Earlier this month we announced that Cigar Jukebox was joining the Prime Time family podcasts under the name Prime Time Cigar Jukebox. Today, we are announcing a slight change to the branding of the show as it will now be known as Prime Time Jukebox. As we looked at the naming, Prime Time Jukebox had […]
Announcement: “The Blog” for Cigar Coop
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Today, we announce “The Blog” for Cigar Coop. It’s a new feature that will replace the Editor’s Corner feature which is being sunset. Hold your horses, isn’t Cigar Coop already a blog? If you go back ten years ago, anyone who wrote something online who didn’t have a print media component was called a blogger […]
Editor’s Corner #103: No Rumors, No Teasers, No Fake News
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As a sports fan, I’ve come to appreciate the the many sources to follow information on my sports teams. At the same time in the age of online media, there have become many sports sites that have been havens for Fake News. What these websites attempt to do is sensationalize unsubstantiated stories and create click […]
Editor’s Corner #102: IPCPR Epilogue
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The month of August closed out with Cigar Coop wrapping up its 2019 IPCPR Coverage. As we mentioned in our 2019 IPCPR Post Game Report, we were quite pleased with what we were able to do with this year’s coverage. However, there are three additional footnotes worth covering. Our total number of features Cigar Coop […]
Editor’s Corner #101: Nine Years
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Today on Cigar Coop, we celebrate our nine year anniversary. This means tomorrow we begin the start of our tenth year of cigar industry coverage on Cigar Coop which culminates one year from now when we hit the ten year mark. Each year, I use this forum to look at the previous years on what […]
Editor’s Corner #100: IPCPR 2019 Coverage on Cigar Coop
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This week is our 100th installment of these (mostly) monthly editorials and musings. 100 is also significant as we will also see our 100th Episode of the Prime Time Podcast, our cigar industry-centric podcast. By the end of the month, the IPCPR Trade Show will open in Las Vegas and for the tenth consecutive year, Cigar […]
Editor’s Corner #99: Thoughts on Imperial Brands Exiting the Premium Cigar Business
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The month of April ended quite differently than I expected when it came to covering the world of cigars. An announcement was made that will potentially be the biggest cigar media story of the year – namely, Imperial Brands planning to exit the cigar industry. With the IPCPR Trade Show scheduled to start at the end […]
Editor’s Corner #98: Cigar Media Matters
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April Fool’s Day is always an interesting one as we often see a run of press releases, and with the exception of one, most of them simply miss the mark. While I get the “fun” aspects of doing these April Fool’s projects, I find it ironic that some cigar companies who don’t engage in media […]
Editor’s Corner #97: Lessons Learned Part 2
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Last month, we described a dilemma known as “The Tabernacle Syndrome”. This was defined as follows: Last month we proposed a solution to adopt more of a “first in, first out model” that would essentially determine the order in which cigars will be reviewed. It seemed like an easy solution, but as I started looking […]
Editor’s Corner #96: Lessons Learned
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Last year Cigar Coop made a decision to extend our window for eligible cigars for our Cigar of the Year Countdown from one year to two years. While we do know that Cigar Journal has employed a similar concept, for the most part, we were the first online media brand to utilize the two-year window. […]