Matt Aspinall

Commercial Services Director, NLA media access

Matt is Commercial Services Director at NLA media access, with responsibility for all partnerships with publishers, media monitoring organisations and NLA’s international RRO partners. As part of this, Matt manages NLA’s content database services that provide controlled access to print and online content for the media monitoring sector to support compliance, accurate measurement of copying, and reducing the need for website scraping.

NLA also provides services for publishers designed to reduce costs, improve control and unlock additional revenue all of which sit under Matt’s remit – including ClipShare (a journalist research tool providing access to archived news content dating back to 2006, covering more than 125 million articles), Text Tracker (identifying and supporting takedown of scraped or illegally republished content) and Agent for Publishers (management of text aggregator and third party syndication agreements, including content supply, reporting and royalty collection).