Microtransactions and Beyond
By MARK PENN Published September 9, 2008 Here’s my post-convention take on the most important questions likely to decide the general election. Who won the conventions? No one — or everyone — won. The post-convention polls suggest that the party gatherings did not fundamentally change the race — this is […]
By MARK PENN Published September 1, 2008 As the Republicans get their turn this week at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn., they start out with a difficult — though not impossible — mountain to climb. Democratic nominee Barack Obama is getting his convention bump for his party confab […]
By MARK PENN Published August 19, 2008 During the Super Bowl, the seventh game of the World Series and the “American Idol” finale, Americans can be counted on to sit in front of their television sets. The same is true of the quadrennial political conventions. America is a country that […]
By MARK PENN Published August 11, 2008 Clever negative advertising works. That is reality. The tactic meets with media and pundit disapproval and spawns accusations of negativity, but the reality is that a clever negative ad can be devastatingly effective. The 2008 presidential race is shaping up to be a […]
By MARK PENN Published August 4, 2008 In many recent presidential elections, Americans have had a choice: pick the candidate they think is a stronger leader or pick the candidate they believe is right on the issues. Almost always, they have chosen the stronger leader — even though they have […]
By MARK PENN Published July 29, 2008 Despite all the talk about this election being driven by the youth vote, America as a nation has never been older and the power of the senior vote has never been greater. In the relentless quest to find the soccer moms of this […]
At the 2008 Theatre Communications Group Conference in Denver, Microtrends co-author Kinney Zalesne spoke to the importance and emergence of microtrends. View the video on the Theatre Communications Group website
Q&A Cafe with Carol Joynt: Video 3/3 Mark Penn continues his discussion with Carol Joynt on polling and trends. In this interview, he talks about the trends in Marriage and Parenting.
Q&A Cafe with Carol Joynt: Video 2/3 Mark Penn continues his discussion with Carol Joynt on polling and trends. In this interview, he talks about the trends in Love and Romance, including Sex Ratio Singles and Late Breaking Gays.
Q&A Cafe with Carol Joynt: Video 1/3 Mark Penn discusses how he got into polling and why it interests him.
Mark Penn is the President and Managing Partner of The Stagwell Group, a private equity fund focused on the marketing services industry.