Connect LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the best channel here for writing. Text posts, links, photos and video go out cleanly, comments come back into Publiz, and you can reply and delete from the same screen you reply to YouTube from. The catch is that it only posts as you, never as a company, and personal profiles get no analytics. Worth knowing before you connect it rather than after.

Connect it

1. Open Settings then Connected Accounts in your workspace and press Connect Account.

2. Pick LinkedIn. You’ll land on LinkedIn’s own sign-in and permission screen.

   

3. Sign in and approve. LinkedIn asks for your basic profile, your email address, and permission to post on your behalf.

4. You come back to Publiz and get asked which account to connect. Pick Personal.

Company pages are not supported yet

That picker also lists any company pages you administer, and choosing one looks like it works. It doesn’t. Publishing always posts as you, whatever you picked, because the permission to post as an organisation is not part of what we ask LinkedIn for. Pick Personal, and treat the organisation entries as not ready.

What LinkedIn allows

• Posts cap at 3,000 characters. That is the most generous limit of any channel here apart from YouTube descriptions.
• Photos or one video, not both. A post can carry up to 20 images (JPEG, PNG or GIF, up to 20 MB each) or a single MP4 video up to 200 MB. Publiz uploads them to LinkedIn, so they show up as real photos and video in the post. If you attach both, the video goes out and the images are left off.
• Links work well. A link attachment becomes a normal LinkedIn preview card.

Options worth setting

Two settings show up in the composer when a LinkedIn account is selected:

• Post to — Anyone, or Connections only. Anyone unless you change it.
• Comments — who can comment on this post: Anyone, Connections only, or No one. Turning comments off is per post, so it is a reasonable way to publish an announcement you don’t want to moderate.

There’s also a first comment box. Publiz posts it from your profile right after the post goes live. It’s a good spot for extra context, a question, or a link you’d rather keep out of the post. It can’t be used with comments set to No one.

Comments

Read, reply, and delete. You cannot hide a LinkedIn comment, because LinkedIn has no such thing. Deleting is the only way to take one down, and it is permanent. See comments.

When it doesn’t work

The account says Expired and posts stopped going out. LinkedIn access expires after a couple of months and, unlike TikTok and Pinterest, Publiz cannot renew it quietly in the background — LinkedIn doesn’t give us a way to. Watch for the “Expires in Xd” warning on the account row and press Reconnect before it lapses. This is the one channel that needs that bit of housekeeping.

Reconnecting says the account doesn’t match. Reconnect resolves to whichever LinkedIn account that browser is signed in to, and it refuses to quietly repoint an existing connection at a different person. Sign out of LinkedIn in that browser, then reconnect as the right account. To genuinely swap accounts, delete the old one in Publiz first.