COMPAREtheMARKET the online insurance comparison site has signed an insurance deal with PriceRunner.co.uk, the UK’s most comprehensive and impartial price comparison website – delivering an online insurance centre for customers.

Consumers surfing PriceRunner need only enter their details once to gain competitively priced motor insurance quotes from over 300 leading brand insurers instantly online.

Matt Munro, Head of Business Development, COMPAREtheMARKET, explains, “PriceRunner has built a strong brand, recognised by consumers looking to purchase online. Early talks with PriceRunner highlighted their need to leverage an already successful online offering with a compelling insurance proposition that sat neatly alongside their core brand values.

COMPAREtheMARKET is geared to meet this objective – offering the end-consumer the best price in a convenient, fast and easy-to-use way.”

PriceRunner chose to partner with COMPAREtheMARKET for its motor insurance offering based on COMPAREtheMARKET’s ease of use, and ability to offer the customer competitive quotes from leading insurers such as Marks & Spencer, Post office, Norwich Union and AXA, in under four minutes.

Mattias Berg, UK Country Manager at PriceRunner confirmed, “We chose COMPAREtheMARKET to be our exclusive partner for motor insurance because their offering is not only simple to use, but in addition, the end quote is extremely competitive across all customer types. At PriceRunner we aim to offer all of our customers the best possible price on all products and services – this has been the key to business success and one which COMPAREtheMARKET measured up to.”

For more information about PriceRunner go to www.pricerunner.co.uk, click on the PriceRunner Insurance Centre link for instant competitive insurance quotes.

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Notes to the Editor:

Contact:

PriceRunner.co.uk Lisa Hancox, PR Manager 0208 7855835 lhancox@valueclick.com
COMPAREtheMARKET Georgina Rushie, PR Manager 01733 374 670 Georgina.Rushie@comparethemarket.com	COMPAREtheMARKET Emma Fountain, Snr PR Executive 01733 845357 Emma.Fountain@comparethemarket.com

For further information please contact:

August One

Nicola Parker T: 0208 846 8831 E: nicola.parker@augustone.com

Vicki Realff T: 0208 846 8314 E: vicki.realff@augustone.com

About PriceRunner (ValueClick, Inc.):PriceRunner is owned by ValueClick, Inc., one of the world’s largest integrated online marketing companies. Through its individual brands, ValueClick offers comprehensive and scalable solutions that deliver cost-effective customer acquisition for advertisers and revenue for publishers. ValueClick provides advertisers and publishers with performance-based solutions through all online marketing channels. Brand offerings include:

• PriceRunner.co.uk – the UK’s most comprehensive and impartial price comparison website

• vcmedia – online advertising network and ad sales for advertisers and publishers

• Commission Junction – affiliate marketing

• Mediaplex – intelligent technology for digital marketing, including adserving, email marketing and paid search bid management.
  

For more information on ValueClick and PriceRunner.co.uk, please visit www.valueclick.co.uk.

About COMPAREtheMARKET.com

COMPAREtheMARKET was launched in 2006 as a motor insurance comparison site, offering customers the best insurance quote instantly online, from over 300 insurance schemes.

COMPAREtheMARKET has secured key partnerships with Auto Trader, moneysavingexpert.com and other online retailers who have similar customer profiles or are looking to expand their offering to provide insurance services to the customer.

In addition to motor insurance, COMPAREtheMARKET also offers van insurance. It is set to introduce home insurance in the autumn and bike insurance by spring 2007.

CtM is part of The Budget Group of Companies, which was established in 1992, and has grown to be the UK’s third largest personal lines intermediary, through a combination of organic growth and a series of major strategic acquisitions.

The Budget Group of Companies, incorporating COMPAREtheMARKET now has 1.2 million customers and contact centre operations in Peterborough, Coventry, Sunderland and Cape Town, South Africa. It employs around 1500 people and is headquartered in Peterborough, in the UK.

COMPAREtheMARKET is a trading style of BISL Limited of Pegasus House, Bakewell Road, Orton Southgate, Peterborough, PE2 6YS. Registered in England No. 3231094.

BISL Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority’

For further information visit www.COMPAREtheMARKET.com