Uploading a customer list in the Ad Editor - how do I get the Profile ID?

Hello Shelby Preston,

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Thank you for your question regarding this feature. Based on the current Microsoft Advertising guidance for LinkedIn profile targeting, company targeting needs to be added manually within the platform, and importing company lists from external files or other platforms is not supported at this time. For company Profile IDs specifically, Microsoft’s public documentation indicates that company profile data is retrieved by searching by company name, rather than downloading a public company-ID list.

In other words, this is currently the same case in Microsoft Advertising Editor as well — there is not yet a feature that can automatically populate company IDs from a bulk list of company names, nor is there a public downloadable list of all available company IDs for targeting. If you need to target a large set of companies, the current approach is to search by company name/profile individually using the available platform or API workflow.

For reference, you can review Microsoft’s documentation here: LinkedIn profile targeting and Profile Data - Microsoft Advertising API. The SearchCompanies Service Operation - Campaign Management page also explains that company profile identifiers are returned by searching for company names.

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Marvin | Microsoft Advertising Support Specialist | 800-518-5689