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SOURCE: InsWeb Corporation
InsWeb to Offer Insurance Shopping Services at ZDNet
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- InsWeb Corporation (Nasdaq: INSW - news), an online insurance marketplace, announced an agreement today to offer its comparison shopping service for personal insurance products at ZDNet, one of the Internet's most popular destinations for technology, community and commerce.
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Through a new co-branded insurance center, ZDNet visitors will be able to shop for insurance-company sponsored quotes for actual coverage for auto, individual health, homeowners, renters and term life insurance from the nation's leading carriers. The agreement also includes significant InsWeb advertising placements throughout ZDNet content areas, such as AtHome, Inter@ctive Investor, Small Business and Computershopper.com. ZDNet is consistently ranked the top Web site in the News, Information and Entertainment category by Media Matrix. With 8.6 million unique users in June, ZDNet Sites was the sixteenth largest Web property.
''ZDNet is a marquee Internet property whose technologically savvy audiences are interested in handling their insurance needs online,'' said InsWeb Senior Vice President Paul Weiskopf, head of Strategic Partnerships. ''Working with top-rated sites such as ZDNet further extends InsWeb's broad distribution, making our online marketplace available to the widest audience possible.''
InsWeb's marketplace is accessible from more than 90 sites on the Internet, including Yahoo!, GO Network, Snap.com, Looksmart and E*TRADE, and is available through Microsoft Money 99.
''InsWeb offers the most comprehensive service to help consumers handle their personal insurance needs, which can be a significant monthly expense for consumers. ZDNet's high visitor retention rate is in large part due to our tremendous number of available services,'' said Barry Briggs, executive vice president, ZDNet. ''We are delighted to team with InsWeb to offer one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-use services to help consumers handle their personal insurance needs.''
About ZDNet
Based in San Francisco, ZDNet develops and maintains the ZDNet Web site (www.zdnet.com), a leading source for technology and Internet content and commerce. By combining groundbreaking, interactive technology with editorial from its own award-winning editorial team and from Ziff-Davis' worldwide network of journalists, ZDNet produces original, compelling content and communities of common interests in technology. ZDNet is consistently ranked by Media Metrix as the number-one Web site in the News, Information and Entertainment category. ZDNet is a division of Ziff-Davis Inc.
About InsWeb
InsWeb, an online insurance marketplace (http://www.insweb.com), helps consumers save time and money by providing free, multiple insurance quotes sponsored by the nation's leading insurance companies. InsWeb's 39 participating insurers offer auto, term life, homeowners, renters, individual health and short-term medical insurance. InsWeb is accessible from more than 90 sites on the Internet, including Yahoo!, GO Network, Snap.com, LookSmart, Go2Net and E*TRADE. InsWeb is also available through Microsoft Money 99. In addition, InsWeb provides interactive tools and research capabilities that assist consumers in making more informed decisions. InsWeb is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif.
NOTE: ''INSWEB'' is a registered service mark of InsWeb Corporation. All marks above are those of InsWeb Corporation, except for those of insurance carriers, brokers, agents, industry organizations, financial institutions, other companies, service providers and educational institutions, which are the marks of their respective entities. |
