LinkedIn Ads

Find LinkedIn spend that produced nothing

Finds campaigns (ad sets in Campaign Manager) spending without result: impressions with no clicks, clicks with no leads or conversions, and cost per lead well above the account average or a ceiling you give. Use when: the user asks where money is going, before a budget review, or when spend rose without results. Run it on last_30_days — a shorter window on LinkedIn's volumes produces confident nonsense. Do not act on its findings without checking tracking first: "clicks but no leads" is a conversion-rule problem as often as a creative one, and pausing a campaign whose leads simply are not being recorded destroys a working campaign. The tool says so in every such finding. Do not present the recoverable figure as guaranteed savings — it is what would stop being spent, not profit. Returns a ranked list of findings with the spend behind each and a specific next step. Campaigns below the minimum spend are excluded rather than judged on noise. If nothing is found, say the account is clean for this window instead of manufacturing a recommendation.

post/api/v1/tools/linkedin_analyze_wasted_spend/execute

Request

  • Base URL: https://adako.ai
  • URL: https://adako.ai/api/v1/tools/linkedin_analyze_wasted_spend/execute
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Headers

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional 8-128 character key. A successful envelope is cached for 24 hours; replaying the key with the same arguments returns it again with Idempotent-Replayed: true, and replaying it with different arguments answers 409.

Request body

Response

The tool ran. A write returns proposal_id and approve_url while the change waits for approval.

successunknown required
toolstring required
dataobject required

Machine-readable result.

markdownstring required

The same result written for a person or a model.

proposal_idstring

Present for writes. Nothing changes on the ad platform until it is approved.

approve_urlstring

Where a person approves the proposal.

request_idstring required

Changes

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