HubSpot’s October Update: Smarter CRM, AI CTAs & Cleaner Data

HubSpot’s latest automation, essential content marketing habits, Reels-first shifts, AI-enabled PPC, and new SEO playbooks—this is what’s shaping digital growth.

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Code Peddle
October 14, 2025

Hey there, Digital Marketing Rockstars! 🎸

Manmeet here, back with the latest work-saving, growth-driving platform moves for October. From AI-powered CRM hygiene to essential content best practices, shifting social priorities, Google API innovations, and a whole new playbook for AI search visibility—let’s dive in and set your team up for a winning week.

In today's email:

1. HubSpot’s October upgrades: smarter CRM, data hygiene, and instant AI-generated CTAs. 📈
2. 10 content marketing best practices to win in 2025. 🤖
3. Instagram experiments with a Reels-first main feed.💡
4. Google’s Ads API goes open source, powering smarter AI diagnostics. 👀
5. How to stand out and measure brand presence in the new world of AI search. 🌐

Marketing Automation

October 2025 HubSpot Updates: Smarter CRM, AI-Powered CTAs & Data Hygiene

HubSpot is doubling down on sales productivity and CRM quality. Highlights: automatic text formatting sweeps out messy whitespace and standardizes casing for cleaner records; new “Contains Exactly” filters deliver sharper list logic for segmenting leads; and AI-generated pop-up CTAs make building campaign triggers fast and intuitive. Most notably, “leads” just became a full CRM object—with all the views, tables, and board functionality sales teams expect—streamlining pipelines and boosting collaboration. All these upgrades help revenue teams automate, analyze, and win without slogging through manual fixes.

Our Hot Take:
Now’s the time to re-audit your data—and your workflow. Run a batch clean-up to standardize key fields, rebuild your filters with the new operators, and have AI draft 2–3 new campaign CTAs for rapid testing. For lead management, move from scattered tracking to the new leads object for consistency. The less time spent cleaning and troubleshooting, the more time your team has to sell and scale.

Staying ahead means staying informed. By embracing these updates with our HubSpot Consulting Services, you’re not just improving your HubSpot portal—you’re improving your entire customer journey.

Content Marketing

10 Essential Content Marketing Best Practices for 2025 Success

Winning content in 2025 is all about a strategy that puts audience needs first—more isn’t always better. Build around deep research, focus on data-driven topics, and ensure every piece is both search-optimized and easily repurposed for multiple channels. Successful brands are investing in original storytelling, consistent distribution, and deeper personalization to nurture and retain audiences as the web keeps getting noisier.

Our Hot Take:
Pressure-test your plan for the next quarter: is every topic mapped to a validated audience need? Are you extracting every bit of reach from your core content via social, email, or video? Use this as a checkpoint—where you see weak engagement or gaps, it’s time for data, not guesswork, to drive your editorial calendar. Set up systems for republishing top posts in new formats, and always prioritize intent over trend-chasing.

Social Media Marketing / PPC

Instagram Experiments with Reels-First Main Feed UI in India

Instagram is making a major play for video engagement by testing a main feed that opens directly to Reels, especially as short-form clips drive over half of platform interactions. While users will have the choice to stick to the classic feed, this signals Meta’s bet that video is the future of discovery, engagement, and creator growth.

Our Hot Take:
Double down on Reels—test short, punchy videos with clear hooks in the first few seconds and experiment with formats until you see a repeatable uplift. Cross-promote your best Reels across newsletters, LinkedIn, and even your website. If you’ve held back on video, now is the time to invest—and track both reach and retention to see what sticks.

Google Ads API MCP Server Goes Open Source for AI Integration

Google is opening up its Ads API MCP Server so that LLMs like Gemini can easily tap into your campaign data, diagnose performance, and surface insights—all without the risk of changing account settings. This read-only, developer-friendly move will lower the barrier to smarter campaign monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting for agencies and in-house teams alike.

Our Hot Take:
Work with your devs or partners to trial new AI-assisted reporting dashboards—plug in your accounts, monitor for performance anomalies, and use the time saved to reallocate budget or creative towards what’s actually driving conversions. The goal: move your agency or in-house team from endless spreadsheet clean-up to insight-driven action.

SEO

How to Measure and Boost Brand Visibility in AI Search Experiences

In the age of ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, brands need to go beyond classic rankings—focusing on mentions, structured citations, and authoritative, machine-readable content. AI platforms are now the starting point for search journeys, so optimizing for direct answer visibility and tracking your brand’s place within those answers is essential for defending and growing digital presence.

Our Hot Take:
Audit the sources and snippets where your brand is already being cited in AI engines. Structure web content for machine-readability (schema, FAQs, expert bylines), and regularly seed fresh perspectives or stats that position you as a source in AI summaries. Set up recurring reviews of AI search performance in addition to organic rankings, and treat “direct answer” wins as strategic lead-ins to your funnel.

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Tip of the Week

Audit your sales and marketing workflows for the weakest manual step—be it CRM cleanup, content repurposing, or simple campaign reporting. Automate or AI-enable that one area this week and measure the time saved and results gained.💡

Summary:

Here’s your quick recap:

  • HubSpot: Automate CRM hygiene, sharpen segmentation, and test new AI-powered CTAs; move lead tracking to the new object now. 📈

  • Content: Make 2025’s plan audience-first, data-driven, channel-spanning, and relentlessly consistent—chase results, not fads. 🤖

  • Social: Optimize for Reels and video-first discovery while tracking what raises both reach and engagement. 💡

  • PPC: Adopt open-source AI monitoring for Google Ads and free your team from manual diagnostics. 👀

  • SEO: Structure and cite your content for visibility in AI search answers; measure both human and machine-driven engagement. 🌐

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