LinkedIn Ads · Demand generation

LinkedIn Ads to create demand, not just harvest it.

Most B2B category demand is dormant: the 95% of your ICP who aren't shopping today. LinkedIn is the only channel where you can reach them by role, company, seniority and intent, and make them know who you are before they have a problem. ICP-layered targeting, disciplined creative cadence, reporting wired through your CRM to SQLs and closed-won, not MQLs that never convert.

Stage 01
Reach

Category salience for the 95% of your ICP who aren't in-market today.

Thought-leader ads, document ads, short-form video. Ungated. Optimised for dwell and retargeting velocity, never for CPL, because these impressions aren't supposed to convert yet.

Formats: Thought-leader · Document · Short video · Carousel
Stage 02
Engage

Reports, case studies, product explainers, only to people who've already seen you.

Snackable ungated PDFs, carousels that actually explain the product. Audience: website visitors, stage-01 engagers, matched ICP accounts showing activity.

Audiences: Website retargeting · Engagement retargeting · Matched accounts
Stage 03
Convert

Direct offers and demo pages, but only to warm audiences.

Conversation ads with branching logic and landing-page offers. We rarely use native lead-gen forms: they over-index for browsers and starve your sales team of context.

Formats: Conversation · Single image · Video on warm audiences
Stage 04
Accelerate

Progress open opportunities faster with deal-stakeholder retargeting.

ABM retargeting against contacts inside active opportunities, case studies, security content, executive-focused messaging. Measured on deal velocity, not impressions.

Integration: HubSpot open-opportunity sync · Account-level frequency caps
Campaign types we actually reach for

Not every format fits every stage. Here's how we map them.

Reach

Thought-leader ads

Boosted posts from your founders, PMMs, or technical leads. The highest-trust format on the platform, and the one that compounds.

Reach

Document ads

In-feed PDFs. Strong for research, playbooks, benchmarks. Scroll depth becomes a retargeting signal.

Reach

Short-form video

Under 30 seconds, subtitled, front-loaded. Brand lift work and category narrative setup.

Engage

Carousel ads

Multi-frame product explainers, feature breakdowns, "why now" narratives, to warm audiences only.

Convert

Conversation ads

DM-style flows with branching logic. Best format for shortlist-stage warm audiences.

Accelerate

ABM retargeting

Account-matched single image + video against open opportunities. Delivered at the deal-stakeholder level.

How we differ

Most LinkedIn programmes optimise for the wrong metric.

DecisionTypical approachOur approach
Primary metricCost per leadPipeline created + SQL velocity
Conversion mechanismNative lead-gen formsWarm-audience offers wired to your CRM
TargetingOne big "ICP" audienceLayered personas × buying stage × fit
Creative rhythmQuarterly one-offsContinuous iteration on a creative system
AttributionLinkedIn platform metricsPipeline model fed by your CRM deals
Who runs the accountJunior account managerThe senior operator who pitched you
What has to be in place

What makes LinkedIn Ads actually work.

LinkedIn rewards the companies that show up with their house in order. Budget alone doesn't buy pipeline — these are the fundamentals we look for before we recommend scaling spend.

Clear ICP

A well-defined buying committee.

Named target accounts, titles of the real decision-makers, and a read on the buying committee. Without this, LinkedIn targeting turns into expensive noise.

Trackable pipeline

A CRM that closes the loop.

HubSpot, Salesforce or similar, with deal stages, owner, and source fields wired up. If pipeline doesn't flow back into reporting, LinkedIn performance stays a guess.

Creative supply

Content or a POV worth running.

Thought leadership, case studies, or a sharp product angle. You don't need a content factory, but LinkedIn rewards substance over polish — generic “book a demo” ads underperform every time.

Investment

What it actually costs.

30-min intro call

Want us to look at what you're running today?

Send us viewer access to LinkedIn Campaign Manager and HubSpot. We'll come to the call with the top three campaigns we'd pause, what we'd rebuild first, and a realistic pipeline lift to expect, even if you don't hire us.