Brian Halligan
Analyst · Stan Zlotsky with Morgan Stanley. Stan, your line is now open. Please go ahead
Yes, that's a great question. Thanks, Richard. HubSpot is very much an open piece of software today. There's very nice APIs into the system, and we're seeing nice traction on companies wanting to work with us so the number of third parties reaching out to us who want to build integrations to us has really gone up over the last year. Frankly, I think that's driven by two things. One, as we've been building up the product, we've been investing more in our APIs, making them richer, more endpoints, better documented and so forth and so on, more consistent for them. The second is the number of users we have is really mushroomed as we offered our premium products. There's just more and more humans out there using our product, which makes us a much more attractive partner for third party software vendors. I can just give you one example. Recently, our CRM is built kind of API-first, and that's a very good APIs. So we've recently opened up a new endpoint that's very, very powerful. So for example, inside our CRM, if you're a sales rep, you get a timeline view of Richard Davis, when Richard became a lead, we start tracking what you do. And every time you visit the website, we're tracking what you do. Every time you watch a video, we're tracking what you do, and we're watching the whole thing. Within that timeline, we've opened some interesting stuff up and there are some partners doing some amazing things that make our platform far more powerful. One partner of ours that makes the software that helps you -- that hosts videos basic on your website, what it does is when Richard Davis comes to your website, starts watching a video on your website, it will show the sales rep which video you watch, of course, it will show you where you pause that video, whether you click the call to action on this video and all the analytics around Richard's engagement on it. There's another company called Orange is a very cool company, that's the start up that we really like that builds software. That basically creates those heat maps of Richard Davis' journey across our website. So you visited the home page, you clicked on this link, you hovered over this. It's a heat map of where you were on the site, right on the timeline the sales rep can see your journey and where you hovered and exactly what you're interested in. So by opening HubSpot as a platform, and there's a lot of opportunity here for us, third party companies are starting to integrate with us and do really special things that add value to our customers and I read your recent report, I thought it was really good. It's a big opportunity for us and I'm really excited about it.