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

As defined by LinkedIn (through Matt Navarra):

“Beginning on December 14th, 2023, we’ll be eradicating all carousels and profile movies from LinkedIn. In case 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’ll be able to nonetheless share exterior hyperlinks within the description of any publish.”

So your whole beforehand posted carousels shall be deleted, and your clickable hyperlinks shall be lifeless.

LinkedIn initially introduced that it could be eradicating these choices again in June, seemingly on account 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 possibility 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 possibility remains to be accessible for now, so if you wish to hold posting carousels on LinkedIn, you’ll need to revert again to the workaround course of.

LinkedIn added profile movies again in 2021, and it by no means actually appeared like a giant winner, whereas clickable hyperlinks in pictures was added in August final yr.

All of those have now been eliminated as posting choices, however additionally it is value noting that they’ll be retrospectively deleted and deactivated subsequent month.

Value 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.