LinkedIn

Buttondown lets you connect your LinkedIn account to your newsletter. This uses our automations feature to automatically share your newsletters to your LinkedIn profile.

Here's how to connect your LinkedIn account to Buttondown:

1. In Buttondown, navigate to Settings and click Integrations.
2. Find the "LinkedIn" integration option and click Connect. LinkedIn opens.
3. Authorize Buttondown to post to your profile.

After you connect your LinkedIn account, a "Connected to LinkedIn" message displays on the Integrations page.

To share your newsletters to LinkedIn, you can create an automation that posts your newsletters to LinkedIn whenever you send them. To do this, create a new Automation, or just click the Automation banner below:

The simplest and most common use case is to create an automation that posts your newsletters to LinkedIn whenever you send them. Here's how:

1. Navigate to the Automations page and click New. The "New automation" panel opens.
2. (Optional) Give your automation a human-readable "Name."
3. Set the Trigger to when an email is sent.
4. Set the Action to Create a LinkedIn post.
5. (Optional) Configure any other fields to customize the automation. If you leave these fields blank, the automation will post to your LinkedIn account as soon as you send a new newsletter email.
6. Click Save changes.

To enable the new automation, either click Unpause in the automation panel, or click to enable the automation's toggle in the Automations page.

LinkedIn Newsletters is a feature that LinkedIn launched in 2024. It allows you to create newsletters that are syndicated to your followers.

Buttondown does not support LinkedIn Newsletters. This is for a simple reason: LinkedIn does not expose APIs or hooks for LinkedIn Newsletters, just for standard posts.

It's also worth noting (somewhat pedantically) that LinkedIn Newsletters are not actually newsletters. They're syndicated posts to a group of followers on LinkedIn, but unlike actual email newsletters you cannot access your subscribers' email addresses, send them emails, or export them to another platform. It's more analogous to a Facebook group than an email newsletter.