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Connect your LinkedIn Ads account to Blackbox

Report on Campaign Manager spend and results alongside your other channels. Campaigns Blackbox creates arrive as drafts for you to finish.

About 3 minutes Updated 8 September 2026

Before you start

A role on the ad account

Your LinkedIn member account needs a role on the Campaign Manager ad account — Account Manager or Viewer is enough to report.

The right LinkedIn login

LinkedIn shares whatever the signed-in member can reach, so sign in as the person who has the account role.

Know which accounts to pick

You choose the ad accounts for this brand in Blackbox after signing in.

Step by step

  1. 01

    Open Data in Blackbox

    Sign in to Blackbox and click Data in the left menu, then Connect a channel at the top right.

    The Data page in Blackbox with the Connect a channel button at the top right
  2. 02

    Pick LinkedIn Ads

    Open the Provider dropdown and choose LinkedIn Ads, then click Connect.

  3. 03

    Approve on the LinkedIn screen

    A LinkedIn window opens and lists what Blackbox is asking for, including reading and managing your advertising. Sign in as the member with the account role and allow it.

  4. 04

    Choose the ad accounts for this brand

    Back in Blackbox you see every ad account that member can reach. Tick the ones for this brand and save.

  5. 05

    That's it

    The connector shows as connected and the last 30 days of campaign performance load.

Blackbox can read

  • Your campaigns and their spend, impressions, clicks and conversions
  • Daily performance history across the last 30 days for trends
  • The ad account names and currencies, so figures are labelled correctly

Blackbox will not

  • Change a budget, pause, resume or launch anything unless you approve that change in Blackbox first
  • Publish to your LinkedIn Page feed — ad content it creates is sponsored content, not a page post
  • Reach ad accounts you did not tick

If something doesn't work

No ad accounts appeared
The member you signed in as has no role on any Campaign Manager ad account. Ask an admin to add them, then connect again.
What happens when Blackbox creates a campaign?
It arrives in Campaign Manager as a draft, so you can refine audience and geo targeting there before it goes anywhere. Nothing activates on its own.
Pause and resume are refused
The connection was made before Blackbox asked for permission to manage ads. Reconnect from the Data page to upgrade the grant, and the controls start working.
Does this read my personal LinkedIn?
No. It reads advertising accounts and the organisation assets needed to run ads for them. Your feed, messages and connections are not part of it.
How do I disconnect later?
Open Data in Blackbox, find the connector and choose Disconnect. Blackbox hands the access back to LinkedIn at the same time, so it disappears from your connected apps there too. Your existing reports stay.

Stuck at any step? Send us a message and we'll do it with you on a call.