News & Announcements

Presented By BIGPLAY Collectibles Network Collectors MD is proud to announce a new media and content distribution partnership with the BIGPLAY Collectibles Network, bringing The Collector’s Compass, our flagship podcast and video series, into BIGPLAY‘s growing network of collectibles-focused programming, creators, and media properties. The partnership represents an important step in our continued efforts to expand awareness, education, and meaningful conversations around the modern collectibles industry. Through BIGPLAY‘s digital media ecosystem, The Collector’s Compass will

Presented By Foundations: The Collector’s Magazine Collectors MD is proud to announce a new partnership with Foundations: The Collector’s Magazine, an independent print publication dedicated to celebrating collector culture, personal stories, nostalgia, and the shared experiences that connect collectors across different hobbies and communities. As part of the magazine’s inaugural issue, Collectors MD will be featured across five printed pages, including a three-page article written by Founder Alyx Effron and an exclusive two-page spread highlighting

Collectors MD continues to expand its presence across the problem gambling, behavioral health, prevention, and recovery communities, receiving invitations to deliver professional trainings, webinars, keynote presentations, workshops, and panel discussions for organizations across the country. These engagements reflect growing recognition of an emerging area of concern: the behavioral risks associated with modern collecting, compulsive spending, and gambling-adjacent activities, and the importance of ensuring that clinicians, prevention professionals, treatment providers, and recovery organizations are equipped to

Collectors MD is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with The 77NineNine Foundation, an athlete-focused organization dedicated to supporting the mental, emotional, physical, financial, and personal well-being of athletes and their families beyond the field of play. The partnership brings together two organizations working from different parts of the same larger conversation. Collectors MD focuses on compulsive collecting, overspending, gambling-adjacent behaviors, prevention, peer support, education, recovery, and healthier engagement within modern collecting environments. 77NineNine

Collectors MD is proud to formally introduce The CMD Framework, an approach designed to bridge the collectibles industry with prevention, education, peer support, recovery, behavioral health, and treatment. The framework builds upon the work Collectors MD has been doing since its launch in March 2025, bringing together collectors, families, industry stakeholders, prevention professionals, treatment providers, recovery organizations, and individuals with lived experience to address an emerging gap between two spaces that have historically operated independently

Collectors MD is excited to announce that our team has been officially approved for media credentials at both Fanatics Fest NYC, taking place at The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, NYC (July 16-July 19, 2026) and The National Sports Collectors Convention taking place at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL (July 29-August 2, 2026). These two events represent some of the largest gatherings in the hobby, bringing together collectors, creators,

Collectors MD is proud to announce a first for the hobby. In partnership with The Trading Card Hall of Fame, #RipResponsibly branding will officially be featured on Nostalgia Wax by The Trading Card Hall of Fame, becoming the first sealed trading card product to incorporate responsible collecting messaging directly onto its packs and wrappers. Since launching in 2025, #RipResponsibly has grown into a national harm-reduction initiative focused on promoting awareness, intentional engagement, and healthier collecting

Collectors MD is proud to announce the launch of The CMD Foundation, a new nonprofit initiative dedicated to advancing awareness, education, prevention, support, and recovery for individuals and families impacted by compulsive collecting, overspending, gambling, gambling-adjacent behaviors, and related behavioral health challenges. To support this next chapter, The CMD Foundation has partnered with LOHAS through its fiscal sponsorship program, providing the infrastructure needed to begin accepting charitable contributions and expand the Foundation’s long-term impact. Since

Collectors MD is proud to announce that Founder, Alyx Effron will be presenting at the National Conference on Gambling Addiction & Responsible Gambling 2026 Annual Conference hosted by the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) in Nashville, Tennessee. The session, titled “Not Just a Hobby: How the Culture of Collecting Can Escalate Gambling Disorder”, will take place on July 24, 2026 from 9:45AM-11:00AM as part of the conference’s Foundations & Emerging Insights track. Alyx will

Collectors MD is proud to officially launch A National Call To Action: Funding Responsible Collecting & Harm Reduction, a new initiative focused on increasing awareness, education, prevention, and support surrounding gambling-adjacent harm within modern collectible and digital consumer environments. This initiative represents an important step forward as Collectors MD continues building bridges between the collectibles industry, public health organizations, recovery communities, councils, coalitions, creators, and community leaders. Over the last several years, the collectibles ecosystem—along

Collectors MD Collectors MD is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with HobbyScan, an AI-powered platform designed to help collectors instantly scan, identify, value, organize, and manage their cards from a single streamlined workflow. This partnership represents a meaningful step forward as we continue to align with tools and platforms that support intentional collecting, clarity, and better decision-making within today’s fast-moving hobby. HobbyScan is now included as a featured platform within the Intentional Collector’s

Collectors MD is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with All Touch Case, a premium display and protection solution designed to showcase your cards while keeping them safe. This partnership marks an exciting step forward as we continue to align with brands that share our commitment to intentional collecting, thoughtful engagement, and long-term sustainability within the hobby. All Touch will serve as a presenting sponsor across the Collectors MD media ecosystem, including The Collector’s