The upcoming client survey and the related follow-up tasks will, from now on, be an annual event - for the benefit of both our client partners, and MatchWork.

Sweden's three largest morning daily papers have joined forces with MatchWork, Europe's leading online classified advertising service provider, to strengthen their own job portals as well as Sweden's largest online job portal.

A new study by the INMA of the alliances between US newspapers and the global Internet giants is thought-provoking, to say the least.

Faced with dramatic classified revenue losses to online, many American publishers have opted for alliances with the online majors in their search for the ‘multi-media’ positioning which is so important to a 400+ year-old newspaper industry now being supplanted in many key revenue areas by a nearly ten-year old competitor.

During the year we have completed the following assignments - all of which have been delivered within tight timeframes. Our guiding policy on website development is quality and stability, but our implementation teams are very aware that ‘time is money’ and work tirelessly to meet often challenging deadlines.

We are constantly monitoring the matching process to ensure we are optimising results and adapting to the changing job market and the needs of advertisers and, in order to extend the visible efficiency of the match process we are now launching a number of...

There was, not so very long ago, a widespread belief among newspaper publishers that the Internet ‘fad’ would, sooner or later, take its place among all other new technologies and ideas and settle, as a further component, into the developing media mix of the 21st century.

Newspaper sites that can point to clear readership profiles and specific regional coverage rate highly in this area.

In April, we initiated a restructuring of the MatchWork development organisation in order to meet the growing needs of our clients.

‘Knowledge is power’ is a saying we all understand and this is the thinking behind our new report structure that we have developed for MatchWork partners.

UK advertisers spent over £4.2bn in the first quarter of 2007, a year-on-year increase of 3% according to the Advertising Association. This report is supported by the optimistic picture painted at the World Association of Newspapers conference in South Africa which presented an encouraging picture of worldwide growth in circulation and revenues.

MatchWork are delighted to be working with Newark Advertiser to provide their online recruitment site.

Several of our publisher partners are on course to generate over £1million from CV matching this year including Iliffe, Newsquest (Hants & Dorset), Northcliffe and Trinity Mirror.

SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is about making sure your website has the right elements and the right layout to be found and highly ranked by search engines like Google.

Publishers looking to win new customer base...