dub3 card · www.comparethemeerkat.com
Compare the Meerkat (2009)
A site for comparing meerkats. Not markets. Meerkats. Simples.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Commerce
- Era
- Modern (2009 on)
- Collection
- Meme Machine
What it does
Each round end: +1 Power to this card.
Each round end fires as every round finishes.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 5 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Commerce cards grow every round and make your opponent pay more to play.
The site, in 2009
The meerkat-comparison site of Aleksandr Orlov, the aristocratic cartoon meerkat from Compare the Market's adverts, tired of being mixed up with them.
VCCP's campaign launched on 5 January 2009 with a TV advert and this companion site, which drew over 2 million hits a month by 2010. It lifted comparethemarket.com to fourth among UK insurance sites and made 'simples' a catchphrase.
In 2009: Launched on 5 January alongside the first TV advert, in which Aleksandr complains about the confusion.
Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.
Meme Machine: Where the jokes everyone repeated got started.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2009 page.
Put it on your site
Run Compare the Meerkat, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2009, then plays a short scene. Want Compare the Meerkat in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
