Experiments on social media: a guide on designing and targeting interventions using LinkedIn ads

Shares practical lessons on how researchers and policymakers can use LinkedIn to run large-scale behavioural experiments and collect survey data.

Abstract

This brief shares practical lessons on how researchers and policymakers can use LinkedIn’s advertising and targeting tools to run large-scale behavioural experiments and collect survey data. It distils the authors methods into actionable insights for future projects.

This research is part of the G2LM Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries programme.

Citation

Dam A and Sitnisky DD. ‘Experiments on social media: a guide on designing and targeting interventions using LinkedIn ads’ G2LM LIC Policy Brief No. 74, 2025

Experiments on social media: a guide on designing and targeting interventions using LinkedIn ads

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Published 15 September 2025