# LinkedIn Ads

7 Hacker News commenters recommended LinkedIn Ads and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend LinkedIn Ads for narrow B2B targeting that reaches a specific professional audience. The most common caveat is that it is very expensive per click.

## Why people recommend it

- Powerful niche audience targeting options (6 comments): "they also tend to have the highest conversion since you can get pretty niche with your targeting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614323)) "Linkedin has powerful targeting options, but the fact that it's tied to GMT drives me nuts." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425773)) "their targeting is amazing, but because they skew towards desktop people run ad blocks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193842))
- Works for reaching target professional audiences (5 comments): "maybe a couple of linkedin campaigns if you've a sharp First Target Customer Profile" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384637)) "the only useful places to advertise online these days are LinkedIn and Instagram" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670498)) "LinkedIn does still work, but it has gotten extremely expensive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670425))

## What people warn about

- Very expensive per click (4 comments): "LinkedIn is very expensive and really only worth it for highly targeted ads." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919508)) "LinkedIn does still work, but it has gotten extremely expensive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670425)) "The problem with LI is that it is tremendously expensive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428392))
- Poor, broken user interface (3 comments): "you are faced with a severely broken product: broken buttons, obviously wrong metrics, and other glaring bugs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667825)) "The UX was terrible. Like awful and basic things like save and exit were completely broken." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911159)) "I recently set up LinkedIn ads and realized the UX is abysmal" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912356))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Google Ads](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-ads.md): 25 recommend
- [Meta Ads](https://hackerapproved.com/p/meta-ads.md): 14 recommend
- [Instagram ads](https://hackerapproved.com/p/instagram-ads.md): 12 recommend
- [Google AdSense](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-adsense.md): 11 recommend
- [Facebook Ads](https://hackerapproved.com/p/facebook-ads.md): 7 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://business.linkedin.com/advertise/ads)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "LinkedIn Ads", https://hackerapproved.com/p/linkedin-ads/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).