The Cigar Industry Report is a one-stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop. It is a combination of the news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. In addition, each week we will look back at Cigar Coop history. Look for this report every Saturday morning at […]
2021 Year in Review: Country of Origin Performance Rankings
The Performance Rankings were introduced in 2012 as a statistical analysis based on the average numerical score of all cigars assessed on Cigar Coop. It is meant to serve as a barometer in terms of how the cigars were assessed. Today we slice this data by Country of Origin – a category introduced for 2015. This […]
2021 Year in Review: Company Performance by Audience Readership
Last year, we started tracking a very simple metric on Cigar Coop – how do cigar companies rate in terms of the readership on Cigar Coop. This year, we rank the 25 “most-read” companies on Cigar Coop. To determine this, a report was run on the 500 most-read articles on Cigar Coop. These articles are […]
Prime Time Special Edition 113: The Unofficial CA Top 25 Pre-Game Show 2021
It’s bracketology meets the cigar industry. Tonight on Special Edition 113, it’s one of our most popular annual shows we do as we do our unofficial preview what to expect on the Cigar Aficionado Top 25 this year. This year, Bear and I will be joined by Ben Lee, Erron Nielsen, and Hector Alfonso Sr. […]
2021 Year in Review: Performance Ratings for Sponsored Cigars & Samples
Last year Cigar Coop introduced two new performance rating categories: Impacts of Sponsored Cigars on Scoring and Impacts of Samples Used on Scoring. Performance Ratings are a collection of analytical data for the past Cigar Year on Cigar Coop. Last year these categories were introduced in response to feedback the media consistently hears one scoring […]
Announcement: 2022 Airport Photography Rules
There will be a major change for the 2022 edition of the Airport Photography Contest. Over the past two years, while I believe this contest has been fun, it didn’t go quite the way I hoped it would. The idea was to encourage originality and creativity. Instead, only a small amount of participants submitted original […]
Cigar Industry Report: Edition 466 (1/1/22)
The Cigar Industry Report is a one-stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop. It is a combination of the news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. In addition, each week we will look back at Cigar Coop history. Look for this report every Saturday morning at […]
Cigar Industry Report: Edition 465 (12/25/21)
The Cigar Industry Report is a one-stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop. It is a combination of the news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. In addition, each week we will look back at Cigar Coop history. Look for this report every Saturday morning at […]
Cigar Industry Report: Edition 463 (12/11/21)
The Cigar Industry Report is a one-stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop. It is a combination of the news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. In addition, each week we will look back at Cigar Coop history. Look for this report every Saturday morning at […]
Cigar Industry Report: Edition 462 (12/4/21)
The Cigar Industry Report is a one-stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop. It is a combination of the news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. In addition, each week we will look back at Cigar Coop history. Look for this report every Saturday morning at […]