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On 14 September 2026, LinkedIn published a new practical workflow for the Companies Hub in Campaign Manager. The tool bundles organic and paid engagement signals at company level and, with CRM Sync, can also include revenue data. For B2B marketers, this is mainly interesting because target accounts can now be prioritised based on overall company engagement, not just individual leads.
What the Companies Hub shows
In the Companies Hub, advertisers see which companies are interacting with their brand on LinkedIn. Depending on the setup, this includes:
- organic and paid impressions,
- organic and paid engagements,
- paid clicks,
- paid leads and qualified leads,
- conversions,
- revenue and opportunity data when a CRM is connected.
To do this, LinkedIn combines data from uploaded company lists, companies reached through organic or paid content, and optionally CRM data from the Business Manager.
This turns a classic campaign report into more of an account-level signal: which companies are already responding, which accounts are still cold, and where additional paid support makes sense?
LinkedIn now recommends a 3-step workflow
LinkedIn describes the current process in three steps.
1. Identify engaged companies
In the Companies Dashboard, teams can filter by engagement level and find companies already interacting with organic posts or ads. A new job seniority filter also helps check whether managers, directors or other relevant decision-makers are actually being reached.
This is particularly interesting for B2B, because organic content can be used not just as a reach channel but as an early indicator of account interest.
How decision-making groups are changing on LinkedIn is also covered in our summary of the LinkedIn study on Gen Z and younger B2B decision-makers.
2. Build audiences directly from signals
Company Lists and Quick Audiences can be created from the filtered companies. LinkedIn names three typical use cases, among others:
- companies with organic engagement that have not yet been reached by a paid campaign,
- strongly engaged companies for retargeting,
- open opportunities from the CRM for targeted nurturing campaigns.
Dynamic Company Lists can update automatically based on the selected filters. This means an ABM team no longer has to rebuild its target account list manually every time.
3. Measuring journey and revenue
Company Journey Insights show how an individual company has interacted with organic and paid touchpoints. With CRM Sync, this view extends through to opportunities and closed revenue.
The Companies Hub dashboard filter now supports lookback periods of up to 365 days. For longer B2B sales cycles, this is far more useful than a short campaign period.
For the overarching measurement logic, it is worth also reading our guide on social media goals and KPIs 2026.
Requirements and limitations
For Companies Hub, a LinkedIn Company Page must be assigned to the ad account. Revenue metrics additionally require a CRM connection via Business Manager and CRM Sync.
It is also important that Companies Hub does not replace standard campaign reporting. The tool answers a different question – which companies are moving through the funnel? – while classic reports continue to measure performance at the campaign, ad and creative level.
The engagement signals shown are also not proof of purchase intent. They are a prioritisation signal and should be considered together with CRM status, sales feedback and actual conversions.
What German B2B marketers can take away from this
The relevant shift is less a single new ad format than the tighter connection of organic social, paid media and CRM at account level.
Especially in smaller target markets, this can help avoid spreading ad budget evenly across a large list of companies, instead weighting accounts with visible interest more heavily. Organic LinkedIn activity thus gains a more concrete function in the paid workflow.
If you want to optimise the organic layer in parallel, our analysis of the best LinkedIn posting times 2026 offers a sensible starting point for testing.