TMP Worldwide's The Monster Board Announces Strategic Partnership With NBC Interactive Neighborhood

Internet's Premier Career Center Becomes Exclusive Career Site
For NBC's Owned and Operated Television Stations and Its 215 Affiliates

New York, N.Y., April 8, 1997 -- As part of its ongoing co-branding efforts, TMP Worldwide's (NASDAQ: TMPW) The Monster Board, (http://www.monster.com) today announced an alliance with NBC Interactive Neighborhood (NBC-IN). The Monster Board, the Internet's premier career center, will be the exclusive career site featured on NBC-IN, providing visitors with job listings, resume-building and posting capabilities and career advice.

NBC-IN is the new local interactive service designed to provide NBC television stations with premier content packages for their communities. It will feature a wide variety of localized consumer information ranging from arts and leisure events to employment, home and automobile listings. NBC will offer NBC-IN to its owned and operated stations and 215 affiliates.

"TMP is thrilled to partner with NBC," said Andy McKelvey, CEO and chairman of TMP Worldwide. "As NBC continues to play a major part in driving the world to the Web, The Monster Board is poised, through this relationship, to continue its well-deserved reputation of providing the most comprehensive, most effective career tools to the Internet population."

Through The Monster Board, visitors to participating NBC stations' Web sites will be able to perform job searches by location, discipline and keywords that describe the opportunity desired. Career-seekers can then browse results that best match their criteria, and apply instantly with an online resume to the jobs of interest.

The partnership represents a perfect fit for TMP's The Monster Board, reinforcing its position as the Internet's premier career center. "The NBC alliance provides TMP with the perfect venue to extend the reach of The Monster Board - not only with the current Internet population, but among the still-enormous 'off-line' population as well," said McKelvey.

For TMP, the NBC relationship is the latest in a growing list of co-branding efforts. Other strategic alliances with The Monster Board include Ziff Davis, Advertising Age, Gartner Group, Cahners Publishing, Industry.net and The Computer Museum. In addition, The Monster Board has entered into alliances with companies supplying leading recruitment software systems, including Restrac, Resumix and NetStart. 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).

NBC is a global media company with broadly diverse holdings. NBC owns and operates the NBC Television Network as well as eleven television stations. In the United States, NBC owns CNBC, operates MSNBC in partnership with the Microsoft Corporation, and has equity stakes in 17 other cable channels. Internationally, NBC owns NBC and CNBC networks in Europe and Asia. NBC has also been a leader in new media, with innovations such as MSNBC on the Internet with Microsoft, Intercast with Intel, MSNBC Desktop Video, and NBC.com, the first television network online.

The Monster Board is the premier career center 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 employer profiles. More than 3,000 companies are currently posting jobs on the site, and more than 70,000 resumes are available to employers through The Monster Board's "Resume City." Each month approximately 720,000 people visit The Monster Board to look for positions and gather information on furthering their career. The Monster Board, based in Framingham, MA, is the flagship product of the Interactive Division of TMP Worldwide, the 14th largest advertising agency in the world and the largest yellow page and recruitment advertising agency in the country.