Launching “The Blog” component on Cigar Coop has provided us new avenues to deliver content in addition to our industry-leading news and reviews. Recently our friends at Perdomo Cigars announced a series of educational videos for their YouTube channel. The first of these installments is a video with Nick Perdomo called “How to Cut, […]
As many know, Cigar Coop’s policy is generally not to reprint open letters to the cigar industry. We made an exception here, as we have had a long time partnership with Abe Dababneh and KMA Talk Radio. We thought it would be appropriate to reprint Abe’s comments on the withdrawal of the “Big Four” from […]
As we head into a new year, it’s time for the Awards Season for 2019. Moving into a new decade also means, there will be a couple of additions for decade honors. It all kicks off on 12/31, as we recap the Top 12 Cigar Stories/Themes for 2019. This is the ninth annual year for […]
On November 23, 2019, at 7:30 PM, the Cigar Coop Prime Time Network of Shows unveils its latest brand, “Prime Time Jukebox” – a.k.a “PTJ”. It’s a show that pairs music with cigars and taking a music-centric approach. On Episode 1 we will talk about the origins of Prime Time Jukebox on Episode 1, but essentially […]
Last weekend on social media, Cigar Coop unveiled some new rules it will be implementing around shop exclusive cigars. Cigar Coop defines a shop exclusive as a cigar that is exclusively distributed to a single retailer. A retailer may have multiple stores, but is still considered a “single” business. The cigar must be branded with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
