Ants.com and MarketingJobs.com Partner; MarketingJobs.com Portal Opens Freelance Marketplace for Members.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 6, 2000

Ants.com, the fastest growing marketplace to outsource and find freelance work on the Internet, today announced that MarketingJobs.com, a popular online job portal targeting the marketing, sales, and advertising community, has opened its own branded freelance marketplace powered by Ants.com.

Joining a number of other web sites that have added this service, MarketingJobs.com has significantly expanded its functionality over other general internet job portals.

"Our new partnership with Ants.com is yet another channel through which we can provide high quality marketing jobs to our visitors," said Woody Haskins, CEO and President of MarketingJobs.com. "Equally important, our new co-branded marketplace provides employers with an efficient tool to find skilled freelance marketers for short-term projects."

"The very purpose of Ants.com is to facilitate the connection of businesses and freelancers in particular verticals," said Rick Davis, President and CEO of Ants.com. "Partnering with strong, experienced vertical portals like MarketingJobs.com is an exceptionally smart way to accomplish our goal of providing our users with the best customer experience. We are thrilled to have MarketingJobs.com as a member of the Ants.com community."

Ants.com has constructed a branded freelance marketplace for MarketingJobs.com that gives its members full access to the Ants.com global marketplace. Maintaining the look and feel of the parent site, the MarketingJobs.com freelance marketplace is hosted and maintained by Ants.com, and remains fully linked to its content and pages. In addition to the valuable service the functionality of Ants.com offers to its members, MarketingJobs.com earns revenue each and every time a new member joins and gets work in the Ants.com marketplace.

About Ants.com

With over 45,000 freelancers and more than 15,000 Project Managers, Ants.com is the fastest growing marketplace for freelance work, expanding at a rate of about one percent per day. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, Ants.com is dedicated to creating a liquid marketplace for the trillion-dollar worldwide freelance services market. Companies looking to outsource projects in over 60 categories -- from programming to translation to marketing to design -- can quickly meet their needs at Ants.com, drawing from the largest pool of qualified freelancers and independent workers in the world. Ants.com is a privately held company backed by Bertelsmann Ventures (www.bvfund.com). For more information, please visit our website at www.ants.com.

About Marketingjobs.com

MarketingJobs.com is a career Web site specializing in marketing, sales, and advertising careers nationwide. Started in 1996, MarketingJobs.com has become one of the premier Web sites for the marketing professional and companies in need of their talent. MarketingJobs.com offers a wide variety of services to fit business recruiting needs. A partial list of clients benefiting from the site includes American Express, (NYSE:AXP) Dun & Bradstreet, (NYSE:DNB) Universal Studios, Nextel, (Nasdaq:NXTL) PeopleSoft, (Nasdaq:PSFT) and DoubleClick. (Nasdaq:DCLK) MarketingJobs.com continues to create strategic partnerships for organizations with products, services and information to facilitate the best match for a growing company's most important asset -- its marketing, sales and advertising force.