shopping headquarters new york ny usa key people darren macdonald ceo anthony cassandra cto tamir buchler cro parent iac slogan shop everywhere right here website www.pronto.com pronto.com is a price comparison service and a division of barry diller s company iac . pronto was originally founded by iac in 2005 as a downloadable software application that silently monitors all of a user s activity on a product page then shows deals from other merchants on the same items or similar ones until it finds a better deal . 1 in july 2006 pronto launched the beta of its traditional comparison shopping engine website which was made official in september 2006 . according to compete.com a web traffic analysis company pronto.com was ranked the 7th fasting moving website for the period of december 2006 to december 2007 . 2 in 2007 iac redesigned pronto.com to incorporate social networking into the purchase of goods ranging from clothes sports equipment and electronics . new features included letting users rate products interact with others online write their own reviews and join networks of shoppers with similar tastes . 3 pronto was the first major comparison shopping engine to launch social features . according to dan marriott then ceo of pronto.com . the new pronto.com combines the best of social software and product search into an online shopping community that has not existed until today so consumers can visit one destination for the most fully informed shopping experience . 4 in 2009 pronto.com launched vertical micro sites starting with fashion home and tech followed by kids and baby . iac also announced the appointment of darren macdonald as the new chief executive officer of pronto who would maintain strategic and operational oversight of the pronto brands . 5 pronto.com s first international venture began in 2010 with the launch of megadeal.jp geared towards the japanese market . 2010 also saw the creation of the pronto content network pcn known as the writers network . with this venture iac moved into the content mill space pioneered by the likes of demand media and yahoo s associated content both of which employ thousands of freelancers who churn out enterprise articles often of the how to variety and almost always google search friendly . 6 2011 saw the international expansion of pronto.com into three more countries starting with the launch of the german site dealecke.de in march . followed by superprix.com a site geared towards french users in july and the upcoming launch of its uk site dealhop in october . see also edit comparison shopping agent list of search engines price comparison service vertical search references edit pssst you can get it cheaper over there new york times . 2006 03 27 . retrieved 2011 09 16 . sink or swim the top moving sites of 2007 compete.com . 2008 01 17 . retrieved 2011 09 16 . iac tries to woo shoppers with revamped web site the wall street journal . 2007 09 11 . retrieved 2011 09 16 . web s fastest growing comparison shopping site launches community features pr newswire . retrieved 2011 09 21 . iac names macdonald 09 as ceo of pronto ucla anderson school of management . retrieved 2011 09 21 . iac launches the writers network adweek . 2010 12 22 . retrieved 2011 09 21 . external links edit official site v t e iac match group blackpeoplemeet.com chemistry.com delightful friendscout24 howaboutwe match.com meetic group okcupid ourtime people media plentyoffish tinder the princeton review tutor.com twoo iac publishing about.com ask.com citygrid dictionary.com investopedia the daily beast iac applications apalon slimware ask applications video collegehumor dailyburn electus iac films notional vimeo homeadvisor homeadvisor other shoebuy.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pronto.com & oldid 650365114 categories comparison shopping websiteshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersarticles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 march 2015 at 23 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view