-- Sparks, a cannabis marketplace optimization agency founded in 2022, has reached a major milestone—now actively managing advertising, listings, and performance for more than 100 dispensaries across the United States. The achievement coincides with the expansion of Sparks’ high-tech marketplace solutions designed to help dispensaries manage listings, reviews, and advertising performance at scale amid rising costs and intensifying competition.
As cannabis advertising costs continue to increase across platforms such as Weedmaps, Leafly, Yelp, and Google, efficiency has become a defining factor in sustainable growth. Sparks’ expansion reflects a broader industry shift toward data-driven execution, operational discipline, and technology-enabled performance management.
From Marketplace Insider to Scaled Operator
Sparks was founded by Kevin Sparks, who previously spent four years at Weedmaps as a Senior Client Partner, managing some of the platform’s largest and most successful dispensary advertisers. In that role, Sparks worked directly with high-spend, multi-location operators and gained deep insight into how marketplace advertising performs at scale.
Despite sophisticated budgets and long advertising histories, many dispensaries struggled with the same core challenges: underutilized features, inconsistent execution across locations, fragmented reporting, and limited visibility into what was truly driving return.
Rather than accepting those constraints, Sparks left Weedmaps to build an organization designed to apply enterprise-level analytics, execution discipline, and scalable technology to cannabis marketplaces.
Surpassing 100 Dispensaries—and Why It Matters
Crossing the threshold of 100 managed dispensaries represents more than a growth milestone for Sparks. It marks the point at which performance insights compound. With data drawn from a national client base spanning diverse markets, budgets, and competitive conditions, Sparks is able to identify patterns and opportunities that individual operators cannot see on their own.
This scale has enabled Sparks to develop a “hive mind” advantage—aggregating performance data across clients to understand which features, formats, and execution strategies consistently outperform across regions and market types.
For dispensaries, this translates into smarter allocation of ad spend, faster identification of underperforming tactics, and more consistent results as advertising costs rise. On average, Sparks’ clients reduce overall advertising spend while increasing revenue, with many experiencing over 50% improvement in on-platform return within the first three months.
Expanding High-Tech Solutions for Listings and Reviews at Scale
Alongside this milestone, Sparks has expanded its proprietary technology suite to address one of the cannabis industry’s most persistent challenges: managing listings and reviews across multiple platforms and locations without sacrificing accuracy or responsiveness.
For multi-location operators, keeping menus, imagery, business information, and promotional features aligned across Weedmaps, Leafly, Yelp, and Google has historically been manual, fragmented, and error-prone. Reviews—often a primary driver of conversion—are similarly difficult to monitor and respond to consistently at scale.
Sparks’ expanded technology centralizes these workflows, allowing operators to:
- Manage and audit listings across platforms from a unified system
- Monitor review volume, sentiment, and response performance at scale
- Identify conversion-impacting issues before they affect revenue
- Maintain execution consistency across dozens of locations
These solutions are designed to support growth without sacrificing performance discipline.
Proven Results With Sophisticated Operators
Sparks’ first client, Purple Lotus, had advertised on Weedmaps for more than seven years and considered itself highly experienced on the platform. Within six months of working with Sparks, the dispensary more than doubled its return on ad spend, despite no fundamental change in market conditions.
Since then, Sparks has expanded its client base to include well-known operators such as Catalyst, Embarc, and Tropicanna. While each operates in a unique market, the common denominator has been Sparks’ emphasis on execution, measurement, and continuous optimization.
Preparing for the Next Phase of Cannabis Marketplaces
As cannabis marketplaces mature, the margin for error continues to shrink. Success is increasingly determined by who executes best across advertising, listings, reviews, and customer touchpoints—not by who spends the most.
Sparks was built for this phase of the industry. Operating on month-to-month contracts with guaranteed results, the agency aligns directly with client outcomes and prioritizes efficiency over unchecked spend increases.
A Milestone That Signals What’s Next
Crossing 100 managed dispensaries represents a defining chapter for Sparks, but it is not the end goal. It is the foundation for deeper insights, more advanced technology, and a more disciplined approach to cannabis marketplace execution.
For dispensary owners navigating rising costs and increasing competition, Sparks represents a shift toward scalable, data-backed decision-making.
To learn more about Sparks’ marketplace solutions and technology, visit
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