LinkedIn noticed a slight rise in EU customers within the second half of final yr, whereas there was additionally a rise in rip-off and pretend profiles reported by customers within the app, in response to its newest EU disclosure report.

Beneath the EU Digital Companies Act (DSA), all designated giant on-line platforms want to supply perception into their utilization and moderation efforts within the area each six months.

LinkedIn revealed its newest report earlier this week, giving us some extra notes on general utilization and enforcement, which offer extra precise information than LinkedIn’s personal restricted efficiency reporting.

First off, on energetic customers. Within the second half of 2024, LinkedIn stories that it had 52m logged in month-to-month energetic customers, and 142m logged out visits.

That’s a slight enhance on the 51.9m LinkedIn reported again in October, although LinkedIn additionally reported a 4 million consumer enhance in its earlier report, and a 2.7 million consumer rise within the report earlier than that.

So over time, LinkedIn is including extra energetic customers within the area, although it did sluggish within the final six months of the yr.

What’s additionally beneficial about these figures is that it provides us an precise view of LinkedIn’s energetic consumer counts, versus whole members, which it prefers to report.

As you may see, LinkedIn is at present touting the truth that it has over a billion whole members, however “members” (i.e. individuals who’ve signed up for an account), and “energetic customers” are very various things, significantly from an advertiser perspective.

As such, what’s extra beneficial to know is what number of of those “members” are literally utilizing the app day by day or month.

Once more, LinkedIn doesn’t share this, however primarily based on its reported EU member depend (184m) and its energetic consumer information reported as a part of the DSA obligations (52m), we do know that solely 28% of LinkedIn’s viewers in Europe could be counted as “energetic customers”.

If that holds for different areas, then LinkedIn’s month-to-month energetic consumer depend is extra like 280 million, versus its billion-member headline determine.

Perhaps the U.S. sees extra utilization, and possibly it’s extra like 300 million whole MAU. However comparatively, LinkedIn’s energetic engaged viewers is far nearer to that of Reddit (189m MAU) than the larger platforms like Instagram (1b), and even X (570m) and Pinterest (553m).

Price noting in your evaluation.

When it comes to spam and pretend accounts, LinkedIn has additionally seen an increase since its final report, with an 11k bounce in spam stories from customers, and a 13k enhance in pretend profiles reported.

These didn’t, nonetheless, end in a big bounce in enforcement for every, so in relative phrases, the general impression was minor on investigation. However the elevated consideration on LinkedIn can be going to inevitably bump up spam exercise, and that’s one other aspect to look at in these stories.

Price noting, too, that LinkedIn noticed a lower in spam stories by way of its auto-detection and enforcement course of within the interval.  

LinkedIn’s DSA disclosures present some fascinating perception into the platform’s progress and exercise, together with key notes on precise utilization versus general sign-ups.

And that might show you how to make extra knowledgeable decisions about your LinkedIn outreach.

You possibly can learn LinkedIn’s newest DSA disclosure report right here.