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This official website is maintained by the Settlement Administrator under the supervision of Class Counsel for the members of the Settlement Class in In re LinkedIn Advertising Metrics Litigation, Case No. 5:20-cv-08234-SVK which is pending in the United States District Court For the Northern District of California.

In re LinkedIn Advertising Metrics Litigation, Case No. 5:20-cv-08234-SVK

ALL U.S. ADVERTISERS WHO PURCHASED ADVERTISEMENTS THROUGH LINKEDIN MARKETING SOLUTIONS “LMS” BETWEEN JANUARY 1, 2015, AND MAY 31, 2023.

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The information contained on this web page is only a summary of information presented in more detail in the Long-Form Settlement Notice (the “Notice”), which you can access by clicking here. This website is just a summary, you should review the Notice for additional information.

If you are a Settlement Class Member, your legal rights will be affected by this Settlement whether you act or do not act.

Please read the Notice carefully.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OPTIONS IN THIS SETTLEMENT:
Description Due Date

Exclude Yourself

Get no payment. This is the only option that allows you to ever be part of any other lawsuit against LinkedIn about the legal claims in this case. Deadline to request exclusion has passed.

Object

Write to the Court about why you don’t like the settlement. Deadline to object has passed.

Go to a Hearing

Ask to speak in Court about the fairness of the settlement. The Final Hearing has passed.

Do Nothing

Get a payment. Give up rights to sue LinkedIn over the claims in this case.
  • LinkedIn Corporation (“LinkedIn”) has agreed to pay $6.625 million to resolve a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of U.S. advertisers who purchased advertising through LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (“LMS”) between January 1, 2015, and May 31, 2023.

 

  • The settlement resolves a lawsuit over whether LinkedIn acted unlawfully by misrepresenting how it calculates fees incurred by online advertisers and failing to adequately review its online advertising metrics for accuracy. The settlement avoids costs and risks to you from continuing the lawsuit; pays money to purchasers of advertising like you; and releases LinkedIn from liability.

 

  • The attorneys representing all Class Members will file a request for attorneys’ fees, cost reimbursements, and service awards to the Class Representatives for investigating the facts, litigating the case, and negotiating the Settlement. If these fees, costs, and service awards are granted and after settlement administration expenses are paid, an estimated $4,572,603.06 will remain to be paid to Class Members.

 

  • The two sides disagree on how much money could have been won if purchasers of LinkedIn’s LMS advertising won a trial. Plaintiffs estimate that the most the Class might recover at a trial is $24,000,000 to $60,000,000. That best-case scenario assumes Plaintiffs won an appeal of a trial court ruling dismissing their claims with prejudice, won class certification, survived summary judgment, overcame challenges to their experts and damages models, won at trial, and won post-trial appeals, all of which is difficult, expensive, and would likely take several more years. On top of that, a jury could find for the Plaintiffs but award less money than Plaintiffs request, including minimal or no money. For its part, LinkedIn believes that even if Plaintiffs had succeeded at trial, the alleged unlawful conduct did not cause any damages and so the Class would recover nothing.


This website provides a summary of your rights and options. Your rights and options, and the deadlines to exercise them, along with many of the material terms of the proposed Settlement are explained further in the Notice. The most comprehensive explanation of your rights and options is contained in the Settlement Agreement.