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HubSpot Outlook – July 2025

By Tobias Pasma

HubSpot Outlook – July 2025

This month's HubSpot Outlook highlights the most recent platform updates, key acquisitions, and AI developments from a B2B perspective. You'll also find forward-looking insights ahead of INBOUND 2025 and a summary of key insights from the State of consumer trends report by McKinsey.

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Deep HubSpot data queries. Now in ChatGPT

HubSpot rolled out a ChatGPT Deep Research Connector. If you use the paid version of ChatGPT and enter research mode, you can now select HubSpot as a data source. This enables real-time, AI-powered exploration of your HubSpot data with complete privacy (no model training involved). Expect a whole new level of data accessibility for marketers and sales teams.

A smarter homepage 

HubSpot's new AI-driven homepage shows what's most relevant to your workday—whether it's a contact update, a workflow that needs review, or a quick team update.
Sales users: stick to the Sales Workspace.
Everyone else: check out this new default view for a more proactive HubSpot experience.

HubSpot acquires GeoMapper and OrgChartHub

Fresh off the press: HubSpot has acquired the company behind GeoMapper (geographic CRM insights) and OrgChartHub (visual org charts). If you're familiar with LinkedIn Sales Navigator, you'll recognise the potential: integrated visualisation of decision-making structures and account locations directly inside HubSpot.

How to stay updated on all product changes

Quick tip: click the 'Product Updates' icon in the top-right of your HubSpot portal, then filter by All.
You'll find everything from:

  • Features in development

  • Private betas (apply for access)

  • Public betas (available instantly)

  • Live features

  • Sunsetting tools (like old lead scoring)

Supermetrics acquires Relay42

In ecosystem news, Supermetrics—a popular data pipeline for moving HubSpot data to BigQuery—has acquired Relay42, a Dutch customer data platform. This signals deeper integrations between martech and data platforms. Meanwhile, HubSpot itself is also testing a native BigQuery integration in Operations Hub.

HubSpot Credits: A new AI pricing model

HubSpot now offers monthly AI credits:

  • Enterprise: 5,000 per month

  • Pro: 3,000 per month

This model encourages smart, intentional AI usage. If your team hasn't used up your monthly credits yet, ask yourself: How could we test more features to drive value before month-end?

Big expectations for INBOUND 2025

The annual INBOUND conference is coming this September, and big announcements are expected.
Our wishlist:

  • Updates for Commerce Hub

  • Core improvements to HubSpot AI

  • Full integration of Agent.ai (wishful thinking)

Can't attend in person? Usually, keynotes will be streamed on YouTube.

Highlight of the month: McKinsey's Consumer Trends 2025

McKinsey's latest global report focuses on consumer trends, but we see plenty of B2B takeaways too. Here are five insights that matter:

  1. More alone, more online: Buyers increasingly expect seamless, frictionless digital experiences

  2. Rising distrust in social platforms: Yet, product research on social is higher than ever

  3. Gen Z career focus: Their ambitions impact B2B buying behaviour too

  4. Local vs. global brand: Even digital-first companies now highlight their origin (e.g., "Proudly developed in Canada")

  5. Frugal vs. indulgent mindsets: Buyers are balancing cost-saving with meaningful splurges

Want to discuss any of the updates?

Let's continue the conversation. Send a message on LinkedIn or book a meeting below.

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Welcome, everyone to the

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Zooma HubSpot outlook for July 2025.

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Today, we will go through the latest updates to news and trends around HubSpot.

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And as always, we end with a highlight of the month.

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The first update I want to talk to you about is the HubSpot

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ChatGPT Deep Research Connector.

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This means that in a paid version of ChatGPT,

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if you go into research mode, you can select HubSpot as one of the sources,

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meaning that you can now ask ChatGPT real like data science type of questions

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about your HubSpot data.. Privacy–

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there's no concern. HubSpot was very clear about it.

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It's not used to train any models.

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Please play around with it.

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Great to, to see this happening.

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For the second update, I want to talk about the HubSpot homepage.

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Now, if you have sales up and a paid sales seat, this update is not for you.

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Please continue using the sales workspace as your homepage for everyone else.

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Check out the HubSpot homepage.

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This is a place dedicated to you.

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AI driven serves you what is most relevant for you at this time.

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It's anything from like team communication contacts that have been recently engaged,

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workflows that maybe need some review, all of it in one place.

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I'm very excited that HubSpot is going into this direction.

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HubSpot has bought

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the company behind GeoMapper and OrgChartHub.

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GeoMapper lets you view where your contacts and companies

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are located on a map, and OrgChartHub

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lets you visualise the internal structure of the organisation.

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So who is managing who?

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Who is reporting to whom?

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You kind of recognize this may be from LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

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My hope for that and this is fresh off the press.

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So I don't know this is just speculation, but my hope is that

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the same visualisation that you have in LinkedIn Sales

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Navigator will translate over in the future to HubSpot

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so that you have that visualisation on two places.

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Then I also want to take a little bit of time to explain to you

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how you can keep yourself up to date with all these product updates

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in your HubSpot portal.

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Navigate to the top right and click on Product Updates.

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This brings you to a page called New to You.

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My recommendation is to click to all.

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And there you see all the updates and you can filter it

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by high, medium and low impact.

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And there's other critical organisations here.

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One, that is in development

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that means it's working on it, but it's not ready yet.

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And there's a private beta

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which means you can request access, but the product owner has to approve it.

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There's public data.

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That means you can request access

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and you will have this new feature in a couple of minutes.

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And then there's life, which means that you now have it in your portal.

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And lastly there's sunsetting,

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which means that this is a feature that will disappear.

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Like for example, the old lead scoring property that is soon getting phased out.

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Now for some news and trends in the world of HubSpot.

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First, we want to talk about an acquisition that happens,

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which is the tool Supermetrics, which is a data pipeline

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that a lot of companies use to bring data from HubSpot into BigQuery.

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They acquired a company called Relay 42,

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which is a customer data platform from the Netherlands.

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That really is

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that is very good at capturing all customer interactions, big and small.

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It's interesting to see this acquisition.

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It does make sense for sort of in the same space, sort

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of serving the same sort of companies.

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I do want to mention one other HubSpot product updates,

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which is there is a beta in Operations

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Hub that also lets you get your data from HubSpot

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straight into BigQuery, and then no need for a data pipeline.

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HubSpot introduced HubSpot credits, which is their payment model

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for the most valued AI features in the system.

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Now you get the monthly allowance with Enterprise of 5000 credits

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and with Pro for 3000 credits.

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This way of pricing AI features

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is something that's discussed quite a lot,

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and I really like this because it makes

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you think about how you are using AI.

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So if if there's no limit to it, it might just be very low value experimentation.

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But now you see like, hey, I only have 3000 credits.

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How am I going to use this?

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But also, hey, it's almost the end of the month.

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We've only used 2000 out of our 3000 credits.

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How do we push the adoption more so that we actually get that value

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of those last 2000 credits out as well?

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I might be getting a little bit ahead of myself,

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but in September, it's time for the yearly INBOUND conference.

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It looks like it will be an amazing event.

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Lots of great speakers.

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I myself am always looking forward to the speech of Dharmesh,

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which is fun, interesting,

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and has a lot of dad jokes in it.

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But the conference is also a moment in the year

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where HubSpot makes major product announcements.

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I myself am really hoping to see some cool stuff for Commerce Hub.

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Some more updates onto the core of the AI that HubSpot uses.

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They made some significant acquisitions in that area,

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and then I do have one big hope.

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It might be wishful thinking, but it's to see agents.ai

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–that's a side project of Dharmesh really getting integrated

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into HubSpot, perhaps even into the workflows.

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Now, if you're unable to attend the event,

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don't worry, there usally is a live stream on YouTube of the most important keynotes.

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And then for the highlight of the month, we are going to a report by McKinsey.

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The Consumer Trends of 2025.

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Now this is really aimed on consumers.

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At the end of the day, every B2B buyer is also a consumer.

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So I think we can take these trends and apply them in the world of B2B.

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The five trends that McKinsey names were, firstly, that consumers are more alone

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and online than ever before, that

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the distrust in social channels is higher than ever before.

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They dove into Gen Z and looked into their drivers for their behavior.

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Then they went into the trend of global versus local brands.

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And that's the fifth trend.

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They looked into how consumers are saving and splurging on their purchases.

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When we look through the lens of B2B to this report,

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the first thing that we can take from this is the need for convenience

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and the need for frictionless experience for also the B2B buyer.

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The second remarkable thing in their data for reporting was that

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even though there's so much distrust in social and digital channels,

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that product research was done on social more than ever before.

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A third interesting thing was that Gen Z is so much so driven

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by their career success, which is an interesting thing

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to know when you're selling to a Gen Z buyer in B2B.

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And lastly, also, that trend of consumers preferring

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local and domestic products over global brands translates over into B2B.

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You sometimes even see it in the most digital industries,

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like a software company that puts a little tagline

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of proudly developed in Canada on their website.

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That was it for this time.

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Thank you so much.

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We'll we'll be back after the summer holidays with another HubSpot outlook.

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In the meantime, if you have any questions,

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if you want to have

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a continued conversation around this, or if you have any feedback,

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send me a message on LinkedIn or book a meeting. Bye.
Tobias Pasma
Tobias Pasma is HubSpot Solution Architect at Zooma, where he helps both customers and the agency get the most out of the HubSpot platform. He works on HubSpot implementation, platform architecture, automation and integrations — making sure HubSpot users have a setup that actually supports their business needs and helps them evolve. Tobias has been a HubSpot user since way back in 2013 and brings many years of hands-on experience with the platform. He has worked as an inbound growth consultant and ran his own HubSpot consultancy before joining Zooma full-time in 2021. He also contributes insights to Zooma’s knowledge output, appearing in podcasts, webinars and articles to spread the good news of HubSpot to the masses. Outside work, Tobias is based in Sweden (originally from the Netherlands) and likes spending time with his adorable dog Rebbel.
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