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Emerald Intel Acquires Cannabiz Media: Uniting Two Leaders in Cannabis Market Intelligence
Emerald Intel has acquired Cannabiz Media, uniting two of the cannabis industry’s leading data and intelligence providers. This acquisition brings together Emerald Intel’s global license, compliance, and sales data with Cannabiz Media’s robust database of licensed businesses and key decision-makers. The result is the most comprehensive, reliable, and actionable view of the licensed cannabis market—empowering sales, marketing, finance, and compliance teams to make smarter, data-driven decisions.
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Industry News
The State of the International Cannabis Industry
As of January 2019, approximately 50 countries around the world officially regulate some form of medical cannabis. Some industry experts predict the number will jump to 70 by 2021. Cannabiz Media is actively adding international cannabis license data ...
State News
Onsite Cannabis Consumption Update
Last month marked one of the biggest days of the year in cannabis culture, and one of the cannabis industry’s largest sales days: 4/20. For most of the states where cannabis is legal in some form, this meant cannabis was sold in a dispensary and consumed off-site.
Marketing
Research Finds Marijuana Advertising Prevalent in Oregon - But It's Still Not Easy
While more than half of Americans can access either medical or recreational marijuana (or both) in their home states, that doesn’t mean it’s easy for marijuana companies to spread the word about their products and services.
Client Spotlights
Cannabiz Media Client Spotlight – BioTrackTHC
In 2018, BioTrackTHC merged with Helix TCS, Inc. To read an updated interview conducted in April 2020 with Justin Mayhall of BioTrack, click here. BioTrackTHC is an industry-leading seed-to-sale inventory management and dispensary point-of-sale (POS) ...
Marketing
White Papers
What Works in Email Marketing to Cannabis License Holders? We Analyzed 332,000 Messages to Find Out
The Cannabiz Media team analyzed data from over 332,000 emails sent by its clients through the Cannabiz Media License Database between January 1 and March 1, 2019 to learn what’s working in email marketing to cannabis license holders.
Industry News
What’s New in Cannabis Testing, Delivery and Distribution?
As we end the first quarter of 2019, several trends show continued challenges ahead for licensed cannabis testing labs as well as delivery and distribution businesses. To wrap up our series of posts this month about what’s new in cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, ...
Industry News
What’s New in Cannabis Retail and Dispensing?
As more states approve medical and recreational cannabis sales, the number of licensed cannabis retailers and dispensaries continues to grow. So far in 2019, cannabis retailers and dispensaries have been at the crux of rapid growth and change.
Industry News
Shining a Light on Cultivation and Energy Use
Sustainability — both economic and environmental — has been a major consideration in the cannabis industry for years, and as more states approve medical and recreational cannabis, the use and overuse of resources becomes a bigger concern.
Industry News
What’s New in Cannabis Cultivation?
The news has been filled lately with stories about cannabis cultivation across the country and in Canada, Europe, and South America, and competition is rampant. A 2019 study from Farm Journal found that even conventional farmers are eyeing the cannabis industry ...