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Audience Sync to LinkedIn

Using the Braze Audience Sync to LinkedIn, brands can add user data from their Braze integration to LinkedIn customer lists to deliver advertisements based on behavioral triggers, segmentation, and more. Any criteria you’d normally use to trigger a message (push, email, SMS, webhook, etc.) in a Braze Canvas based on your user data can now trigger an ad to that user in your LinkedIn customer lists.

Common use cases for Audience Syncing include:

  • Targeting high-value users via multiple channels to drive purchases or engagement
  • Retargeting users who are less responsive to other marketing channels
  • Creating suppression audiences to prevent users from receiving advertisements when they’re already loyal consumers of your brand

This feature allows brands to control what specific first-party data is shared with LinkedIn. At Braze, the integrations you can and cannot share your first-party data with are given the utmost consideration. For more information, refer to our privacy policy.

Prerequisites

You must make sure that you have the following items created, completed, or accepted before setting up your LinkedIn Audience Sync step in Canvas.

Integration

Step 1: Connect to LinkedIn

In the Braze dashboard, go to Technology Partners and select LinkedIn. LinkedIn 대상 동기화 섹션에서 LinkedIn 연결을 선택합니다.

Braze의 LinkedIn 기술 페이지에는 개요 섹션과 연결된 LinkedIn 버튼이 있는 LinkedIn 오디언스 동기화 섹션이 있습니다.

You’ll then be redirected to the LinkedIn OAuth page to authorize Braze for the permissions related to your Audience Sync integration. After you have selected Confirm, you’ll be redirected back into Braze to select which LinkedIn ad accounts you wish to sync to.

"연결할 광고 계정으로 'Braze 셀프 서비스'가 선택되어 있습니다.

Once you have successfully connected, you will be returned to the partner page, where you can view which accounts are connected and disconnect existing accounts.

LinkedIn 계정에 성공적으로 연결되었습니다.

Your LinkedIn connection will be applied at the Braze workspace level. If your LinkedIn admin removes you from your LinkedIn ad account, Braze will detect an invalid token. As a result, your active Canvases using LinkedIn will show errors, and Braze will not be able to sync users.

Step 2: Configure your Canvas entry criteria

When building audiences for Ad Tracking, you may wish to include or exclude certain users based on their preferences, and to comply with privacy laws, such as the “Do Not Sell or Share” right under the CCPA. Marketers should implement the relevant filters for users’ eligibility within their Canvas entry criteria. Below we list some options.

If you have collected the iOS IDFA through the Braze SDK, you will be able to use the Ads Tracking Enabled filter. Select the value as true to only send users into Audience Sync destinations where they have opted in.

'광고 추적 사용' 필터가 적용된 응모 대상은 참입니다.

If you are collecting opt-ins, opt-outs, Do Not Sell Or Share, or any other relevant custom attributes, you should include these within your Canvas entry criteria as a filter:

엔트리 오디언스가 "opted_in_marketing" 인 캔버스는 "true"와 같습니다.

To learn more on how to comply with these Data Protection laws within the Braze platform, see Data Protection Technical Assistance.

Step 3: Add an Audience Sync step with LinkedIn

Add a component in your Canvas and select Audience Sync. Click on the Custom Audience button to open the component editor.

사용 가능한 구성 요소 목록이 있는 캔버스 편집기입니다. 선택한 오디언스 동기화 구성 요소입니다.

4단계: Sync setup

Select LinkedIn as the desired Audience Sync partner.

'오디언스 동기화 설정' 세부 정보에서 여러 파트너를 선택할 수 있습니다.

Then select the desired LinkedIn ad account. Under the Choose a New or Existing Audience dropdown, type in the name of a new or existing audience.

광고 계정으로 Braze를 선택한 상태에서 오디언스를 LinkedIn에 동기화합니다.

Create a New Audience
Enter a name for the new audience, select Add Users to Audience, and select which fields you would like to sync with LinkedIn. For this integration, we currently support the following:

  • Email
  • First and Last name
  • Android GAID

Next, save your audience by clicking the Create Audience button at the bottom of the step editor.

선택한 Braze 광고 계정이 있는 '리드' 오디언스, 오디언스에 사용자를 추가하는 액션인 '리드' 오디언스, 일치시킬 필드로 이메일, Android GAID, 이름 및 성을 예로 들어 설명합니다.

Braze는 오디언스가 성공적으로 생성되거나 오류가 발생하면 단계 편집기 상단에 알림을 표시합니다. Users can reference this audience for user removal later in the Canvas journey because the audience was created in draft mode.

"리드" 오디언스가 생성되었음을 확인합니다.

When you launch a Canvas with a new audience, Braze syncs users in near real-time as they enter the Audience Sync component.

Sync with an Existing Audience
Braze also offers the ability to add users to existing LinkedIn audiences to confirm that these audiences are up-to-date. To sync with an existing audience, type the existing audience name in the dropdown and Add to the Audience. Braze will then add users in near real-time as they enter the Audience Sync component.

Expanded view of the Custom Audience Canvas step. 여기에서 원하는 광고 계정과 기존 오디언스가 선택됩니다.

Step 5: Launch Canvas

Once you have configured your Audience Sync to LinkedIn, simply launch the Canvas! The new audience will be created, and users who flow through the Audience Sync step will be passed into this audience on LinkedIn. If your Canvas contains subsequent components, your users will advance to the next step in their user journey.

You can view the audience on LinkedIn by going into your ad account and selecting Audiences under the Assets section of the navigation. 오디언스 페이지에서 300명 이상의 회원에게 도달한 후 각 오디언스의 규모를 확인할 수 있습니다.

주어진 대상에 대한 다음 메트릭을 나열하는 LinkedIn 페이지입니다.

User syncing and rate limit considerations

사용자가 오디언스 동기화 단계에 도달하면 Braze는 LinkedIn의 API 속도 제한을 준수하면서 거의 실시간으로 동기화합니다. Braze는 5초마다 가능한 한 많은 사용자를 배치하고 처리한 후 LinkedIn으로 보냅니다.

LinkedIn의 API 속도 제한은 초당 쿼리 10건, 요청당 사용자 수 100,000명을 넘지 못하도록 설정되어 있습니다. 고객이 이 제한에 도달하면 Braze는 최대 약 13시간 동안 동기화를 다시 시도합니다. 그래도 동기화가 되지 않으면 Braze는 이러한 사용자를 사용자 오류 측정기준 아래에 나열합니다.

Understanding analytics

The following table includes metrics and descriptions to help you better understand analytics from your Audience Sync component.

Frequently asked questions

How long will it take for the audience sizes to populate in LinkedIn?

There is up to a 48-hour delay to view the audiences within your LinkedIn account.

What is the minimum audience size for LinkedIn to populate within your ad account?

The audience must include at least 300 members to populate the audience size within your LinkedIn account.

What should I do next if I receive an invalid token error?

You can disconnect and reconnect your LinkedIn account on the LinkedIn partner page. Confirm with your LinkedIn admin that you have the appropriate permissions to the ad account you wish to sync with.

Why is my Canvas not allowed to launch?

Confirm your LinkedIn ad account has successfully connected to Braze on the LinkedIn partner page. Next, make sure you’ve selected an ad account, entered a name for the new audience, and selected fields to match.

How do I know if users have matched after passing users to LinkedIn?

LinkedIn does provide information around match rates in their dashboard. You can review it on LinkedIn under the Audiences section. You can review the match rate for your LinkedIn Audience in the Canvas step details of your Audience Sync step.

How many audiences can LinkedIn support?

Currently, there is no limit on the number of audiences in your LinkedIn ad account.

Why is a segment stuck in BUILDING status and not updated?

A segment is considered unused and set to ARCHIVED after it is not continuously used for 30 days in a draft or active campaign. Because of this, a segment may appear “stuck” in BUILDING when updates are streamed to an ARCHIVED segment, thus pushing it into the BUILDING state, and right before it is archived again, new updates are streamed to the unused segment.

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