Online life insurance leads: web, internet and inbound leads explained
Online life insurance leads are contact requests sent over the internet: someone fills in a form on a website, a search advert’s landing page or a social media lead form and asks to hear from an adviser about cover. Most are inbound leads, because the customer made the first move, but how much that move means depends on where they were and what they thought they were signing up for. You can buy them from lead marketplaces, lead generation agencies and comparison or affiliate partners, or generate your own, and the fair way to compare any of them is what a policy costs you in leads, not the price of one lead.
What are online life insurance leads?
An online life insurance lead is a person’s name, contact details and basic cover needs, captured by a form on a website, in an advert or inside a social media app when they ask to be contacted about life insurance.
American sites sell them as internet life insurance leads for agents. Here, the buyer is an advice firm or an appointed representative, and what the customer saw on the form is judged against UK data protection and marketing rules.
Life insurance web leads, internet leads and online leads
The names are used loosely. Life insurance web leads, life insurance internet leads and online leads all describe the same starting point: details typed into a form and sent over the internet. What sits behind the form varies enormously. It might be a careful quote request from someone who has just agreed a mortgage, or two taps on a form that appeared between holiday photos.
So “online” tells you how a lead was captured, not how good it is. Two other questions tell you more: who made the first contact, and what the customer understood would happen after they pressed send. Our main guide to UK life insurance leads explains lead types and what a lead contains in general. This page stays with leads that begin on a screen.
What are inbound life insurance leads?
Inbound life insurance leads start with the customer, who sends a form or rings a number. Outbound leads start with the seller, whose call centre works through a list and passes on, or transfers, the people who show interest. Most online leads are inbound, but not every lead that began online stays that way.
An online prize draw or survey can become a calling list. The list is worked by a call centre, and the people who agree to talk are sold as live transfers weeks later. The details were collected on the internet, but the conversation you’re buying began with a cold call. That model, and the calling rules behind it, is covered in our hotkey guide.
Inbound calls are the other kind of inbound lead: the customer rings a number shown on an advert or web page and the call is put through to your firm. There is no form to read, so ask what the advert promised and, if the seller charges per call, how it defines a billable call, for example a minimum length. The customer started that first conversation, but any callback you make later is a call you started, so ask your compliance adviser how PECR applies to it.
Sellers use overlapping labels for these routes. This table sorts them by who made the first contact and what you can ask to see.
| Label | Who made the first contact | Evidence to ask for | Watch for |
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| Online or web enquiry (often sold as real-time) | The customer, by sending a form | The page, the consent wording and the time it was sent | Intent varies with the source behind the form |
| Inbound call | The customer, by ringing a number from an advert or web page | The advert or page that showed the number, and what counts as a billable call | There may be no written consent, and someone has to answer every call live |
| Hotkey or live transfer | Usually the seller’s call centre, which then transfers the customer | Where the calling list came from, when it was TPS screened, and the call script | Details collected online can still end in an outbound call |
| Aged lead | The customer, weeks or months earlier | The original form, its date and how many firms have bought it | Interest and consent both fade with time |
| Data or list | No one yet: you make the first approach | Who compiled the list and what people were told | Not an enquiry at all: every call needs TPS screening and every email or text needs consent naming your firm |
Where do online life insurance leads come from?
Most online leads start in one of six places. Many sellers use several, and some buy traffic or finished leads from other generators, so a sales page that says “our websites” can cover a lot of ground.
Those figures from the FCA’s consumer research hint at the shape of the online market. Search and comparison sites tend to catch people who are already looking. Many of those who have never considered their needs won’t search for cover, so online they are more often reached by adverts that appear while they’re doing something else, such as social and display adverts. Both produce online leads; they are not the same lead.
| Source | How the enquiry happens | What it suggests | Ask the seller |
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| Paid search (PPC) | The person types a query about life cover, clicks an advert and completes the form on its landing page | They were looking for cover when they enquired | Which search terms it bids on, and which FCA authorised firm its adverts are verified under |
| Organic search and content sites | They find a guide, calculator or quote page in the search results and enquire from it | They were researching; how far along depends on the page | Which pages produce the enquiries |
| Comparison and quote sites | They enter their details expecting prices, then agree to be called | Price is on their mind, and they may expect several firms to ring | Whether the form said one adviser would call, or several |
| Social media lead forms | An advert in their feed opens a short form, often already filled in from their profile | They reacted to an advert rather than setting out to buy | The advert, the form and the consent wording, word for word |
| Affiliates and co-registration | Another site, newsletter or sign-up flow passes details on, sometimes through a “partners” tick box | Anything from strong intent to none; it depends on the original page | Who the affiliates are and what each customer actually saw |
| Quizzes, calculators and competitions | They answer a few questions or enter a draw, and contact details are the price of the result | Curiosity or a prize, more than a need for cover | Whether an incentive was offered, and how clear the life insurance message was |
Affiliate and co-registration leads need the most questions. An affiliate is usually paid for each lead it sends, which rewards volume, and co-registration bundles a life insurance opt-in into a sign-up for something else. Neither is wrong in itself, but the person may barely remember the tick box, and a form that promised contact from a long list of partners may not have produced consent you can rely on.
The regulator’s own definition reaches the platforms too. In the final report of its pure protection market study (September 2026), the FCA treats as a lead generator any firm that collects people’s contact details and hands them on to other firms for payment, whether a fee or a cut of the commission, and it says that can include search engines and social platforms. For you the point is practical: ask which firm actually collected the details and passed them on, because that firm’s form and consent are the ones your contact relies on.
How does intent differ between online sources?
Intent is how ready the person is to talk about cover when your call comes in. It isn’t printed on the lead, but the source predicts much of it, because each source catches people at a different point. Four broad levels cover most online life insurance leads:
- Asking. They searched for life cover or a quote, landed on a page about it and asked for a call. They expect to hear from someone.
- Researching. They were reading a guide or using a calculator and enquired from it. Interested, but they may be early in their thinking.
- Reacting. An advert in their feed made them think of it and they tapped a short form. Interested in that moment, and they may not recall it the next day.
- Rewarded. They completed a form to see a result or enter a draw. Cover may not be what they came for at all.
None of these is worthless. A person reacting to an advert today may need cover as much as one who searched for it; they just haven’t got as far. The difference usually shows first in your contact rate and in how many attempts it takes to reach someone, and that is where the cost of a cheaper source tends to come back.
PPC life insurance leads
PPC (pay per click) leads come from paid search adverts. The person typed something about life cover into a search engine, so intent is usually high, and the advertiser pays for every click whether or not it turns into an enquiry. Insurers, comparison sites and advice firms compete for the same search terms, and firms have told the FCA that keyword costs are high, so search-driven enquiries can cost more to produce than social ones.
Ask which search terms the seller bids on: a campaign built on “cheap life insurance” attracts different people from one built on “life cover for my mortgage”. Then ask whose name the adverts run under. Google has enforced UK financial services verification since 6 September 2021, and anyone advertising financial services on Google in the UK must show FCA authorisation or qualify for a listed exemption. A lead generation agency that isn’t FCA authorised itself can only be verified as an approved third party, vouched for by an FCA authorised firm that approves its promotions and starts the verification, so the seller should be able to name that firm.
Facebook life insurance leads
Social leads come from the opposite direction. They reach people who weren’t looking, and a Facebook or Instagram lead form opens inside the app, often with the person’s name, email and phone number already filled in from their profile, so sending it can take a couple of taps. That makes volume cheaper and easier to produce, and intent thinner. Some people forget they did it, and a pre-filled profile can carry an old number or an email nobody reads.
Facebook life insurance leads can still work for firms that call quickly and follow up well, as long as they’re priced for what they are. Ask the seller to show you the advert and the form. A form with a question or two about the cover wanted slows people down a little, which tends to filter out some casual taps.
Meta brought in its UK rule at the end of October 2022, according to the FCA’s financial promotions data, and the FCA says the large social media platforms now accept UK financial services adverts only from FCA authorised firms, or adverts an authorised firm has approved. It also says the platforms don’t enforce those policies well enough, so an advert running is no proof that an authorised firm stands behind it. A seller running these adverts should be able to name that firm.
If you’d rather run search or social campaigns yourself, generating your own life insurance leads walks through set-up, targeting, landing pages and forms, and when buying beats building.
How can you tell where an online lead came from?
With online life insurance leads, ask before you buy and keep checking once leads arrive. Sellers that run their own websites and adverts can normally take you from advert to inbox step by step. A reseller of leads bought from other generators often can’t, because it never saw the form.
What to ask a seller
- The pages and adverts that produce the enquiries, and the exact consent wording next to the submit button.
- Whether your firm is named on the form, or whether the customer agrees to hear from “partners” or an unnamed adviser.
- When each enquiry was sent and when it reaches you, so you know how fresh it is.
- The traffic source for each lead: paid search, organic search, social, an affiliate or another route.
- Whether any leads are bought in from other generators, and if so, from whom.
- Who issues or approves its adverts, and whether it appears on the FCA Financial Services Register, and in what capacity.
- What happens to each enquiry after you buy it: kept for you alone, or sold again later.
Keep the answers. They are your record of why you chose that source, and they make the next conversation with the seller much shorter if something changes. For the exclusivity side of the last question, see how to check a lead is really exclusive. If you’re weighing up several sellers, our guide to choosing a UK lead seller scores them on these points and more.
Why the seller’s adverts matter to you
The advert is the customer’s first impression of the conversation you’re about to have. If it promised something you can’t deliver, the call starts on the back foot. The ASA has upheld complaints against life insurance lead generation adverts that posed as an independent blogger’s post, implied a quote service and didn’t make clear that people’s details were being collected for firms that paid for them. A customer who expected a page of prices and gets an adviser’s call instead is harder to help, and quicker to hang up.
The seller’s own regulatory status matters too. Buying a lead is not a regulated activity on its own; generating one can be, depending on what the seller does. Check the seller’s status on the Register yourself, keep a note of what you found, and take any doubt to your compliance adviser.
Read the source on every lead
Once leads arrive, use what’s on them. A lead that shows the website it came from and how the customer reached it lets you compare sources in your own figures. Record each first-call outcome against that source label, and over a month you’ll see which routes bring people who expected your call.
Ask the customer. “Do you remember filling in a form about life cover, and roughly where you saw it?” If someone says they didn’t enquire, apologise, end the sales conversation, add the number to your do-not-call list and record it against the source. If several customers from the same source don’t remember enquiring, take it up with the seller before you buy more.
How do you spot fake, bot and AI-generated form fills?
Fake enquiries are part of the cost of online life insurance leads: a web form can be filled in by anyone, or by software, and many affiliates are paid for each lead they submit. Some are automated, some are typed by people paid per lead, and some are real people’s details entered by somebody else. A seller paid for every lead has less reason to catch them than you do, so it pays to know what they look like.
- Bots and scripts. Software that fills in forms in bulk, sometimes to inflate the numbers an affiliate is paid on.
- AI-generated entries. Names, postcodes and phone numbers produced to look plausible. They pass a glance at the inbox but not a phone call.
- Lead stuffing. An affiliate paid per lead submits details itself, or recycles old ones, to hit a target.
- Someone else’s details. A prank, a grudge, or a well-meaning relative putting in a parent’s number “so someone sorts out their life cover”. The person you reach never asked for your call: explain how you got their number, end the sales conversation, add them to your do-not-call list, and speak to them again only if they ask you to.
- Incentivised fills. Real people who completed the form for a reward and never wanted a call.
Warning signs in the leads you receive
- The number isn’t in service, belongs to someone else, or sits in the ranges Ofcom reserves for TV and radio drama
- Names such as “Test Test”, keyboard runs, or the first name repeated as the surname
- Disposable or placeholder email addresses, or an obvious typo in the email domain
- A postcode that doesn’t exist, or doesn’t match what the customer tells you
- A burst of enquiries from one source at odd hours, with similar-looking details
- Customers who say they never sent an enquiry
What a careful seller does about it
Checks at the point of capture stop much of this before it reaches you: number formats and ranges, email checks, duplicate checks against earlier enquiries, and protection against automated submissions on the form itself. A seller should also watch its traffic sources and drop any that send bad leads, and it should credit fraudulent or test leads that get through. Ask what it checks on each submission and how it deals with a source that turns bad. You won’t see most of that yourself, so a seller that can’t explain its checks leaves you to find the fakes on the phone.
Validation has limits, and an honest seller will say so. A check can show that a number is real; it can’t show that the owner of that number wanted a call. Our guide to what makes a lead qualified sets out what each level of checking actually proves.
What you can do
Log every invalid lead with its source and the reason, claim credits inside the seller’s window, and get the seller’s policy on fraudulent leads in writing before you start. Review the invalid share by source each month. A source whose share keeps rising is telling you something about how its leads are made, whatever the seller says.
Why does the source of an online lead matter for compliance?
Most of the rules on contacting a bought lead are the same however the lead began, and the rules section of our UK leads guide sets them out. What is particular to online life insurance leads is that the evidence sits on a web page you didn’t build. You depend on the seller to show you what the customer saw and agreed to.
The form decides what you can do next
PECR turns on what the form named. A live marketing call to a TPS-registered number needs the person to have told your firm, not just the seller or its “partners”, that they don’t object to your calls. Email or text marketing to bought-in details needs consent that names your firm and the channel, and the soft opt-in never applies.
A form that names only the seller, or offers a long list of partners, doesn’t give your firm consent for email or text marketing, and it isn’t a notification to your firm for a TPS-registered number. Whether a given form supports the contact you plan is for your firm to decide with your compliance adviser or network.
Online consent can fail on a large scale. A website that asked people to agree to contact from 361 named “partners”, with no way to pick between them, did not produce valid consent, the ICO decided in January 2026. The company that sent marketing emails on the strength of it was fined £105,000, and the regulator said it hadn’t done enough to check the data before using it.
You have to name the source to the customer
Data protection law requires you to tell people where their details came from. Under UK GDPR, someone whose data you bought must get your privacy information, including where you got their details, no later than your first contact with them and within a month in any case. Ask your compliance adviser whether anything the seller has already told them changes what you need to say. You can’t name a source the seller won’t disclose, which is one more reason to know the route behind every lead.
Misleading adverts become your customer’s problem
The FCA’s Consumer Duty covers retail customers before they become your clients as well as after, and expects firms to avoid foreseeable harm and support customers’ understanding. Someone who enquired through an advert that misled them about what they were getting starts their journey with you confused. When the FCA finished its market study, it decided not to make intermediaries report which lead generators they use, saying it would keep monitoring switching outcomes through supervision instead. Either way, be ready to explain how you chose your sources, and ask your compliance adviser which records about each source they’d want to see.
Customers in vulnerable circumstances
The FCA’s guidance on the fair treatment of vulnerable customers names health, life events, resilience and capability as the main drivers of vulnerability, and its consumer research found over-50s buyers are more often prompted by a bereavement or a milestone birthday. If the person you reach seems unwell, recently bereaved or confused, slow down, offer to call back or involve someone they trust, and don’t press for a decision on the first call. Ask your compliance adviser how your firm’s vulnerability policy applies to bought enquiries.
A form isn’t a free pass. A customer asking to be contacted is not the same as consent that names your firm for email or text, and it doesn’t settle TPS screening for calls. Store the consent record supplied with every lead, and settle your contact plan with your compliance adviser before anyone picks up the phone.
Online enquiries with the site and a source label on every lead.
From our own consumer websites, sent to one broker only. You set the most you’ll pay.
Are online life insurance leads worth buying?
They are when the policies they produce cost less in leads than your commission can carry. That depends far more on the source and on your own process than on the word “online”. Price per lead is the figure sellers lead with; cost per policy is the one that decides whether a source stays in your budget.
As a guide, exclusive leads are typically advertised at about £30 to £80 each, shared leads at about £10 to £25 and aged leads at £1 to £10.
Indicative ranges based on our view of typically advertised UK prices in 2026. Not a survey and not Protection Connect prices; on Protection Connect you set your own maximum.
Our guide to life insurance lead pricing models explains how those prices are set and what else you pay for. If you buy life insurance leads online from more than one seller, the funnel below is the fairest way to compare them: follow a batch from purchase to policies on risk, then run it again for each source.
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What does an online lead cost per policy?
Follow a test batch of online enquiries through each stage of your process, then change the price and the share you speak to so you can compare one source with another.
After underwriting, cancellations and not taken up.
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Illustrative calculator: the default figures are examples, not Protection Connect results or a forecast. Use your own numbers.
Illustrative example: the defaults model a test of 50 online enquiries at £45 each, £2,250 in all. You speak to 65% of them, quote half of those, 45% of quotes become applications and 80% of applications go on risk. That leaves about 5.9 policies, so each carries about £385 of lead cost. Assume £750 of initial commission per policy: the FCA’s interim market study report found initial commission is usually 170% to 250% of the first year’s premium, so that fits a policy costing roughly £25 to £37 a month. At that level the leads take about half of the commission before any clawback.
Now model a cheaper source by changing three inputs: price per lead £20, leads you speak to 40%, and conversations that get a quote 35%. The batch costs £1,000, you speak to 20 people, and about 2.5 policies go on risk: roughly £397 each in lead cost. The leads cost less than half as much, each policy costs slightly more, and you worked the same 50 leads to speak to 20 people instead of about 33. These rates are examples, not Protection Connect results.
Look at where the gap opens: the first two stages. In this example the cheaper source loses most ground in how many people you speak to and how many of them want a quote, and every lead you never reach still has to be paid for. When you compare sources, put the share you speak to and the cost per policy side by side. Keep measuring after the policy starts: some firms told the FCA that some early lapses came from poor-quality leads, so judge a source on policies that stay on risk, not just policies issued.
Speed decides the first stage
Contact rates tend to drop quickly after an enquiry. The person behind an online lead was at a screen when they sent it, and their attention soon moves on. Alerts, routing and cover for evenings and weekends matter as much as the source you choose. How to set up for that is the subject of our real-time leads guide.
Enquiries that aren’t sold fresh, or that are sold again later, are a common source of aged life insurance leads. Some sellers also sell each online lead to several firms at once, and shared versus exclusive leads explains what that does to your contact rate.
Which online leads suit your firm?
How each lead type suits each kind of firm is covered in which leads suit your type of firm. For online sources specifically:
- If you work alone or in a team of two or three, buy fewer, higher-intent enquiries you can call promptly, and cap each day’s spend. Cheap social volume tends to suit firms with the capacity to follow up a lot of enquiries.
- If you run a telephone team with a dialler, lower-intent sources can still work, because you have the capacity to follow up. Keep attempts reasonable and well spaced, stay within the contact methods each customer agreed to, and stop as soon as someone asks you to. PECR now treats call attempts as calls even when they don’t connect, and Ofcom’s persistent misuse rules cover abandoned and silent calls. Measure cost per policy, and early lapses, by source.
- If you already generate enquiries yourself, compare your own cost per policy with bought enquiries before scaling either. Every channel open to a UK firm is compared in ways to get life insurance leads.
- If you want an offline channel alongside online, look at how direct mail leads work in the UK, what mailers cost and the data rules behind them.
How online enquiries work on Protection Connect
Protection Connect is a UK marketplace for exclusive life insurance leads, and all of our enquiries start on our own consumer websites: LifeAdviser (life insurance) and 50Life (over-50s life insurance). They come from people looking for cover online who asked to be contacted. You choose the customers you want by product, age, smoker status and cover amount, and the most you’ll pay.
How an online enquiry reaches one broker on Protection Connect
From the moment someone looks for cover to the lead in your inbox.
- Looks for coverA real person looks for life insurance or over-50s cover online.
- Enquires and consentsOn LifeAdviser or 50Life they give their details and ask to be contacted.
- Eligibility firstOnly approved, FCA-checked firms whose campaign, budget and limits match.
- Highest bid winsThe winner pays 1p more than the next firm’s bid, or the minimum price. Never more than its maximum.
- Delivered to youIn your lead inbox with an email alert, or by webhook. Never shared or resold.
What each lead tells you about its source
Each lead names the website and carries a source label for how the customer got there: Search (paid), Search (organic), Social, Referral, Email, Direct, Partner or, where the site can’t tell, Unknown. The label shows the route our website recorded, not how keen the customer is, so judge each label in your own figures as you would any other source. Each lead also records when the customer consented and the contact methods they agreed to; our sample enquiry shows a fictional example.
You never receive the customer’s IP address or browser and device details, so you can’t run device checks of your own. The checks and credits below, and your own records by source, are how you deal with fakes that get through.
What a LifeAdviser customer agrees to
On LifeAdviser the customer ticks: “I’d like Life Adviser, a trading style of PJG Financial Limited, to contact me about life insurance by phone or email. I have read the Privacy Policy and Terms.” They are then told an FCA authorised adviser firm will contact them, and that the firm pays us a fee for the introduction, at no extra cost to them. The tick names Life Adviser, not your firm, so you introduce yourself on the first call. Ask your compliance adviser how PECR bears on the way you plan to contact them. The wording above is LifeAdviser’s; ask us for 50Life’s current wording before you buy over-50s enquiries.
Checks on details, and credits
Before we accept an enquiry, automatic checks refuse Ofcom drama numbers, obvious fakes and numbers outside UK ranges, and test the email for format, typos, disposable addresses and a domain that can receive mail. They can’t tell you whether the customer will pick up.
You have 48 hours from delivery to claim a credit on five grounds: invalid phone, invalid email, duplicate, materially outside your criteria, or fraudulent or test. Approved claims are credited to your balance in full. No answer or no sale isn’t grounds for a credit.
Protection Connect only supplies FCA authorised firms and their appointed representatives, and every application is verified against the FCA register before approval. Each enquiry is delivered to one broker only; our marketplace explained in full and how it works cover allocation, pricing and delivery.
Where we’re not the answer. We aren’t a cheap source of volume: the minimum price per enquiry is £35, and you choose a maximum at or above it. Our enquiries are for life insurance and over-50s life insurance, nothing else. Before you top up, your dashboard shows whether enquiries are being supplied.
Questions brokers ask about online leads
They are enquiries from people who filled in a form online, on a website, on a search advert’s landing page or in a social media lead form, asking to be contacted about life cover. Sellers also call them web, internet or inbound leads. The label tells you how the details were captured, not how keen the person is. That depends on the source, so ask every seller where its forms sit and what people agreed to.
In practice, yes. Life insurance web leads, internet leads and online leads all describe an enquiry sent through a form on the internet. Some sellers use “web leads” for their own websites and “online” more widely, so ask what the label covers. The route behind it matters more: paid search, organic search, social media, comparison sites and affiliates each produce different levels of intent.
It depends how soon you need enquiries and how much control you want. You can buy online enquiries from a lead marketplace, a lead generation agency or a comparison or affiliate partner, or build your own through your website, paid search and social adverts. Buying is quicker to start; generating gives you more control but takes time, adverts that meet the FCA’s rules and each platform’s financial services checks. Our guide to getting life insurance leads online compares the routes.
An inbound lead is one where the customer made the first contact, by sending an enquiry or ringing a number, rather than being phoned by a seller. Most online leads are inbound. Take care with details collected online but worked later by a call centre and transferred to you: the data came from the internet, but the conversation you are buying started with an outbound call.
They can be, if you price them for what they are. Social lead forms reach people who weren’t looking for cover, and pre-filled forms make an enquiry very easy to send, so intent and contact rates are often lower than for search enquiries. Ask to see the advert and the form, call quickly, and judge them on cost per policy against your other sources, not on their lower price per lead.
Not automatically, although they often start with more intent because the person searched for cover. They can also cost more to produce, because many firms bid on the same search terms. Run each source through the same funnel: price per lead, the share you speak to, the share you quote and the policies that go on risk. The source with the lower cost per policy at your firm is the better one for you.
Look for numbers that aren’t in service or belong to someone else, test-style names, disposable email addresses, postcodes that don’t exist and customers who say they never enquired. A cluster of similar leads from one source is a warning sign too. Record invalid leads by source, claim credits inside the seller’s window, and stop buying from any source where the invalid share keeps climbing.
Only where the rules allow it for that lead. Under PECR, email or text marketing to bought-in details generally needs the person to have agreed to marketing from your firm through that particular channel, and the soft opt-in rule can’t be used for leads from a seller. Check what the customer actually agreed to on the form, and agree the plan with your compliance adviser or network before anything is sent.
It depends on exclusivity, source, your filters and how the price is set, so there is no single rate. Our guide to UK lead prices explains the main pricing models and the extra costs that come with buying. Protection Connect’s minimum is £35 per life or over-50s enquiry, and you choose the most you’ll pay; you never pay more than that maximum.
From our own consumer websites: LifeAdviser for life insurance and 50Life for over-50s life insurance. They come from people looking for cover online who asked to be contacted. Every lead names the site, carries a label for how the customer arrived there, and records when they consented and which contact methods they agreed to. Each enquiry is delivered to one broker only.
Sources and further reading
- FCA: Pure protection market study, consumer research summary (2025 fieldwork)
- FCA: Pure protection market study final report (MS24/1.5), September 2026
- FCA: Pure protection market study interim report (MS24/1.4), January 2026
- FCA: Pure protection market study, market overview (MS24/1.3), September 2025
- Google Ads: Financial services verification enforcement dates by country
- Google Ads: Financial services verification, United Kingdom
- FCA: Financial promotions data 2022
- FCA: Press release on finfluencers and social media platforms’ advertising policies (April 2026)
- FCA: Financial Services Register
- ASA: Ruling on life insurance lead generation advertising (February 2023)
- ICO: Direct marketing and privacy and electronic communications
- ICO: Fines of £225,000 for nuisance marketing messages (January 2026)
- ICO: The right to be informed
- FCA: Guidance for firms on the fair treatment of vulnerable customers (FG21/1)
