LinkedIn Launches ‘Document Ads', Offline Conversion Data Integration and More
LinkedIn has announced some new ad tools to help you maximize your LinkedIn campaigns, including Document Ads, offline conversion data integration, and a new Media Library for storing and sourcing ad content.
First off, on Document Ads – as it sounds, LinkedIn will now enable advertisers to promote long-form documents direct in user feeds, which can also be made available via sign-up to maximize response data.

As you can see in this example, LinkedIn’s Document Ads provide a preview in the feed (three pages in this instance), in order to entice users to download the full research piece.
If you choose to add a lead-gen form, you can gather more insight about the people who are interested in your documents, while you can also make your document free to download from the promoted update, with LinkedIn then able to provide data on which members downloaded it.
The format could help marketers capitalize on the popularity of LinkedIn’s Carousel posting option, which enables users to share a document in a post that users can then scroll through in-stream.
LinkedIn made Carousel posts available as an official option back in July, though users had actually been creating their own document carousels for some time, by uploading a PDF as a post attachment, which essentially facilitates the same functionality. Read More...