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The Spin Sucks Podcast with Gini Dietrich

The Spin Sucks Podcast with Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich, Founder of Spin Sucks 412 Episodes Sep 15, 2026

The Spin Sucks Podcast with Gini Dietrich is a show about modern communications and the convergence of PR, marketing, search, advertising, social media, and content. It explores how these disciplines increasingly overlap and why professionals should work together instead of drawing hard lines between them. The podcast aims to help organizations grow by uniting communications efforts and changing the PR industry collaboratively. Host Gini Dietrich, founder of Spin Sucks, leads conversations on best practices and trends.

Episodes

AI Isn't Disrupting the PESO Model®. It's Proving It.
AI Isn't Disrupting the PESO Model®. It's Proving It. Sep 15, 2026 1242 A new report says earned media is disrupting the PESO Model® for AI discoverability—and a second survey, published the same month, says paid media matters most. They can't both be right, and Gini Dietrich argues neither question is. In this week’s Spin Sucks episode, she walks through what both surveys found, why "which media type matters most" measures who you asked instead of what works, and the
AI Agents Are the New Gatekeepers
AI Agents Are the New Gatekeepers Sep 8, 2026 1120 In this week’s Spin Sucks podcast episode, Gini Dietrich explains why the AI persona you built last year just got promoted to referee, the only two signals it checks before it vouches for you, and the four moves to make before someone in your building tries to solve "the AI problem" with a bigger ad budget. Read the article: https://spinsucks.com/communication/ai-agents-gatekeepers/  Take t
AI Visibility Is a PESO Model® Problem—and You're Closer Than You Think
AI Visibility Is a PESO Model® Problem—and You're Closer Than You Think Sep 1, 2026 1169 Everyone is writing the same article about AI visibility: it's a new discipline, and—what luck!—they sell the thing that fixes it. Nope. AI systems reward probability, not popularity, and probability gets built through the integrated program communicators have been running for more than a decade: the PESO Model®.  In this week’s Spin Sucks podcast episode, Gini Dietrich breaks down the speci
AI Visibility Starts With Trust—and You Can't AI Your Way Out of a Trust Problem
AI Visibility Starts With Trust—and You Can't AI Your Way Out of a Trust Problem Aug 25, 2026 1182 Everyone wants the AI visibility tool with the free trial and the dashboard. We don't have one to sell you, and neither does anyone else—because if AI isn't recommending your brand, that's usually a trust problem wearing a tooling costume.  In this week’s Spin Sucks podcast episode, Gini Dietrich makes the case that trust is a supply chain with stations you cannot skip, and she walks through
The PESO Model® Diagnostic: Duolingo Built the Internet's Favorite Brand on Rented Land
The PESO Model® Diagnostic: Duolingo Built the Internet's Favorite Brand on Rented Land Aug 18, 2026 993 Duolingo built the internet's favorite brand on rented land—the best shared media engine on the planet, run through one green owl on platforms it doesn't control. In this month's PESO Model® Diagnostic, Gini Dietrich looks at what the legend leaves out: an owned media record too thin to defend the brand when the 2025 "AI-first" backlash hit. You'll learn why Duo's chaos is actually disciplined cha
Your Org Chart is Sabotaging Your Brand
Your Org Chart is Sabotaging Your Brand Aug 11, 2026 948 Your best work goes into review sounding like your brand, only to come out sounding like a terms-of-service update—and legal isn't actually to blame. Nearly 80% of CMOs tell Lippincott that bureaucracy regularly interferes with decision-making, and that's not a culture problem—it's a brand-erosion mechanism. In this episode of the Spin Sucks podcast, Gini Dietrich breaks down the difference betwee
Reputation Management Now Includes What AI Says About Your Brand
Reputation Management Now Includes What AI Says About Your Brand Aug 4, 2026 1061 AI tools are already answering questions about your brand—to your buyers, your board, and the journalists who cover you—and they're confidently wrong often enough that one Minnesota company is suing Google for as much as $210 million over a lawsuit its AI invented. To make matters worse, Muck Rack research shows that in 29% of organizations, nobody owns this at all. In this episode, Gini Dietrich
How to Defend Your Marketing Budget in Language the CFO Actually Speaks
How to Defend Your Marketing Budget in Language the CFO Actually Speaks Jul 28, 2026 1083 Gartner predicts that more than 40% of CMOs who push for bigger budgets this year will lose influence with the C-suite—because their asks never connect to what the business runs on. Here's the thing: your CFO's language has only four words—pipeline, risk, retention, and cost-to-acquire—and 'reach' isn't one of them. In this episode, I show you how to translate your work into those four numbers, wh
The PESO Model® Diagnostic: How HubSpot Turned Owned Media Into a Moat
The PESO Model® Diagnostic: How HubSpot Turned Owned Media Into a Moat Jul 21, 2026 1149 HubSpot lost roughly 75% of its blog traffic to AI search—and grew revenue 19% anyway. Everyone wrote the obituary for content marketing, but the traffic that died was the content HubSpot never had the right to own, and everything built on real authority held. In Episode 4 of the PESO Model® Diagnostic, I break down what survived, what didn't, and how to tell which of your own content is an asset
How to Show Up Inside the Answer: A Visibility Engineering Playbook
How to Show Up Inside the Answer: A Visibility Engineering Playbook Jul 14, 2026 1057 Your buyers are asking their AI tool of choice who to trust—and if AI doesn't cite you, you don't exist. Communicators missed SEO once because it felt "too technical," and the Lippincott data says we're on track to repeat history with AI. In this week’s Spin Sucks podcast episode, Gini Dietrich shares the five-move visibility engineering playbook, plus the moment Martin Waxman ran his own organiza
CMOs Don't Have an Influence Problem. They Have an Operating System Problem.
CMOs Don't Have an Influence Problem. They Have an Operating System Problem. Jul 7, 2026 1039 A new Lippincott study says only 28% of CMOs feel they have real influence in their organization—and your CEO has probably already seen it. Most people blame short-term thinking, but Gini Dietrich argues that the real problem is structural. CMOs are managing a pile of channels rather than running a system. You'll learn why the brand-versus-performance debate is a trap, why dumping budget into AI w
Inside the PESO Model® Certification
Inside the PESO Model® Certification Jun 30, 2026 976 You understand the PESO Model®, so why does it still feel like a pile of tactics instead of a system that runs? In this episode, Gini Dietrich takes you inside the PESO Model Certification® she tore down and rebuilt—what changed, what she refused to touch, and who it's honestly not for. If you've ever understood something cold and still couldn't make it run, this one's for you. Take the free PESO

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