Top 10 things we shipped in 2024

By all measures, 2024 has been a year of transformation at Pitch. From evolving into a complete pitching platform to launching our smooth-as-butter video editing features and rolling out countless improvements, we’ve doubled down on helping teams land deals with sleek presentations.

To celebrate, we’re highlighting ten of our favorite features shipped this year. Big and small, these updates all elevated Pitch to the powerful tool it is today — one that lets you create stunning decks and drive client interactions within a single, unified workflow.

1. Drive deals with customized pitch rooms

Pitching materials can easily become scattered when you’re juggling accounts, making it hard for leads or customers to find what they need and for you to stay organized. Enter the pitch room — a customizable space where you can assemble various assets to streamline your clients’ decision-making from start to finish. 

There are endless ways to configure a room: Spin up a digital sales room with pricing proposals and scheduling links to nurture a prospect. Create an onboarding room to welcome new clients with videos and slides. Or deliver creative assets at the close of a project, all in one place. 

Need some inspo? Check out one of our own pitch rooms.

2. Streamline your workflow with a CRM plugin

If you’re a customer-facing team, chances are you spend a lot of time in your CRM. To make life easier, we created a handy plugin that lets you build a pitch room without ever leaving your workflow.

With the Pitch app for HubSpot which has started rolling out to customers, you can create a room directly from a deal, company, or contact record. Once you’re all set, share the room’s link from the CRM, or jump into Pitch to edit your assets.

This plugin is just the first step of our plan to fully integrate the CRM, so teams with multiple projects and accounts can quickly share relevant content with new prospects. Tell us which CRM should be next — and check out our integrations directory to explore how you can connect with tools in the wider pitching stack, like Calendly and Typeform.

3. Boost your brand presence with custom domains

While we think the pitch.com domain’s pretty great, a custom URL can seem even more professional and shows you’re in control. That’s why we made it possible for you to host both your decks and deal rooms on a subdomain of your own site.

There are many ways to put this to work: Reference the type of content you’re sharing (like pitch.yourname.com or slides.yourname.com), describe your team or relationship to the recipient (sales.yourname.com or partners.yourname.com), or keep it generic (sharing.yourname.com).

This highly requested feature not only boosts your brand’s visibility but also reassures clients about the source and authenticity of the deck you’re sharing.

4. Tailor your outreach with enhanced analytics

Presentation analytics are one of our most powerful and popular features. Insights like how many people have viewed which slides, and for how long, help teams understand who’s engaged and what part of their messaging is hitting home. 

This year, we enabled you to go even further and gather person-level data by prompting recipients to enter their email for access — that way, you know exactly who’s viewing your content. Simply send the link off to your prospect and get notified when they visit the room, open a deck, or click on an attachment.

We also introduced analytics for entire pitch rooms so you can broaden your understanding of what’s working, and what needs tweaking. Just like with individual presentations, you can create a link for a room, name it, and add a passcode for extra security. The links overview lets you manage all your rooms in one place so you can easily tailor your follow-up and improve your messaging.

5. Make your videos pop with fresh editing tools

Videos are a great way to personalize a presentation, engage your audience async, and provide more context without crowding a slide with words. And in 2024, a fresh batch of editing features made them more attention-grabbing than ever. 

You no longer have to let standard aspect ratios constrain your slide layout. Crop your video to any size you need, trim the length to focus on what matters most, and select a thumbnail that captures the video’s vibe.

Having second thoughts about your edits? No worries — you can recover the full video at any time by cropping or trimming it again. You can also seamlessly replace a video while maintaining its original position and design, like a shadow or rounded corners.

6. Engage your audience with interactive embeds

Tired of the same old decks with headlines, bullet points, images, and the occasional chart? Yeah, us too. That’s why this year, we gave you the tools to break free and embrace the creative potential of the latest tech. Now you can tell a richer story with less effort by embedding content from thousands of external sites into your slides. 

Maybe you’re in sales and need to deliver a Storylane demo of your product, lock in a follow-up call with HubSpot’s meeting scheduler, or share a Google Forms survey. Or you’re a designer who’s created a cool animation with LottieFiles or wants to present a prototype with Figma. Either way, interactive elements bring your decks to life and open up new angles to engage both clients and team members.

Check out even more ways dynamic embeds can help you design standout decks and win deals.

7. Animate decks with slide transitions

We’ve always been about design excellence, but slides were static when we started out. As such, they weren’t able to fully capture the dynamic ideas and stories teams wanted to tell.

So in 2022, we introduced the focus effect as a way to highlight one visual element at a time. Then in 2023, we unlocked enter and exit animations — as well as continuity, a slide transition that lets you magically animate related content from one slide to the next with a single click.

Building on these releases, in 2024 we added a set of simple yet stunning slide transitions that help you guide your narrative. Effects like fade, slide, and grow let you create more engaging decks and focus your audience’s attention.

8. Use variables to align your decks’ content

Manually updating a deck for a new client is tedious, time-consuming, and easy to mess up. But guess what? It’s also a thing of the past. Now you can quickly personalize your slides and get them in sync with variables. 

Add smart placeholders so teammates can automatically change content across an entire presentation for different customers, build flexible headers and footers that stay consistent across slides, and keep key information up to date.

This small but mighty feature makes deck creation faster and less error-prone, so teams who repeatedly pitch to multiple prospects can finally create flawless decks at scale.

9. Organize your assets into collections

This year, library management got an upgrade. Goodbye sifting through endless files, hello streamlined efficiency. You can now group content — like templates, images, videos, and fonts — into named collections, making it easier than ever for your team to find the right assets.

This feature’s a game changer, especially if you’re managing various teams or juggling different clients. And creating a collection is super simple: Just go to the dashboard, click Manage library in the dashboard’s sidebar, open the three-dot menu on the top right, and select New collection.

That’s it! Your content is now neatly organized and ready to use.

10. Control template access to protect your brand

Our Pitch gallery templates come with beautifully designed and cleverly organized slides, offering a great starting point for any presentation. Still, there may be times when you’d rather your team stick to templates built in-house, whether it’s to meet specific client requirements or maintain consistency across the board.

If you’re the owner or admin of a workspace, you can now hide templates when creating a new presentation or adding slides in the editor. Just select Workspace settings, scroll down until you see Hide Pitch gallery templates, and toggle that option on.

This way, you’ll rest easy knowing your team is always working with approved, on-brand designs.

2025 and beyond

As we near the end of 2024, we’re reflecting on where we came from, and where we’re going. You could say we’ve exceeded last year’s aim to help teams “share bigger, bolder ideas with dynamic decks that match their ambitions.” But we’re not stopping there. 

In 2025, we’ll keep pushing forward with exciting new features to solidify Pitch as the complete pitching platform — think teamspaces to reflect your organization’s structure, more interactive deal rooms, and editing tools that’ll make Pitch even more powerful.

So stay tuned, keep the feedback flowing, and we’ll keep going full throttle.