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Scratch: CMO Interviews is a business podcast hosted by Rival. It has 114 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

Why do some businesses grow faster than others? What do the marketers leading them do differently? How can we learn from them to grow our own businesses and careers?Scratch explores the world of challenger marketing - the thinkers and doers questioning the status quo and rewriting the marketing rule book ‘from scratch’. Each episode will dive deep into the experience and perspective of an industry thought leader to understand the unique insights and ideas that have powered their success. We will interview some of the biggest names in the marketing world - the people with the most interesting stories to tell. We’ll hear from the CMOs of the biggest brands in the world, but also the entrepreneurs building hyper-growth start-ups to really understand the full spectrum of challenger marketing today. We’ll get into the nitty gritty: the details of how they think and what they do differently in order to deliver simple, clear, and actionable lessons for all marketers. Scratch is the ‘How I

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“The Apple of Toothbrushes”: How Suri is Disrupting the $10 Billion Oral Health Care Industry

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“Listen Loudly”: How the World's Largest Credit Union Thinks Like a Challenger Brand

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How Satisfy Built The Most Adored Brand In Running

4

How Brompton Built One of the Biggest Brands In Cycling

5

Inside Webflow’s Bet on an AI-Native Web and What That Means For CMOs

6

Rewriting The Sports Marketing Playbook: How Manors Is Becoming The Most Memorable Brand In Golf

7

Roots before Reach: YETI's Playbook To Building an Iconic Brand

8

From Cornwall to the World: How Finisterre’s community marketing strategy built a global brand

9

Inside Salesforce’s Marketing Machine: CMO Ariel Kelman on AI, Data, and the Future of Marketing

10

Ocean Bottle’s Secret to Scaling Impact With 2 Billion Plastic Bottles

11

How Barclays Adopts a Challenger Mindset to Innovate a 300-Year-Old Brand

12

The Secret Marketing Playbook Behind Burger King, Popeyes, & Tim Hortons

13

Scratch Special: How Baby Eric & Baby Jenna Survived Cannes 2025

14

How Peanut Built a Social Media Network for 5 Million+ Moms

15

Cracking the $128Bn Pet Market with the CMO of Petsafe Brands

16

Tubi's Marketing Playbook to Disrupt the $109Bn Global Streaming Market

17

How Midday Squares is Disrupting Big Chocolate using a Reality Show Model

18

How Polestar is Taking on EV Giants in a $785Bn Market

19

Building Intergenerational Brand Loyalty with the CMO of Consumer Reports

20

How Oddbox is Building UK’s Fastest-Growing Grocery Subscription

21

How ESL FACEIT Group Fuels the Largest Esports League on Earth

22

How Light Is Breaking Big Tech by Creating an Anti-Attention Smartphone

23

Major League Soccer’s Full-Funnel Blueprint for Converting Viewers to Fans

24

Standard Bank’s Marketing Playbook to Dominate South Africa’s $1.41Tn Finance Sector

25

How Investec Stays "Fresh" after 50 years with Challenger Thinking

26

How Tony’s Chocolonely Changed the $120Bn Chocolate Category

27

The BBC’s Blueprint for a Century of Brand Building With Its Chief Brand Officer

28

The Modern CMO’s Playbook to First-Party Data With the CEO of mParticle

29

How Boxraw Is Fighting Its Way to the Top of the $1.3Bn Global Boxing Market 🥊

30

170% YoY Growth: Bespoke Beauty Brands' Secret to Disrupting the Beauty Industry

31

The B2B Brand Playbook: Lessons From Paddle's Journey to Becoming a $1.4Bn Unicorn

32

How Hyrox is Becoming the Fastest-Growing Sport in a $6.73Bn Market

33

How Fever-Tree Became the Leader of the $9.5Bn Premium Mixers Category

34

The Truth Behind the World’s Biggest LGBTQ+ Brand with the SVP, Brand Marketing of Grindr

35

Creating Series-E Impact with a Pre-seed Budget with the CMO of Tomorrow.io

36

The $100Bn Secret for Marketing Chinese Brands with the Ex-CMO of Huawei & Didi

37

CMO of USA Pickleball on marketing the fastest-growing sport in a $65Bn category

38

Cracking the $45Bn Sports Nutrition Market with the CMO of Podium

39

Blending Brand & Performance in DTC with Bryant Garvin of Ozlo Sleep, Purple Mattress

40

How to Use AI to Disrupt the $50Bn Perfume Category with Noteworthy Scents

41

How Who Gives A Crap Disrupted The $31bn Toilet Paper Industry

42

Fuelling the Future: Unleashing the New Age of NASCAR Fandom

43

Calendly’s CMO - Marketing a $3 Billion SAAS product like a Pro

44

David vs Goliath - DuckDuckGo’s Marketing Strategies to Take on Google

45

The 10 Biggest Marketing Lessons From 100+ Leading CMOs | Scratch by Rival

46

1BN Views and Counting: WorldChaseTag’s Marketing Playbook for Disrupting the Sports World

47

Building One of the Fastest-Growing Challenger Brands in Personal Care with HereWeFlo

48

How Gymbox Delivers Massive Campaigns With Minimal Budgets

49

How Yonder Is Building a Challenger Credit Card to Crush AMEX

50

How Beavertown’s Creative Marketing Disrupted the Beer Market in the UK

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