On 4/20, Enradius Built the East Coast’s Largest Cannabis Consumer Audience

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Geo-targeting firm Enradius says it captured more than 800,000 unique mobile devices at 390 dispensaries across Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware on April 20. The audience now tops 1 million devices and is offered to non-cannabis advertisers.

  • Operators: Dispensary visitors are being packaged as an ad audience. Enradius cites third-party data showing flagship stores up 24% to 120% year over year, and several new stores more than tripling visits in their first full year.
  • Investors: Selling cannabis shoppers to non-cannabis advertisers sidesteps platform ad bans. Enradius, which reports these figures itself, is rolling out state ad networks, with active networks already in seven other states.
  • Do now: Compare your store's April 20 traffic with your normal weekly volume, and ask any ad or data vendor how they collect and use location data from your customers.
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In a single day, Enradius captured 800,000 verified cannabis consumer devices across PA, MD, and DE — now surpassing 1 million — and opened the audience to food delivery, rideshare, convenience, and entertainment advertisers through their Local Ad Networks.

PHILADELPHIA, June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On April 20, the highest-intent day of the year for cannabis consumers, geo-targeting firm Enradius captured more than 800,000 unique mobile devices at cannabis dispensaries across Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware in a single day. That verified cannabis consumer audience has since grown to surpass 1 million devices — one of the largest location-validated cannabis audiences available to advertisers on the East Coast.

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Delivered through the company’s Pennsylvania Ad Network, the audience gives advertisers in late-night food delivery, rideshare, convenience, and entertainment direct, compliant access to a segment that major ad platforms make nearly impossible to reach.

Move Over, Black Friday — 4/20 Is the Industry’s Big Day
Enradius geofenced 390 cannabis retail locations across the Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Salisbury markets, capturing devices at peak consumer intent. Independent third-party foot-traffic data confirmed the surge: dispensaries recorded their highest single-day visit volumes of the season around April 20, with multiple flagship locations exceeding 1,000 estimated visits. Peak dispensary traffic and peak device capture happened on the same day — the busiest retail day of the cannabis year.

“On 4/20 we captured 800,000 cannabis consumer devices in a single day, and we’re now past a million,” said Dave Carberry, CEO of Enradius. “These are the most sought-after, hardest-to-reach consumers in advertising. We can put a food, rideshare, or convenience brand directly in front of real dispensary visitors — at scale, across three states, without the restrictions that block cannabis advertising itself.”

A High-Intent Audience That Maps to Spend
Cannabis dispensary visitors over-index on high-value behaviors that make them a premium retargeting audience for non-cannabis advertisers:

  • Late-night food and quick-service restaurants — the strongest behavioral overlap, driven by well-documented consumption patterns
  • Rideshare — cannabis consumers avoid impaired driving, making “ride, don’t drive” messaging both effective and responsible
  • Convenience and gas retail — high-frequency, late-night purchase behavior
  • Streaming, gaming, and live entertainment — strong alignment with evening and at-home consumption

Because the audience targets these consumers for non-cannabis products, advertisers stay fully compliant with the restrictions that block cannabis advertising on major platforms. Foot-traffic benchmarking across the footprint also confirmed an expanding base, not a saturated one, with flagship dispensaries up 24% to 120% year over year and several newly opened locations more than tripling visitation in their first full year.

A Growing National Network
The Pennsylvania Ad Network is one of a series of state-level advertising networks Enradius is rolling out nationwide, joining active networks in Maryland, Virginia, New York, Texas, California, Ohio, and Florida. The cannabis consumer audience — now exceeding 1 million verified devices — is available immediately across PA, MD, and DE, with more states launching.

About Enradius: Enradius is an East Coast geo-targeting and digital advertising company specializing in hyperlocal audience capture, programmatic media, and location-based targeting through its growing portfolio of state-level Ad Networks.

Media Contact: Dave Carberry, CEO, Enradius
[email protected] | 800-838-1184 | www.enradius.com


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PRNewswire
June 9, 2026
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