In the 1970s, JCDecaux launched its first Citylight Information Panels (CIPs), a 2 m2 billboard with signage to indicate directions in cities to drivers.

[7] In January 2022, JCDecaux reported its 2021 revenue as $3.06 billion, an increase of 18.7%, which was perceived as an indication that the out-of-home market had recovered from the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions of the previous years.

[citation needed] Street furniture includes bus shelters, Morris columns, city information panels (CIP/MUPIs) and kiosks.

In order to adapt street furniture to the environment, JCDecaux works with internationally renowned designers, such as: Mario Bellini, Philip Cox, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Patrick Jouin, Philippe Starck, Robert Stern, Martin Szekely and Jean-Michel Wilmotte.

[citation needed] Street furniture also includes a range of non-advertising sites, such as self-service toilets (Sanisettes), electronic newspapers and interactive kiosks next to public benches, bins, columns, road signs, glass batteries and paper containers.

The term transport includes outdoor advertising in airports, on the underground, on buses, trams, and on taxis.

These formats can be adapted for many different purposes, such as for event artworks (for example: building wraps), which is operated by JCDecaux under the brand "Artvertising".

[citation needed] Individuals are offered the opportunity to lease part of their property (i.e. wall or garden) to JCDecaux as a billboard site.

The public bicycle rental systems are each financed by local advertising operators, in most cases in return for the cities signing over a 10-year licence to exploit citywide billboards.

[19] JCDecaux can now be found in most European countries, including Luxembourg (1985), the Netherlands (1986), Finland (1989), Sweden (1989), Spain (1990), Slovakia (1990), Czech Republic (1995), Norway (1998), Ireland (1999), Poland (1999) and in Hungary (2012).

JCDecaux has been present in the United States since 1993 in major cities and 26 US airports, including New York,[21] Washington, D.C.,[22] and Los Angeles.

[25] The company's operation also covers the Middle East with offices established in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Doha in Qatar, Tel Aviv in Israel, as well as Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Madinah in Saudi Arabia.

[26] JCDecaux is present in the following African countries: Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, Gabon, Nigeria, Malawi, Mauritius, Réunion, Tanzania, Angola, Botswana Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

[29] JCDecaux reported in March 2020, that they had been disinfecting bus shelters in Delhi as an effective method to combat the spread of COVID-19.