners have been crowned.
Players decided 12 Main category winners. Four Editors’ Choice winners were selected by the WhichBingo editorial team through hands-on testing, WhichScore data, and years of tracking how brands actually perform. The winners were revealed on the night at the Sunborn Yacht Hotel, Gibraltar.
And for the first time in 2026: five Pre-Show categories celebrating bingo beyond the screen: the callers, the events, the food, the personalities, the restaurants.
21 categories, 500,000 votes, what a year.
2026’s Best Bingo, Casino, and Slot Sites
The big three. These player-voted categories reflect the best bingo sites offering, top slot sites, or best casino sites.
Best Bingo Site
🏆 Winner: GALA
Gala takes the top spot for this category for the third year running! Is it the low £5 deposits or fast and fee-free withdrawals? Is it the 24/7 live chat? The free games offering, the tournaments, the welcome offer? One thing’s for sure: the players have spoken, three years in a row.
“I have been a member of gala for 20 years plus i just love the community and the variety of games and the chat hosts are lovely yet professional the live team are just the best i love them soo much” – player review
Best Slots Site
🏆 Winner: FOXY GAMES
With a 4.8/5 WhichBingo rating, Foxy Games scores highly in practically every WhichBingo review area, and won this same category back in 2023. Another £5 deposit and withdrawal brand, Foxy gives the slots community a huge library of titles (classics, new releases, Megaways, Jackpots, Exclusives, Hot Reels) plus collect-for-free Foxy Dollars and a very straightforward signup. It’s been around for over a decade, and it shows.
“Very good fun and a great site my all time favorite site” – player review
Best Casino Site
🏆 Winner: BET365 CASINO
A brand that doesn’t need an introduction, bet365 is one of the biggest names in the business, offering 3,700+ games including table and card casino, live casino, poker, exclusive titles, and more. It won WhichBingo 2025’s Best Slots Site award (and bet365 Bingo won Best Mobile Site too), proving that the community rates it across the board. Explore our full list of top-rated casino sites to see how it compares.
“Good games, fair and reasonable” – player review
2026’s Best Playtech and Pragmatic Play Bingo Sites
The network a bingo site runs on shapes everything, from prize pools and game variety to software quality and theme. These player-voted winners stood out on two of the UK’s biggest bingo networks.
Best Playtech Bingo Site
🏆 Winner: BUZZ BINGO
Buzz Bingo’s long-running Playtech partnership has delivered standout exclusives like Big Money Live and live-streamed rooms. Buzz is an 8 times WhichBingo Award winner, clinching among other titles, Best Chat Team and Best Livestream Entertainment in 2024.
Best Pragmatic Bingo Site
🏆 Winner: BET365 BINGO
Pragmatic Play powers a lot of bingo sites, and wow does bet365 Bingo bring the players. A huge player base means cracking jackpots and games that fill. Pair that with the reliability of one of the biggest names in gambling (smooth app, fast withdrawals, round-the-clock support) and you’ve got a Pragmatic Play site that’s hard to beat.
2026’s Best Bingo Game, Slot Game, and App
These categories test a brand’s product, from game to app. The winners are the ones getting the details right.
Best Bingo Game
🏆 Winner: FEEL GOOD BINGO (HEART BINGO)
Heart Bingo’s Feel Good Bingo scored stars across the board for social and live experience, fun factor, and value for money. With its good atmosphere and progressive jackpot that never drops below £5,000, this 15 times WhichBingo Award winning brand (including Best Chat Team, Best Pragmatic Play Bingo Site, and Best Customer Service) makes us all feel good.
Best Slot Game
🏆 Winner: KING KONG CASH (BLUEPRINT GAMING)
Released in 2016 and still pulling in players nearly a decade later, King Kong Cash is a Blueprint Gaming classic. With five reels, 20 paylines, and bonus features like random base game modifiers, it holds a 4.9/5 user rating on WhichBingo. Blueprint Gaming actually won this same award last year, too. Check out what else is new in the latest slot releases.
Best App
🏆 Winner: CORAL
Coral takes the top spot for Best App. A high street name with a great mobile product, it holds a 4.4 star rating on Google Play, players cite fast load times, smooth nav, and access to the full game library including live dealer titles.
2026’s Best Customer Service, Promotion, Chat Team, and Bingo Club
Show some love to the categories driven by loyalty and community. The things that keep players smiling, from useful customer service to bingo rooms that are alive with happy chat teams creating the right atmosphere, and a IRL bingo club that keeps players coming back. All player-voted.
Best Customer Service
🏆 Winner: MECCA BINGO
Back-to-back winners of this very award in 2017, 2018, and 2019, Mecca Bingo’s support team is always ready to solve issues and answer quickly. Players consistently rate live chat, phone, and email support as fast, useful, and human. At a time when customer service is often a chatbot and/or a long wait, Mecca set the standard.
“Great friendly site with great friendly customer service Keep up the good work Mecca Love the site” – player review
Best Promotions
🏆 Winner: FOXY BINGO
As our review says, “If you’re after a bingo brand that’s full of character and attitude, look no further than Foxy Bingo”. We gave its promotions a 5/5 rating and players notice when a promotions page delivers what it promises. There’s daily prizes in the form of Foxy Perks and the Bingo Booster for free bingo tickets, plus weekly cash bingo sessions. See how Foxy stacks up against other bingo bonuses on the market.
Best Chat Team
🏆 Winner: GALA BINGO
2025, 2023, 2022… Gala Bingo has won this special award for the fourth time now, proving that the people building the atmosphere in the rooms are performing some serious magic. With the evident ability to turn a screen into a community, here’s to the people creating the spirit of Gala every day.
Best Bingo Club
🏆 Winner: BUZZ BINGO
Buzz Bingo is one of the most recognisable names in UK bingo. With 76 clubs across the country, Buzz Bingo Clubs offer bingo, slots, and events, fair-priced food and drink, a nd a local community in each branch that unites every room. See if there’s a club near you and join the fans who voted Buzz the best bingo club.
Editors’ Choice Awards 2026
While the public decided the 12 main category winners and 5 pre-show awards, four winners were selected by the WhichBingo editorial team based on what we’ve seen across the industry this year through testing sites, exploring the data, and seeing how brands actually behave.
Hall of Fame
🏆 Winner: MECCA BINGO
Who doesn’t know Mecca Bingo? With 60 years in the game, Mecca is one of the most trusted names in bingo, both online and in the club. The Hall of Fame award recognises brands that have earned genuine loyalty from players across generations. Mecca has been doing exactly that since the 1960’s.
“Not only do they have 60 years under their belt, but Mecca is still innovating. We have especially enjoyed watching their national slots tournament, now in its third year, which is a novel way to bring online and club players together.” — Nic McBride, WhichBingo Senior Editor
Best Newcomer
🏆 Winner: ZEBRA BINGO
Zebra Bingo launched in October 2025 and immediately felt like a site that gets it. Busy rooms, friendly chat hosts, a newbie Room with free bingo, and casino too. It’s the kind of site that made online bingo what it is. The new bingo sites space is crowded and Zebra cut through.
“Zebra has that classic bingo feel that players are always looking for. The theming is excellent and the overall offering is spot on for the UK online bingo scene.” — Esther Rubin, WhichBingo Content Editor
Responsible Gambling Award
🏆 Winner: TOMBOLA
Tombola is a brand that bakes in responsible gambling across everything they do. With no wagering requirements, low minimum bets, a £2 cap on bingo tickets, and a Breast Cancer Now partnership – Tombola have shown a genuine care about the wellbeing of players.
“In an industry with an abundance of choice, a brand that looks after their customers is a brand that will no doubt last in the long run.” — Nic McBride, WhichBingo Editor
Best Advertising Campaign
🏆 Winner: PADDY POWER
Danny Dyer. Coleen Rooney. Gemma Collins. Peter Crouch. Paddy Power’s “Come Out and Play” campaign created by BBH London dropped in late 2025 and immediately turned everybody’s head. With its excellent script, Paddy Power put a Dyer spin on Scorsese’s Casino, which somehow all takes place in his bathtub.
Pre-Show Awards: Best of IRL Play
We zhuzhed up the awards this year with a Pre-Show round of five categories celebrating the people and places behind real-life bingo and casino. These categories were voted on separately to the Main Show and the results came in early.
Best Bingo Caller
🏆 Winner: KELLY HORTON – MECCA BINGO
Kelly Horton has been calling bingo at Mecca Brierley Hill inWest Midlands, for nearly two decades. No stranger to recognition, she already holds Mecca’s own Caller of the Year title which she won by getting the crowd line dancing to a remix of Stand By Me. Her regulars won’t be surprised she’s taking home the Best Bingo Caller award too!
“I love my job and at every session I aim to give customers the best evening” – Kelly Horton, Mecca Bingo Brierley Hill, Dudley
Best Party Bingo Event
🏆 Winner: BONGO’S BINGO
If bingo and bonkers live entertainment had a baby, it would be Bongo’s Bingo. Mixing traditional bingo with dance-offs, rave intervals, and cheeky audience participation, Liverpool-born Bongo’s is now loved worldwide. The party bingo genre proves that bingo can be a proper night “out out”.
Best Bingo Personality
🏆 Winner: TUBZ
Tubz is a UK bingo influencer with over 370k TikTok followers and 15 million likes. A genuine fan of bingo and a regular at his local club, Tubz is an official WhichBingo reviewer, and just as likely to rate bingo food as bingo games. The online bingo community loves him and even his ‘gravy on crumpets’ recipe.
“I won WhichBingo’s best bingo personality of the year 2026! It means the absolute world. Just to be nominated was a great feeling, and to win it, wow, I’m just over the moon. Thanks everyone for all your support and for voting”.
Best Casino Restaurant
JAMES MARTIN RESTAURANT AT METROPOLITAN CASINOS
The voters awarded this five-star, modern British cuisine restaurant first place spot, and we understand why. Manchester235 is the Vegas-style casino which houses James Martin’s award-winning celebrity restaurant which not only has a sensational menu (we’ll take the Yorkshire Lamb Rump please), there’s a Meat Market display too.
Best Bingo Food
🏆 Winner: MECCA BINGO
Aw, our last 2026 award. From light bites toasties and jackpots, to loaded fries, burgers, and even desserts, everything on the menu is less than a tenner, making “Feed the Fun at Mecca” feel like more “feed the fans at Mecca”! Proper grub at fair prices? No wonder players voted them the best.
What the WhichBingo Awards 2026 Tell Us About the Future of the Industry
We believe that 2026’s winners tell a clear story: community wins.
Categories like chat teams and customer service were the ones that drew in a huge share of votes. Nobody stays loyal to a site because of an RTP percentage. Players stay because they’ve connected to someone in the chat room who made them laugh, or because a friendly voice solved their issue with care and attention.
The Editors’ Choice picks reflect the appreciation of building and maintaining trust. Mecca’s Hall of Fame win recognises decades of work. And Zebra Bingo’s Best Newcomer award shows that classic bingo still works. The best new bingo sites and new online casinos are the ones that understand what players want and deliver it from day one.
Then there’s the real-world side. Best Bingo Event, Best Bingo Personality, Best Bingo Food, we added these categories because for many people, bingo isn’t an app. It’s nights out, familiar faces, and even good loaded fries at a fair price. The line between online and IRL keeps blurring, and we love to represent that in our awards.
Thank You for Voting. What’s Coming Next?
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