Tag: street furniture

Boston Issues RFP for Street Furniture

Boston has issued an RFP to upgrade and expand the Boston’s street furniture program.  Proposals are due November 4, 2026. The incumbent JCDecaux is in the last year of a 25 year contract.  JCDecaux maintains 481 faces on bus shelters, city information panels, newsstands and automatic public toilets.   Here […]

JCDecaux Wins Barcelona Street Furniture Contract

Paris, October 27th, 2025 – JCDecaux SE (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces that it has been awarded the exclusive advertising contract for Barcelona’s Bus Shelters and City Information Panels (CIPs) following a competitive tender. JCDecaux will operate the largest street furniture contract in Spain’s […]

Transit and Street Furniture Driving US Out of Home Growth in 2Q 2025

Transit and street furniture were the highest growing out of home sectors in the second quarter of 2025.  Here’s a summary of the sector performance in OAAA’s 2Q 2025 revenue report. Transit grew 9.8% in the second quarter of 2025.  If you’ve been listening to the public company earnings reports […]

Billboards Account for Three-Quarters of US OOH Revenues

The OAAA tracks out of home revenues by sector.  OAAA members can see the figures at OOH Revenue by Format.  Some Billboard Insider observations on the data. Billboards, Billboards, Billboards. The roadside billboard industry accounted for 74% of US out of home revenue during the first 9 most of 2024 […]

US Billboard Revenues Flat, Place Based & Transit are Recovering

Last week the OAAA announced that US out of home revenues increased 1.1% in the third quarter of 2023.  A look behind the numbers finds that three out of home sectors grew and one declined. Roadside billboards which account for almost three quarters of the US market, grew 0.9% in […]

JCDecaux Saving Lives With Street Furniture

JCDecaux has teamed up with the Community Heartbeat Trust to bring easy-to-access defibrillators to cities across the United Kingdom. They have deployed 180 defibrillators that have been used 500 times, potentially saving lives. There are also advertising opportunities on smaller digital screens on the same side as the defibrillators, which […]

US Billboard Revenues Beyond Covid – Transit and Street Furniture Close the Gap

Billboard revenues are surging, transit and place based revenues are coming back and place based revenues continue to lag versus pre covid.  That’s what’s apparent in the third quarter 2022 revenue figures reported yesterday by the OAAA. US billboard revenues grew 7% in the third quarter of 2022 and are […]

Out of Home Transit Revenue Rebounds Faster than Ridership

Yesterday Billboard Insider wrote that transit ridership is growing rapidly but lags 41% from precovid levels.  Intersection CEO Chris Grosso points out that it’s a mistake to equate transit ridership with out of homne transit revenues: I’m an avid reader of Billboard Insider. Your take on the impact of transit […]

Billboards over Covid but Street Furniture, Transit and Place Based Lag

A rising tide lifted all out of home sectors in 2021.  Here are the 2021 annual US revenue figures broken down by sector.     Street furniture revenue grew 43% in 2021, followed by billboards (up 17%), transit (up 11%) and place-based (up 3%). Roadside billboards have recovered and are […]

JC Decaux Reports Half Year Results

JC Decaux released their financial results for the first half of 2021.  Most interesting was their adjusted revenue results that they provided by category and geography:   Insider’s Take:  Street Furniture, their largest revenue segment, has seen the strongest overall rebound, with Transportation advertising the slowest to recover.  Insider was […]