He tried to get Dutch sponsors in various ways, such as by putting a one-page advertisement in "De Telegraaf" newspaper.
News.nl was a free Dutch tabloid-sized newspaper which was launched at the end of 2000 by De Telegraaf.
The first Tom Puss stories were told as illustrated novels, published in daily installments in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
The first "Tom Puss" story, called Het geheim der blauwe aarde (The secret of the blue earth), appeared in daily installments in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf as a replacement for the Mickey Mouse comic in 1941.
Those newspapers include De Telegraaf, de Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad, het Parool, Trouw, het Nederlands Dagblad, and weekly magazines such as HP/De Tijd, Elsevier, De Groene Amsterdammer.
Escenic customers include: Schibsted, De Telegraaf, News UK, Telegraph Media Group, Trinity Mirror, SVT (Swedish TV), Axel Springer, JP/Politikens Hus, Independent, WAZ, TV2 Norway, Dallas Morning News, Infoglobo, The Hindu, The Globe and mail, RSI and many more.
Volkskrant, International Herald Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Trouw, Het Parool, De Telegraaf, Het Financieel Dagblad – HP/De Tijd, Vrij Nederland, Art Aurea, Holland Herald etc..
The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported on 16 July 2006, that Holleeder and Cor van Hout had planned to kidnap Prince Bernhard instead of Freddy Heineken in the 1980s.