A fast reminder: LinkedIn is eliminating carousel posts, profile movies, and its in-image linking possibility shortly, which, evidently, will even consequence within the removing of beforehand posted carousels, and the de-activation of in-image hyperlinks.
As defined by LinkedIn (through Matt Navarra):
“Beginning on December 14th, 2023, we’ll be eradicating all carousels and profile movies from LinkedIn. When you embedded clickable hyperlinks inside any picture or video, please be aware that your content material will stay, however the clickable hyperlinks will not work. You possibly can nonetheless share exterior hyperlinks within the description of any put up.”
So your whole beforehand posted carousels might be deleted, and your clickable hyperlinks might be lifeless.
LinkedIn initially introduced that it will be eradicating these choices again in June, seemingly as a result of lack of person curiosity.
Carousel posts is probably going the most important removing, with carousels producing good ranges of engagement for a lot of customers.
LinkedIn added its native carousel posting possibility in July final yr, after years of creators posting their very own, makeshift carousels by importing PDFs, with every web page representing a separate slide. That possibility remains to be accessible for now, so if you wish to preserve posting carousels on LinkedIn, you’ll need to revert again to the workaround course of.
LinkedIn added profile movies again in 2021, and it by no means actually appeared like a giant winner, whereas clickable hyperlinks in photographs was added in August final yr.
All of those have now been eliminated as posting choices, however it is usually price noting that they’ll be retrospectively deleted and deactivated subsequent month.
Price factoring into your planning.
LinkedIn says that customers can get LinkedIn to ship them a duplicate of their profile video or recordsdata from their carousel posts by contacting [email protected] no later than December eleventh.
