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Ocean Bottle’s Secret to Scaling Impact With 2 Billion Plastic Bottles
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Scratch CMO interviews with Ocean Bottle

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Ocean Bottle’s Secret to Scaling Impact With 2 Billion Plastic Bottles
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From Cornwall to the World: How Finisterre’s community marketing strategy built a global brand
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Scratch CMO Interview with Finisterre

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From Cornwall to the World: How Finisterre’s community marketing strategy built a global brand
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“Listen Loudly”: How the World's Largest Credit Union Thinks Like a Challenger Brand
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Scratch CMO interviews with Navy Federal

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“Listen Loudly”: How the World's Largest Credit Union Thinks Like a Challenger Brand
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AI Marketers Anonymous, Volume Two
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AI Marketers Anonymous, Volume Two
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How Brompton Built One of the Biggest Brands In Cycling
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In this episode of Scratch, Eric sits down with Chris Willingham, Chief Marketing Officer at Brompton Bicycle,

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How Brompton Built One of the Biggest Brands In Cycling
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How Peanut Built a Social Media Network for 5 Million+ Moms
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In this live-recorded episode, Phoebe Corcoran, Brand & Communications Lead at Peanut

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How Peanut Built a Social Media Network for 5 Million+ Moms
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Roots before Reach: YETI's Playbook To Building an Iconic Brand
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In this episode, Bill Neff, Head of Marketing at YETI, breaks down how the legendary cooler company became a culture-defining outdoor brand

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Roots before Reach: YETI's Playbook To Building an Iconic Brand
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Rewriting The Sports Marketing Playbook: How Manors Is Becoming the Most Memorable Brand in Golf
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In this episode of Scratch, Viren sits down with Alex Ames, Marketing Director at Manors Golf,

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Rewriting The Sports Marketing Playbook: How Manors Is Becoming the Most Memorable Brand in Golf
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How Delightful Customer Experiences Powered Bloom & Wild to 20M Deliveries
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In the final episode before the summer break, we’re joined by Bloom & Wild’s Chief Customer Officer, Charlotte Langley.

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How Delightful Customer Experiences Powered Bloom & Wild to 20M Deliveries
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Weaponizing the Friction: How Airalo Broke the Telecom Monopoly
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Weaponizing the Friction: How Airalo Broke the Telecom Monopoly
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What Happens When Marketers Talk Honestly About AI
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A summary of key takeaways from the AI marketing meetup in London for CMOs hosted by Rival

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What Happens When Marketers Talk Honestly About AI
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Challenging Convention: The Women of Rival
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Rival document the female marketers who are challenging convention and rewriting the rules of modern marketing

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Challenging Convention: The Women of Rival
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The Rival Gift Guide 2025: For The Challengers In Your Life
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The Rival Gift Guide for Challenger Thinkers In Your Life

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The Rival Gift Guide 2025: For The Challengers In Your Life
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How Barclays Adopts a Challenger Mindset to Innovate a 300-Year-Old Brand
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In this episode of Scratch, CMO Interviews, we sit down with the CMO of Barclays US, Lili Tomovich.

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How Barclays Adopts a Challenger Mindset to Innovate a 300-Year-Old Brand
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The Secret Marketing Playbook Behind Burger King, Popeyes, & Tim Hortons
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In this episode of Scratch: CMO Interviews, we sit down with Daniel Blumer of Restaurant Brands International (EMEA)

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The Secret Marketing Playbook Behind Burger King, Popeyes, & Tim Hortons
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Cracking the $128Bn Pet Market with the CMO of Petsafe Brands
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In this episode of Scratch, Eric sits down with Molly Landman, the first Chief Marketing Officer of PetSafe, the 30-year-old pet-tech pioneer behind invisible fences, automatic litter boxes, GPS collars, and more.

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Cracking the $128Bn Pet Market with the CMO of Petsafe Brands
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Tubi's Marketing Playbook to Disrupt the $109Bn Global Streaming Market
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This week, we sit down with Nicole Parlapiano, CMO of Tubi, the leading free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) with the largest content library on the planet We’re joined by Nicole Parlapiano, CMO of Tubi, who walks us through her private-equity-to-marketing journey and the brand-first strategy behind Tubi’s 250 K-title “rabbit-hole” library.

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Tubi's Marketing Playbook to Disrupt the $109Bn Global Streaming Market
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How Midday Squares is Disrupting Big Chocolate using a Reality Show Model
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Building a snack brand in a $140 billion chocolate industry sounds impossible - unless you’re Jake Karls, co-founder of Midday Squares.

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How Midday Squares is Disrupting Big Chocolate using a Reality Show Model
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How Polestar is Taking on EV Giants in a $785Bn Market
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In this Episode of Scratch: CMO Interviews, we sit down with the CMO of the challenger EV brand, Polestar.

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How Polestar is Taking on EV Giants in a $785Bn Market
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The Future of the CMO
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Is the CMO role doomed? The headlines (and the data) aren't reassuring: CMO tenure? Down. Marketing budgets? Down. Responsibility to drive revenue? Waaaay up.

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The Future of the CMO
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Building Intergenerational Brand Loyalty with the CMO of Consumer Reports
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In this episode, we sit down with Khalid El Khatib, the Chief Marketing Officer of Consumer Reports, one of America’s most trusted and oldest consumer advocacy organizations.

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Building Intergenerational Brand Loyalty with the CMO of Consumer Reports
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