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How HubSpot Built the Most Distributed Advocacy on LinkedIn (Across Every Function)

How HubSpot Built the Most Distributed Advocacy on LinkedIn (Across Every Function)

How HubSpot Built the Most Distributed Advocacy on LinkedIn (Across Every Function)

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Naïlé Titah

Naïlé Titah

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The HubSpot figures on this page are measured from our research corpus over the twelve months to June 2026. Method and limits are at the end.

Every other company in this series is a startup or a scale-up where advocacy is, in the end, a handful of people. HubSpot is the counter-example: a large public company that runs the most distributed employee advocacy we measured. Its reach does not come from one founder or one star.

It comes from the founder, two marketing chiefs, a customer-success director, sales leaders on different continents, and more, all posting in their own voices. A mature, company-wide program looks like this, and HubSpot is the closest thing to it in our data, asterisk and all.

TL;DR: HubSpot runs the most distributed employee advocacy we measured: reach spread across the founder, two CMOs, customer success, sales and international, with no one person above ~32%. ~631k likes a year. The honest asterisk: two of its biggest voices were acquired (Mindstream). The enterprise-scale distribution playbook.

The footprint, measured

Across the trailing twelve months, HubSpot people in our corpus generated roughly 631,000 likes, the highest total of any company here.

But the number that matters is the spread: the single biggest voice accounts for just 32% of the reach, the lowest concentration we measured (versus 63% to 95% nearly everywhere else). HubSpot is the rare company where no one person carries the program.

HubSpot voice

Function

Posts (12 mo)

Reach (likes/yr)

Dharmesh Shah

Founder & CTO

287

~205,000

Matt Village

Creator (Mindstream, acquired)

700

~172,000

Adam Biddlecombe

Creator (Mindstream, acquired)

699

~168,000

Kieran Flanagan

CMO / SVP

114

~41,000

Daphne Lopes

Global Director, Customer Success

141

~28,000

Maria Begue

Senior Manager (Spain)

20

~6,300

There is one honest asterisk, and we will not bury it: two of HubSpot's biggest voices are acquired. Adam Biddlecombe and Matt Village came in through HubSpot's acquisition of the AI newsletter Mindstream, and together they are over half of HubSpot's measured reach. So part of HubSpot's "distribution" was bought.

But strip the two of them out entirely, and what remains, a founder, a CMO, a CS director, sales leaders, a Spanish-language manager, all posting, is still the widest internal spread in our data.

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What is distinctive: a real program, across every function

The thing to study here is breadth. At the GTM startups in this series, the voices cluster in sales and growth. At HubSpot, advocacy is genuinely company-wide. The founder posts AI hot-takes. The CMO posts jokes.

A customer-success director posts operating playbooks for CS teams, a function that almost never shows up in advocacy data. A senior manager in Spain posts in Spanish, about her life.

That spread across functions and geographies is what makes the reach durable: there is no single point of failure, and no one is forced into a "brand voice" that isn't theirs (the full pattern of who distributes and who doesn't is in our study of advocacy across 1.2M posts).

The acquisition is itself a signal worth reading. A company does not buy a newsletter and its two creators unless it takes creator-led distribution seriously. HubSpot does, and it shows in the culture: posting is clearly normal at every level, which is exactly the condition most companies never reach.

What you can take from it

For anyone trying to scale advocacy, HubSpot offers three lessons.

  1. Distribution scales to the enterprise. HubSpot proves a large company can get a real cross-section posting, in marketing, success, sales, across regions, not just one executive. If you assume broad advocacy is impossible at scale, the data says otherwise.

  2. Spread it across functions, not just marketing. The clearest example is Daphne Lopes, a customer-success leader posting operating cadences. Advocacy that only lives in marketing is fragile; HubSpot's reaches buyers, candidates and practitioners because the people posting do the jobs they write about.

  3. You don't have to acquire creators, activate the ones you have. HubSpot bought two; almost no company can. The replicable lesson is that most companies are sitting on internal Dharmeshes, Daphnes and Marias they have never activated.

Keeping a cross-section of the org in a steady posting and engagement routine is most of what turns scattered individuals into HubSpot-style distribution, and seeing who is actually active and what their reach looks like is how you tell a real program from one prolific executive.

That activation, getting many people across the org posting consistently and authentically, is the problem we build for; if you are trying to run advocacy at HubSpot's breadth without HubSpot's M&A budget, MagicPost for enterprises is built for it.

(And because the output stays in each person's voice, it avoids the penalty that sinks templated advocacy: content that could have been written by anyone reaches 10 to 14% fewer people in our benchmark.) The wider field is in our roundup and the platforms in our employee advocacy software comparison.

How each voice works

Dharmesh Shah, founder & CTO, the thinker

Shah, with over a million followers, posts like a founder who genuinely enjoys the platform, equal parts AI commentary and personal news, like announcing he sold the domain os.ai to Perplexity (5,089 likes).

He posts often (287 times in the year), which is why the founder is the top voice here, but at 32% of total reach, he leads a chorus rather than performing a solo.

Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot founder and CTO, in a LinkedIn post announcing he sold the os.ai domain to Perplexity

View Dharmesh Shah's post on LinkedIn ↗

Kieran Flanagan, CMO, the humorist

Flanagan runs marketing and posts like a person, not a brand. His most-engaged post of the year is a joke about ChatGPT confidently telling him poisonous berries are "excellent for gut health" (3,730 likes).

It markets nothing, and it is exactly the kind of content that builds the audience HubSpot then benefits from.

Kieran Flanagan, HubSpot CMO, in a LinkedIn post joking about ChatGPT confidently giving dangerous advice

View Kieran Flanagan's post on LinkedIn ↗

Daphne Lopes, Customer Success, the practitioner

Lopes is the most instructive voice here, because customer success almost never appears in advocacy data. She posts detailed operating playbooks for CS leaders (this one on the six cadences every CS team needs, 717 likes), reaching a practitioner audience marketing could never speak to credibly.

This is what "company-wide" actually means.

Daphne Lopes, HubSpot's Global Director of Customer Success, in a LinkedIn post sharing operating cadences for CS teams

View Daphne Lopes' post on LinkedIn ↗

Adam Biddlecombe, the acquired creator

Biddlecombe, who came to HubSpot via the Mindstream acquisition, posts high-volume AI explainers, like an all-in-one AI cheat sheet (3,877 likes). His presence is the clearest evidence of how much HubSpot values creator-led reach: it bought it.

We flag it for honesty, and because it is the part of HubSpot's playbook most companies cannot copy.

Adam Biddlecombe, a creator who joined HubSpot through the Mindstream acquisition, in a LinkedIn post sharing an AI cheat sheet

View Adam Biddlecombe's post on LinkedIn ↗

Maria Begue, Senior Manager, the global voice

Begue, a senior manager based in Spain, posts in Spanish, about her work and her life (this one, her most-engaged, simply introduces her new puppy, 1,051 likes).

It is the reach HubSpot would never get from an English-only corporate channel, and the clearest sign that the program is genuinely global and genuinely human.

Maria Begue, a HubSpot senior manager in Spain, in a Spanish-language LinkedIn post introducing her new puppy

View Maria Begue's post on LinkedIn ↗

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Where these facts come from

HubSpot's advocate spread, posting volume and concentration are computed from our research corpus (2.8M LinkedIn posts; 1.2M in the trailing year) by matching each post's author to their current company and counting profiles with at least three posts in the window.

The company page is excluded, and we removed a profile that lists HubSpot but has since left.

Two of the largest voices (Adam Biddlecombe and Matt Village) joined via the Mindstream acquisition, which we state plainly because it materially shapes the totals.

Every post shown is reproduced as a card from our corpus (text, media and engagement as recorded) and links to the live LinkedIn post, verified reachable in June 2026; non-English posts are shown in the original and paraphrased in our text, never translate-quoted.

Engagement figures move over time, and the corpus over-indexes the B2B and GTM world, so these numbers describe HubSpot's footprint as it appears in our sample. Corrections land at the next quarterly refresh.

Want to run advocacy at this breadth without an M&A budget? You can book a short walkthrough with our team, or start managing your whole team's LinkedIn content in one place and see how far past one voice you can push.

FAQ

Does HubSpot have an employee advocacy program?

In effect, HubSpot runs the most distributed employee advocacy we measured: its reach is spread across the founder, two marketing chiefs, a customer-success director, sales leaders and international managers, with no single person accounting for more than about a third.

It generated roughly 631,000 likes over the past year in our data, though two of its biggest voices joined through an acquisition.

Who are HubSpot's biggest LinkedIn voices?

Founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah leads (with over a million followers), followed by two creators who joined via the Mindstream acquisition (Adam Biddlecombe and Matt Village), then CMO Kieran Flanagan, customer-success director Daphne Lopes and others across functions and regions. The breadth, not any single account, is the point.

Is HubSpot's advocacy just acquired creators?

No, though it is a fair question. Two acquired Mindstream creators are over half of HubSpot's measured reach, which we flag for honesty.

But even setting them aside, the internal spread, founder, CMO, customer success, sales, international, is the widest in our data, and that internal distribution is the part other companies can actually replicate.

What can other companies learn from HubSpot?

That distribution scales to the enterprise, and that it should reach beyond marketing, customer success, sales and international voices included. You do not need to acquire creators (almost no one can); the replicable lesson is to activate the people you already have, in their own voices, across the whole org.

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CEO @ MagicPost

LinkedIn has changed its algorithm again. And this time, it's noticeable.


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CEO @ MagicPost

LinkedIn has changed its algorithm again. And this time, it's noticeable.


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The footprint, measured

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What is distinctive: a real program, across every function

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What you can take from it

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How each voice works

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Where these facts come from

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FAQ

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