Home > Get started > Choosing an Objective
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.
Talk to a specialist now
Learn more about LinkedIn Ads