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 120 million visitors and approximately 900 million page impressions in the year ended 31 December 2008.
moneysupermarket.com saves consumers time and money - both precious commodities, especially during a recession. 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.
moneysupermarket.com operates across four verticals:
Insurance Vertical
- Insurance has become the cornerstone of the Group's offering accounting for approximately £77 million, or 45%, of internet revenue in financial year ended 31 December 2008.
- Launched in 2003, the insurance comparison service attracted approximately 25m visitors in 2008. There are 15 channels in Insurance including car insurance, home insurance (buildings & contents), travel insurance and life insurance.
- 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.
Money Vertical
- Money now makes up approximately £68 million, or 40%, of internet revenue and attracted approximately 35 million visitors in financial year ended 31 December 2008.
- There are 14 channels within money including loans, credit cards, savings, current accounts and mortgages.
- 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. 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 40 staff who provide mortgage and life insurance advisory services to consumers whose leads are not passed on through PAALeads.com.
Travel Vertical
- The Travel vertical, which trades under the travelsupermarket.com brand, accounted for approximately £19 million, or 11%, of internet revenues and approximately 49 million visitors in the financial year ended 31 December 2008.
- There are nine channels within travel, the core ones being package holidays, car hire, flights and hotels.
Home Services Vertical
- Our newest vertical; Home Services, contributed approximately £7million, or 4%, of internet revenues and approximately 11 million visitors in the financial year ended 31 December 2008.
- The vertical enables consumers to compare and switch utilities (gas and electricity), broadband and mobile phone providers.
- Our Utilities channel is accredited by Consumer Focus.
- In 2008 we launched a Shopping comparison service within Home Services, this now includes the facility for customers to access discount vouchers.