In 1929, was published by for the first time. In 1939, the sports paper
Sportwereld (established in 1912) was purchased by De Standaard and turned into a daily supplement to their two main newspapers, "" and "". In 1957, three other newspapers were purchased by and initially kept in circulation. In 1966, the further publication of two of them,
Het Nieuws van de Dag and
Het Vrije Volksblad, was stopped. The same happened with the third paper, Het Handelsblad, in 1979. In 1959, two more newspapers were purchased, of which
De Landwacht disappeared in 1978. The other paper,
De Gentenaar, was turned into a "cover-paper" for around the city of
Ghent.
De Gentenaar still exists today and contains the same articles and columns as plus local news from the Ghent area. In 1962, a special supplement for children was created, the Patskrant. In 1977, the name was changed into the Stripkrant. In 2000, the daily Stripkrant was replaced by the
Jommekeskrant (on Wednesday) and by Yo (on Mondays, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday). In 1976, went bankrupt before their newspapers were purchased by the
Vlaamse Uitgeversmaatschappij. In 1996, started a new "cover-paper" in
Antwerp, named
Het Stad. This paper was never successful and disappeared after just two years. In 2003, and
Het Volk jointly started the publication of the lifestyle-magazine
Catchy. In the same year began publishing on Sundays after nearly 75 years of publication and the newspaper also created the cycling award
Flandrien of the Year. On 10 May 2008, and
Het Volk merged. the website, had an average daily unique visitor count of 332,000, making it the most popular newspaper website in
Flanders. The website, just like the paper edition, is characterised as populist, rather right wing, with a focus on local news, celebrity news and sensational articles. ==Circulation==