The functionality to activate account audiences to the (Companies) LinkedIn destination is available for companies purchasing the Business-to-Business and Business-to-Person editions of Real-Time Customer Data Platform.
Use this destination to activate your account audiences for Account-Based Marketing (ABM) use cases. Advertise to relevant personas and roles in your target accounts via the (Companies) LinkedIn business-to-business destination. Visit the LinkedIn documentation to learn more about account targeting on the LinkedIn platform.
For individual-level (or business-to-consumer) use cases, Adobe recommends that you use the LinkedIn Matched Audience destination.
This section describes which type of audiences you can export to this destination.
Audience origin | Supported | Description |
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Segmentation Service | ✓ | Audiences generated through the Experience Platform Segmentation Service. |
Custom uploads | X | Audiences imported into Experience Platform from CSV files. |
Refer to the table below for information about the destination export type and frequency.
Item | Type | Notes |
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Export Type | Audience export | All audience members will be exported with key identifiers like name, phone number, and more. |
Frequency | Streaming | “Always-on” API-based connections. Updates are sent downstream immediately after profile changes. |
Make sure you meet the prerequisites below in order to export account audiences to LinkedIn:
Before you can use the (Companies) LinkedIn Matched Audience destination, make sure your LinkedIn Campaign Manager account has the Creative Manager permission level or higher.
To learn how to edit your LinkedIn Campaign Manager user permissions, see Add, Edit, and Remove User Permissions on Advertising Accounts in the LinkedIn documentation.
To connect to the destination, you need the View Destinations and Manage Destinations access control permission. Read the access control overview or contact your product administrator to obtain the required permissions.
To connect to this destination, follow the steps described in the destination configuration tutorial. In the configure destination workflow, fill in the fields listed in the two sections below.
After completing the sign-in process with LinkedIn, you can proceed to the next step.
To configure details for the destination, fill in the required and optional fields below. An asterisk next to a field in the UI indicates that the field is required.
You are now ready to activate account audiences to LinkedIn.
Read Activate account audiences for instructions on activating account audiences to this destination.
When activating account audiences to the (Companies) LinkedIn Matched Audiences destination, note that the following two mapping pairs are mandatory to successfully export data:
Source field | Target field |
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accountName |
companyName |
accountKey.sourceKey |
primaryId (select this field in the Select Identity namespace view, when selecting the Target Field). ![]() |
A successful activation means that a LinkedIn custom audience is created programmatically in LinkedIn Campaign Manager. Audience membership is adjusted as users are qualified or disqualified for the activated audiences.