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LinkedIn solidifies its dominance in the B2B marketing landscape as ad revenue surges to $8.2bn fuelled by B2B creators, Gen AI brands and CTV capabilities

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  • LinkedIn ad revenue is forecast to reach $9.7bn (+18.5%) in 2026 and $11.3bn (+16.2%) in 2027
  • LinkedIn ads reach 350 million active users per month but its professional reach approaches saturation in key markets
  • LinkedIn ads in the US outperform with high ad equity
  • An increased use of video on LinkedIn signals a new trend

WARC Media’s Platform Insights: LinkedIn

21 October 2025 – LinkedIn is best known as a leader in business-to-business marketing offering unique professional targeting capabilities. Ad investment in the Microsoft-owned platform has steadily increased, with WARC forecasting it to reach $8.2bn in 2025 (+18.3%), fuelled by gains from the emerging Gen AI category, B2B creators, and by extending B2B campaigns into connected TV.

This latest Platform Insights by WARC Media, provides comprehensive data-driven intelligence on LinkedIn’s advertising landscape, examining the platform’s latest trends through the lens of investment, user engagement and performance.

Celeste Huang, Media Insights Analyst, WARC Media, and author of the report, said: “LinkedIn accounts for a small part of Microsoft’s overall revenue. However, its ad business is outpacing other mid-size platforms like Snapchat and Pinterest. Its premium subscriptions continue to rise, and efforts in growing B2B creators, video formats and CTV campaigns is delivering returns.”

Investment: LinkedIn ad revenue forecast at $8.2bn this year, $9.7bn in 2026 and reach $11.3bn in 2027

WARC Media’s analysis of LinkedIn’s advertising business suggests strong momentum. Ad revenue is forecast to reach $8.2bn (+18.3%) this year, increase to $9.7bn (+18.5%) in 2026 and further expand to $11.3bn in 2027.

Its ad business is bigger than other mid-size social platforms, including Snapchat ($6bn), Pinterest ($4.2bn) and Reddit ($2.2bn) according to WARC Media’s latest global ad spend forecasts for 2025.

Category-wise, business and industrial leads with the most ad spend on LinkedIn, followed by technology & electronics, and government & non-profit. Retail accounts for just 2% of total LinkedIn ad revenue.

However, LinkedIn’s ad business commands a relatively small part of the digital ad spend across key markets. Its greatest share is in the US (3.2%), followed by the UK (2.4%), Brazil (1.9%), France (1.8%), Canada (1.8%) and Germany (1.1%) according to Sensor Tower data.

LinkedIn has benefitted from rising digital ad spend among companies building generative AI products. Globally, Gen AI companies allocate 12% of their total digital ad budgets to LinkedIn, compared to an average of 3% across all categories, per Sensor Tower.

Consumption: LinkedIn ads reach 350 million users per month but its vast professional reach approaches saturation in key markets

LinkedIn ads reach around 350 million active users per month, according to We Are Social – some way short of its 1.2 billion total registered users.

However, LinkedIn’s Audience Network extends advertiser reach beyond the platform to third-party publishers and sites, with over 1.8 million feed updates viewed per minute.

According to GWI, the global online audience is most likely to use LinkedIn to look for jobs (9.4%) and to follow a company page (7.3%). A full 4.3% of internet users have researched or purchased after seeing ads on LinkedIn, a percentage that rises to 6.4% for those employed full-time.

Available in 200 markets, Asia Pacific currently provides LinkedIn with its largest audience base (277 million), followed by Europe (257 million) and North America (233 million). The US and India account for a third of LinkedIn’s total audience, but the platform itself is approaching saturation in key markets. Its continued ability to reach out-of-market buyers is crucial.

B2B creator activity has seen notable growth in recent years, albeit at a slower rate than B2C. More than one in ten creators (12%) regularly post content on LinkedIn, per CreatorIQ, though growth trails behind short-form video platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels.

LinkedIn’s audience is the fastest-growing group of social media users to adopt AI tools, ahead of X, TikTok and Instagram users. Currently, 41% of the platform’s users say they use ChatGPT, up from 15% in Q1 2024, per Sensor Tower.

High net worth individuals (HNWIs) are a key presence on LinkedIn given their ability to influence business decisions and corporate purchasers, of which 38% are Millennials, 33% Gen-X, 16% Gen-Z and 13% Boomers, according to Ipsos Global Influentials data. LinkedIn data claims its audience has twice the buying power of the average web audience, with 10 million C-level execs active on the platforms.

Performance: LinkedIn ads in the US outperform with high ad equity

Kantar’s Media Reactions survey in the US – LinkedIn’s biggest market – shows consumers’ positive attitudes regarding LinkedIn ad qualities.

To B2B advertisers, LinkedIn’s emphasis on trust means buyers will engage more and move through the funnel smoothly.

Short-form video is seeing 12% year-on-year growth on the platform. Emotionally resonant videos and short-form content have higher completion rates among LinkedIn users.

LinkedIn’s premium TV advertising offering is gaining momentum through partnerships with Connected TV platforms including NBCUniversal, Roku, and Samsung, deemed as a potential game-changer for B2B mass reach. Kantar data suggests that LinkedIn’s CTV solution reaches 105 million connected devices per month in the US.

With credibility and relevance being top criteria for creators in B2B environments, LinkedIn launched its own Creator Accelerator Program and offers partnerships with certified creator agencies via its Marketing Partners tool.

LinkedIn Ads appear more expensive when using consumer campaign ad metrics like CPC and impressions. Account-based metrics, such as ‘cost per company influenced’, reveal LinkedIn is the most effective, according to Dreamdata research.

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Huawei Wireless Unveils Innovation Breakthroughs to Pioneer New Communications Networks

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The innovation breakthroughs for pioneering new communications networks include RetinaMIMO, new materials, and OSCAR solution among other root technologies. By tackling coverage, energy consumption, and capacity challenges, the breakthroughs drive ubiquitous experience, simplified and green networks, and superior spectral efficiency. The breakthroughs have unlocked a wealth of new capabilities, including the world’s first commercial U6 GHz device VitaAAU, GigaGreen Plus series, and UBBPi series.
Huawei promotes A2A-T standards and drives commercial open-source OpenAN through extensive partnerships to build an open telecom agent ecosystem.

 




 
 

SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 29 October 2026 – At Huawei Decoding China 2026, Fang Xiang, Corporate Vice President and President of Wireless Network Solution of Huawei, unveiled a series of innovation breakthroughs to pioneer new communications networks. The innovation breakthroughs mark major leaps in root technologies focused on ubiquitous experience, simplified and green networks, and superior spectral efficiency. With the breakthroughs, Huawei has launched the world’s first commercial U6 GHz device VitaAAU, GigaGreen Plus series, and UBBPi series. Additionally featuring the new progress in open ecosystem for telecom agents, the breakthroughs will lay a solid foundation for new communications networks.

With booming intelligent devices and services, new devices, traffic, and applications are taking shape in the mobile industry. The new devices are expanding network connectivity from people to things and agents, increasing the number of connections by 100 times. Device-cloud synergy for intelligent services calls for stronger uplink capabilities to support training and inference, shifting network focus from downlink dominance to both uplink and downlink. With new applications, come a diversity of new interaction modes, calling for higher standards in experience and driving networks to support ubiquitous steady ultra-low latency with a high reliability.

As the world steps into an intelligent era, the value of connectivity is not only about quantity—it’s more about quality. This has been inspiring Huawei to convert cutting-edge breakthroughs into the commercial practices of new communications networks by focusing on root technologies for ubiquitous experience, simplified and green networks, and superior spectral efficiency.

Pioneering ubiquitous experience

RetinaMIMO is a new pioneering technology designed to solve the challenge of concurrent ultra-high bandwidth and ubiquitous coverage. It features the industry’s first Retina scanning system that allows RF link topologies to be reconstructed to eliminate coverage collapse in the vertical direction. It also adopts a reconstructed antenna array architecture to address the diminishing marginal gains as array elements (AEs) increase.

Based on RetinaMIMO, Huawei has launched the world’s first commercial U6 GHz device VitaAAU. Compared with similar products with 1024 AEs, VitaAAU widens coverage by about 30%, enabling U6 GHz to match C-band in both horizontal and vertical directions. This enables operators to deliver U6 GHz coverage for new communications networks on their C-band sites, minimizing overall TCO. To date, VitaAAU has seen commercial adoption in the UAE and other markets, with peak downlink speeds exceeding 10 Gbps, making ubiquitous premium experience a reality.

Pioneering simplified, green networks

Huawei’s pioneering EP power amplifier (PA) architecture capitalizes on new materials and technologies to solve the problem of energy efficiency decline on higher frequency bands, maximizing energy conversion efficiency. The industry’s first-ever multimode dielectric filters allow antennas to have small dimensions and low power consumption on multi-channel networks with high frequency bands. Powered by new materials, technologies, and architectures, VitaAAU antenna is reduced to 1.5 m in diameter while supporting “0 Bit 0 Watt 0 Loss”, delivering superior energy saving efficiency. These innovations enable Huawei’s GigaGreen Plus series products to achieve significant reductions in dimensions, weight, and power consumption, better positioned to power simplified and green networks.

Pioneering superior spectral efficiency

Multi-band, multi-cell, and multi-user interference is a major restrictive factor of capacity. The time scaling of the Tau (τ) law is introduced to base stations for the first time to realize optimal dynamic resource scheduling across all domains based on the OSCAR solution. With low-latency bus and high-speed interconnect technology, a high-speed architecture is built to enable the real-time exchange of massive data. Thanks to software and hardware synergy, new UBBPi series products improve average user experience by 1.3 times while reducing power consumption by approximately 40%, further improving spectral and energy efficiency.

Pioneering open-source autonomous networks

Autonomous networks have emerged as an inevitable choice to deal with the growing AI services and increasing network complexity. RANSpirit is another industry first from Huawei, implementing single-domain network autonomy based on the telecom foundation model and digital twins. To date, RANSpirit is serving more than 1.2 million cells across 25 networks around the world, providing assistance to more than 2,000 engineers.

Extensive agent collaboration relies on an open, win-win ecosystem. This galvanizes Huawei to join industry partners to develop ecosystem standards, communities, and industry alliances. In terms of standards, Huawei adapts to the TM Forum, building a cross-agent foundation on the A2A-T standard and framework agreed upon by the industry. In terms of communities, Huawei jointly promotes neutral open-source communities and donates open-source agent components to the Linux Foundation, driving global collaboration and innovation. With regard to industry alliances, Huawei has taken the initiative to pool ecosystem strengths to accelerate business implementation based on the GSMA industry platform.

Fang concluded with the reiteration of Huawei’s unswerving pursuit of dual-drive innovation to promote new breakthroughs in mobile networks and work with partners from around the world to deepen the OpenAN ecosystem, advancing new communications networks through technological innovation and open collaboration.

FAQs

Q1: Why is it challenging to balance ultra-high bandwidth and ubiquitous coverage?

Ultra-high bandwidth depends on higher frequency bands. As we know, a higher frequency leads to a greater propagation loss of electromagnetic waves and a weaker ability for them to penetrate obstacles, because high-frequency signals attenuate fast and have short coverage distances, while ubiquitous coverage requires signals to travel a long distance in complex environments. Inherently, the two priorities pull in sharply opposite directions.

  




 

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Cassava Technologies becomes an authorised reseller of Claude on Amazon Bedrock

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The agreement allows Cassava to give organisations across Africa another route to access these capabilities, helping them adopt AI technology more easily as they prepare for future growth

LONDON, United Kingdom, October 27, 2026/APO Group/ –Cassava Technologies (www.CassavaTechnologies.com), a global technology leader, has become authorised to resell access to Anthropic’s Claude models through Amazon Bedrock.

Claude is Anthropic’s state-of-the-art large language model, offering features like advanced reasoning, vision analysis, code generation, and multilingual processing. The agreement allows Cassava to give organisations across Africa another route to access these capabilities, helping them adopt AI technology more easily as they prepare for future growth.

 




  

Our goal is simple, advanced AI within reach of every business, government, researcher, entrepreneur and university across the emerging markets globally

“What matters to our customers is being able to use AI in their business, and that starts with access to the best models. Bringing Anthropic’s Claude to them through Amazon Bedrock delivers on this need, which is supported by the infrastructure, partnerships and services African businesses need to adopt them responsibly and take a greater part in the digital economy. Our goal is simple, advanced AI within reach of every business, government, researcher, entrepreneur and university across the emerging markets globally,” said Hardy Pemhiwa, President and Group CEO of Cassava Technologies.

 

Through Amazon Bedrock, organisations can access Anthropic’s Claude models and incorporate them into their own applications and services. Cassava’s authorised reseller status gives African customers a way to access Claude through a local partner focused on serving businesses across the continent.

 

Through its digital ecosystem, which encompasses connectivity, cloud, cyber security and AI solutions, along with a continent-wide data centre footprint, Cassava is investing in the infrastructure and solutions needed to support the wider adoption of artificial intelligence across Africa.

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Idris Elba’s Akuna Group launches free Artificial Intelligence (AI) filmmaking programme for creators in five African countries, in collaboration with Google

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Over fifty weeks, selected creators will move from a twelve-week academy into mentoring, pitching and production; Selected funded teams will make their films, which will be showcased in October 2027

Creators need a route from the classroom to the screen, and this programme carries them all the way, from their first application to a finished, funded film

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, October 26, 2026/APO Group/ —An AI filmmaking programme for African creators opens today in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa. Applications are live at (https://AkunaLearning.com).

Akuna Learning, from The Akuna Group, chaired by Sir Idris Elba, today opened applications for From Script to Screen with AI, a free programme that equips eligible African creators to tell stories on screen leveraging artificial intelligence. Delivered in collaboration with Google and supported by US$1 million funding from Google.org, with curriculum developed by Curious Refuge, the programme is open to aspiring filmmakers in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa.

 




 
 

Applications are open now at (https://AkunaLearning.com) and close on 15 November 2026. The programme is free to apply and, for those selected, free to attend.

Over fifty weeks, selected creators will move from a twelve-week academy into mentoring, pitching and production. Selected funded teams will make their films, which will be showcased in October 2027. Creators will maintain control of their work, with no claim of ownership rights by the programme or partners running it.

From foundation to funded film

Every participant will complete a foundational course in AI filmmaking; then participants will be able to choose to specialise in one of five creative pathways:

  • Fiction: narrative filmmaking and scripted storytelling, from short film to series.
  • Documentary: real-world stories and factual filmmaking.
  • Animation: animated storytelling, motion design and visual world-building.
  • Advertising: branded storytelling, commercial content and creative campaigns.
  • Screenwriting: script development, dialogue and structure, writing from page to screen.

The programme is structured in five stages:

  1. Applications & Selection (October 2026 to January 2027). One open call across all five countries, closing on 15 November 2026, with review panels in each country and a final panel looking across all five.
  2. Learn & Get Certified (February to April 2027). Twelve weeks of online training with Curious Refuge, with weekly Akuna facilitation, in-person meet-ups in every country and certification at the end.
  3. Get Mentoring (April to June 2027). Graduates put forward their own one-page ideas. Shortlisted idea owners build teams, which then spend four weeks with mentors and subject experts.
  4. Pitch Your Film (June to July 2027). Mentor-endorsed teams pitch to panels drawn from Akuna, Google and the wider industry. Selected projects are funded.
  5. Produce Your Film (July to October 2027). Funded teams make their films with creative and technical support, then take them to festivals and showcases. The programme is for aspiring and emerging visual storytellers: filmmakers, screenwriters, animators, advertisers, digital content creators, photographers, designers, editors and visual artists. Applicants do not need AI experience, a film school qualification or a set number of years in the industry.

 

Sir Idris Elba, Chairman of The Akuna Group, said: “For me, this is about learning. This is about access to courses that help educate creators across the continent to tell their stories. Through Akuna Learning, we’re partnering with Google and Curious Refuge on ‘From Script to Screen with AI’, a remarkable training and mentorship programme teaching African filmmakers to use AI tools. Selected projects will receive production funding, and creators will retain control of their work. I’m looking forward to seeing the stories they choose, and how the education leads to employment and self-momentum, but helps shape the narrative of Africa.”

Khaled Gad, Chief Executive Officer of The Akuna Group, said: “Training on its own does not build an industry. Creators need a route from the classroom to the screen, and this programme carries them all the way, from their first application to a finished, funded film. It opens on the same day and runs to the same standard in all five countries. You do not need a film school background or any experience with AI to apply. You need finished work that shows what you can do, and your application in by 15 November.”

How to apply

Applications are submitted online at (https://AkunaLearning.com) between 26 October and 15 November 2026. Applicants must:

  • physically reside in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone or South Africa;
  • be 18 or older on the date of application;
  • have access to a laptop, reliable internet and consistent power for the duration of the programme;
  • be able to commit fully to the twelve-week academy from February to April 2027, and to the later stages if they progress.

Applicants should include existing creative work, however modest, that shows their talent and commitment. Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

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