Advertising

How to get started

First, build your company's brand and build trust with your community.

Second, create your first ad campaign on LinkedIn's ad platform.

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Reach and engage a professional audience in the LinkedIn feed.

Engage your prospects where professional conversations happen.

Engage prospects with ads automatically personalized to them.

Self-service ad formats to create campaigns in minutes.

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Discover how much it costs to advertise on LinkedIn.

Reach the people who matter most to your business.

Qualified leads come from a quality audience on LinkedIn.

An easy way to reach new audiences by amplifying your best content.

Measure the true impact of your LinkedIn ads.

Measure the ROI of your LinkedIn ads.

Choose your LinkedIn ad format based on your objective and customer journey.

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Choosing an Objective

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1. Overview

Selecting your objective is the first step in the new objective-based advertising. Choosing your objective helps us

streamline and customize your campaign creation.

An objective is the action you want your customers to take after seeing your ad.  We support full funnel objectives from

awareness to conversion.

Objectives are grouped into 3 categories:

• Awareness
 campaigns maximize your brand’s share-of-voice through impressions.

• Consideration campaigns encourage your customers to take action to find out more about your business. The

actions are usually clicks that take them to a landing page, or other engagement such as encouraging social actions

and views.  

• Conversion campaigns are focused on lead generation and the ability to track actions on your website such as

whitepaper downloads or lead generation capture.

Tip: The temptation will be to start choosing your objective right away.  But please remember to name your campaign

and assign a campaign group first.

2. Finding the right objective

Here’s a brief description of the available objectives::  

Brand awareness are simple impression-based campaigns. These campaigns are great for top-of-funnel brand

building.

Website visits
 is likely what you’ll choose for getting clicks that take customers to your website.

Engagement
 is about getting customers to interact with your posts by clicking on your ad, taking social actions (likes,

comments, hashtags and shares), or getting more company followers.

Video views
 gives you the option to bid based on cost per view.  Video will be available as an ad format on other

objectives.  However, you will have the option to bid based on cost per view only by choosing video views as an

objective.  

Lead generation
 uses LinkedIn forms pre-filled with LinkedIn members’ profile data.  This is one of the easiest and

most effective ways to get leads on our platform.

Website conversion
 optimizes for actions on your website that you define as valuable, such as downloading

whitepapers or filling out lead generation forms. Website conversion campaigns must use conversion tracking.

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