JCDecaux, a privately owned company headquartered in France, was founded in 1964. The company employs approximately 6,240 individuals and reported $4.2B in revenue as of 2025. Functioning as an outdoor advertising company worldwide, JCDecaux specializes in developing three areas of business: street furniture, transport advertising, and billboard advertising.
On August 25, 2026, JCDecaux collaborated with Guerlain and Publicis Groupe to transform a Madrid bus stop into an immersive floral advertisement for Guerlain’s Aqua Allegoria Rosa Verde fragrance. Earlier, on August 22, the public toilet at San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza, supplied by the company, reportedly accumulated over 200 complaints or maintenance requests since its 2022 opening, leading to a delay in the next model until 2027. On August 16, Phil Eastwood, Executive General Manager for JCDecaux New Zealand, commented on the measurability of Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising, highlighting the one-year operation of knOOH, New Zealand’s unified audience measurement system. Previously, on August 13, JCDecaux's subsidiary Wall GmbH secured a 15-year renewal for the main advertising contract in Hamburg, Germany. This followed JCDecaux’s expansion of its Smartframe network to 50 sites across New Zealand on August 12, with the latest addition on Pakuranga Highway expected to deliver over 6.5 million weekly impressions.