LinkedIn Says That Previously Posted Carousel Posts Will Be Deleted From the App Next Month

A fast reminder: LinkedIn is eliminating carousel posts, profile movies, and its in-image linking choice shortly, which, evidently, will even end result within the removing of beforehand posted carousels, and the de-activation of in-image hyperlinks.

As defined by LinkedIn (by way of Matt Navarra):

“Beginning on December 14th, 2023, we’ll be eradicating all carousels and profile movies from LinkedIn. Should you embedded clickable hyperlinks inside any picture or video, please observe that your content material will stay, however the clickable hyperlinks will now not work. You possibly can nonetheless share exterior hyperlinks within the description of any submit.”

So your entire beforehand posted carousels shall be deleted, and your clickable hyperlinks shall be useless.

LinkedIn initially introduced that it will be eradicating these choices again in June, seemingly because of lack of consumer 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 choice 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 choice continues to be obtainable for now, so if you wish to preserve posting carousels on LinkedIn, you’ll must revert again to the workaround course of.

LinkedIn added profile movies again in 2021, and it by no means actually appeared like an enormous winner, whereas clickable hyperlinks in pictures 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 replica of their profile video or information from their carousel posts by contacting [email protected] no later than December eleventh.