LinkedIn Audience Network Overview
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Reach millions of professionals across multiple touchpoints on our network of publishers.
Extend your LinkedIn Sponsored Content ads to professionals who are active on our Audience Network, and scale your message with additional reach.
Achieve better return on ad spend and engagement by activating your message on both the LinkedIn feed and our network.
We're committed to protecting your brand from fraud and objectionable content on site and on the LinkedIn Audience Network. We help customers uphold their brand safety standards — on top of our own — so customers can feel confident that their message is delivered in brand-safe placements when advertising with LinkedIn.
Learn more about brand safety on the LinkedIn Audience Network.
Sign in to Campaign Manager and create a Sponsored Content campaign.
LinkedIn Audience Network is default enabled for your image, carousel and video format campaigns.
Follow these steps to adjust your Audience Network preferences.
During campaign set up, you can exclude categories of publishers to make sure your message is customized for each campaign and in alignment with your brand safety standards. Categories are based on Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) definitions.
In the Campaign Manager reporting dashboard, enable LinkedIn Audience Network to view the On/Off Network breakdown of your ad campaign performance, with metrics like clicks, impressions and views.
RingCentral
"As a platform, LinkedIn offers unmatched credibility with business audiences – far and above the rest. LinkedIn Audience Network only makes that offering stronger by enabling us to zero in on core audiences and engage them across other trusted sites."
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Susie Hamlin
VP of Brand Activation, RingCentral
HP
"LinkedIn owns the market on professional network data – period. The data is as clean and deterministic as possible if you want to connect the dots between company accounts and job titles or functions. It's a major part of our commercial targeting."
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John Marshall
Head of Global Media Investment and Innovation, HP
Hiscox
"The campaigns we ran on the LinkedIn Audience Network exceeded the typical benchmarks for the financial services industry."
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Gyawu Mahama
U.S. Communications & Marketing Manager, Hiscox
Microsoft
“We gravitate towards social platforms like LinkedIn to achieve more targeted marketing engagement. However, we know that our audiences don’t spend all their time on social media. LinkedIn Audience Network enables us to expand our reach to trusted sites while still respecting our audience targeting. This increases the impact of our advertising.”
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Broc Munro
Social & Digital Lead for Australia, Microsoft
Apparent
“From a performance point of view, it was great to see that LinkedIn Audience Network delivered solid results in terms of quality clicks and the cost associated with it.”
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Philip Spurden
Director of Digital Performance, Apparent