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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 Oct 13, 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

Thought Leadership for Executives Who Don't Have Time
Thought Leadership for Executives Who Don't Have Time Oct 13, 2026 993 Your executives have plenty of thoughts. They just don't have time for your thought leadership calendar. In this week’s episode of the Spin Sucks podcast, Gini Dietrich shares how a CEO who called a voice-note idea "stupid" became famous in his industry because of it, why the fix is adding one small step to something your execs already do, and what AI can and can't do to turn their thinking into e
Why Your Marketing and PR Measurement Isn't Telling Leadership What Worked
Why Your Marketing and PR Measurement Isn't Telling Leadership What Worked Oct 6, 2026 1295 Your executive team wants "the numbers" by Friday, and you know what's coming: six logins, a Thursday-night spreadsheet, and a CEO asking, "So what actually worked?" The problem isn't you—it's a process that asks for activities, judges you on outcomes, and scatters the data across teams and agencies that all measure differently. In this week’s episode of the Spin Sucks podcast, Gini Dietrich break
The PESO Model® Diagnostic: The Novartis Tight End
The PESO Model® Diagnostic: The Novartis Tight End Sep 29, 2026 1197 Novartis made the most likable pharma ad of the Super Bowl—Gronk, hammocks, "relax your tight end"—and won the Pharma Lions Grand Prix at Cannes for it. But when paid media is the only channel that legal can fully control, the ad quietly becomes your whole operating system, and everything it can't say gets handed to someone else.  In this month's PESO Model® Diagnostic, Gini Dietrich runs th
When Men Use AI, They're Resourceful. When Women Use AI, They're Cheating.
When Men Use AI, They're Resourceful. When Women Use AI, They're Cheating. Sep 22, 2026 1089 Give 1,000 people the identical AI-assisted résumé and change only the first name, and James is "resourceful" while Emily "can't even write a CV herself." Three studies this year show women are judged more harshly than men for the same AI use—and in a profession that's two-thirds women, that's not an HR footnote; it's how the job loss Alex Karp predicted actually happens.  On this week’s Spi
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

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