What can you advertise on LinkedIn?
The common mistake is choosing a format by what is convenient to produce. The choice should follow the stage in the customer journey.
| Format | What it is good for | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsored Content | The core format, appears in the feed | Reach, traffic, leads |
| Lead Gen Forms | A form that opens inside LinkedIn, pre-filled | When needless friction kills conversions |
| Message Ads / InMail | A direct message to the inbox | Small, precise audiences only |
| Video Ads | Tells a story, generates dwell time | Positioning, explaining a complex product |
| Document Ads | A document scrolled inside the feed | Research, guides, case studies |
| Event Ads | Promoting an event or webinar | Conferences, launches, LinkedIn Live |
| Thought Leader Ads | Promoting a person's post, not a company's | When trust is built through a person |
How do you build a campaign that works?
The critical decision is the target audience, not the creative. The wrong audience with an excellent ad brings nothing; a precise audience with a reasonable ad brings results.
The right approach starts by defining the ideal customer — company type, size, industry, relevant roles — and only then translates it into filters. Then come the precision layers: Matched Audiences from existing customer lists, remarketing to those who already touched your assets, and Look-alike audiences based on real data.
How much does it cost, and how do you avoid burning budget?
Cost per click on LinkedIn is above average. That is not a bug — it is the price of precision. The question is not what the click costs but what the business opportunity costs.
What actually burns budget: overlapping audiences competing with each other for the same user, failing to define negative audiences, running without an embedded Insight Tag so there is no remarketing and no conversion measurement, and automatic bidding left unsupervised for months.
What is the Insight Tag and why are you blind without it?
The Insight Tag is a pixel embedded on the site that enables three things: real conversion measurement, building remarketing audiences, and receiving demographic data on who visited you. Without it you see clicks and do not know what happened after them.
It is the first implementation we do in every new account, before a single shekel is spent.
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