LinkedIn has introduced a new short-form vertical video feed, aimed at keeping up with the popularity of platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts..

Now, users can upload quick, engaging videos tailored for a mobile-first experience. Whether you are creating an engaging vertical video to spark conversation or showcasing your brand, understanding LinkedIn’s video specifications is key to maximizing impact.

Let's take a look at the new LinkedIn vertical video feed, including size requirements, aspect ratios, and upload limits.

Table of Contents

• What is LinkedIn's New Vertical Video Format?
• LinkedIn Vertical Video Specs
• How to Edit LinkedIn Vertical Videos
• How to Post LinkedIn Vertical Videos
• How to Download LinkedIn Vertical Videos

What is LinkedIn's New Vertical Video Format?

LinkedIn 'Shorts' are short-form, vertical videos that LinkedIn is rolling out to enhance user engagement and content diversity. Similar to TikTok and Instagram Reels, these videos auto-play in a dedicated video tab within the mobile app and tend to focus on professional, career-oriented content.

The feature is currently being rolled out across mobile devices and does not appear on desktop versions of LinkedIn.

When viewing a video inside the new tab, LinkedIn gives you the option to show closed captions, turn on high contrast and select playback speed.

Vertical videos are posted to LinkedIn the conventional way: by selecting Media when you draft your post.

LinkedIn now offers three distinct video formats, each catering to different purposes:

• LinkedIn Vertical Videos (mobile): These short-form, vertical videos are designed for mobile-first viewing. Shorts appear prominently in the dedicated video feed and are optimized for quick, engaging content.
• Standard LinkedIn Videos: These are longer videos (up to 10 minutes) suitable for professional updates, thought-leadership content, or event recaps.
• LinkedIn Advertising Videos: Used for marketing campaigns, these videos are often shorter (15-30 seconds recommended) to maximize viewer engagement.

For a comprehensive LinkedIn campaign, brands should leverage a variety of video formats, from short-form to long-form, to diversify their content strategy and reach a wider audience.

LinkedIn Vertical Video Specs

Every social platform has its own set of video specifications.

Here are the sizes you’ll need to meet when uploading mobile vertical videos to LinkedIn.

• Aspect Ratio: The ideal aspect ratio for vertical videos is 9:16, optimized for mobile viewing. Horizontal videos (16:9) may appear cropped in the feed.
• Dimensions: Minimum resolution is 256 x 144 pixels, while the maximum resolution is 4096 x 2304 pixels
• File Size: Videos can be up to 5GB in size
• Maximum Video Duration: 15 minutes.
• Minimum Video Duration: 3 seconds when uploading from desktop and 2 seconds when uploading from the LinkedIn mobile app.
• Formats: LinkedIn supports MP4, MOV, WEBM, AVI, and more.

To optimize for mobile, aim for a compact 9:16 format video that is no longer than one minute.

How to Edit LinkedIn Vertical Videos

LinkedIn's Built-In Video Editor

LinkedIn has a built-in video editor that provides you with three basic tools:

From left to right, LinkedIn provides the following:

• Trim your video: Cut material from either the beginning or end of your video.
• Add text to your video: Add text in one of four styles (Headline, Retro, Minimal, or Classic).
• CC: Add automatic closed captioning to your video.

LinkedIn vertical videos are still emerging as of early 2025. To fully leverage this mobile feature, users should incorporate popular editing techniques commonly seen in Instagram Stories and other short-form content platforms. This includes adding subtitles, text overlay, and video and audio enhancement.

Unfortunately, none of these advanced editing functions are directly available on the LinkedIn platform, meaning brands should seek out third-party sites to enhance the quality of their mobile videos.

Resize Your Video

The most important step in creating great content on LinkedIn is ensuring that your videos have the correct aspect ratio. Use an Automatic Resize Tool to instantly crop any video to the correct 9:16 (vertical) aspect ratio and avoid content failing to fit the full screen on mobile.

With Kapwing, you can take a video from platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube and instantly crop the content to fit LinkedIn's optimal sizing, thus saving you time required to carry out this edit manually.

Ensure Speaker Focus

A Speaker Focus tool is perfect for journalists, influencers, podcasters, and anyone uploading interviews to LinkedIn – as it automatically focuses on the subject, saving you time by resizing your project instantly.

To test the tool, upload footage that contains multiple speakers and watch as it generates an auto-focused version that ensures the speaker is always centered.

Add Subtitles

Many LinkedIn users watch videos without sound, making subtitles essential for engagement. While LinkedIn provides automatic captions, they’re limited, as they cannot be edited if they're incorrect, and the style cannot be customized to match your branding.

Kapwing's Subtitle Generator tool offers 99% accurate captions and a variety of customizable styles, including animations, allowing users to create content that stands out and aligns with their brand identity.

Trim Your Video

A Video Trimmer tool is effective when it comes to keeping content concise. LinkedIn's new short video feature is specifically targeted at videos of around 30 to 60 seconds on mobile. This means users need to post suitably trimmed content that can catch the viewer's attention quickly.

While LinkedIn does provide a video trimmer that is effective in trimming a few seconds from your video, it does not provide a video-splitting function.

Using an AI-powered Clip Maker can also help users transfer the trimming and splitting duties over to the automatic editor, thus freeing up time for you to work on other aspects of your video content.

The Clip Maker analyzes your video and identifies a collection of shorter clips to use on social media platforms like LinkedIn. The videos are completely customizable, making it the fastest way to generate a series of highlights from one video while saving time on editing manually.

Add Text and Effects

You only have a few seconds before your audience starts scrolling. Make your Shorts visually appealing by adding text overlays, animations, or filters using Video Effects tools.

Highlight key points or add a compelling call to action with customizable text overlays. With the Add Text to Video Tool, you can choose from 100s of fonts, colors, and animations to align with your branding and enhance viewer comprehension.

As noted above, LinkedIn does have a built-in text tool, but there are some significant limitations:

• You only have four styles to choose from
• The text will appear on the screen for the entire video

Background Music and Audio Enhancement

Amplify the impact of your Shorts by incorporating royalty-free background tracks. The Audio Tool lets you seamlessly add music that matches the content and tone of your video.

Audio enhancement doesn't stop there. The Background Noise Remover feature is designed for fine-tuning recordings in noisy places, and the 'Smart Cut' function automatically removes pauses and stutters, which is perfect for vlogs and YouTube content.

Video Background Removal

Given that creators only have a matter of seconds to grasp the audience's attention, the viewer's gaze must be guided directly toward the important parts of your content.

Background Remover uses AI to create clean, professional visuals that keep the focus where it belongs. No manual tracking or prior editing experience is needed — in a click of one button, your video background is gone.

Audio Transcription

Generate accurate text transcripts of your video’s dialogue with Transcription feature. Adding text enhances video posts and Shorts, and the tool makes it simple to extract key details for use in the post description, boosting accessibility and engagement.

Consider Dubbing for Multilingual Reach

Reach a global audience by dubbing your videos into multiple languages. Tools like Auto-dubbing make it easy to add high-quality voiceovers in different languages as the transcript, voiceover, subtitles, and lip-sync are all completed automatically with AI.

Expand your reach to a global audience by dubbing your videos into multiple languages. Tools such as Auto-dubbing simplify the process by automatically generating high-quality voiceovers, transcripts, subtitles, and lip-sync in various languages with the help of advanced AI technology.

Given that LinkedIn is available in 36 languages, it makes sense for creators to maximize the global reach of their videos.

How to Post LinkedIn Vertical Videos

Once you are satisfied with the edits you have made to your LinkedIn video, it’s time to post it to your feed. The step-by-step guide below explains how to upload a LinkedIn Short Video on the mobile app.  

Step 1: Upload Your Video

Navigate to the pencil icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen to create your post.

From there, select the play button icon, "►" to upload a video from your device or record one on the LinkedIn app. 

Step 2: Edit and Publish

Once you have recorded or uploaded your video, you will be presented with a selection of LinkedIn’s editing tools. The in-app editing tools are fairly basic and include trimming and cropping options, as well as automatic subtitling.

When content with any edits you have made in the app, select the Next option in the top–right of the page to publish your video.

Your video will then appear in both the Video feed and the main feed:

Uploading a Video to LinkedIn Desktop

While the desktop site does not support the Video tab, you can still upload videos to LinkedIn from your computer. 

To upload on the desktop site, select the Media option in the posting menu at the top of your screen. From there, select the media you wish to publish.

Once you have selected your clip, LinkedIn will encourage you to provide a caption. Videos uploaded to the desktop site can support lengthy captions of up to 3,000 characters, though mobile users will only see the first 75 characters initially, without selecting the expand caption option.

From here, select Post, and your video content will be published to LinkedIn.

How to Download LinkedIn Vertical Videos

You can download LinkedIn videos using a free third-party tool, including LinkedIn video posts, Shorts, and any other form of LinkedIn video that contains a published URL.

Simply head to Kapwing.com and click on "Add media" from the editor homepage. From there, copy and paste the LinkedIn video URL into the empty box.

Within a few seconds, the video will be loaded into the left-hand panel. Click on the video and it will be added to your editing canvas in the center of the screen.

You can add a range of edits to your content, or simply select "Export project" in the top right-hand panel to quickly export and download the video to your device.