CRM connected

HubSpot is connected. Pipeline and revenue on this page are read from it, direct and influenced. Two things make it complete: deal amounts on every influenced deal and mapped lifecycle stages.

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Design mock · real take2 data, 90 days to 21 Sep 2026benchmark.kiin.co/take2

Your rank, against advertisers buying the same audience

Bottom 30%

44 of 62 · 62 advertisers targeting the same buyers as you

You paid $1,114 per demo. The median advertiser like you paid $465.And $23,100 of $34,474 was leaking or not working.

Your biggest campaign has LinkedIn Audience Network on, and retargeting is showing the same ads to 2,000 people eleven times each.

Spend that did no work

$9,725No leads, no landing page traffic, or an exhausted audience.

Spend leaking off LinkedIn

$13,370Thought leader video with Audience Network on. Average watch 0.2 seconds.

Cost per demo vs median

$1,114 vs $465Worse than 93% of the cohort.

Fixable this week

$3k to $5k / moAudience Network off. n=127, 56% better landing page CTR.
$34,474Spend · 90 days
30Campaigns live
23.7kPeople reached
16Leads · 7 demo · 9 content
62Advertisers in your cohort

Kiin panel composite rank · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 01 · the panel and the buyer behind every number

Your cohort

62 advertisers targeting the same buyers as you

Function · HR and talentSeniority · Director+Company · 1,000+Geo · United StatesAudience Network offPanel · Aug 2026

Function HR and talent, seniority director and above, companies of 1,000 or more, United States, Audience Network off.

Matched on function, seniority, company size, geo, and Audience Network. Relaxed: none.

This is the Kiin panel, not LinkedIn's published benchmark. Rank only at n of 25 or more.

Your buyer, from your results · confidence high

HR and talent acquisition leaders, Director and above, at US healthcare provider organisations

Function · HR / TalentSeniority · Director, Senior, VPOrg type · Health systems and physician groupsGeo · United States

837 deals · 26 attributions · 907 landing page clicks

Not a typed-in target audience: the people and companies that actually converted, from your CRM, your lead forms and your landing page clicks, in that order of trust.

This is inferred from your results, not something you told us. If your ICP is different, add it. It never changes the numbers.

Section 02 · you vs cohort median vs top 20%

Your reach costs 2.7x the median.

Traffic is average. Demos are the most expensive in the cohort.

MetricBand = cohort p25 to p75 · square = youBetter than
LP CTRLanding page clicks ÷ impressions
0.05%0.37%you 0.17%
38%of cohort
CPMFeed only
$26$87you $134
8%of cohort
Cost per demoDemo leads only
$160$1,248you $1,114
7%of cohort · median $465

get_benchmarks matched cell · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 03 · one bucket per campaign

$23,100 was leaking or not working.

Working · $8,800 · 26%Leaking · $13,370 · 39%Not working · $9,725 · 28%Small tests · $2,579 · 7%

Working produced leads at or under the median. Leaking reached placements off LinkedIn or people who never convert. Each campaign is in one bucket.

leaking

$13,370

Audience Network is on for your biggest campaign

Video views, thought leadership, Audience Network on. 54,624 views at 0.2 seconds.

0.2savg watch
3.7%completion
Turn Audience Network off. One toggle.

n=127 · LAN off = 56% better LP CTR

not working

$3,321

Retargeting fatigue

One demo from a 2,000-person website audience at frequency 11.

11.0frequency
57%penetration
Pause, widen the window, rotate new creatives.

campaign metrics, 90 days · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 05 · from your results, not a list

Your leads come from HR and talent leaders at healthcare providers.

Higher Education, non-profit, and community services convert. A typed-in industry list would have cut them.

Index = share of conversions ÷ share of delivery. Shares stay inside one dimension. LinkedIn pivots inflate absolute counts, so dollars are never summed across dimensions.

SegmentDimensionShare of deliveryShare of conversionsIndexRead
Human ResourcesFunction68%100%1.5Core buyer
DirectorSeniority45%71%1.6Core buyer
SeniorSeniority16%29%1.8Core buyer
Higher EducationIndustry6%19%3.0Core buyer
HospitalsIndustry10%0%0 · CRM confirmsConverts
EntrySeniority10%0%0Never converts
Business DevelopmentFunction6%0%0 · title check cleanNever converts

Delivery that doesn't look like your buyer

SegmentDimensionEst. spendIndexStatusAction
EntrySeniority$3,0500Blocked · title includesRebuild
Business DevelopmentFunction$1,8200Blocked · title includesRebuild
Research ServicesIndustry$1,5200Recommended exclusionPreview
ManagerSeniority$5,0000Keep · in targetWatch
Cold campaigns include job titles, so LinkedIn will not apply seniority or function exclusions. One rebuild on function plus a seniority floor, not a row per segment.
Lessons for this account
  • Three sources agree: HR and talent leaders at healthcare providers, filed under six LinkedIn industry labels.
  • The leaks are function and seniority, and title includes block the exclusions.
  • Manager is 17% of delivery with no lead yet. In target. Watch it.

buyer profile index · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 04 · settings that quietly cost money

5 of 16 live campaigns have a setting we'd never leave on.

Marked active16Campaign status ACTIVE
Actually serving10Group active, audience 300+, spend this week
Held6Active on paper, not serving
Cannot spend$720/day that cannot spendDaily budget on held campaigns

Serving means campaign active, parent group active, audience at least 300, and spend in the last 7 days. Only live items count toward the fix list.

campaign catalog × group × 7-day spend · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 06 · the no-CRM north star

Is the right audience seeing real people?

Funnel stage is read from the audience (website, engagement, or video retargeting is the middle), not from the objective.

TLA share of spend51%Top 20% of cohort: 40%+
TLA authors1Kiin rule: founder plus two customers
Engagement rate1.24%Benchmark 3 to 12%
Dwell time11.0sBenchmark 3 to 5s · strong
Video completion3.3%62k views, 2,182 finished
Target audience reached9.1%23.7k of 260k · at frequency 10.8
Format mix · share of spendVideo (TLA)46%
Single image31%Message / conversation

Format mix · share of spend

Video (TLA)46%
Single image31%
Message / conversation15%
Document5%
Text / spotlight3%

Funnel · share of spend

Cold (TOFU)51%
Retargeting (MOFU)13%
Capture (BOFU)35%

Text ads and connected TV are one line each. They are not in feed frequency or CPM.

creative stats, feed only · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 07 · eight checks, not a dashboard

51% of spend on thought leader ads. Right mix. Wrong setup.

Linked posts are judged on landing page CTR. Link-less posts are judged on engagement. Never total CTR, never CPC.

Eight checks, each against the panel

ObjectiveVideo viewson demo-CTA posts · buys 2s views
Link vs no linkAll linkedjudged on LP CTR · ok
BiddingManualCPC · panel: CPM-bid −33% per click
Format83% videopanel: video 2.4x the cost of image
Fatigue2.4xmain campaign past two passes of 24k
Authors1Yaniv · 21 creatives unresolved
TargetingBroadindustries + size · no function layer
PlacementLAN on$13,370 exposed off-platform
Lessons for this account
  • When the account runs both image and video, its own paired result comes before the panel.
  • Audience Network off before any TLA number is judged.

Kiin Labs TLA benchmarks 2026 · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 08 · leads by type, never averaged

Demo, content, booking, and site visits each have their own band.

A lead gen form campaign is not judged on landing page clicks. A message ad to a URL is not judged on form opens.

Lead typeWhere it came fromSpendLeadsCost per leadCohort medianRead
DemoRetargeting message ads · lead form$2,7966$466$465Winner
DemoSingle image demo ads · lead form (2 campaigns)$4,9461$4,946$465Stop
ContentAI Playbook · document ad · retargeting$1,8375$367$219Fair
ContentPlaybook · single image lead form · cold$1,8644$466$352Fair
BookingConversation ad to Calendly page$2,3340Stop
Website435 landing page clicks · all campaigns$34,474435$79 / click$17Destinations not yet read

Landing page URLs are not classified yet. The page says so instead of inventing a destination.

lead gen report and conversation ads · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 09 · completion by format

170 form opens, 16 completions. 9.4%.

Document ads complete far more often than single-image forms on the same lists. The form copy that decided demo vs content is the type chip.

Completion by format · range across the six accounts

Document29 to 60%
Single image1.3 to 9%
Message adup to 67%
Lessons for this account
  • The document is the form's best friend.
  • Demo and content are never averaged.

lead gen forms · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 10 · direct vs influenced

29 leads into HubSpot, 2 deals touched, pipeline value $0.

The two deals have no amount. The strict click threshold returns zero influenced deals on a video-views account.

What Campaign Manager says16Campaign Manager lead-form leads, 90 days. 7 demo, 9 content.
What HubSpot says29HubSpot leads with LinkedIn as source, Jul to Sep. 23 direct, 6 influenced. 2 deals, no amounts.
StageDirectInfluencedTotalCost eachCohort
Leads23629$1,016$465*
Demos / meetings
Opportunities000
Pipeline$0$0$0
Revenue$0$0$0
InfluencedPre-deal, above the thresholdClicks dropped when message or video is over 30% of spend
ExposedImpressions only, pre-dealCounted, labelled
After the dealAds seen after creationNever counted
Two fixes in the CRM make this the business case
  • Deal amounts on influenced deals
  • Lifecycle stages so demos stop reading zero

Per-format influence is a labelled slot until the company-by-campaign join exists. Message ads have no company pivot.

Spend against CRM leads by month. The shape is the point.

Lessons for this account
  • The CRM is the headline. Campaign Manager is the secondary line.
  • The influence threshold is format-aware.

v_conversion_funnel and influenced deals · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 11 · companies, feed only

Who actually saw the ads.

Communities, VCs, and placeholder employers are tagged and kept off the buyer index.

CompanyIndustryImpr.ClicksNote
ProvidenceHospitals1,0525Not matched
Mass General BrighamHospitals7640Not matched
Cleveland ClinicHospitals5770Not matched
UPMCHospitals5560Not matched

Company reach is LinkedIn's top-100-per-day pivot, so shares are a lower bound. Message ads have no company pivot.

company engagement · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 12 · the panel, after your own data

What advertisers like you do differently.

A finding is dropped if it asks for a bigger audience, if the cell is unknown, or if your own paired campaigns contradict it.

01 · n=127

They keep Audience Network off

Landing page CTR is 56% better when it is off.

you: on

02 · Kiin rule

They keep every live campaign feeding retargeting

Two video audiences are built and attached to nothing.

you: 2 orphaned

03 · n=141

They fund the middle of the funnel

Retargeting CPM runs cheaper than cold. Yours saturates in days.

you: 13% middle

panel findings · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 13 · live campaigns only

Five moves.

Held and paused campaigns stay in the archive. Nothing here is applied without a preview.

1

Turn Audience Network off on the video views campaign

Preview, confirm, watch landing page CTR for 14 days.

$3,022 to $5,151per month, at cohort rates
Preview change
2

Pause the single-image demo forms

$4,946 for one demo vs $466 on message ads.

~8 demosper quarter at $466
Preview change
3

Attach the two orphan video audiences

1,646 and 4,109 people, built and unused.

+5,755people in the middle
Preview change
4

Rebuild cold targeting on function and seniority

Title includes block the $8,160 going to segments that never convert.

$8,160per 90 days redirected
Rebuild
5

Add two more thought leader authors

A customer CHRO and a recruiter. One voice is the ceiling.

3 to 12%engagement benchmark
Content
Phil IlicFounder, Kiin

This account made the right strategic call and the wrong three settings. Half the budget on thought leader ads is what the best accounts do. Audience Network, frequency 11, and a conversation ad with no form is how the demo got this expensive.

Refreshes monthly · you get an email when your rank moves

live campaigns · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=62 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Kiin Labs · Benchmark · take2Kiin panel · k-anonymous · n≥10 · rank only at n≥25 · USD · not LinkedIn published benchmarks