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.

Ad formats

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.

Maximizing performance in the privacy-first era

New regulations and platform changes are evolving the way marketers reach audiences and measure campaign performance. LinkedIn takes a members-first approach to how we build our products and work with our customers and partners in our commitment to connecting our customers to the world's largest professional network.

A dynamic and changing digital landscape

In the ever dynamic world of digital advertising, where privacy changes are reshaping the landscape, marketers have an incredible opportunity to reinvigorate their strategies as these shifts are stepping stones to a more engaging future.

8 in 10 US internet users have taken an action to limit the information websites, search engines, or apps gather about them.”

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Why marketers need to take proactive measures

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Increased restrictions on conversion tracking challenges effective  reporting and measurement

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Diminishing third-party identifiers challenges precision targeting  at scale

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Ignoring privacy concerns risks losing customer trust


Learn more about LinkedIn’s privacy philosophy, how members can leverage privacy settings, and what regulations may apply to you based on where you’re advertising.


Best practices for the privacy-first era

We've laid out the best practices to unlock the full potential of your campaigns, delivering exceptional value while respecting user privacy.

Own your data game

Establish a robust first-party data strategy

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Boost with AI

Embrace machine learning and modeling

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Measure like a pro

Construct a rock-solid measurement foundation

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Test, Learn, Win

Discover what works best for your brand

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Level Up

Supercharge your efforts with a LinkedIn Marketing Partner

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Resilient solutions for a changing digital landscape

We’re invested in helping you maximize your performance on LinkedIn while keeping privacy at the forefront. Explore the solutions that can help you thrive today, and tomorrow.

Audience Targeting

 

Reaching across the world’s largest professional  network

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Conversion Tracking

 

Measure and drive performance in an era with  limited cookies

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Lift Testing & Experimentation

 

Creating data-backed media strategies

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Insights & Reporting

 

Connecting your marketing efforts to sales  outcomes

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Audience Targeting

The ability to reach target audiences effectively, at scale, is a leading concern of marketers. But personalization and privacy do not need to conflict. With one billion members around the globe, LinkedIn offers marketers powerful targeting capabilities, fueled by first-party data and predictive AI to help marketers reach the right professional audiences.

Professional audiences who mean business

Seamlessly market the influences, decision makers, and champions who will influence the purchase of your product or service.

 

Learn more about LinkedIn audience targeting

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Predictive Audiences

In a world where B2B buying is becoming increasingly complex, predictive audiences leverage LinkedIn's predictive AI and your data to create tailored, high-intent audiences.

 

Learn more about predictive audiences

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During testing, customers saw a 21% CPL reduction in campaigns using predictive audiences and lead gen objectives⁶

-21%

Conversion Tracking

Conversion tracking lets you share your most important customer actions with LinkedIn to understand exactly how your ads helped drive these conversions, and train your ads to find more of those conversions in the most effective and efficient way.

 

Conversions API

Measure and drive performance across your customer journey with cookie-less server-to-server conversion tracking.

 

Get Started with Conversion API

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Insight Tag

Unlock a full suite of marketing and analytics features to drive further engagement through first-party cookies.

 

Get Started with LinkedIn’s Insight Tag

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Advertisers saw a 31% lift in attributed conversions and 20% lower cost-per-action after implementing Conversions API³

31%

Conversion Tracking helps achieve up to 20% higher conversion rates⁵

20%

Lift Testing & Experimentation

Testing and experimention are the backbone of an effective marketing strategy and will be key to helping you adjust and optimize to maximize your performance opportunities.

 

Get Started with Testing on LinkedIn

Brand Lift Testing

Understand how your brand is perceived without any exposure to LinkedIn ads and monitor how effectively your ads impact your key brand metrics.

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A/B Testing

Helps you identify which tactics drive stronger results so you can optimize on the fly.

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When A/B Testing revealed a conclusive winner, customers saw a 10-20% improvement in ROI⁷

10-20%

Insights & Reporting

Marketing executives are feeling the pressure to prove marketing impact on the bottom line. Connect your first-party data to understand the influence of marketing on outcomes and better understand your customers.

Revenue Attribution Report

Allows you leverage the power of your CRM to measure sales, revenue pipeline and return on ad spend through a cookieless solution.

 

Get Started with Revenue Attribution Report

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Customer saw 2X larger average deal sizes from LinkedIn influenced ads, versus non-LinkedIn deals

2x

Customer saw LinkedIn influenced opportunities were 39% more likely to close than non-LinkedIn influenced deals

39%

Advanced Insights, powered by clean room technology

Uncover actionable insights across decentralized datasets to help understand the influence of LinkedIn marketing on business outcomes and supercharge your marketing strategy all while maintaining privacy and control over your first-party data.

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Alex Long

Digital Marketing
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"LinkedIn’s Advanced Insights is proving the ROI we are actually getting from our LinkedIn campaigns. Being able to connect the dots between marketing efforts with revenue and pipeline has been extremely powerful. We can see that our campaigns are having an impact and we should continue to invest."

Maximizing performance in the privacy-first era


¹ Advertiser Perceptions, "Preparing for a Future Without Third-Party Cookies & MAIDs," Nov. 2022

 

² Advertiser Perceptions, "Preparing for a Future Without Third-Party Cookies & MAIDs," Nov. 2022

 

³ Conversions API beta study across 829 campaigns from July 1 to August 26, 2023

 

⁴ LinkedIn Internal Metrics, 2022

 

⁵ LinkedIn study, time period 9/27/2020-10/3/2020 based on campaigns with objectives other than brand awareness and video views

 

⁶ LinkedIn Internal Metrics, 2023

 

⁷ LinkedIn Internal Metrics, 2022

 

⁸ eMarketer, Identity Resolution 2022

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