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LinkedIn Ads (Edge) Setup Guide

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, and LinkedIn Ads is its self-serve advertising platform that lets businesses reach and engage professional audiences at scale. It provides ad formats such as Sponsored Content, Sponsored Messaging, Text Ads, and Dynamic Ads, along with tools to create Lead Gen Forms, target audiences by professional attributes, and measure campaign performance and conversions.

Hevo uses the LinkedIn Marketing API to replicate data from your LinkedIn Ads account to the Destination of your choice.

Hevo supports the following authentication methods to connect to your LinkedIn Ads account:

  • Open Authorization (OAuth): Allows Hevo to connect to your account through an authorization flow, where you sign in to LinkedIn and grant Hevo access to your account data.

  • OAuth app: Allows Hevo to connect to your account using the client ID, client secret, and refresh token of an OAuth app that you create in LinkedIn.

    Note: To create a Pipeline with LinkedIn Ads as the Source using an OAuth app, you must use the Create a Pipeline endpoint through the Hevo API. This method is not available in the Hevo UI. Read Creating a Pipeline with Hevo API for the steps to create the Pipeline.


Supported Features

Feature Name Supported
Capture deletes No
History mode No
Custom data (user-configured tables & fields) No
Data blocking (skip objects and fields) Yes
Resync (objects and Pipelines) Yes
API configurable Yes

Source Considerations

  • LinkedIn retains most ad performance data, such as account, campaign, and creative analytics, for up to 10 years, while professional demographic data, such as Monthly Ad Analytics by Member, is retained for only 2 years. Hevo cannot ingest data older than these retention periods.

  • Some metrics are not available immediately through the LinkedIn API. Metrics based on professional demographics, such as company size and job function, can be delayed by 12–24 hours, while the videoWatchTime and averageVideoWatchTime metrics can take up to 48 hours to become available.

Last updated on Oct 26, 2026

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