The Best LinkedIn Marketing Experts to Follow in 2026

Marketing Twitter died somewhere around 2023. LinkedIn picked up everything that was valuable about it — the public debates on strategy, the shared campaign data, the contrarian takes that age well — and added something Twitter never had: a professional context that makes it matter more when someone in marketing is actually right.

The LinkedIn marketing community today is genuinely one of the best free education resources in the field. The people listed in this guide have built that community. They post consistently, share real data, and challenge the comfortable consensus on how marketing is supposed to work.

This is the master guide to LinkedIn's marketing voices. Each section covers a specific marketing discipline. Click into the individual guides for the deep-dives — this page gives you the lay of the land and the people worth adding to your feed right now.

How We Chose These Experts

Every expert in this guide meets three criteria. Posting consistency: minimum twice a week with original content — not reposts, not "check out this article," not quote cards. Practitioner credibility: either actively running campaigns and sharing the results, or at a level of seniority where their strategic thinking is grounded in real accountability. Original data or frameworks: we specifically filtered for people who publish numbers, case studies, or original frameworks — not recycled hot takes on the same six "marketing principles" that have been shared since 2018.

SEO

LinkedIn's SEO community overlaps with Twitter/X but the LinkedIn signal is higher for applied, practical content — less algorithm chasing, more on-the-ground testing and research.

Aleyda Solis

International SEO consultant and the most reliable technical SEO voice on the platform — she posts original research, framework breakdowns, and international SEO insights that no one else is covering at that depth.

John Mueller

Google Search Advocate — worth following specifically because he explains why Google makes the decisions it does, not just the what. His posts help you understand search intent from the source.

Lily Ray

VP SEO Strategy at Amsive — the authority on Google's quality updates and E-E-A-T. If you want to know what's actually happening with algorithm changes before the consensus forms, follow her.

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Content Marketing

Content marketing on LinkedIn has its own irony problem — the content about content marketing is often the worst. The people listed here are the exception: practitioners who share what actually drives results, not what looks good in a tweet.

Ross Simmonds

Founder of Foundation Inc and the clearest thinker on content distribution on the platform. His core argument — that most content fails because teams spend 90% of their time creating and 10% distributing when it should be inverted — is backed up with real campaign data.

Andy Crestodina

Co-founder of Orbit Media — publishes annual content marketing research that sets the benchmark for the industry, and his LinkedIn posts break down the findings in formats that are immediately actionable.

Amanda Natividad

VP Marketing at SparkToro — posts at the intersection of content strategy and audience research. Her content on zero-click content, content formats that build audiences, and how to think about owned vs. borrowed audiences is some of the most rigorous on the platform.

Ryan Law

Director of Content at Ahrefs — built one of the most respected content agencies in B2B before moving in-house. His posts on content strategy, measuring content ROI, and what actually makes content rank are grounded in managing content programs at scale.

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B2B Marketing

B2B marketing on LinkedIn is where the most interesting debates in the field are happening right now — pipeline attribution, brand vs. demand, dark social, the death of MQLs. The best B2B marketing voices aren't just commenting on these debates; they're running the experiments that are producing the data.

Chris Walker

CEO of Passetto and founder of Refine Labs — the most consequential voice in B2B marketing on LinkedIn right now. His argument that most B2B marketing measurement is fundamentally broken and that dark social is where real buying decisions happen has shifted how entire marketing teams measure and allocate budget.

Dave Gerhardt

Founder of Exit Five — built the largest community of B2B marketers online and his LinkedIn reflects that. He posts consistently on brand building, positioning, and the realities of being a marketing leader inside a SaaS company.

Udi Ledergor

Chief Evangelist at Gong — one of the best case studies of B2B brand-building in practice. He built Gong's brand from obscurity and now shares the frameworks behind it on LinkedIn.

Kyle Poyar

Ex-Operating Partner at OpenView — covers the unit economics of product-led growth and go-to-market strategy. His annual pricing and PLG benchmarks are the most cited data in the SaaS world.

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Digital Marketing

Neil Patel

Co-founder of NP Digital — has an outsized LinkedIn presence for a reason. His content is accessible, data-heavy, and covers the broadest surface area of any digital marketing voice on the platform.

Rand Fishkin

Co-founder of SparkToro — posts the most useful content on audience research, marketing channel effectiveness, and where marketing is actually headed versus where the industry thinks it's headed.

Katelyn Bourgoin

CEO of Customer Camp — focuses on buyer psychology and the cognitive science behind marketing decisions. Her posts are immediately applicable for anyone who writes copy, builds landing pages, or designs campaigns.

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Demand Generation

Demand generation is where the most heated LinkedIn marketing debates happen — pipeline attribution, lead vs. demand gen, MQL vs. pipeline qualified. The experts listed here are running real programs and sharing the results.

Chris Walker

Also the defining voice in demand generation — his framework of building brand in the "dark funnel" before buyers ever enter a sales cycle has reshaped how progressive B2B marketing teams think about demand.

Gaetano DiNardi

VP Growth at Aura — posts practical demand generation content grounded in real campaign data: split tests, pipeline attribution breakdowns, channel-specific conversion rates.

Natalie Marcotullio

Head of Growth at Navattic — covers interactive demo-led demand generation and product-led growth. Her posts on top-of-funnel conversion and self-serve buying experiences are increasingly relevant as PLG expands.

Mark Huber

VP Marketing at Metadata — one of the clearest voices on paid demand generation. His posts on LinkedIn Ads, account-based advertising, and B2B paid strategy are grounded in managing significant budgets.

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Growth Hacking & Growth Marketing

Andrew Chen

General Partner at a16z — wrote many of the foundational frameworks on viral loops, network effects, and growth channels that the entire industry now treats as gospel.

Lenny Rachitsky

Creator of Lenny's Newsletter — covers product-led growth and consumer growth. His annual benchmarks on retention, engagement, and growth rates are the most-cited in the startup world.

Brian Balfour

CEO of Reforge — the clearest thinker on growth models. He's developed frameworks for retention, engagement, and monetization that go significantly deeper than most public growth content.

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Product Marketing

Product marketing is arguably the most under-discussed discipline in marketing given how much it determines GTM success. LinkedIn's PMM community is small but high-signal.

April Dunford

Author of Obviously Awesome and the undisputed authority on positioning. Her LinkedIn posts distill her positioning methodology into short, immediately applicable frameworks.

Emma Stratton

Founder of Punchy — specialises in B2B messaging, specifically how to make technical products compelling to buyers who aren't technical.

Tamara Grominsky

VP Product Marketing at Kajabi — one of the most transparent senior PMMs on the platform. Her posts on PMM career development, strategic positioning, and how PMM works inside a high-growth company are unusually honest about the realities of the role.

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Brand Marketing

Brand is the hardest marketing discipline to justify with short-term data and the easiest to underinvest in. The voices listed here have spent years proving that brand investment is measurable.

Peep Laja

Founder of CXL — has evolved from conversion rate optimisation into broader brand strategy. His posts on brand differentiation, how to win in commoditised markets, and why most brand activity is wasted are consistently rigorous.

Louis Grenier

Founder of Everyone Hates Marketers — built an entire content brand around the idea that most marketing is lazy and dishonest. His posts are more opinionated than most and consistently sharper for it.

Dara Treseder

CMO at Autodesk — one of the few senior brand executives posting with real transparency on LinkedIn. Her content on enterprise brand building and marketing leadership is rare at her level.

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Fractional CMOs

The fractional CMO category has grown significantly as startups and scaleups look for senior marketing leadership without full-time executive cost. LinkedIn's fractional CMO community is one of the most useful for both companies looking to hire and marketers considering the path.

Casey Stanton

Founder of CMOx — the most systematic voice on fractional CMO business models. His posts cover how to structure fractional engagements, how to price them, and how companies should evaluate whether they need a fractional CMO versus a full-time hire.

Melissa Rosenthal

Fractional CMO and former VP Creative at ClickUp — brings a brand and creative perspective to fractional leadership. Her posts on how to build creative operations and what CMOs actually do at early-stage companies are grounded in direct experience across both hypergrowth and fractional contexts.

Karen Hayward

Author of Stop Guessing — posts consistently on go-to-market strategy and the operational realities of marketing leadership. Particularly useful for CEOs evaluating what they actually need from a marketing leader.

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How Marketing Professionals Should Use LinkedIn

The trap most marketers fall into on LinkedIn is consuming marketing content about marketing — meta, recursive, and ultimately limited. The best way to use LinkedIn as a marketing professional is to follow experts across your whole discipline, then synthesize what you learn into original content that adds your own perspective.

For example: if you're a demand generation manager, follow Chris Walker's takes on dark social, Ross Simmonds on content distribution, and Gaetano DiNardi on paid demand gen. Then write one post per week synthesizing what you're actually seeing in your campaigns against that backdrop. That synthesis is what builds a reputation.

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