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HubSpot Admits Inbound Marketing Is Changing Due to AI

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HubSpot has developed a new marketing model called Loop Marketing in response to the shift towards AI-driven consumer journeys.

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HubSpot, one of the companies that popularized inbound marketing, recognizes that AI is breaking the model based on content, SEO, and traffic from Google. Its own blog lost 5 million visits in just 30 days. By Elena Sada 8 minute read The company that turned inbound marketing into one of the dominant internet strategies recognizes that the model based on attracting traffic from Google is losing strength. The rise of AI marketing is transforming the way people discover brands, search for information, and make purchasing decisions. The impact has already reached HubSpot itself: its blog lost 5 million visits in just 30 days. Blogs, guides, ebooks, newsletters, and SEO thus became fundamental pieces of what is called inbound marketing. The formula seemed clear: publish content, appear on Google, attract traffic, and convert a portion of those visits into customers. Now, HubSpot itself admits that this machinery no longer works as before. In an article originally published in Fortune, company executives acknowledged that artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the way people discover products, research brands, and make purchasing decisions. The confession is especially significant because it comes from one of the companies that helped turn content and organic traffic into pillars of modern digital marketing. “We built inbound marketing. Now we are burying it,”...

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HubSpot's response to this transformation is a model it calls Loop Marketing.

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