LinkedIn Company Pages Updates

Updates on the LinkedIn Company Pages data source, including new metrics, dimensions, and other features.

February 2023

2023-02-21

The following fields have been deprecated as they are no longer supported. Please remove them from your reporting:

• Update key
• Update activity ID

October 2021

2021-10-28

New metrics added:

• Video views
• Video time watched for views

Please note these metrics are only compatible with Content ID, Content text, and Content URL.

2021-10-06

New dimension added:

• Follower association

These metrics have been marked as deprecated and will no longer return data as of October 27th:

• Sponsored followers
• Employee followers
• Non-employee followers

September 2021

2021-09-22

New metrics added for UGC post-type content:

• Content field level comments
• Content comments
• Content likes

Oct. 2020

2020-10-01:

Feature added to support longer lived authentication tokens. They should now last 365 days instead of 60 (requires re-authentication to get new type of token).

Feb. 2020

2020-02-18:

The following fields have had their display names changed in Data Studio for clarity:

Old display name	New display name
ID	Update ID
Title	Update title
Content text	Update content text
Share media category	Update share media category
Description	Update description
URL	Update URL
Outbound URL	Update outbound URL
Submitted image URL	Update submitted image URL
Source share ID	Update source share ID
Visibility	Update visibility
Key	Update key
First level comments	Update first level comments

The following fields have been deprecated as they are no longer supported in the API, please remove them from your reporting:

• Update source name
• Update likes (use "Likes" instead)
• Update comments (use "Comments" instead)
• Thumbnail URL
• Type code
• Commentable
• Likable
• Type

Jan. 2020

2020-01-24 - new dimensions added:

• Share ID
• Share title
• Share comment
• Share comment date

Nov. 2019

2019-11-21 - New fields have been added to the following report/query types:

PAGE STATISTICS

• Careers page banner promo clicks
• Desktop careers page banner promo clicks
• Mobile careers page banner promo clicks
• Careers page promo links clicks
• Desktop careers page promo links clicks
• Mobile careers page promo links clicks
• Careers page employees clicks
• Desktop careers page employees clicks
• Mobile careers page employees clicks
• Careers page jobs clicks
• Desktop careers page jobs clicks
• Mobile careers page jobs clicks
• Page views
• Desktop page views
• Mobile page views
• Careers page views
• Desktop careers page views
• Mobile careers page views
• Jobs page views
• Desktop jobs page views
• Mobile jobs page views
• Life at page views
• Desktop life at page views
• Mobile life at page views
• Overview page views
• Desktop overview page views
• Mobile overview page views

UNIQUE PAGE STATISTICS

• Unique page views
• Unique desktop page views
• Unique mobile page views
• Unique careers page views
• Unique desktop careers page views
• Unique mobile careers page views
• Unique jobs page views
• Unique desktop jobs page views
• Unique mobile jobs page views
• Unique life at page views
• Unique desktop life at page views
• Unique mobile life at page views
• Unique overview page views
• Unique desktop overview page views
• Unique mobile overview page views

TOTAL PAGE STATISTICS

• Total page views
• Total desktop page views
• Total mobile page views
• Total careers page views
• Total desktop careers page views
• Total mobile careers page views
• Total jobs page views
• Total desktop jobs page views
• Total mobile jobs page views
• Total life at page views
• Total desktop life at page views
• Total mobile life at page views
• Total overview page views
• Total desktop overview page views
• Total mobile overview page views

TOTAL PAGE STATISTICS BREAKDOWNS

• Country
• Function
• Industry
• Region
• Seniority
• Staff count

2019-11-28:

Added support for video posts with the following fields:

• Content ID
• Content text
• Content URL

Feb. 2019

2019-02-27 - The LinkedIn Pages connector has been updated to use v2 of the API.

The following fields are marked to be deprecated as they are no longer in the API. Please note that these fields will be removed March 1st as the API they were running under will be gone so please update your reports to remove them:

• Job position (deprecated)
• Job description (deprecated)
• Job action (deprecated)
• Job URL (deprecated)
• Job location (deprecated)
• Job ID (deprecated)
• Job likable (deprecated)
• Job commentable (deprecated)
• Job type code (deprecated)
• Job key (deprecated)
• Follower trend (deprecated)
• Organic followers (deprecated)
• Sponsored followers (deprecated)
• Jobs (deprecated)
• Paid followers (deprecated)

The following fields have been added:

• New followers
• New organic followers
• New sponsored followers
• Total impressions
• Total unique impressions
• Total clicks
• Total likes
• Total comments
• Total shares
• Total engagements
• Total engagement rate (%)

Nov. 2018

01-11-2018:

New fields added for the "Update Details" report type:

• Update share media category
• Update first level comments

These fields are now deprecated due to LinkedIn API v2 limitations and will be marked as such:

• Update thumbnail URL
• Update type code
• Update commentable
• Update likable
• Comment date
• Comment timestamp
• Comment content