Connected TV advertisingFor B2B with a target account list

CTV advertising agency for B2B. Your target accounts, on their TV.

Kiin runs connected TV (CTV) ads for B2B: 15 and 30 second spots on streaming apps like Paramount, Roku, Samsung TV Plus and NBCUniversal, shown only to the companies and job titles you sell to, and measured in your CRM, not by "impressions".

Free, 30 minutes. Bring your account list and leave with a CTV plan and its cost, whether you hire us or not.

Published the first independent LinkedIn CTV benchmark LinkedIn Agency Partner No mark-up on ad spend
Phil IlicPhil · Co-founder
Omar AboushadyOmar · Ex-LinkedIn
Yasmin El-DeebYasmin · Ex-LinkedIn
Joanna SaundersJoanna · Ex-LinkedIn
Kiin Labs · LinkedIn CTV benchmark, 12 months to 7 Sep 2026
$811kLinkedIn CTV spend analysed
31B2B advertisers on CTV
$25.76Median CPM, vs $96.43 in their feed
98.7%Of started spots watched to the end
In plain EnglishWhat CTV actually is

You may not call it CTV. You have probably searched for it.

Connected TV is any TV ad shown inside a streaming app on an internet-connected television. Because it is bought like digital ads, a B2B company can show it only to the businesses on its list.

If you searched forWhat it is calledCan B2B do it?
"Can B2B companies advertise on TV?"Connected TV (CTV)Yes, and pay about a quarter of the LinkedIn feed CPM for it
"Advertise on Netflix, Roku or Hulu for my business"CTV, bought through a streaming publisher or a DSPYes. For a named account list, LinkedIn's publisher deals are the most precise route
"TV ads for SaaS" or "streaming ads for B2B"B2B CTVYes, when you have a named list and enterprise or upper mid-market deals
"Show our ad to target accounts on TV"Account-based CTV (ABM CTV)Yes, through LinkedIn CTV or IP and household matching in a DSP
"LinkedIn TV ads" or "LinkedIn video on TV"LinkedIn CTV adsYes, in the US, Canada and the UK
"OTT advertising"The same thing, named after the delivery (over the top of cable)Yes. CTV is the screen, OTT is the pipe

The longer explainer, with how the targeting works and what it costs, is in What is CTV advertising? A B2B guide.

How B2B CTV is bought

Three ways in. We pick the one your list fits.

Most CTV agencies sell one route. The right one depends on where your buyers are, how big your list is and how much you spend.

01

LinkedIn CTV in Campaign Manager

Your account list and job titles, matched to households by LinkedIn and shown on Paramount, Roku, Samsung and other publishers. US, Canada and the UK. Bought from your own ad account; the median campaign in our panel ran $75 a day.

02

LinkedIn audiences through a DSP

The same LinkedIn job title, industry and seniority data, activated in Amazon DSP, The Trade Desk or Google DV360 as private marketplace deals. US only, and deals have been reported at $50,000 over 30 days minimum.

03

Account-based programmatic CTV

Your list matched by IP and household in a DSP, across far more inventory and markets. Wider reach, looser matching. Right when the audience is a category, or LinkedIn inventory in your market is thin.

04

The feed underneath

Whichever route, CTV runs as the top of a LinkedIn structure on the same list: thought leader ads, retargeting and conversation ads. That is where the deals get made, and where CTV is measured.

The side by side, with CPMs and minimums for each, is in LinkedIn CTV vs programmatic CTV for B2B.

Case studyDoes B2B CTV produce anything?

CTV is usually written off as awareness. Here it showed up in closed deals.

Storysnap, a B2B video production company selling to SaaS, ran CTV alongside a LinkedIn funnel of video, thought leader ads and conversation ads.

StorysnapB2B video production for SaaSJan to Sep 2026LinkedIn + CTV
Before$0pipeline LinkedIn reported, at $300 a lead
After15closed-won deals with a CTV touch before the deal was created
  1. 1
    The challenge

    LinkedIn reported $0 influenced pipeline, because it records no clicks on InMail or video campaigns, and CTV records none at all.

  2. 2
    What we did

    Video and thought leader ads to warm, retargeted conversation ads to convert, and CTV to the same ICP in parallel. Then a pre-deal exposure model in HubSpot, with Fibbler tracking CTV touches, so every ad seen before a deal was created counted and nothing after it did.

3The result
15Closed-won deals saw the CTV spot before the deal existed
$3M+LinkedIn-influenced pipeline across the programme
$1.28MClosed-won revenue across 50+ deals, from $189k ad spend

Influenced means the company saw the ads before the deal was created in HubSpot. It is association, not proof that CTV caused the deal. Read the full case study.

Kiin Labs31 accounts, $811,149, 118 campaigns

What B2B CTV costs, from spend, not from a sales deck.

We publish the numbers that help the case and the one that does not. That is how we plan your flight.

73%

Cheaper than the feed. $25.76 CPM on CTV against $96.43 in the same advertisers' LinkedIn feed, same twelve months.

98.7%

Watched to the end. Non-skippable, full screen, sound on. Completion tells you the spot ran, not that it worked.

$46.97

Small lists pay double. Under 50,000 members the CPM nearly doubles. We widen the audience before launch.

Not shown

The halo effect. Tested three ways on 12, 15 and 26 accounts, none significant. Buy CTV for the price of the reach and treat any feed lift as upside.

Method and every chart: LinkedIn CTV Ads Benchmarks 2026. Cost by audience, market and length: How much does LinkedIn CTV cost?

How we run it

One flight, planned before a dollar is spent.

Eight to twelve weeks, with the measurement and the holdout agreed on day one.

01

The list

Your ABM list with job titles layered on and competitors, agencies, tiny companies and current customers excluded. 20,000 to 60,000 members for LinkedIn CTV.

02

The plan

Daily budget, length, reach, frequency and CPM set from the benchmark: "20% of the list at a frequency of 3 to 5 for about $8,000", not "let's test it".

03

The spots

A 15 and a 30 at 1920 x 1080, cut from footage you already have or briefed new. Brand in the first two seconds, name spoken and shown, one claim, no button.

04

The read

Reach into the list weekly. At the end: Companies tab lift, feed metrics before and during, and pipeline against the holdout in your CRM. Then scale, hold or stop.

Fit

Who B2B CTV is for, and who should wait.

Most B2B companies asking about CTV should not run it yet. We will tell you on the call.

Run itWait
About $30,000 a month or more on LinkedIn, so $5,000 to $10,000 of CTV is a sliceUnder that: the money does more in thought leader ads and retargeting
A named account list, ideally 20,000+ members once titles are onNo list: cold CTV holds attention 21 seconds against 31.6 for lists
Buyers in the US, Canada or the UKBuyers elsewhere: LinkedIn has no CTV inventory there yet; programmatic only
Enterprise or upper mid-market deals, and a sales cycle long enough for awareness to matterTransactional deals the feed and inbox already close
Willing to judge it on reach and pipelineExpecting the CTV line itself to produce leads
Choosing an agency

CTV-only agencies sell the TV. We run the system it sits in.

A new wave of B2B CTV specialists has appeared since LinkedIn opened its CTV audiences to DSPs. Here is how to compare them.

Kiin vs a CTV-only agency or platform

  • A CTV-only shop plans, buys and reports the TV line: reach, completion, household matches. Good at inventory and creative for the big screen.
  • Kiin runs CTV and the LinkedIn, Google, Meta and Reddit campaigns on the same list, so the TV spot and the ask that follows it are planned together and measured together in the CRM.
  • Data. We plan from what 31 B2B advertisers actually paid on LinkedIn CTV, and 1,000+ accounts and $65M+ of LinkedIn spend overall.
  • Honesty about the halo. We published that it is not yet shown. Ask any CTV agency for its within-account test.

Five questions to ask any B2B CTV agency

  1. Which route will you buy through, and why that one for my list and market?
  2. What CPM, reach and frequency do you expect, and from what data?
  3. How do you match households to my accounts, and what share of the list do you expect to reach?
  4. What holdout will you use, and how will CTV show up in my CRM?
  5. What runs underneath it to turn attention into meetings?
PricingOne flat monthly fee

Clear pricing. No mark-up on media.

CTV management is included in Full Paid Media, which is the tier a CTV-ready account sits on. Media is paid straight to LinkedIn or the DSP and is separate from Kiin's fee.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Ads

Management up to $10k a month in LinkedIn ad spend.

$2,500/mo
About £1,900 / mo
  • Strategy and account architecture
  • Campaign management
  • Ad copy and creative direction
  • Reporting and benchmarking
LinkedIn + Google

LinkedIn + Google

Full management across LinkedIn and Google Ads, as one system.

$4,500/mo
About £3,350 / mo
  • Everything in LinkedIn Ads
  • Google search: brand, high-intent and competitor
  • CRM conversions fed back into bidding
Includes CTV

Full Paid Media

LinkedIn, Google, Reddit, Meta and connected TV, as one system.

$5,500/mo
About £4,150 / mo
  • LinkedIn, including LinkedIn CTV
  • Google
  • Meta
  • Reddit
  • CTV flight plan, spots brief and holdout read
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Running LinkedIn in-house or with another agency and only want CTV? Standalone CTV management is quoted on the call.

No setup feeNo mark-up on ad spendYou own the accounts, creative and data
FAQ

Questions buyers ask first.

What is B2B CTV advertising?

B2B CTV advertising is a 15 or 30 second video ad shown in streaming apps on internet-connected TVs, targeted to the companies and job titles a B2B company sells to rather than to a consumer demographic. It is bought through LinkedIn, which matches its members to households, or through a DSP using IP and household matching.

Can a B2B company advertise on Netflix or other streaming TV?

Yes. Streaming TV ads, including Netflix's ad tier, are sold programmatically through the major DSPs. If you need the ad to reach a named account list rather than a demographic, LinkedIn CTV on publishers such as Paramount, Roku, Samsung and NBCUniversal is the most precise route today, because it targets with LinkedIn's own professional data.

How much does B2B CTV cost?

Media: the median LinkedIn CTV CPM in our panel of 31 advertisers is $25.76, against $96.43 in the same advertisers' feed. Under 50,000 members it rises to $46.97. A readable eight-week flight is $5,600 to $15,000 of media. Management: CTV is included in Kiin's Full Paid Media retainer at $5,500 a month (about £4,150), media separate and never marked up. Standalone CTV management is quoted on a call.

What is the minimum budget for CTV?

LinkedIn CTV in Campaign Manager starts low; the median campaign in our panel ran $75 a day for 40 days, about $3,000, which proves delivery but is too small to read an effect. LinkedIn audience deals through a DSP have been reported at $50,000 over 30 days. We recommend CTV once an account spends about $30,000 a month on LinkedIn, so CTV is a slice of a working programme rather than the programme.

Can you target specific companies with CTV ads?

Yes. LinkedIn CTV targets uploaded company lists and job titles, matched to households by LinkedIn. Programmatic CTV matches company IP addresses and modelled households, which reaches further but matches less precisely. In our panel, list-targeted CTV held 31.6 seconds of attention against 21.0 for cold audiences, and produced 3,125 of 3,782 post-view conversions.

How do you measure CTV for B2B?

In order of weight: reach and frequency into the named list, engagement on targeted versus untargeted accounts in LinkedIn's Companies tab, feed metrics on the same list before and during the flight, post-view conversions through the Insight Tag, brand or site lift where the flight qualifies, and pipeline in the CRM against a holdout of accounts left out of the CTV list.

Is CTV worth it for B2B?

It is worth it as cheap, unskippable reach into a named list for companies with enterprise or upper mid-market deals, a list of 20,000+ members and buyers in the US, Canada or the UK. It is not a lead channel, and the claim that it lifts your other LinkedIn campaigns is not yet shown in independent data: our three tests on 12 to 26 accounts found no significant halo.

Do I need a TV commercial?

You need a 15 and a 30 second spot at 1920 x 1080 with sound designed for a living room. Most clients cut them from existing video or thought leader footage; we write the brief and the edit notes. A screen recording with a voiceover is not a TV spot.

Which countries can run B2B CTV?

LinkedIn CTV in Campaign Manager runs in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and LinkedIn audience deals through DSPs are US only. In our panel 28 of 31 CTV advertisers targeted the US, 19 Canada and 2 the UK. Elsewhere, account-based programmatic CTV is the route.

CTV vs OTT: what is the difference?

CTV is the screen: a smart TV, streaming stick or console. OTT is the delivery: video streamed over the internet rather than cable. In advertising the terms are used almost interchangeably; B2B buyers usually mean CTV, the living room television.

How is Kiin different from a CTV-only agency?

A CTV-only agency or platform buys and reports the TV line. Kiin runs CTV with the LinkedIn, Google, Meta and Reddit campaigns on the same list, plans it from the only independent LinkedIn CTV benchmark (31 advertisers, $811,149) and measures it against a holdout in your CRM.

Free30 minutes · no pitch deck · yours to keep

Send us your list. We'll tell you if CTV clears the bar.

01

Your go or no-go

Whether your spend, list, market and deal size make CTV worth it now, or what to fix first.

02

Your flight plan

Route, daily budget, length, expected reach, frequency and CPM for your list, from the benchmark.

03

Your measurement plan

The holdout, the Companies tab read and how CTV will show up in your CRM.

CTV-only agenciesReport reach and completion on the TV line
PublishersReport their own inventory, marked as a win
KiinReports pipeline on your list against a holdout
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Already running LinkedIn? Bring your monthly spend and account list. New to it? We'll start with the feed and add CTV when it pays.