TMP Worldwide's The Monster Board Announces Strategic Alliances With Hoover's And Five Additional Leading Web Sites

New York, N.Y., July 16, 1997 -- The Monster Board (http://www.monster.com), owned by TMP Worldwide (NASDAQ: TMPW), has announced six new alliances with leading Web sites. The new partners include Hoover's, About Work, Trade Show Central, t@p onlineTM, Cincinnati Bell, and Computer Currents Interactive. The Monster Board, the Internet's premier career site, will provide visitors to these Web sites with more than 50,000 job listings, resume-building and posting capabilities, and career advice.

"We have now formed a total of 25 strategic alliances and this list includes some of the most impressive names on the Web," said Andrew J. McKelvey, chairman and CEO of TMP Worldwide. "We are going to continue to add to this list, further strengthening the appeal of our recruitment sites to both job seekers and clients."

According to a May Nielsen I/PRO audit, The Monster Board receives more than 1,000,000 visits a month, an increase of 44% in the last three months. Jeff Taylor, TMP's executive vice president, Interactive, believes this increase can be attributed, in part, to the company's co-branding efforts.

"All of our co-branding efforts help to extend the reach of The Monster Board," said Taylor. "By partnering with other leading sites we are able to provide job postings and career information to the widest possible audience including more 'passive' job-seekers who may otherwise not access our clients' advertisements."

Hoover's is the nation's leading provider of company information to consumers and professionals. Hoover's provides high-quality, engagingly written and useful information about the world's largest, fastest-growing and most influential enterprises. Hoover's Company Information is available on more than 23 Internet and online services, including its own Web sites, Hoover's Online (http://www.hoovers.com), IPO Central (http://www.ipocentral.com), Cyberstocks (http://www.cyberstocks.com) and StockScreener (http://www.stockscreener.com).

AboutWork (http://www.aboutwork.com or AOL keyword: aboutwork) is a community ofiVillage (http://www.ivillage.com), the daily destination for grown-ups who want practical answers to real-life questions. iVillage's communities, covering topics such as health, parenting and lifestyle, offer powerful resources and inspire members to produce life-changing results.

Visitors to Trade Show Central (http://www.tscentral.com), which boasts viewership of more than one million page views per month, will have access to The Monster Board's extensive list of jobs. In turn, Trade Show Central offers visitors to The Monster Board access to trade shows, seminars and conferences worldwide.

t@p online (www.taponline.com) is owned by Market Source, one of the nation's largest marketing companies for college students and Generation X. Through its t@p Network's JobSourceTM site (http://www.jobsource.com), visitors will have access to The Monster Board's job database, Resume City and personal job search agent.

Cincinnati-Today (http://www.cincinnati-today.com), set to launch September 1, is an advertising supported community Internet publication that will offer an array of products and services to the Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan area. The backbone of the site will be an electronic version of the Cincinnati Bell Yellow Pages, designed to complement the printed version.

Computer Currents Interactive (http://www.currents.net) is an award-winning Web site that provides useful information by focusing on regional computer-related resources for business owners, corporate managers and computer users. The site presently has over 37,000 members and receives more than 98,000 unique online users per month.

For TMP, these six alliances are the latest additions to an impressive list of co-branding efforts which includes MCI Telecommunications, Inc., USA TODAY Online, NBC Interactive Neighborhood, Comcast, US West, ZDNet, Advertising Age, Switchboard, Gartner Group and Cahner's Publishing.

The Monster Board is the premier career site on the Internet's World Wide Web, connecting career seekers with top employers online. The Monster Board provides free access to more than 50,000 current job postings, as well as employers profiles. More than 3,000 companies are currently posting jobs on the site, and more than 160,000 resumes are available to employers through The Monster Board's "Resume City." Each month more than 1,000,000 people visit The Monster Board to look for positions and gather information on furthering their careers.

The Monster Board, based in Framingham, Mass., is the flagship product of the Interactive Division of TMP Worldwide, the 14th largest advertising agency in the country and the largest yellow page and a leading recruitment advertising agency worldwide. TMP intends to continue to develop alliances that will provide additional value-added content to its list of career center Web sites, which currently includes The Monster Board, Online Career Center (http://www.occ.com), Be The Boss (http://www.betheboss.com) and MedSearch (http://www.medsearch.com).

The Monster Board is a registered trademark of TMP Worldwide. Online Career Center, Be The Boss and MedSearch are service marks of TMP Worldwide.