About Us
moneysupermarket.com is the UK's leading finance price comparison website and a leading UK travel price comparison website. Our website attracted approximately 64 million visitors and approximately 523 million page impressions in the year ended 31 December 2006.
One of the main aims of moneysupermarket.com is to be a consumer champion. We believe our price comparison services offer a compelling value proposition to both consumers and product providers, simplifying consumers' research, improving consumers' shopping experience and enabling product providers and advertisers to target their marketing spend effectively.
moneysupermarket.com offers a free online service to consumers enabling them to search for and compare a wide range of products across the relevant market, and assists them in finding the product most suited to their requirements. As a result, we are able to offer product providers and advertisers access to considerable volumes of informed consumers who, having compared products, are potentially ready to make a purchasing decision.
Our revenue comes predominantly from fees paid by providers, advertisers and financial intermediaries. moneysupermarket.com's price comparison services are complemented by rich community features such as user forums and editorial content.
In addition to its primary internet business, the Group operates an offline intermediary business which was established in 1993 and provides mortgage sourcing and information systems and related services to financial intermediaries.
Money Vertical
- Cornerstone of the Group's offering and approximately £53 million, or 50%, of revenue and approximately 23 million visitors in financial year ended 31 December 2006.
- The search results typically compare and rank substantially all providers in the relevant channel irrespective of whether the relevant provider has a commercial relationship with the Group.
- Introduced SmartSearch technology in 2005, which allows consumers to match their credit profiles to the lowest cost products. The SmartSearch benefits both consumers and contracted providers.
- Dedicated market rates team.
- PAALeads.com business, a lead generation business established in 2002, to collect details from consumers, with their permission, who were researching mortgages online but who were either unwilling or unable to complete their transaction online.
- moneysupermarket.com Customer Assistance Team - moneysupermarket.com's in house team of approximately 80 staff who provide mortgage and life insurance advisory services to consumers whose leads are not passed on through PAALeads.com.
Insurance Vertical
- Accounting for approximately £31 million, or 30%, of revenue in financial year ended 31 December 2006.
- Launched in 2003, the insurance comparison service listed products from 126 contracted providers as at 31 March 2007.
- The insurance vertical offers consumers the ability to compare quotations for home and motor insurance in real time using the Group's screen-scraping technology. This technology was developed internally by the Group in order to facilitate the launch of the Insurance vertical because the number of variables involved in obtaining home and motor insurance quotations means that it is not practicable to use a market rates team to collate a database of information.
- More recently moneysupermarket.com has worked with contracted providers to retrieve information from their databases using XML technology, enabling deep linking between moneysupermarket.com and contracted providers which is faster and more effective than screen-scraping.
Travel Vertical
- The Travel vertical accounted for approximately £8 million, or 7%, of revenues and approximately 20 million visitors in the financial year ended 31 December 2006.
- As at 31 March 2007, moneysupermarket.com listed products from 111 contracted providers and two other providers in its search results.
- According to Mintel, March 2006, travel and holidays are consistently one of the most common purchases made online.
- Travel processes a high volume of searches at comparatively low transaction fees. In 2006, comparison search queries from approximately 0.9 million visitors per month covering 500 airlines and 34 providers were processed in the flights channel alone.
