Video views ad objective

Last updated: 7 months ago

Share videos with more people when you select video views as your ad campaign objective. The video views objective is in the middle of the marketing funnel, which aims to help your audiences consider your business for their needs.

When you create a video views campaign, you can choose to create an Accelerate or Classic campaign. Accelerate is LinkedIn’s AI-powered campaign type, which aims to improve your return on ad spend by continuously finding the right combination of targeting, creative, bidding, and placement for your campaign. 

Available ad formats, bidding strategies, and optimization goals

To support your goal of getting more views, video is the only ad format available for this objective. Video views are selected as your optimization goal by default.  

The bidding strategies and optimization goals available vary depending on whether you choose to create an Accelerate or Classic campaign. 

Campaign type Accelerate Classic
Ad formats
  • Video
  • Video
Bidding strategies
  • Maximum delivery (automated)

  • Cost cap

  • Maximum delivery (automated)

  • Cost cap

  • Manual bidding

Optimization goals
  • Video views

  • Video views

  • Impressions

Here's a tip

If you change the optimization goal for a Classic campaign, you can only select manual bidding as a bidding strategy.

Reporting metrics

Getting your videos seen is the key result of the Video Views ad objective. View a wide variety of reporting metrics from the Campaign Manager reporting dashboard, including:

  • Performance metrics
  • Engagement
  • Conversions
  • Bid and Budget

You can also view professional demographic data about members who are interacting with your ads.

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