Jonathan Hunt retweeted
SEO is dead, even for the company that invented it.
According to @kippbodnar, HubSpot lost 140 MILLION search visits in about a year!!
Insane story, and they wrote a book about how they adapted.
TLDR it's creators, YouTube, and showing up organically in LLMs. (Starter Story acquisition makes more sense now!)
Worth picking up.
Jonathan Hunt retweeted
It’s launch day. 🚀🚀🚀
Loop: Outlearn. Outmarket. Outgrow. is officially out.♾️
I helped scale the marketing playbook AI is now breaking.
We had to rebuild our own. Today that rebuild becomes a book. 📖
For 15+ years at HubSpot, the job was clear: create useful content, get discovered, earn trust, turn trust into customers.
Then buyers started getting answers without visiting websites. AI made content cheap. Almost everyone’s response to less attention was produce more — including companies already producing too much.
When you’ve gotten good at something, it’s easy to confuse “this worked” with “this will keep working.”
So Kieran Flanagan and I wrote Loop — a practical way forward for marketers who need Monday to look different.
The idea: your marketing should get smarter every time you run it.
A customer objection improves your next ad. That ad sharpens your positioning. That positioning makes the next conversation better. Every cycle raises the floor for the next one.
That’s the system:
• Express — your point of view and why you’re worth choosing
• Tailor — make that story relevant to the person buying
• Amplify — show up where people actually discover, evaluate, and decide
• Evolve — feed what you learn back into everything next
We tested it inside HubSpot. The book brings the framework, the tools, and a 90-day plan to run it with your team.
AI gives your competitors the same tools you have. Your advantage is what you understand about your customers — and how fast you turn that into better marketing.
To the HubSpot team, the Marketing Against the Grain community, and everyone who challenged these ideas along the way: thank you. You made this book better.
If you own growth and you’re asking what your team should do differently on Monday — start here. Loop is live.
Get your copy: hubspot.com/loop-marketing-b…
Outlearn. Outmarket. Outgrow.
Jonathan Hunt retweeted
I'm co-hosting a new weekly show with @Kantrowitz, brought to you by the same folks at Hubspot who produce @myfirstmilpod!
We'll talk about the biggest stories in tech and business every week. It's going to be fun, Alex and I disagree a lot :)
Super stoked to share more!
News is everywhere. The point is harder to find.
Meet the people finding it: @Kantrowitz + @pitdesi
This Is The Point launches September 14th. Subscribe for updates: thisisthepoint.co/
Jonathan Hunt retweeted
Thrilled to announce @pitdesi and I are launching a new podcast called This Is The Point where we'll discuss the week's AI & tech news. Sheel is a VC and I'm a journalist, so should be spicy :)
Excited to do it w/ @HubSpot!
Subscribe on Youtube here: youtube.com/@thisisthepoint
Jonathan Hunt retweeted
Now that we've become dependent on AI models, are the prices about to go up?
In many cases, the model makers are creating far more value than they are capturing with token fees, and there's room to double (or even triple) the rates we pay.
That's what I think at least. VC @pitdesi says that since there's so much competition, we may see prices stay stable or even fall. That would be great news for us, maybe not as great for those investing in OpenAI, Anthropic, and the rest of the gang.
Your thoughts?
Jonathan Hunt retweeted
Wow seems you guys LOVE our new series.
300K+ views in 24 hours!
Our goal is to show the REAL day in the life of builders & how they get so much done.
Who should we cover next?
HubSpot Media just acquired Futurepedia — the largest AI education network on YouTube!
Not a news brand. Not a talk show. A network that teaches 2.1 million people how to actually use AI.
Combined with Mindstream and Marketing Against the Grain, we now operate the largest media network for AI enablement — 3.6M+ followers across platforms.
Futurepedia also joins our broader media portfolio including My First Million, The Hustle, Starter Story, and more.
Futurepedia stays editorially independent. We bring HubSpot Media's monetization and growth engine to a network that's already built audience and trust.
Welcome to the team, Saj, Kevin, Andrew, Bryce and the whole Futurepedia crew! axios.com/newsletters/axios-…
Jonathan Hunt retweeted
You never really know how news like this is going to land.
The response over the last 24 hours has been overwhelming.
Thank you for the messages, the stories, and the kind words about how Starter Story impacted you. It might take me a month to read them all.
When you’re in the day-to-day, you forget to zoom out and see how many people were part of the journey.
I underestimated that.
THANK YOU.
HubSpot Media is acquiring @starter_story!
Information is everywhere. Help is harder to come by.
Starter Story doesn’t just interview founders.
They help them by pulling out the details most people skip: tradeoffs, mistakes, playbooks, pricing, what actually worked, and why.
Small businesses are a core customer base for @HubSpot.
Starter Story reaches early-stage founders at a moment that matters—when they’re choosing tools and building real momentum.
Starter Story will remain editorially independent.
HubSpot Media will invest in/accelerate their continued growth—same mission, bigger runway.
Welcome, @thepatwalls, @samanthaawalls, @gus_tiffer and the Starter Story team! adweek.com/media/hubspot-med…
Jonathan Hunt retweeted
.@jonathan_h: “Priorities will shift to greater creator, not publisher, acquisitions.”
niemanlab.org/2025/12/publis…
Jonathan Hunt retweeted
Media companies will love their websites a lot less buff.ly/4gbnMEa


















