PriceRunner.co.uk, the UK’s most comprehensive and impartial price comparison service has today announced that it has been appointed by Ask.com, one of the leading search engines, to develop its shopping solution in the UK.
This brand new channel is set to go live in early November in time for the lead up to Christmas.
Ask.com, the fastest growing search engine, is renowned for its innovative search technologies that deliver fast and relevant results. It has selected PriceRunner.co.uk to expand the shopping search channel of its site through a white label version of PriceRunner.co.uk.
This means that consumers searching for products on Ask.com will now have access to product information across more than 200 different categories and millions of products.
Oliver Hill, VP Business Development at Ask.com comments; “We made the decision to bring PriceRunner.co.uk on board as we want to be able to offer our customers a comprehensive variety of information to any shopping search that they may have.
"PriceRunner.co.uk appealed to us because it offers unbiased product information from the largest range of retailers possible and is focused on delivering on user experience in addition to price.”
Mattias Berg, Managing Director of PriceRunner.co.uk, comments, “We are delighted to be working with Ask.com as their new provider of price comparison information. It is an excellent opportunity for us to promote and grow the level of traffic to our merchants. Ask.com provides a very comprehensive service to every user, and we are dedicated to expanding its shopping channel solution to offer the best product and price comparison available.”
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Contact Details
ValueClick Europe
Lisa Hancox
PR Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 8785 5835
Email: lhancox@valueclick.com
Celia Dixon
PR Executive
Tel: +44 (0)20 8785 5849
Email: cdixon@valueclick.com
Ask.com
Sophia Antoniades
European PR Manager
Email: sophia.antoniades@ask.com
About ValueClick:
ValueClick Inc. (Nasdaq: VCLK) is 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:
vcmedia - online advertising network and ad sales for advertisers and publishers
Commission Junction - affiliate marketing
PriceRunner.co.uk – the UK’s most comprehensive and impartial price comparison website
Mediaplex - intelligent technology for digital marketing, including adserving, email marketing and paid search bid management.
For more information, please visit www.valueclick.co.uk.
About Ask.com
- Ask.com is a leading search engine, combining world-class search technology with one-of-a-kind search tools to help people get what they are looking for faster. Ask.com is a division of IAC Search & Media, a wholly-owned business of IAC.
- Ask.com re-launched in June, now offering a richer search experience. Bringing together information from the best range of sources available, yield results in from – the web, music, news, video, reference, image and blog content.