LinkedIn Ads Reporting: How to Give Your Whole Team Live Campaign Stats (Without Sharing Logins)

LinkedIn Ads Campaign Manager is fine for running ads. It’s terrible for sharing results with your team.

Here’s the problem: your media buyer lives in Campaign Manager. But your account manager needs to check performance before a client call. Your CEO wants a quick glance at spend. Your strategist wants to compare LinkedIn against other channels.

None of them should need Campaign Manager access to see how ads are performing.

The fix is simple: pull your LinkedIn Ads data into a live dashboard that anyone can view. No logins. No training. No “can you export that report for me?” Slack messages.

I’ll show you exactly how we set this up at our agency using Supermetrics and Looker Studio. Takes about 15 minutes, and then your team has real-time LinkedIn Ads performance forever.

The Problem With LinkedIn’s Native Reporting

LinkedIn Campaign Manager wasn’t built for team visibility. It was built for the person running the ads.

That creates a few annoying problems:

Limited access control. You either give someone full Campaign Manager access (risky) or you become their personal report-runner (annoying). There’s no “view-only dashboard” option built into LinkedIn.

Manual exports. Every time someone needs data, you’re exporting CSVs, formatting spreadsheets, and emailing files that are outdated by the time they’re opened.

No cross-channel view. Your LinkedIn data lives in LinkedIn. Your Google Ads data lives in Google. Your Meta data lives in Meta. Comparing them means tab-switching or manual spreadsheet work.

Static snapshots. LinkedIn’s built-in reports show you a moment in time. They don’t auto-update. Tomorrow, that report is already stale.

What you actually want: a live dashboard your whole team can bookmark, check anytime, and trust that it’s showing current data.

The Solution: Supermetrics + Looker Studio

Here’s the setup:

1. Supermetrics connects to your LinkedIn Ads account and pulls the data
2. Looker Studio displays that data in a live, shareable dashboard
3. Your team bookmarks the dashboard and checks it whenever they want

No Campaign Manager access required. No manual exports. Data refreshes automatically.

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Let me walk you through exactly how to set this up.

Step 1: Connect Your LinkedIn Ads Account to Supermetrics

First, you need to link your LinkedIn Ads account to Supermetrics. This is a one-time setup.

[SCREENSHOT: Supermetrics data source selection showing LinkedIn Ads option]

In Supermetrics, go to your data sources and select LinkedIn Ads. You’ll be prompted to authenticate with LinkedIn.

[SCREENSHOT: LinkedIn OAuth/authorization screen]

Click through the authorization. You’re giving Supermetrics read-only access to your ad data—it can pull stats but can’t make changes to your campaigns.

[SCREENSHOT: Selecting the LinkedIn Ad Account/Company Page]

Select the LinkedIn Ad Account you want to report on. If you manage multiple accounts (like we do at our agency), you can connect them all and switch between them later.

That’s it for the connection. Now Supermetrics can pull your LinkedIn Ads data anytime.

Step 2: Set Up Your Looker Studio Dashboard

Now we need somewhere to display the data. Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio) is free and perfect for this.

The fastest way to get started: use a template.

[SCREENSHOT: Supermetrics template gallery or Looker Studio template selection]

Supermetrics has pre-built LinkedIn Ads templates that are already configured with the most useful metrics and visualizations. You don’t need to build from scratch.

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Select a LinkedIn Ads template and connect it to your data source.

[SCREENSHOT: Connecting the template to your LinkedIn Ads data source in Looker Studio]

The template will ask you to select your Supermetrics LinkedIn Ads connector. Pick the account you connected in Step 1.

[SCREENSHOT: Template populating with actual LinkedIn Ads data]

Once connected, the template automatically pulls in your data. You’ll see your actual campaign stats populate the dashboard within seconds.

Step 3: What Data You’ll See

A good LinkedIn Ads dashboard shows you the metrics that actually matter:

[SCREENSHOT: Full dashboard view with data populated]

Spend & Budget Pacing

• Total spend (daily, weekly, monthly)
• Spend by campaign
• Budget utilization

Performance Metrics

• Impressions
• Clicks
• CTR (Click-through rate)
• CPM (Cost per 1,000 impressions)
• CPC (Cost per click)

Conversion Data

• Leads or conversions (if you have tracking set up)
• Cost per lead/conversion
• Conversion rate

Campaign Breakdown

• Performance by individual campaign
• Performance by ad format
• Audience insights

[SCREENSHOT: Close-up of a specific chart or table showing campaign-level data]

The dashboard updates automatically. Whatever time range you set (last 7 days, last 30 days, custom range), it pulls fresh data from LinkedIn.

Step 4: Share With Your Team

This is the whole point. Now you share the dashboard with anyone who needs it.

In Looker Studio, click Share in the top right.

[SCREENSHOT: Looker Studio share dialog]

You have a few options:

• Add people by email — They get view access to this specific dashboard
• Get a shareable link — Anyone with the link can view (great for bookmarking)
• Embed — Drop it into Notion, a wiki, or an internal portal

The people you share with:

• Can view all the data
• Can filter by date range
• Can NOT edit the dashboard (unless you give them edit access)
• Do NOT need LinkedIn Campaign Manager access
• Do NOT need a Supermetrics account

They just open the link and see live stats.

Why This Beats Manual Reporting

Let’s compare:

The time savings compound. Instead of 30 minutes every week exporting and formatting reports, you spend 15 minutes once and never think about it again.

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Advanced: Add More Channels to the Same Dashboard

Once you have Supermetrics set up, adding other ad platforms is easy.

We run Google Ads, Meta Ads, and LinkedIn Ads for clients. Instead of three separate dashboards, we built one cross-channel view:

• Total spend across all platforms
• Performance comparison (which channel has the best CPC?)
• Unified conversion tracking

Supermetrics connects to 100+ data sources. If you’re running ads on multiple platforms, you can pull them all into the same Looker Studio dashboard.

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Quick Setup Checklist

Here’s the summary if you want to set this up right now:

1. Sign up for Supermetrics — [AFFILIATE LINK PLACEHOLDER: Supermetrics]
2. Connect your LinkedIn Ads account — One-time OAuth authorization
3. Open a Looker Studio template — Use Supermetrics’ pre-built LinkedIn Ads template
4. Connect the template to your data source — Select your LinkedIn account
5. Share the dashboard link with your team — They can now view live stats anytime

Total time: ~15 minutes

Who Should Use This Setup

This works for:

Agencies — Give clients a live dashboard instead of static monthly reports. They can check performance anytime without bugging you.

In-house marketing teams — Let leadership see ad spend and results without training them on Campaign Manager.

Freelancers — Look more professional by providing clients with polished, live reporting.

Anyone tired of manual exports — If you’re spending time on repetitive reporting, automate it.

Get Started

Stop being your team’s personal LinkedIn Ads report generator.

Set up a live dashboard once, share the link, and let everyone self-serve their own data.

[AFFILIATE LINK PLACEHOLDER: Supermetrics] — Connect LinkedIn Ads to Looker Studio and build your dashboard today.

We use this exact setup at Tangoo to report on our LinkedIn Ads performance. The screenshots in this guide are from our actual workflow.