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Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Apr 14, 2025

Written by Orange Marketing | April 14, 2025

At Orange Marketing, our team keeps a close eye on the latest HubSpot product updates every week—and this week, we sifted through a record-breaking seven pages of updates. The surge comes following HubSpot's just-wrapped Spring Spotlight, a bi-annual product showcase where they roll out big enhancements, fresh features, and new tools to help sales and marketing teams work smarter. It’s an exciting time to be in the HubSpot ecosystem.

With so many announcements landing at once, there’s more than we can possibly cover in a single post, but we’re highlighting the updates we think are the most impactful right now. That said, we highly recommend exploring the full list of updates for yourself. You can find them by navigating to Product Updates in your HubSpot portal (click your profile icon in the top right, then go to “Product Updates” under the “What's New” section). There you’ll see what’s live, what’s in Beta, and what’s coming soon.

Speaking of Betas: HubSpot has opened many features in Beta for early access. As tempting as it might be to enroll in all of them (hello, shiny new tools), we suggest being selective. Choose the ones that align with your current business needs or strategic goals so you’re not overwhelmed.

With that in mind, here’s a breakdown of what we think are the most exciting and useful HubSpot updates for the week ending April 11, 2025:

  • Host HubSpot Content on a WordPress Subfolder,
  • HubSpot Meeting Notetaker,
  • AI-Powered Data Model Recommendations, and
  • Research Intent.

Host HubSpot Content on a WordPress Subfolder


Marketers can now host HubSpot content (blog, landing pages, site pages, case studies, and more) on a subfolder (e.g., website.com/subfolder), using the WordPress plugin. Before this update, users would have to host content on a subdomain (e.g., subdomain.website.com) if their website was hosted on a CMS other than HubSpot's. 

Why does it matter?

As a marketer, it's best to host all content on your main root domain, to benefit from existing SEO performance and backlinks. New subdomains take months to rank.

How does it work?

In HubSpot

  • Add the domain connected to your WordPress site and set as ready for publishing (knowledge base)
    • You will not need to update or add any DNS records
  • Create content on your ready for publishing domain

In WordPress

 

  • Select settings

 

  • In the HubSpot settings, select Domains

 

  • Toggle the Host HubSpot content on your WordPress domain switch

 

  • Add your domain (note: we support the ability to connect multiple WordPress sites to a single portal, which is why we require users to input their domain)
  • Add the slug you set for your content in HubSpot under "HubSpot path"
    • You can add an "*" to create flexible paths, which allow for dynamic request routing without specifying exact URLs
      • For example, if you have a website with a blog at example.com/blog/. Instead of manually setting up rules for every blog page (/blog/post1, /blog/post2, etc.), you use a flexible path like /blog/*

 

  • We refresh the cache regularly to detect new paths, but you can click the "Reset cache" button (top-right) to update routes instantly.

Troubleshooting

  • You must be a super admin to set paths
  • If you are encountering errors, reset and re-authenticate your WordPress plugin (see image below)

 

HubSpot Meeting Notetaker

Admins can turn on HubSpot Meeting Notetaker so sales conversations are automatically recorded, transcribed, and stored in HubSpot. This frees your team to focus fully on customers instead of note-taking. The tool seamlessly joins your Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams meetings with external contacts.

Why does it matter?

Sales reps can engage completely in customer conversations rather than dividing attention with manual note-taking. Notes are automatically logged in HubSpot immediately after each call, providing valuable context for follow-ups and coaching opportunities.

How does it work?

To turn on HubSpot Meeting Notetaker for your account:

  1. Navigate to Settings > Tools > Calling > Call setup > Call Configuration
  2. Ensure that both Call recording and Transcription and analysis are turned on for your account
  3. Toggle the HubSpot Meeting Notetaker feature to on

 

Once activated, Meeting Notetaker automatically joins newly scheduled meetings with external contacts for all sales reps with Sales Hub Professional or Enterprise seats who have connected calendars in HubSpot.

Your team gets immediate access to recordings, transcripts, detailed summaries, and action items right after meetings end—without needing to host the meeting or install additional integrations.


For reps who prefer not to record meetings, they can opt out by navigating to Settings > General > Calendar and toggling Meeting Notetaker off.

HubSpot Meeting Notetaker can join any meeting that has at least one external contact associated to the meeting and has a meeting location set as either a Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams link. If joining meetings in Zoom, the host of the meeting needs to ensure the meeting is able to be recorded and joined by the notetaker by following these steps in your Zoom settings (password: Meetings_222885).

Users can add a Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams link to their meeting directly through their external calendar, a HubSpot video conference location when booking a meeting through the CRM, or a HubSpot scheduling page.

Learn more HERE.
Password: Meetings_222885

For the best experience with HubSpot Meeting Notetaker, make sure you are also enrolled in another beta: Prepare, review, and follow up on meetings with AI Meeting Assistant which makes following up on meetings a breeze.

AI-Powered Data Model Recommendations

While still in Beta, HubSpot is developing AI-powered data model recommendations to simplify HubSpot setup and deepen usage. They will utilize information they have about your business to generate a tailored set of easily applied configurations.

Why does it matter?

Manually configuring HubSpot can be time-consuming and overwhelming, especially for new admins. AI-powered templates will allow us to meet the needs of HubSpot's broad customer base and build upon the industry-specific templates released last year. The personalized content will allow you to get your HubSpot account up and running quickly and efficiently.

How does it work?

Watch this short video to see it in action.

Navigate to Data Management > Data Model and click on Define data model with templates in the upper right-hand corner. Select "Let Breeze get you started", optionally provide additional context, click Generate and let the magic happen. Our AI will propose custom properties, enabled objects, custom association labels, and pipelines with custom stages for you to review. You will be able to deselect recommendations that are not relevant, edit property names, and apply to your HubSpot account with a single click.

Research Intent

Know who's ready to buy—now even before they hit your website!

With research intent, you can identify and engage high-fit companies that are researching topics relevant to what your business sells on 200,000+ websites.

Why does it matter?

You can now do the following:

  1. Engage accounts early in their buying journeys: No need to wait for a form submission or even a website visit. Instead, you can now:
    1. Identify accounts that are researching topics (e.g. "Mobile Payments") aligned with what you sell
    2. Engage those accounts by manually or automatically adding them to outreach or campaign-based lists or workflows
  2. Engage customers who are shopping around: Know when customers are researching new solutions. You can now:
    1. Identify customers who are researching topics associated with x-sell or competitive offerings
    2. Engage those customers by manually or automatically adding them to retention or expansion-based lists and workflows
  3. Consolidate to one, CRM-native intent solution: With buyer intent, you now have one place to incorporate 1st-party (visitor-based) and 3rd-party (research-based) intent signals into your sales and marketing motions. This unlocks exciting new benefits like:
    1. Automated adding of new fully enriched, high-intent companies to your Smart CRM
    2. Seamless integration with existing workflows and lists
    3. + much more!

How does it work?

You can access research intent via the buyer intent app. Set up requires the following:

  • Target market(s): Define your target market(s) using firmographic attributes that include industry, employee size, country, and more.
  • Research topics: Select one or more topics that reflect your business' key solutions
  • Filters: Hone in on the companies that matter most by using a variety of filters that include:
    • In target market
    • In HubSpot CRM
    • In HubSpot list
    • + much more!

Once set up, you'll have access to the following:

  • Research intent views: See what companies match your intent and filtering criteria
  • Research levels: Know which companies are showing high, moderate, mild, or low levels of research intent
  • Manual and automated actions: Either manually add companies to your Smart CRM, lists, or workflows, or leverage buyer intent's powerful auto-add companies functionality to set and forget your way to more leads!

Expert HubSpot Support

Want help making sense of all the new updates, or guidance on figuring out which ones make the most sense for your team? That’s what we do.

Whether you’re looking to implement new features, clean up your portal, build out reporting dashboards, or launch sophisticated campaigns using the latest tools, we’ve got you covered. Here are just some of the ways we can support you:

  • CRM setups and migrations – Smooth transitions to streamline your processes.
  • Email campaigns – Create engaging, high-performing strategies.
  • Workflows and automation – Improve efficiency and save time with advanced automation.
  • Reporting and analytics – Gain insights to make data-driven decisions.

Let us handle the technical details so you can focus on growing your business! Contact us today for tailored HubSpot support.