The Spin Sucks Podcast with Gini Dietrich

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 the full Novartis campaign through the PESO lens, names the regulated-industry trap, and lays out the fixes that survive a compliance review—at every size of organization. Take the PESO Model® Diagnostic: https://spinsucks.com/self-peso-diagnostic/PESO Model® Certification: https://spinsucks.com/peso-model-certification/Full article: https://spinsucks.com/communication/peso-model-diagnostic-novartis/

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 Spin Sucks podcast episode, Gini Dietrich walks through the research, why the adoption gap doesn't close with access or training, and four things to do about it, whether you lead the team or you're the one using the tools (or both). Read the article: https://spinsucks.com/communication/ai-resourceful-cheating  My conversation with Tara McDonagh: https://communicationsbusinessadvisor.libsyn.com/episode-49-yes-and-what-gini-dietrich-and-i-learned-from-each-other Free PESO Model® Diagnostic: https://spinsucks.com/self-peso-diagnostic/  PESO Model® Certification: https://spinsucks.com/peso-model-certification/

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 finding everyone should be talking about: a 28-point confidence gap between agencies and brands that comes down to one word—measurement. Read the post: http://spinsucks.com/communication/ai-peso-model-proof  PESO Model Diagnostic: https://spinsucks.com/self-peso-diagnostic/  PESO Model Certification: https://spinsucks.com/peso-model-certification/  Spin Sucks Community: https://spinsucks.com/community  D S Simon report: https://www.dssimon.com/earned-media-in-the-ai-era-report/  Sword and the Script survey: https://www.swordandthescript.com/2026/08/ai-visibility-survey/

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 the free PESO Model Diagnostic®: https://spinsucks.com/self-peso-diagnostic/  PESO Model Certification®: https://spinsucks.com/peso-model-certification/  AI Visibility Is a PESO Model Problem: https://spinsucks.com/communication/ai-visibility-peso-model/  Meet Your New Buyer Persona: https://spinsucks.com/communication/meet-your-new-buyer-persona/

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 specific job each media type does in the evidence base LLMs actually score—and the claims-versus-corroboration audit to run with your team this week. Links:  Full article: https://spinsucks.com/communication//ai-visbility-peso-model  Marketing Dive article: https://www.marketingdive.com/news/why-unpaid-media-is-now-essential-to-ai-visibility/822485/ Free PESO Model® Diagnostic: https://spinsucks.com/self-peso-diagnostic/  PESO Model® Certification: https://spinsucks.com/peso-model-certification/