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Engaging Media with GenAI Updates and Insights

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Engaging Media with GenAI Updates and Insights

Description

Many organizations are eager to showcase their GenAI efforts, but few know how to engage media in a credible, compelling way. This capability focuses on building the skills and structures needed to tell GenAI stories that resonate with journalists, earn coverage, and shape external perceptions.

Why it's Important

In the race to demonstrate GenAI leadership, visibility matters. Teams that master this capability can turn GenAI updates into earned media momentum-building brand trust, elevating their narrative, and influencing how the market sees their innovation. Without it, even transformative work can go unnoticed or misunderstood.

Why it's Challenging @ Scale

  • Navigating media skepticism: Many journalists are still cautious about GenAI claims and require substantial proof points.
  • Identifying newsworthy angles: Generic updates or vague positioning often fail to generate earned media interest.
  • Coordinating across internal stakeholders: Aligning marketing, legal, product, and leadership on GenAI disclosures can delay or dilute messages.
  • Balancing transparency and control: Sharing too little limits credibility; sharing too much can risk backlash or IP exposure.
  • Sustaining media momentum: Generating ongoing coverage beyond the initial launch requires a steady pipeline of fresh, relevant stories.

Complexity

High: Earning credible, consistent GenAI coverage involves strategic media planning, story development, stakeholder coordination, and nuanced messaging that aligns with broader brand, risk, and reputational priorities.

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Taking Action

Though most organizations begin their GenAI journey with significant knowledge gaps, there are targeted actions that can be taken to accelerate the process. Select your group’s current maturity, based on your assessment results, and act today.

The most important part of any journey is starting… To move from “Exploring” to “Experimenting”, focus on the following key actions:
  • Explore Key Concepts & Best Practices: Complete the GenAI Brand Building Best Practices workshop (2 hrs.) to understand foundational key concepts and explore applied best practices.
  • Articulating the brand impact of GenAI transformation
  • Defining key themes for storytelling and positioning
  • Aligning brand with GenAI ethics, transparency, and innovation
  • Measuring brand perception and engagement
  • Planning the GenAI brand launch and reinforcement strategy
  • Define Your Action Plan: Outline concrete, prioritized steps your organization will take to implement GenAI Strategy.
  • Align on your Current State and define your Target State
  • Create an actionable enablement plan
  • Define target timeline and measures of success
  • Deliver Quick Wins: Small, high-impact GenAI projects that can demonstrate tangible value in a short time frame.
  • Publish a Media-Ready GenAI Snapshot: Draft a short update with approved language that highlights early GenAI efforts.
  • Identify a Credible Spokesperson: Select and brief a senior leader or SME who can authentically speak about GenAI progress.
  • Share First Internal Results: Highlight small wins or pilot insights that could form the basis of a future story.
To move from Experimentation to “Lifting-Off”, prioritize the following actions:
  • Complete one or more of our Deep Dive Courses: Begin exploring key concepts and best practices, including:
  • GenAI Brand Strategy & Positioning Best Practices
  • GenAI Messaging & Storytelling Best Practices
  • GenAI Experience & Customer Touchpoint Best Practices
  • GenAI Activation & Communications Best Practices
  • Nail It Before You Scale It: Assess and optimize your solution or process before adopting it at scale
  • Assess Your Proposed Solution or Process: Evaluate whether your current GenAI narrative, proof points, and visuals will resonate with external media.
  • Define in-scope Processes and Guardrails: Establish policies and team roles for what GenAI-related content can be shared publicly.
  • Close any Data or Measurement Gaps: Identify and fill evidence gaps that could strengthen your media narrative.
  • Define Your Adoption & Scaling Plan: Create a structured roadmap for how GenAI solutions will be rolled out across teams, workflows, or business units
  • Define Your Phased Implementation Plan: Identify what types of media content (e.g., articles, videos, Q&As) will be developed and when.
  • Build Awareness and Finalize Enablers: Ensure internal leaders and SMEs are pre-briefed and have access to shareable, approved GenAI assets.
  • Operationalize Your Comms Plan: Set up processes to support timely publication, approval, and amplification of GenAI stories.
To move from Lifting-Off to “Accelerating”, prioritize the following actions:
  • Formalize Your Best Practices: Document and standardize what’s working to ensure consistent, scalable success across teams and use cases
  • Create a GenAI Media Toolkit: Develop a reusable set of assets including talking points, bios, press Q&As, and success story templates.
  • Document Approval Workflows: Clearly outline review and signoff procedures to ensure consistent media messaging and risk mitigation.
  • Establish a GenAI News Calendar: Build and maintain a cadence for media updates aligned with product, event, and campaign timelines.
  • Accelerate Your Adoption: Intensify efforts to embed GenAI across your organization by expanding use cases, increasing user engagement, and removing adoption barriers
  • Pitch GenAI Stories Proactively: Identify and share differentiated stories with journalists and analysts before being asked.
  • Expand Internal Training on Media Engagement: Equip spokespeople with best practices for representing GenAI in interviews and panels.
  • Localize and Tailor GenAI Messaging: Adapt global GenAI narratives for different markets, audiences, or verticals.
  • Celebrate Your Wins: Publicly acknowledge team accomplishments to build and sustain adoption momentum
  • Spotlight Teams Driving GenAI Visibility: Feature individuals or groups responsible for successful media engagements.
  • Share Positive Media Coverage Internally: Broadcast wins through newsletters or town halls to reinforce progress.
  • Track and Recognize Reach Milestones: Celebrate when media engagement achieves targeted reach or impact metrics.
To break away from competitors, focus on differentiation, amplification, and sustained visibility of your GenAI communications:
  • Streamline & Embed: Make GenAI messaging a core component of your internal and external comms infrastructure
  • Embed GenAI into Core Messaging Templates: Integrate key GenAI narratives into PR boilerplates, decks, and brand materials.
  • Automate Internal Story Sharing: Set up internal tools or processes that help teams flag and publish GenAI updates faster.
  • Standardize GenAI Language Across Teams: Ensure consistency in tone, terminology, and positioning across regions and business units.
  • Leverage Automation: Use automation to amplify your reach while maintaining consistency and control
  • Automate GenAI News Monitoring: Track breaking news, competitor updates, and policy shifts to inform rapid response.
  • Use AI Tools for Drafting & Summarization: Accelerate press release and media asset creation with GenAI support.
  • Trigger Media Outreach from Milestones: Predefine comms playbooks that auto-trigger media engagement based on launches or usage thresholds.
  • Evolve & Further Accelerate: Continuously refine your communications approach to stay ahead of the curve
  • Conduct Annual GenAI Comms Audits: Evaluate what’s working, what’s outdated, and where there are new opportunities.
  • Expand into New Channels: Explore video, podcast, and influencer partnerships to tell richer GenAI stories.
  • Position Your Brand as a GenAI Thought Leader: Develop original POVs, frameworks, or research to elevate your reputation.

Key "Watchouts"

As you take action you’ll want to avoid:

  • Overclaiming capabilities or results: Exaggerated claims risk reputational damage and media scrutiny.
  • Responding too slowly: Delayed approvals or missed windows can result in lost media opportunities.
  • Being inconsistent across channels: Mixed messages across press releases, social media, and interviews create confusion and doubt.
  • Failing to tailor messages to audience needs: Using internal language or overly technical terms limits impact and reach.
  • Neglecting measurement: Without tracking, it’s hard to prove value, iterate, or justify continued investment.

Targeted Benefits

While Engaging Media with GenAI Updates and Insights can be challenging, its benefits are clear and compelling, including:

  • Increased credibility and leadership: Consistent, authentic media engagement strengthens GenAI reputation.
  • Greater alignment across stakeholders: Shared messaging ensures teams and leaders are telling the same story.
  • Stronger differentiation from competitors: Well-framed updates help position your organization as a GenAI pioneer.
  • Improved awareness and engagement: Media visibility drives broader reach and signals momentum.
  • Faster scaling of GenAI efforts: Strategic coverage attracts partners, talent, and champions who can help accelerate adoption.

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