Microsoft Advertising adds job seniority to LinkedIn profile targeting – PPC Land

Microsoft Advertising today extended its LinkedIn Profile targeting feature to include job seniority as a targeting dimension, adding a new layer of professional-identity filtering to both Search and Audience ads campaigns. The update, announced by Navah Hopkins, Microsoft Ads Liaison and international speaker, makes it possible for advertisers to narrow their reach not just by company, job function, or industry – but now by where a person sits in an organisational hierarchy. The feature introduces 10 standardised job seniority levels drawn from LinkedIn member profile data: CXO, VP, Director, Manager, Senior, Entry, Owner, Partner, Training, and Volunteer. These levels are accessible at both the campaign and ad group level within Microsoft Advertising settings, giving advertisers the option to apply seniority targeting broadly across a campaign or to segment creative and messaging more granularly by audience tier within a single campaign structure. What the 10 seniority levels mean in practice The taxonomy itself warrants attention. The 10 categories cover a wide spectrum, from C-suite executives under the CXO label to entry-level employees and volunteers. Owner and Partner occupy distinct classifications separate from the executive CXO category, which matters for advertisers targeting founders or professional services firms where ownership and decision-making authority may not map onto a conventional
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