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Create a LinkedIn Ads Data Stream in Marketing Cloud Intelligence
To view LinkedIn ads, create a LinkedIn Ads data stream.
Required Editions
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To create an API data stream: | Admin |
To create a LinkedIn Ads API data stream, you need:
- A valid Linkedin Ads username and password.
- Access to LinkedIn Ads manager with permissions to at least one ad account.
- On the Connect and Mix tab, expand Data Streams.
- Click Add New.
- Select the LinkedIn Ads connector.
- In the General section, enter your credentials, and select the profile that you want to pull data for.
- To add a data source authentication, click Add New and enter your LinkedIn Ads credentials.
- Set the time period for the initial data fetch. You can process data up to the past 180 days.
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In the Extended Properties section, you can set these properties:
- To retrieve data from deleted or archived campaigns, select Get Archived Campaigns.
- To apply a demographic view, select the breakdown from the dropdown. The retrieved data is on the account level.
- To pull data with no impressions, select Get Data With 0 Impressions.
- To change the mapping, click Mapping. Otherwise, you can always access mapping by selecting Map to Model at the bottom of the Create New Stream page.
- To define advanced settings, at the bottom of the screen, select Advanced Settings.
- Click Create.
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Quality check your data:
- Create a report in the LinkedIn Ads platform for the required date range.
- Process the relevant data stream in Marketing Cloud Intelligence, filtered to the same date range.
- Create an identical report or pivot table in Marketing Cloud Intelligence with the same date range, dimensions, and measurements.
- Compare the measurement totals to make sure that they’re aligned.
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