LinkedIn is making Reserved Ads generally available to all managed accounts, giving marketers the ability to lock in the first ad slot in the feed for premium visibility.

What’s new. Reserved Ads let advertisers secure top-of-feed placement at a fixed rate, providing predictable delivery, consistent reach, and greater share of voice. Early results show the format drives up to 75% higher dwell time, 88% higher view-through rates, and delivers 99% of forecasted impressions, according to LinkedIn.

17659209998271765920999827

How it works. Reserved Ads appear in the most visible ad slot on LinkedIn’s feed and support most Sponsored Content formats, including Video, Single Image, Carousel, Document, Thought Leader, and Event Ads. Advertisers work with their LinkedIn account representative to reserve inventory and pricing.

Why we care. LinkedIn Reserved Ads give you guaranteed top-of-feed placement, increasing visibility, attention, and engagement for campaigns. This premium positioning helps cut through the typical noise in B2B feeds, improving recall and early-funnel impact.

Additionally, the predictable delivery and fixed pricing allow marketers to plan campaigns with more certainty while building higher-quality retargeting audiences for future conversions.

The big picture. LinkedIn is positioning Reserved Ads as a bridge between brand and demand. By anchoring awareness campaigns at the top of the feed, marketers can build higher-quality retargeting pools — with LinkedIn reporting up to a 101% lift in mid-funnel engagement when audiences are warmed with Reserved Ads ahead of time.

The bottom line. By turning premium feed placement into a reservable product, LinkedIn is giving B2B marketers a more predictable way to buy attention — and convert it into downstream demand.


Search Engine Land is owned by Semrush. We remain committed to providing high-quality coverage of marketing topics. Unless otherwise noted, this page’s content was written by either an employee or a paid contractor of Semrush Inc.


Anu AdegbolaAnu Adegbola

Anu Adegbola has been Paid Media Editor of Search Engine Land since 2024. She covers paid search, paid social, retail media, video and more.

In 2008, Anu started her career delivering digital marketing campaigns (mostly but not exclusively Paid Search) by building strategies, maximising ROI, automating repetitive processes and bringing efficiency from every part of marketing departments through inspiring leadership both on agency, client and marketing tech side. Outside editing Search Engine Land article she is the founder of PPC networking event – PPC Live and host of weekly podcast PPC Live The Podcast.

She is also an international speaker with some of the stages she has presented on being SMX (US, UK, Munich, Berlin), Friends of Search (Amsterdam, NL), brightonSEO, The Marketing Meetup, HeroConf (PPC Hero), SearchLove, BiddableWorld, SESLondon, PPC Chat Live, AdWorld Experience (Bologna, IT) and more.