{"id":40473,"date":"2013-05-01T22:11:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T20:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=40473"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:28:36","slug":"updated-linkedin-profiles-lets-you-tell-your-professional-story-with-photos-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/updated-linkedin-profiles-lets-you-tell-your-professional-story-with-photos-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated LinkedIn profiles lets you tell your &#8216;professional story&#8217; with photos, videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"updated linkedin profiles\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/updated-linkedin-profiles-lets-you-tell-your-professional-story-with-photos-videos\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39625\" title=\"linkedin android icon\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/icon.png\" alt=\"linkedin android icon\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><a title=\"linkedin\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a> profiles have been pretty boring since the beginning with black text on a white background but the company is changing that today. Profiles can now be customized with photos, videos, slideshows, and galleries for a rich, visual experience. It&#8217;s hard to stand out in a sea of text but having richer media will allow your LinkedIn profile to stand out from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>To add media, enter the editing mode for your profile and you&#8217;ll see a new gear &#8220;+&#8221; icon to select media to upload. You can also add hyperlinks with this button. The new profiles also brings support for major media sites like <a title=\"youtube\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/youtube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>, TwitPic, Vimeo, and <a title=\"soundcloud\" href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SoundCloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This update signals a company wide buckling down on the visual experience across its products. Just a couple of weeks earlier, LinkedIn <a title=\"linkedin app ditches html5 for native code\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/redesigned-linkedin-apps-ditch-html5-for-native-code\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updated its Android and iOS apps<\/a> with a whole new interface and native code.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/linkedin-update.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40476\" title=\"linkedin update\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/linkedin-update.jpg\" alt=\"linkedin update\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/linkedin-update.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/linkedin-update-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new profiles will be rolling out over the next few days in the United States so be patient if you don&#8217;t see your profile updated just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"linkedin\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.linkedin.com\/2013\/05\/01\/visually-enhance-your-professional-story-on-your-linkedin-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn profiles have been pretty boring since the beginning with black text on a white background but the company is changing that today. Profiles can now be customized with photos, videos, slideshows, and galleries for a rich, visual experience. It&#8217;s hard to stand out in a sea of text but having richer media will allow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/updated-linkedin-profiles-lets-you-tell-your-professional-story-with-photos-videos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Updated LinkedIn profiles lets you tell your &#8216;professional story&#8217; with photos, videos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":40476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2550],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-40473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionlinkedin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333002,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40473\/revisions\/333002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40473"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=40473"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=40473"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=40473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}