The short answer
No. LinkedIn does not expose the identity of people who clicked, liked, commented on or watched your ads. There is no report, no export and no API field that returns it.
This surprises people because LinkedIn knows exactly who those people are. It simply does not tell you, and that is a deliberate privacy decision rather than a gap in the product.
What you get instead is engagement resolved to the company level, plus whatever people hand over voluntarily. That combination is enough to run warm outbound properly, which is the thing most people actually want the data for.
What you actually get, signal by signal
Someone engaged with your ad: company-level only, through the company engagement report. You learn that employees at Acme interacted, not which ones.
Someone visited your website: anonymous, unless they identify themselves by filling something in or you run a separate visitor identification tool. The LinkedIn retargeting audience built from it contains no names.
Someone watched your video: anonymous. Same as above. A 75% video view audience is a retargeting pool, not a lead list.
Someone opened a lead form but did not submit: you get nothing. This is the painful one, because that is 88% of everyone who opened it.
Someone submitted a lead form: full details, because they chose to give them.
Someone replied to a message or conversation ad: a genuine person-level signal, because a reply is a conversation.
So of everything that happens in a LinkedIn Ads account, exactly two things produce a named human: a completed form, and a reply.
Company-level engagement is the real asset
Most people hear "company-level only" as a downgrade. In B2B it is usually the right unit anyway.
You are not selling to the person who liked the post. You are selling to a buying committee, and in a $20,000-plus deal that committee has five to ten people in it. Knowing that someone at an account is paying attention is the signal. Who specifically clicked is close to irrelevant, because they are rarely the person who signs.
A working sequence uses the account as the trigger: the company shows engagement, and outbound goes to the roles you already decided matter, with a message that assumes familiarity rather than claiming it.
That is the model, and it is why person-level data is less necessary than its absence makes it feel.
Why your retargeting audiences are anonymous
Website visitor and video viewer audiences are built from pixel and platform events, not identities. They exist so LinkedIn can show ads to that group again. They are not readable, exportable or resolvable to people.
This matters operationally. Teams build a 180-day website retargeting audience, see that it contains eleven thousand members, and assume they have eleven thousand prospects. They have eleven thousand ad impressions waiting to happen. Those are different things and only one of them can be emailed.
What the tools promising person-level data are doing
Several products advertise person-level LinkedIn ad engagement. They are doing one of three things, and it is worth asking which before building a process on top.
Some use a browser extension that reads the engagement list from a logged-in session on the organic post behind a thought leader ad. That is the organic post, not the ad, and it breaks when LinkedIn changes the page or flags the behaviour.
Some do website visitor identification, which is a different data source entirely and resolves site traffic, not ad engagement.
Some are describing company-level engagement in person-level language.
All three can be legitimate. None of them is LinkedIn handing over who clicked, and a sequence built on the assumption that it is will have gaps you did not plan for.
How to use what you have
Pull the company engagement report regularly and treat an engaged account as the trigger, not an engaged person. Match it against your target account list so you are working accounts you already wanted.
Use completed form submissions and message replies as your only true person-level signals, and respond to them fast, because they are scarce.
Treat site and video audiences as retargeting inventory. Spend against them rather than trying to export them.
And add a self-reported attribution question to your booking form. It is the only way you will ever know which of this actually produced the meeting, and it costs nothing.
Related questions
Can I see who liked my LinkedIn ad?
Not through LinkedIn Ads. Thought leader ads promote an organic post, and that post's engagement list is visible on LinkedIn itself, but it is not available as advertising data and is not exportable through Campaign Manager or the API.
Does LinkedIn tell you which companies saw your ads?
Yes. The company engagement report resolves engagement to the account level, which is the basis of most warm outbound programmes. It tells you which companies engaged, never which individuals.
Can I retarget people who opened my lead form but did not submit?
Yes, as an anonymous audience you can serve ads to. You cannot see or contact them, which matters because 88% of form opens are abandoned across our panel.
How do I know which channel produced a booking?
Ask on the booking form. Self-reported attribution is the only method that captures AI assistants, word of mouth and offline referral, none of which appear in analytics.