LinkedIn Matched Audiences connection
Overview overview
Activate profiles for your LinkedIn campaigns for audience targeting, personalization, and suppression, based on hashed emails and mobile IDs.
Use cases
To help you better understand how and when to use the LinkedIn Matched Audiences destination, here is a use case that 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform customers can solve by using this feature.
A software company organizes a conference and wants to keep in touch with participants, and show them personalized offers based on their conference attendance status. The company can ingest email addresses or mobile device IDs from their own CRM into 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform. Then, they can build audiences from their own offline data, and send these audiences to the LinkedIn social platform, optimizing their advertising spending.
Supported identities supported-identities
LinkedIn Matched Audiences supports the activation of identities described in the table below. Learn more about identities.
Supported audiences supported-audiences
This section describes which types of audiences you can export to this destination.
Export type and frequency export-type-frequency
Refer to the table below for information about the destination export type and frequency.
LinkedIn account prerequisites LinkedIn-account-prerequisites
Before you can use the 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 in the LinkedIn documentation.
ID matching requirements id-matching-requirements
LinkedIn Matched Audiences requires that no personally identifiable information (PII) is sent in clear. Therefore, the audiences activated to LinkedIn Matched Audiences can be keyed off hashed identifiers, such as email addresses or mobile device IDs.
Depending on the type of IDs that you ingest into 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform, you must adhere to their corresponding requirements.
Email hashing requirements email-hashing-requirements
You can hash email addresses before ingesting them into 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform, or use email addresses in clear in Experience Platform, and have Platform hash them on activation.
To learn about ingesting email addresses in Experience Platform, see the batch ingestion overview and the streaming ingestion overview.
If you select to hash the email addresses yourself, make sure to comply with the following requirements:
- Trim all leading and trailing spaces from the email string. For example:
johndoe@example.com
, not<space>johndoe@example.com<space>
; - When hashing the email strings, make sure to hash the lowercase string;
- Example:
example@email.com
, notEXAMPLE@EMAIL.COM
;
- Example:
- Ensure that the hashed string is all lowercase
- Example:
55e79200c1635b37ad31a378c39feb12f120f116625093a19bc32fff15041149
, not55E79200C1635B37AD31A378C39FEB12F120F116625093A19bC32FFF15041149
;
- Example:
- Do not salt the string.
Attribute source data is not automatically hashed.
Connect to the destination connect
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.
The video below also demonstrates the steps to configure a LinkedIn Matched Audiences destination and activate audiences.
Hey everybody. This is Doug. In this video, I want to walk you through the configuration of a social destination in the platform. So here I am in the Destinations interface. And I鈥檝e scrolled to the bottom where we have these social destinations. Now, at the time of this recording, you can see we have a Facebook destination. We have a LinkedIn destination. And actually, if we scroll up to the top. we also have Google Customer Match that is under the Advertising category. But it is configured the same as the social destinations down here. So, in this video, I鈥檓 just going to walk through one of them. I鈥檓 going to walk through the LinkedIn destination configuration. But you can just use that same example and use it for Facebook or Google Customer Match. Now, before I start clicking through, I will also say that it鈥檚 good to have some platform 101 type knowledge, so kind of knowing about the sources and profiles and segments and the schemas of your data that you鈥檙e bringing in and the identities that you鈥檙e using. These can all come into play as you configure this destination. So, let鈥檚 go ahead and select Activate or Configure if it鈥檚 the first time through. And again, assuming it鈥檚 the first time through, I鈥檓 going to select New Account. And I鈥檓 going to connect to a destination.
And this jumps me out and have me log in. So, I鈥檝e got my information there, and I will sign in.
So, you can see that it says it鈥檚 connected to LinkedIn in this case. And then I鈥檒l just hit Next.
And then I need to do this account authentication. So, this is going to be the name of the account destination here.
And then you鈥檒l want to get your account ID, in this case from LinkedIn. Put it right there. And then choose a marketing action. And so this is where your data governance policies get enforced. So, I鈥檓 going to choose the marketing action. And let鈥檚 say that I just choose Cross site targeting. And if you have any data governance policies that don鈥檛 allow certain data to go to destinations that are using this marketing action, then that will take place here. And then I create the destination.
So, as you can see, that destination is created right there. Now, again, if you鈥檙e using one of the other destinations, you鈥檒l still need to authenticate to your advertising account. Each platform will have its own rules. But your ad account just has to be eligible to be integrated with 51黑料不打烊 Experience Platform. And you鈥檒l be able to find the partner-specific requirements in our documentation. So, once you鈥檙e authenticated, we鈥檒l go up and click Next. I鈥檝e got a few sample segments here. And so, let鈥檚 say that I want to market to my Luma customers with level Gold or Above. I鈥檒l choose that segment. And as you can see, you can choose multiple segments. I鈥檓 going to leave it just as that one and click Next.
Now we come to the mapping, which is arguably, the most important part of this configuration, I guess, if there is a most important part. So, we鈥檙e going to click and add new mapping here. And what we鈥檙e mapping here is really identifiers. So, it鈥檚 a good idea to start with the target field. Now, as I click over here, this is going to give me a list of the available or of the supported identifiers for the partner that I have selected. So, in this case for LinkedIn. So, LinkedIn is supporting email with sha256 as well as mobile IDs. So, you can see here. Again, Facebook or Google will have different options available for you here to choose. So, I鈥檓 going to select the email and Select. Now we go to the source field and decide where we鈥檙e going to get that ID that鈥檚 going to match up in LinkedIn. And you have a couple of options here. You have attributes or identity namespace you can select. So, I鈥檓 going to do both of them just so you can kind of see the difference. If I select identity namespace, then I can choose either this email here, where it鈥檚 already sha256 lowercase, or I can choose email here. And I will just choose this one and select that. And I鈥檓 actually going to add one more mapping and choose email again.
And in this source field, and remember that again, in this case the source is the platform, and the target is the destination. We often use the word source to denote places where you鈥檙e going to get data coming into the platform, like sources up here. But again, in this case, the source is the platform, because we鈥檙e sending data to the destination. So, the source field, in this case, if I use an attribute, I can go to personal email. And let鈥檚 say address and select that. And you can see on this one, it has an extra field over here, because, since it鈥檚 just an attribute, we don鈥檛 really know what format that鈥檚 going to be in. And so, we can decide, you know what, in order to get that to be compliant with sha256, we do need to apply the transformation. So, we can select that box. Now depending on the segments that you鈥檝e selected, you might want to even add additional mappings. What if I add maybe another one, that is idfa.
And I can select that. And then I can choose identity namespace here and choose idfa. And then I can do the same thing for Google as well. But this way it鈥檒l look for profiles that have any of those namespaces or attributes in order to send those profiles out for that segment. After that, I just click Next to select a segment schedule. And so, I just select a start date. And then I can click Next And I can see and review everything in here. And then of course I can click Finish, and I鈥檓 good to go. I hope this has helped to walk through the process of the configuration of a social destination in the platform. Good luck. - -
Authenticate to destination authenticate
- Find the LinkedIn Matched Audiences destination in the destination catalog and select Set Up.
- Select Connect to destination.
- Enter your LinkedIn credentials and select Log In.
Refresh authentication credentials refresh-authentication-credentials
LinkedIn tokens expire every 60 days. Once the token is expired, data exports to the destination stop working. To prevent this situation, reauthenticate by performing the following steps:
- Navigate to Destinations > Accounts
- (Optional) Use the available filters on the page to display LinkedIn accounts only.
- Select the account that you want to refresh, select the ellipsis and select Edit details.
- In the modal window, select Reconnect OAuth and reauthenticate with your LinkedIn credentials.
Fill in destination details destination-details
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.
- Name: A name by which you will recognize this destination in the future.
- Description: A description that will help you identify this destination in the future.
- Account ID: Your LinkedIn Campaign Manager Account ID. You can find this ID in your LinkedIn Campaign Manager account.
Enable alerts enable-alerts
You can enable alerts to receive notifications on the status of the dataflow to your destination. Select an alert from the list to subscribe to receive notifications on the status of your dataflow. For more information on alerts, see the guide on subscribing to destinations alerts using the UI.
When you are finished providing details for your destination connection, select Next.
Activate audiences to this destination activate
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To activate data, you need the View Destinations, Activate Destinations, View Profiles, and View Segments access control permissions. Read the access control overview or contact your product administrator to obtain the required permissions.
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To export identities, you need the View Identity Graph access control permission.
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See Activate audience data to streaming audience export destinations for instructions on activating audiences to this destination.
Exported data exported-data
A successful activation means that a LinkedIn custom audience is created programmatically in . Audience membership is adjusted as users are qualified or disqualified for the activated audiences.