Look familiar? The professional social network tries to boost revenue with a type of ad you're accustomed to finding on Twitter or Facebook. July 23, 2013 10:30 AM PDT Sponsored Update: Nissan is paying to promote its status updates to LinkedIn members. (Credit: LinkedIn) Stealing a page from Facebook and Twitter, professional social network LinkedIn will now show advertisements to people in both the Web and mobile versions of the home page news feed, the company said Tuesday. The ads, called "Sponsored Updates," behave similarly to Twitter's Promoted Tweets and Facebook's Sponsored Stories. These updates double as regular content from the LinkedIn brands that pay to promote them, but sport a sponsored label. Just as is the case with other updates in the stream, LinkedIn's 225 million members can "like," comment on, or share the new content ads. People also can click to follow the sponsoring brand from the update, or hide an ad they don't like. Related posts Web site advertising is a buzz kill -- report LinkedIn suffers site outage due to 'DNS issue' Apple could include LinkedIn for deep iOS 7 integration "We are focused on delivering posts that will be relevant to you. Just like other content in your feed, we will gauge your engagement with Sponsored Updates and aim to surface posts that will be useful to you," LinkedIn Product Manager Gyanda Sachdeva wrote in a blog post. Sachdeva said that LinkedIn has been testing the ad units for the past six months with brands such as Nissan, Xerox, and Adobe. Previously, CEO Jeff Weiner said that the company was working with 20 brands in the pilot program. Weiner also has said that Sponsored Updates will be LinkedIn's first content marketing revenue stream to be offered at scale, and he believes that the units will transform the site into a professional publishing hub as marketers share their whitepapers, presentations, and news with larger audiences. The ads are a necessary supplemental mobile revenue stream for LinkedIn, which makes a bulk of its money from selling services to recruiters. The news comes a little more than a week ahead of LinkedIn's quarterly status update with Wall Street, which is expecting the professional social network to post earnings per share of 31 cents on revenue of $354 million for the second quarter of 2013.
Look familiar? The professional social network tries to boost revenue with a type of ad you're accustomed to finding on Twitter or Facebook.
Sponsored Update: Nissan is paying to promote its status updates to LinkedIn members.
(Credit: LinkedIn)
Stealing a page from Facebook and Twitter, professional social network LinkedIn will now show advertisements to people in both the Web and mobile versions of the home page news feed, the company said Tuesday.
The ads, called "Sponsored Updates," behave similarly to Twitter's Promoted Tweets and Facebook's Sponsored Stories. These updates double as regular content from the LinkedIn brands that pay to promote them, but sport a sponsored label.
Just as is the case with other updates in the stream, LinkedIn's 225 million members can "like," comment on, or share the new content ads. People also can click to follow the sponsoring brand from the update, or hide an ad they don't like.
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"We are focused on delivering posts that will be relevant to you. Just like other content in your feed, we will gauge your engagement with Sponsored Updates and aim to surface posts that will be useful to you," LinkedIn Product Manager Gyanda Sachdeva wrote in a blog post.
Sachdeva said that LinkedIn has been testing the ad units for the past six months with brands such as Nissan, Xerox, and Adobe. Previously, CEO Jeff Weiner said that the company was working with 20 brands in the pilot program. Weiner also has said that Sponsored Updates will be LinkedIn's first content marketing revenue stream to be offered at scale, and he believes that the units will transform the site into a professional publishing hub as marketers share their whitepapers, presentations, and news with larger audiences.
The ads are a necessary supplemental mobile revenue stream for LinkedIn, which makes a bulk of its money from selling services to recruiters. The news comes a little more than a week ahead of LinkedIn's quarterly status update with Wall Street, which is expecting the professional social network to post earnings per share of 31 cents on revenue of $354 million for the second quarter of 2013.
