How to Capture LinkedIn Ads Data in ActiveCampaign

Bring original LinkedIn campaign details into ActiveCampaign alongside contact information, ready for segmentation, automation, and reporting.
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Connecting LinkedIn Ads data with ActiveCampaign contacts helps you see which campaigns introduce qualified leads to your business—and which leads become customers.

Madlitics captures available original campaign details, landing page data, and supported click IDs on your website. It preserves that context as visitors browse and return, then populates configured form fields when they submit. Tagged campaign links supply the campaign, audience, and creative details you want to capture.

Use those values alongside contact, deal, and customer records to compare campaigns through lead quality, pipeline, and revenue. This guide covers LinkedIn ads that send visitors to your website to complete a configured form.

Why LinkedIn Ads Campaign Performance Matters

LinkedIn Ads traffic metrics show which campaigns attract visitors. Connecting those campaigns with contact and customer records shows how that activity contributes to pipeline and revenue.
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LinkedIn Ads Campaign Performance Based on Traffic Metrics

Campaign

Ad Spend

Visitors

Cost per Visitor

LinkedIn Ads, Demo

$4,800

5,200

$0.92

LinkedIn Ads, ABM

$2,600

2,100

$1.24

LinkedIn Ads, Sponsored

$3,900

8,900

$0.44

Campaign
LinkedIn Ads, Demo

Ad Spend
$4,800

Visitors
5,200

Cost per Visitor
$0.92

Campaign
LinkedIn Ads, ABM

Ad Spend
$2,600

Visitors
2,100

Cost per Visitor
$1.24

Campaign
LinkedIn Ads, Sponsored

Ad Spend
$3,900

Visitors
8,900

Cost per Visitor
$0.44


Sponsored Content brings the most visitors at the lowest cost per visit. Customer and revenue data reveals a different view of performance.
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LinkedIn Ads Campaign Performance Connected to Leads, Customers, and Revenue

Campaign

Ad Spend

Visitors

Leads

Customers

Revenue

LinkedIn Ads, Demo

$4,800

5,200

148

9

$38,000

LinkedIn Ads, ABM

$2,600

2,100

121

17

$126,000

LinkedIn Ads, Sponsored

$3,900

8,900

201

3

$11,000

Campaign
LinkedIn Ads, Demo

Ad Spend
$4,800

Visitors
5,200

Leads
148

Customers
9

Revenue
$38,000

Campaign
LinkedIn Ads, ABM

Ad Spend
$2,600

Visitors
2,100

Leads
121

Customers
17

Revenue
$126,000

Campaign
LinkedIn Ads, Sponsored

Ad Spend
$3,900

Visitors
8,900

Leads
201

Customers
3

Revenue
$11,000


The ABM campaign generates 17 customers and $126,000 from 121 leads, compared with three customers and $11,000 from Sponsored Content’s 201 leads.

Connecting original campaign attribution with customer outcomes helps you identify which LinkedIn campaigns contribute to business growth.

Set up LinkedIn Ads tracking in ActiveCampaign

Bring original LinkedIn campaign context into your contact records

1.

Install Madlitics on your website

Install Madlitics across your website so it can capture original attribution when visitors arrive from LinkedIn Ads, including on landing pages without a form.

Install Madlitics on a website
Install Madlitics
Add UTM parameters
2.

Add UTM parameters to LinkedIn Ads

Tag your destination URLs with consistent source, medium, and campaign values. Use utm_term for an audience label and utm_content for a creative variation when you want those details on your contact records.

For example: https://www.yourwebsite.com/demo?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid_social&utm_campaign=demand_gen_q1&utm_term=marketing_teams&utm_content=video_a

This example identifies demand_gen_q1 as the campaign, marketing_teams as the audience label, and video_a as the creative variation.

3.

Configure your ActiveCampaign form fields

Add hidden contact fields for channel, Segments 1–4, original landing page URL, and landing page group to your inline ActiveCampaign form. Add a corresponding field for li_fat_id if you want to capture that LinkedIn click identifier when available.

Madlitics populates the configured fields with available saved attribution. When the visitor submits, those values are recorded alongside their contact details.

Set up ActiveCampaign for LinkedIn Ads
Receive enriched submission data
Connect to reporting
4.

Connect attribution to customer outcomes

Open the contact record to view the captured campaign context. Use those fields in supported segments and automations, then combine attribution with associated deal, customer, and revenue records to compare LinkedIn Ads performance.

Use the reporting features available in your account or connected reporting tools. Include campaign spend separately when calculating return on ad spend.

What attribution data does Madlitics capture?

Capture original channel, campaign, and landing page data alongside the contact details collected by your form.
Madlitics field
What it captures
channel
The original marketing channel, such as Paid Search, Paid Social, Organic Search, or Referral.
segment1
The source value supplied through utm_source for tagged campaigns.
segment2
The value supplied through utm_term, such as a tagged keyword, ad group, or audience label.
segment3
The value supplied through utm_term, such as the ad group in this guide’s example.
segment4
The value supplied through utm_content, such as the creative variation.
lp
The visitor’s original landing page URL, which may differ from the form submission page.
lpg
The original landing page group, based on the first URL path segment.
Click ID's (optional)
The li_fat_id click identifier, when present and its corresponding field is configured.

Values depend on the campaign tags and source information available when the visitor first arrives. Campaign, targeting, and creative details must be supplied through your tracking parameters; Madlitics does not retrieve those names from your advertising accounts. utm_medium value helps classify the marketing channel alongside other signals. It is not copied into one of the four standard segment fields.

Visualizing your marketing impact

Connect captured LinkedIn attribution with contact and customer outcomes

Stacked bar chart showing lead generation by marketing channel over time, comparing sources like Paid Search, Paid Social, Organic Search, Direct, and Email. Helps visualize which channels drive the most traffic.

Leads by channel
Compare contact acquisition from Paid Social with other captured marketing channels.

Line chart displaying lead-to-customer conversion rates by channel, comparing Google Ads, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Organic Search, and Email. Shows how different sources drive qualified leads over time.

Conversion rate by channel
Use customer status alongside captured channel data to compare how often leads become customers.

Line chart showing revenue performance by marketing campaign, comparing Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and LinkedIn Ads. Helps identify top-performing and underperforming campaigns.

Revenue by campaign
Connect original LinkedIn campaign values with associated deal or customer revenue in ActiveCampaign or your connected tools.

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Get started with LinkedIn Ads attribution in ActiveCampaign

Madlitics brings available original LinkedIn campaign details, landing page data, and configured click IDs into ActiveCampaign contact fields through form submissions. View that context alongside contact information, use it in segments and automations, and connect campaigns with qualified leads, opportunities, customers, and revenue.

Why use Madlitics with ActiveCampaign to capture LinkedIn Ads data

See which campaigns drive real business results.

Capture campaign details
Record the LinkedIn source and campaign values supplied through your tracking parameters.

Compare audiences and creatives
Capture tagged audience and creative labels to compare the contacts associated with different targeting and messaging.

Preserve first-touch attribution
Retain original campaign context as visitors browse and return, while their saved browser attribution remains available.

Landing page insights
Record the original landing page URL and group to compare the entry pages associated with leads and customers.

Give workflows campaign context
Use captured contact fields in supported segments and automation conditions.
Revenue-focused reporting
Combine original campaign attribution with customer and revenue records to evaluate advertising performance.
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