Set up Canva integration to create ads in Campaign Manager

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The LinkedIn Ads app on Canva is a powerful integration that allows users to share professional, visually compelling ad creatives that they’ve created within Canva directly to LinkedIn’s advertising platform. This feature streamlines the ad creation process, making it easier to export ad creatives without needing to switch between different tools. Here’s how you can use this integration with the Canva platform :

  • Seamless Integration: With the LinkedIn Ads app integrated into Canva, you can design your LinkedIn ad creatives in Canva and connect directly to your LinkedIn Ads account.
  • Ad Design Templates: Canva offers a wide range of pre-designed templates optimized for LinkedIn ads, whether you're creating sponsored content, video ads, or carousel ads. These templates ensure your ads look polished and professional, even if you're not a designer.
  • Branding Consistency: Canva makes it easy to maintain consistent branding across your LinkedIn ads by giving you quick access to brand assets such as logos, color schemes, and fonts. This helps ensure your ads align with your overall business strategy and messaging.
  • Easy Customization: You can easily customize the templates by adding images, videos, copy, and other design elements. Plus, with Canva’s intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, the design process is quick and simple.
  • Efficient Ad Management: Once your ad design is ready, you can export it directly to LinkedIn Campaign Manager, saving time and effort.
  • Collaboration: Canva’s team collaboration features let multiple users work together on an ad set, making it ideal for businesses with marketing teams or agencies managing LinkedIn ad accounts.

This integration makes it easy for marketers, businesses, and advertisers to create designs on Canva and export designs to LinkedIn Campaign Manager all while maintaining a high standard of creativity and design quality.

Who can use this feature?

Ensure you have super admin, content admin, or Sponsored Content poster access on your ad account's Page and creative manager access or higher on your ad account. You’ll also need a Canva account.  

Connect to Canva 

getting started with canva

To connect your LinkedIn Ads account to Canva: 

  1. Sign up or sign in to your Canva account. 

  2. In the left menu, click Apps, then search for “LinkedIn Ads”. You’ll see LinkedIn Ads in the Canva app marketplace. 

  3. Click Open on the LinkedIn Ads app, and a menu will appear. Select Use in existing design or Use in new design to start using LinkedIn Ads app. A canvas opens along with a Connect menu.

    Open LinkedIn ads app

    Note: You can choose existing designs by browsing your Canva folders, or you can create a new design.

  4. In the screen that opens, choose Connect to link your LinkedIn Ads app to your Ad account. 

  5. In the LinkedIn Sign-In popup, log in to LinkedIn, either by entering your LinkedIn credentials or by using one of LinkedIn's supported login methods (such as "Sign in with Google" or "Sign in with Apple").

  6. Allow any access related permissions. You are then redirected back to the Canva application. 

    • If your LinkedIn profile is not associated with any ad account, you will need to link one by selecting the Create Ad Account option. 

  7. In the LinkedIn Ads screen, provide a Design name. 

  8. Choose the Ad account to link to the required LinkedIn Campaign Manager ad account where you want to export your design to. 

    • Note: You can only view active accounts that you have permission to create or edit. 
    • You can export images to the Ad account if you have the following permissions: 
      • Creative manager on the LinkedIn Campaign Manager Tool 
      • Direct Sponsored Content poster on company page 

  9. Choose Next. 

  10. In the next screen, provide the type of the file you are uploading. You can upload PNG, JPG or MP4 Video as the file type. If you are a Canva Pro user, you can: 

    • Choose the required Size and Quality of the file.  
    • Limit the File size by using the checkbox and providing a file size. 
    • When uploading multiple images, you can select specific pages to export using the Select Pages option. If any page fails to upload, use the Retry option to retry the failed upload(s). Please note that uploading multiple videos is not supported.

  11. Click on Export. The creative gets uploaded into the image/video library while creating Ads on the LinkedIn Campaign Manager tool. 

Requirements and limitations for images and videos

The following restrictions apply when exporting images and videos:  

Images

Maximum resolution: 36, 152, 320 pixels

Supported formats: JPG, GIF, PNG

GIFs: Up to 250 frames
Videos

Supported format: MP4

Length: 3 seconds to 30 minutes

File size: 1 Bytes to 500MB

Only one video can be uploaded at a time 

Important to know

  • After the export is successful, a message is displayed.  
  • For large videos, even after a successful upload, videos can take a few minutes to be available in your LinkedIn Campaign Manager image library/video library.  
  • Multiple videos are converted into a single MP4 file while exporting. However, you are not allowed to export videos as separate files.  
  • Each new upload in the Campaign Manager tool is treated as a separate upload, even if the designs are identical. 

Important to know

When you select View ad, you'll be taken to the Campaign Manager tool where you can browse for the ad that is created on Canva. Learn more about browsing existing content to create new ads and creating single image ads for Classic ad sets.

Removing the LinkedIn Ads app on Canva 

To remove the LinkedIn Ads app: 

  1. Navigate to your LinkedIn Ads app and choose [3 dots icon]. 

  2. Select Remove from your apps. 

Note: Your use of the Canva services remains subject to the Canva terms of service and privacy policy, whereas your use of LinkedIn ad services remains subject to the LinkedIn Ads Agreement. 

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