Yannick Bolloré, chair of Havas’ parent group Vivendi, speaks to Omar Oakes about the company’s financial earnings and its plans for 2024.

RTL Group’s adtech unit Smartclip has promoted Gloria Eichner to chief product officer and created three new vice-president roles in a significant expansion of its leadership team.

Barb has promoted its research operations director to chief operations officer to ensure the TV measurement company makes progress on its strategic priorities.

RTL AdAlliance has expanded the reach of Dailymotion Advertising as part of its online video offering to the UK and France after a successful pilot in Germany, Austria and the Nordics.

The three-year cycle of pitch explosions could be broken in 2024 as advertisers appear to be more “introspective” about what they need, writes the editor.

Origin, the cross-media measurement solution managed by trade body Isba, will have received £52m in funding by the end of this year.

Prime Video viewing data will be available to Barb subscribers from 1 March.

Does anyone actually do ‘advertising’ any more, asks the editor.

Watch: Comcast’s president of advertising, James Rooke, speaks to The Media Leader about the importance of accountability, choice and transparency as TV advertising transforms in the connected age.

Analysis: Media agencies representing advertisers have been clear with streaming companies that they need to sign up to existing structures.