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Cannabiz Media’s sixth annual Point-of-Sale Software in the Cannabis Industry report is now available! The 2024 report provides updated information on point-of-sale (POS) software market share across the U.S. and Canadian cannabis industries.
April 16, 2024
The Cannabiz Media License Database has a new name…(drumroll, please)...the Cannabis Market Intelligence Platform! What began as a first-of-its-kind cannabis license tracking tool has grown into a robust intelligence engine that facilitates growth opportunities, reveals financial insights, and safeguards compliance within the cannabis industry.
August 9, 2023
Wells Fargo Equity Research has released the Cannabis Cultivator Survey Edition 3 report based on data collected with Cannabiz Media in Spring 2023 through one of the most comprehensive outreach programs to cannabis cultivators. The third edition of the survey report includes new and updated data from cannabis cultivators in eight key states as well as comparisons to data reported in the Cannabis Cultivator Survey Edition 2 that was collected during Fall 2022 and released in February of this year.
August 4, 2023
After sharing the trends of the new licenses issued in 2022 – we wanted to review new licenses issued by region and activity. For example, what are the ratios of licenses issued for cultivation, manufacturing, and dispensing/retail across different regions? How big is the Northeast really in terms of new licenses?
February 13, 2023
Wells Fargo Equity Research has released the Cannabis Cultivator Survey Edition 2 report based on data collected with Cannabiz Media in Fall 2022 through one of the most comprehensive outreach programs to cannabis cultivators. The second edition of the survey report includes new and updated data from cannabis cultivators in seven key states as well as comparisons to data reported in the Cannabis Cultivator Survey Edition 1 that was collected during Spring 2022.
February 7, 2023
Cannabiz Media’s fifth annual Point-of-Sale Software in the Cannabis Industry report is available for free download now. The 2022 report provides updated information on point-of-sale (POS) software market share across the U.S. and Canadian cannabis industries.
November 7, 2022
Our research team is constantly scrutinizing licenses and the companies that own them. While many of the cannacurious industry watchers focus on the publicly held companies; there is a whole other tier of private companies that have been quietly acquiring licenses across state lines. We think this is where the cannaserious observers are spending their time. These companies are harder to track due to the lack of public filings, but the license information can tell an interesting story.
September 12, 2022
In 2020, Cannabiz Media started researching cannabis mergers and acquisitions as a byproduct of license tracking. M&A is a key transaction because licenses change ownership in these deals. Recently, we wrote about which MSO’s led in buying versus building cannabis stores. For this post, we want to share what we found about who advised them. This data was obtained from our Cannabiz Intelligence™ Advisor Leaderboard.
June 3, 2022
At the very end of 2021, the Ohio Board of Pharmacy received 1,462 applications for 73 dispensary licenses. The winners will be chosen by lottery in January 2022. Ohio is a limited license state and currently has 61 dispensaries around the state, so the addition of these news stores is significant and will assuredly be welcomed by the 231,165 registered patients in the state.
January 14, 2022
The fourth annual Point-of-Sale Software in the Cannabis Industry report is now available for free download here. The 2021 report provides a comprehensive update on point-of-sale (POS) software market share across the cannabis industry using primary research conducted by Cannabiz Media’s research team.
October 19, 2021
The number of companies in the cannabis software stack continued to grow during Covid. Learn the key findings and see which brands are big and where in the new Cannabis Software Stack Summer 2021 report.
September 7, 2021
Since starting the Cannacurio series last year, the leaderboard blog posts have garnered a significant amount of interest. We have been crunching and adjusting the numbers to show what happened in 2020 and focused on the total number of active licenses in effect because this view takes into account terminated and non-renewed licenses.
February 8, 2021
Cannabiz Media’s research team has completed its third consecutive year of primary and secondary research tracking point of sale software market share in the cannabis industry. The 2020 Point of Sale Software in the Cannabis Industry report is now available for free download here.
October 28, 2020
In the latest episode of the Cannacurio Podcast from Cannabiz Media, my co-host, Amanda Guerrero, and I discuss the data and insights found in Cannabiz Media's Cannabis Software Stack Report. For more details about each technology sector ...
September 2, 2020
What does the Advisory sector of the cannabis software market look like, and which company is the market leader in 2020? Cannabiz Media dove into the data in the Cannabiz Media License Database and shared the answers to those questions and more ...
September 1, 2020
What does the Transactional sector of the cannabis software market look like, and which company is the market leader in 2020? Cannabiz Media dove into the data in the Cannabiz Media License Database and shared the answers to those questions ...
August 25, 2020
What does the Activity sector of the cannabis software market look like, and which company is the market leader in 2020? Cannabiz Media dove into the data in the Cannabiz Media License Database and shared the answers to those questions ...
August 18, 2020
What does the Back Office sector of the cannabis software market look like, and which company is the market leader in 2020? Cannabiz Media dove into the data in the Cannabiz Media License Database and shared the answers ...
August 13, 2020
Cannabiz Media’s new research report – Cannabis Software Stack – has been published and provides critical insights about seed-to-sale and point-of-sale software license opportunities (i.e., a state’s potential addressable market) in 2020.
July 16, 2020
We closed out another banner year of license growth in 2019. Since Cannabiz Media tracks 153 jurisdictions/programs with cannabis and hemp in the United States, Canada, and beyond, our team is in a unique position to see license trends.
January 29, 2020
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