Set a budget, schedule, and bid for your Classic ad campaign

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ad campaign </h2> <span class="hue-default-secondary-color t-14" data-test-selector="relativeTime-container"> Last updated: 4 weeks ago </span> </div> </div> <div class="page-width-content article-details-content"> <div class="article-details-content__main"> <article data-test-selector="article" data-article-source="urn:li:helpCenterArticle:(427572,LITHOGRAPH)"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>When you create a Classic campaign in Campaign Manager, you can set your budget, schedule, and bid, giving you control over your campaign spending. You must have account manager or campaign manager permissions on the account to manage these campaign settings.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Some considerations to keep in mind:</p><ul><li>You can only set a campaign-level budget, schedule, and bidding strategy when Dynamic Group Budget is <em>not </em>enabled for your campaign group.</li><li>Default daily budget is only available for USD and EUR currencies at this time.</li><li>Default daily budget is available at the campaign level only. Dynamic Group Budget doesn't support default daily budget as it optimizes the budget for a campaign group, rather than an individual campaign.</li><li>If you have cost cap or manual bidding selected at the campaign group level, you can edit the bid amount at the campaign level.</li></ul> </div> <div class="article-content-callout article-content-callout__background--warning" data-test-selector="callout-container"> <div> <h3 class="t-16 article-content-callout__headline" data-test-selector="callout-headline"> Important to know </h3> <div class="article-content-callout__text-rich-description t-14 article-content-callout__text-rich-description--hue" data-test-selector="callout-rich-description"> <p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>• When you create an Accelerate campaign, you can also set your budget, schedule, and bid. Learn more about <a rel="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/lms/answer/a6290211" target="_self">editing the budget, schedule, and bid for Accelerate campaigns</a>.<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Prerequisite</p><ul><li>You are creating or editing a Classic campaign for a new or existing campaign group that does <em>not</em> have Dynamic Group Budget enabled.</li></ul> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>To set your budget, schedule, and bid:</p> </div> <ol class="article-content__ordered-list" data-test-selector="orderedList-container"> <li class="article-content__ordered-list-item t-14"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color article-content__rich-text--in-list" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Go to the <strong>Budget & schedule</strong> section of your Classic campaign setup for new or existing campaigns.</p> </div> </li> <li class="article-content__ordered-list-item t-14"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color article-content__rich-text--in-list" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>From the <strong>Budget</strong> dropdown, select your preferred budget option (daily, lifetime, or both a daily and lifetime) and enter your budget amount.</p> <ul> <li>Campaign Manager automatically recommends a default daily budget for new ad campaigns. It is important to note that your actual daily spent might vary.</li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="article-content__ordered-list-item t-14"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color article-content__rich-text--in-list" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Under <strong>Schedule</strong>, select your preferred campaign schedule option and enter the required dates in the date fields.</p> </div> <div class="article-content-callout article-content-callout__background--warning article-content-callout--in-list" data-test-selector="callout-container"> <div> <h3 class="t-16 article-content-callout__headline" data-test-selector="callout-headline"> Important to know </h3> <div class="article-content-callout__text-rich-description t-14 article-content-callout__text-rich-description--hue" data-test-selector="callout-rich-description"> <p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>LinkedIn recommends that advertisers don’t change the start date of a campaign to within 24 hours of the current campaign schedule, as campaign updates might not be fully implemented in time. Advertisers might be charged between the old and new campaign start dates if the start date is changed to 24 hours or more beyond the current campaign schedule.<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> </div> </div>  </div> </li> <li class="article-content__ordered-list-item t-14"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color article-content__rich-text--in-list" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Under <strong>Bidding</strong>, review your <strong>Optimization goal</strong>. Campaign Manager automatically recommends an optimization goal aligned with your campaign objective. </p><ul><li>Click <strong>Change</strong> to select a different optimization goal. You can't change the optimization goal for Sponsored Messaging ad formats.</li><li><strong>Note:</strong> For lead generation campaigns that meet the qualified leads requirements, the optimization goal defaults to qualified leads and the bidding strategy is maximum delivery. You can change the optimization goal, but it’s recommended that you select qualified leads to ensure your ads are delivered to members who are most likely to convert.</li></ul> </div> </li> <li class="article-content__ordered-list-item t-14"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color article-content__rich-text--in-list" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Review your <strong>Bidding strategy</strong>. Campaign Manager automatically selects a bidding strategy aligned with your campaign objective.</p><ul><li>Enter your cost cap or bid amount for cost cap or manual bidding strategies.</li><li>If using manual bidding, you have the option to select accelerated delivery to maximize reach and delivery during a live event as it works to deliver your campaign budget to your target audience as quickly as possible. Accelerated delivery is only available for Classic ad campaigns with website visits and engagement campaign objectives using the Sponsored Content event ad format, manual bidding strategy, and lifetime budget.</li></ul> </div> </li> </ol> <div class="article-content-callout article-content-callout__background--warning" data-test-selector="callout-container"> <div> <h3 class="t-16 article-content-callout__headline" data-test-selector="callout-headline"> Important to know </h3> <div class="article-content-callout__text-rich-description t-14 article-content-callout__text-rich-description--hue" data-test-selector="callout-rich-description"> <p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>• Accelerated delivery is currently being tested, and we’re gradually making it available, so you might not have access to it at this time.<br> • A continuous schedule is the only schedule option when you choose <strong>Set both a daily and lifetime budget</strong> as your budget option.<br> • Your campaign will begin running at 12:00 AM UTC on your start date. If you schedule an end date, your campaign will end at 11:59 PM UTC on your end date. If you schedule your campaign to start later, your campaign will begin running at 12:01 AM UTC on your start date. If you schedule an end date, your campaign will end at midnight UTC on your end date.<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p><strong>Learn more</strong></p> </div> <ul class="article-content__unordered-list" data-test-selector="unorderedList-container"> <li class="article-content__unordered-list-item t-14"> <div class="article-content__unordered-list-item-wrapper" data-test-selector="unorderedListItem-wrapper"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color article-content__rich-text--in-list" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p><a rel="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/help/lms/answer/a425731" target="_self">User roles and permissions in Campaign Manager</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li class="article-content__unordered-list-item t-14"> <div 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All budget options use lifetime pacing, which manages how your budget is spent throughout the duration of your campaign. To help you achieve key results for your campaign, lifetime pacing predicts platform activity and optimizes budget distribution and spend accordingly.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <h2>Dynamic Group Budget</h2> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>As an advertiser, you can use Dynamic Group Budget to set a campaign group budget and one objective for all campaigns in your campaign group. Dynamic Group Budget will then automatically and continuously find optimal auction opportunities for your campaign group’s objective. Dynamic Group Budget supports a daily budget or lifetime budget. </p> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible__body-footer"> <a href="/help/lms/answer/a422101?trk=hc-articlePage-peopleAlsoViewed" class="people-also-viewed__article-link" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-link" aria-label="Read help article “Campaign budgets ”"> Read more <li-icon class="people-also-viewed__article-link-icon svg-icon" size="small" aria-hidden="true" type="arrow-right-icon"></li-icon> </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="people-also-viewed__article-list-item" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-list-item"> <div class="collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-e3yuq" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button people-also-viewed__collapsible-trigger" data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-open people-also-viewed__article-title" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-title"> Campaign bidding strategies </span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-e3yuq" class="collapsible__body people-also-viewed__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>When you create an advertising campaign in Campaign Manager, you can choose from bidding strategies that are aligned with your campaign objective. The bidding strategies available vary by the campaign objective and ad format selected for your campaign. </p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Available bidding strategies include maximum delivery (automated), cost cap, and manual bidding. If you choose cost cap or manual bidding, you can review bid suggestions. </p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <h2>Maximum delivery (automated)</h2> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible__body-footer"> <a href="/help/lms/answer/a421112?trk=hc-articlePage-peopleAlsoViewed" class="people-also-viewed__article-link" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-link" aria-label="Read help article “Campaign bidding strategies”"> Read more <li-icon class="people-also-viewed__article-link-icon svg-icon" size="small" aria-hidden="true" type="arrow-right-icon"></li-icon> </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="people-also-viewed__article-list-item" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-list-item"> <div class="collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-pddae" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button people-also-viewed__collapsible-trigger" data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-open people-also-viewed__article-title" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-title"> Campaign schedules </span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-pddae" class="collapsible__body people-also-viewed__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Setting a schedule for your LinkedIn advertising campaign helps determine its lifetime. You can choose to run campaigns continuously from a start date or set a start and end date. With all campaign launches, be sure to factor in the time it takes for the ads and linked websites within the ads to be reviewed. </p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>When setting a schedule, you can choose from:</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <ul> <li>Run campaign continuously from start date - Select this option if you want to begin your campaign as soon as the ad is approved or at a later date. The campaign runs without an end date if this option is selected.</li> <li>Set a start and end date - Choose the dates you want to start and end your campaign. If you schedule your campaign to start later, it will begin running at 12:00 AM UTC on your start date. If you schedule an end date, your campaign will end at 11:59 PM UTC on your end date.</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="collapsible__body-footer"> <a href="/help/lms/answer/a427004?trk=hc-articlePage-peopleAlsoViewed" class="people-also-viewed__article-link" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-link" aria-label="Read help article “Campaign schedules ”"> Read more <li-icon class="people-also-viewed__article-link-icon svg-icon" size="small" aria-hidden="true" type="arrow-right-icon"></li-icon> </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="people-also-viewed__article-list-item" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-list-item"> <div class="collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-7ei3b" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button people-also-viewed__collapsible-trigger" data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-open people-also-viewed__article-title" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-title"> Manual bidding </span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-7ei3b" class="collapsible__body people-also-viewed__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>With manual bidding, you can control your bid value and specify the amount you would like to bid per key result. Manual bidding is available for all campaign objectives, ad formats, and optimization goals. Campaigns that use manual bidding are charged depending on the ad objective, ad format, and optimization goal selected. For example:</p> </div> <ul class="article-content__unordered-list" data-test-selector="unorderedList-container"> <li class="article-content__unordered-list-item t-14"> <div class="article-content__unordered-list-item-wrapper" data-test-selector="unorderedListItem-wrapper"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color article-content__rich-text--in-list" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Cost-Per-Click (CPC) </p> </div> </div> </li> <li class="article-content__unordered-list-item t-14"> <div class="article-content__unordered-list-item-wrapper" data-test-selector="unorderedListItem-wrapper"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color article-content__rich-text--in-list" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Cost-Per-1,000 impressions (CPM)</p> </div> </div> </li> <li class="article-content__unordered-list-item t-14"> <div class="article-content__unordered-list-item-wrapper" data-test-selector="unorderedListItem-wrapper"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color article-content__rich-text--in-list" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Cost-Per-Video View (CPV)</p> </div> </div> </li> <li class="article-content__unordered-list-item t-14"> <div class="article-content__unordered-list-item-wrapper" data-test-selector="unorderedListItem-wrapper"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color article-content__rich-text--in-list" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>Cost-Per-Send (CPS)</p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="collapsible__body-footer"> <a href="/help/lms/answer/a423484?trk=hc-articlePage-peopleAlsoViewed" class="people-also-viewed__article-link" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-link" aria-label="Read help article “Manual bidding”"> Read more <li-icon class="people-also-viewed__article-link-icon svg-icon" size="small" aria-hidden="true" type="arrow-right-icon"></li-icon> </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="people-also-viewed__article-list-item" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-list-item"> <div class="collapsible" data-test-selector="collapsible"> <button aria-controls="collapsible__body-e98el" aria-expanded="false" class="collapsible__trigger plain-button people-also-viewed__collapsible-trigger" data-test-selector="collapsible-trigger" type="button"> <span class="t-16 t-open people-also-viewed__article-title" data-test-selector="people-also-viewed-article-title"> Understanding campaign settings in Campaign Manager </span> <li-icon size="large" color="inverse" class="collapsible__icon " data-test-selector="collapsible-icon" type="chevron-down-icon"></li-icon> </button> <div id="collapsible__body-e98el" class="collapsible__body people-also-viewed__collapsible-body" data-test-selector="collapsible-body" hidden tabindex="-1"> <div class="collapsible__content"> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>When you create a Classic campaign, you’ll choose from settings to determine who your ad is displayed to, where your ad is displayed, how much your campaign spends, and when your campaign runs. Optionally, you can also add tracking such as conversion tracking or URL tracking parameters.</p> </div> <div class="t-14 article-content__rich-text hue-default-color" data-test-selector="preRenderedMarkup-container"> <p>The first step when you select your campaign settings is to choose a marketing objective. An objective is the goal you’d like to achieve with your campaign. Campaigns are optimized for delivery to people most likely to take the action you want based on the objective you select. 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