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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
It’s the 2018 Postseason on Cigar Coop! This is our year in review of the Cigar Industry. Our postseason coverage consists of: Cigar of the Year Countdown: We started this back on December 7th – counting down the best 30 cigars of 2018. In January we reveal “The Super Six” – culminating with the announcement […]
As we discussed on the 11/28/18 Edition of the Cigar Industry Report, we eliminated the “Volume/Number” scheme we have been using and moved to sequential numbering. This month we start with #94 for the monthly editorial column, “Editor’s Corner.” This month, we start “Countdown ’18”, the original Cigar of the Year Countdown. This year, there […]
