EPISODE · Jun 25, 2025 · 23 MIN
How Peanut Built a Social Media Network for 5 Million+ Moms
from Scratch: CMO Interviews · host Phoebe Corcoran, Eric Fulwiler
Watch our documentary on the Future of the CMO from this link 📺: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXBKelmQomMIn this live-recorded episode, Phoebe Corcoran, Brand & Communications Lead at Peanut, tells us how a two-person marketing team fuels the world’s fastest-growing social network for women across fertility, pregnancy, motherhood, and menopause. We discuss how they used real-time user insights to create headline-grabbing ideas - from the #FourSmiles statue takeover that spotlighted post-partum depression to the raw, viral power of #InvisibleMothers, a campaign that generated 100 million+ impressions and global press.Throughout the conversation, Phoebe shares the art-and-science balance that lets Peanut punch above its weight: mining community data for emotional hooks, knowing when to deploy “hero” creative versus hard-working performance assets, and orchestrating guerrilla-style out-of-home activations that cost peanuts yet earn national coverage. If you want to learn how to scale your business on startup budgets while resonating with millions, then this episode is for you.Watch the video version of this podcast on Youtube ▶️: 📚 Chapters:00:22:20 – What you need to do differently ⚡(00:00:00) – Intro 🎙️(00:01:57) – Phoebe’s favourite challenger brands 🏆(00:02:55) – What is Peanut? 📲(00:07:30) – Invisible mothers campaign 😊(00:14:25) – Choosing the best ideas 👀(00:17:21) – Art & Science balance ⚖️(00:22:20) – What you need to do differently ⚡🖊️Mentioned in the show:Peanut appMaternal Mental Health Alliance#InvisibleMothers campaignHere We FloScratch is a production of Rival, a marketing innovation consultancy that develops strategies and capabilities that help businesses grow faster. Scratch is hosted by Eric Fulwiler, and he’s joined by Phoebe Corcoran of Peanut in this episode.Find Rival online at www.wearerival.com & LinkedInFind Eric on LinkedIn.Find Phoebe on LinkedInSay hi at [email protected], we’d love to hear from you. Rival is a marketing consultancy for brands that want to challenge convention in their category. We’re on a mission to understand what challenger brands do differently to grow in categories that are being disrupted, and use a challenger playbook to deliver outsized impact through an integrated, tech-enabled approach. Past guests include CMOs from Mastercard, GE, Shell, Hyperloop, Adobe, PepsiCo, and Papa Johns.If you’re interested in learning more about marketing from successful CMOs, we compiled a list of the top 5 CMO podcasts to listen to in 2024; check it out here 🔗 https://www.wearerival.com/content-hub-articles/cmo-podcasts-you-cannot-afford-to-miss-in-2024
What this episode covers
Peanut is the fast-growing social network guiding women through fertility, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause. In this live Scratch episode, we sit down with Phoebe Corcoran, Brand & Communications Lead at Peanut to discuss how a two-person marketing team turns customer insight into culturally powerful work - from the #ForcedSmiles statue takeover to the viral #InvisibleMothers campaign. Learn how Peanut balances data and creative “gut”, fires on different channels for launch day, and keeps 5 million women engaged while running on start-up budgets.
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