Granting Access to LinkedIn Ads Account
Last Updated / Reviewed: Jan 10th, 2023
Execution Time: ~5 mins
Goal: To grant (or revoke) access to your LinkedIn Ads account to a new user (employee, contractor, agency).
Ideal Outcome: Your employee, contractor, or agency will have access and be able to create new campaigns (among other things) on your LinkedIn Ads account.
Prerequisites or requirements: You will need admin access to the LinkedIn Ads account.
Why this is important: LinkedIn allows you to grant access to other users so they can manage your ad account. Granting access is the most secure way to share your LinkedIn account without having to share your login details.
Where this is done: LinkedIn campaign manager.
When this is done: Every time you want to grant, request, or revoke access to your LinkedIn Ads account.
Who does this: The LinkedIn Ads account owner or manager.
User roles in LinkedIn campaign manager
Source: LinkedIn documentation.
Granting access to a LinkedIn Ads account
- Sign in to LinkedIn Ads campaign manager.
- Select your ad account.
- On the sidebar, select “Account Settings” ➝ “Manage Access”.
- In the Manage access dashboard, click “Add user”.
- Click “Edit” in the upper-right corner of the pop-up window.
- Click “+ Add user to account” in the upper-left corner of the User Permissions window.
- Enter the name of the user or LinkedIn Profile URL and select the correct name from the dropdown list. Then click “Add” to add the user to your campaign manager account.
To determine which appropriate user role to assign, refer to first chapter “User roles in LinkedIn campaign manager“ - You will now see the newly added team member in your ad account.
Revoking access to LinkedIn Ads account
- Sign in to LinkedIn Ads campaign manager.
- Select your ad account.
- On the sidebar, select “Account Settings” ➝ “Manage Access”.
- In the Manage access dashboard, click on the dustbin icon next to the user you want to remove access from.
- Select “Remove” in the confirmation box to remove the user from your ad account.
- You’ve now successfully remove the user from your ad account.
