--- title: LinkedIn Groups Reviews meta\_title: 'LinkedIn Groups Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 404 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how LinkedIn Groups works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 404 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Marketing url: https://www.g2.com/categories/marketing --- # LinkedIn Groups Reviews & Product Details LinkedIn Groups are specialized communities within the LinkedIn platform where professionals with shared interests, industries, or goals can connect, collaborate, and engage in meaningful discussions. These groups provide a dedicated space for members to share insights, ask questions, and build relationships, fostering a sense of community among like-minded individuals. Key Features and Functionality: - Community Engagement: Members can initiate and participate in discussions, share content, and offer expertise on relevant topics, enhancing collective knowledge. - Privacy Settings: Groups can be set as public, private (listed), or private (unlisted), allowing for varying levels of accessibility and confidentiality. - Management Roles: Group owners and managers have distinct responsibilities, including inviting members, moderating content, and setting group rules to ensure a productive environment. - Notifications and Updates: Members receive updates on group activities, keeping them informed about new discussions and developments within their professional circles. Primary Value and User Solutions: LinkedIn Groups address the need for professionals to network beyond their immediate connections by providing a platform to: - Expand Professional Networks: Connect with peers, industry leaders, and potential collaborators, opening doors to new opportunities and partnerships. - Stay Informed: Access industry-specific discussions and content, keeping members updated on trends, best practices, and innovations. - Enhance Visibility: Active participation allows individuals and organizations to showcase expertise, build credibility, and establish thought leadership within their fields. By facilitating targeted interactions and knowledge sharing, LinkedIn Groups empower professionals to grow their networks, stay informed, and advance their careers. * * * Seller [LinkedIn](https://www.g2.com/sellers/linkedin) Discussions [LinkedIn Groups Community](https://www.g2.com/products/linkedin-groups/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 13 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/linkedin-groups/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Eventbrite](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Eventbrite") Eventbrite 4.3/5(915) ](https://www.g2.com/products/eventbrite/reviews) [ ![Facebook Groups](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Facebook Groups") Facebook Groups 4.3/5(667) ](https://www.g2.com/products/facebook-groups/reviews) [ ![Hivebrite](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hivebrite") Hivebrite 4.4/5(228) ](https://www.g2.com/products/hivebrite/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/linkedin-groups/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 404 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## LinkedIn Groups Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") DSMN8 ](https://www.g2.com/products/dsmn8/reviews) Show More ![Filipe L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Filipe L.") FL Filipe L. Senior Content Marketing Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/16/2025 "LinkedIn Groups: originally a great source of networking, now battling with AI" 3/5 What do you like best about LinkedIn Groups? LinkedIn groups still prove one of the few truly open ways to connect with peers. Historically, they have been a solid source of industry news and, more importantly, a suitable place to easily connect with professionals. At times, I used it weekly, but now I have dialed down my usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about LinkedIn Groups? I have found that, since early 2024, LinkedIn Groups have unfortunately been riddled with AI-generated content, making it hard to distinguish between real content by real people. Plus, even before the days of widespread AI, several groups were often flooded with promotional materials, rather than insightful content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is LinkedIn Groups solving and how is that benefiting you? I had found it particularly difficult to connect with professionals, since I'm working remotly and not often attending trade shows. LinkedIn Groups provided a fantastic channel to find and connect with these professionals across several industries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Tirtha D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tirtha D.") TD Tirtha D. Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/24/2023 "LinkedIn group is not that useful when it comes to reaching out to new people" 2.5/5 What do you like best about LinkedIn Groups? The most helpful thing about linkedin groups is you get access to the data of lot of like-minded & topic-relevant people whom you are not connected with. Using the contacts from the group you can reach out to new people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about LinkedIn Groups? Full of Spammers Very few people actually check LinkedIn groups Not at all engaging or community-driven Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is LinkedIn Groups solving and how is that benefiting you? It is giving easy access to like-minded and interested individual around some topic, and an easy way of outreaching people whom I'm looking for Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mouath A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mouath A.") MA Mouath A. Mechanical Project Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/19/2021 "LinkedIn Group for Businesses" 3/5 What do you like best about LinkedIn Groups? LinkedIn Groups are beneficial for cooperates, not for members, since companies share their new projects, news, and rarely job vacancies. However, we, as ordinary people who are always looking for new opportunities, join groups and find out the companies HR employees and connect with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about LinkedIn Groups? Interaction, discussion, and publishing in groups on Linkedin is very few and is not compared to others such as Facebook; on the contrary, it is rare and unhelpful. What is worth also mentioning for LinkedIn, I don't like the job vacancies posted without the "Easy Apply" option, where you are forced to be redirected to websites that may scam you. I am joining now a lot of groups, and maybe I check them once a week or even a month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering LinkedIn Groups: If you are interested in specific company news or specific industry?. LinkedIn groups may be very helpful and give you good information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is LinkedIn Groups solving and how is that benefiting you? Okay, Sometimes I join groups containing specific experts in a particular field. That's really helpful, but of course, if group members interact and reply to your questions. Moreover, some groups I really like and find it useful when you join a group with the same work field that you are working in. you can get some ideas, projects, or critical skills that may be helpful in your career and your current company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Writing and Editing](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Writing and Editing") UW Verified User in Writing and Editing Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/5/2022 "Need more professionalism" 3/5 What do you like best about LinkedIn Groups? It really helps reach out to like minded people in a particular industry or tech. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about LinkedIn Groups? The admins need to thoroughly check and approve people entry into groups that have the interest, experience and most of all something valuable to offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is LinkedIn Groups solving and how is that benefiting you? A lot of issues related to not finding the right people for scholarly discussions have been solved by a great extent by LinkedIn groups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Hernán B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hernán B.") HB Hernán B. Partner & Executive Design Director | Structural & Graphic Packaging Design expert Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/16/2021 "A place to promote your brand and services in the professional environment" 3/5 What do you like best about LinkedIn Groups? These groups can be used both to find productive professional relationships and to receive enriching insights into the business or to promote brand awareness. These spaces allow for conversations and even debates on topics related to corporate interests, with the aim of creating a community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about LinkedIn Groups? It could become very difficult to get members to engage and interact with each other. To encourage discussion, you can propose a weekly topic for reflection, based on your own interests or on some content on the Net, as well as commenting on existing conversations and even taking polls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering LinkedIn Groups: An important part of managing LinkedIn groups is to create rules that govern members' activity and are tailored to the interests of the administrator. This way members know where they stand and what the usual topics of discussion are. An aimless group is not the best place to interact. To run a LinkedIn group successfully, a company manager or community manager, if there is one, needs to devote time to it. The administrator has to be one of the most active members and steer the conversations towards topics that are in line with the objectives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is LinkedIn Groups solving and how is that benefiting you? I could promote my thought leadership through sharing valuable content and promoting my podcast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Legal Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Legal Services") UL Verified User in Legal Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/30/2021 "Nice for social; but groups are going to get to your target" 2.5/5 What do you like best about LinkedIn Groups? Groups allows easy access to prospects and their profiles; if you have navigator, or a fuller access to LI, than you can even direct message and send rich text, attachments etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about LinkedIn Groups? It's overflooded with vendors that are all using the inbox messaging to send their blanket pitches. Specifically now in groups, vendors are vetted and posts are too so that they do not become advertising post sites and rather, offer thoughts and knowledge on a specific subject to an informed prospect base. To succeed in this platform, you must not pitch! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering LinkedIn Groups: Don't make it your go-to spot; it should be complementary to other sales avenues you are using. Make it informal yet professional, informative not salesy, when posting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is LinkedIn Groups solving and how is that benefiting you? Outside of posting, there is little to know about what level of engagement prospects are giving. You can see who viewed your post, but not anything else in terms of engagement (clicked on link, how long they were there, etc.) Benefits seem to be that if you are familiar with one person, you can somewhat get fraternized into their community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Steve D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Steve D.") SD Steve D. Head of Marketing Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/31/2021 "Needs to be in the right market but can be valuable if you are in one of those markets" 3/5 What do you like best about LinkedIn Groups? - Free - On a platform where many people already are on it - On a platform where it is pretty easy to find people who are in your market and invite them into your group Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about LinkedIn Groups? - For many markets, LinkedIn is not really a place where people in market go for content & can be hard to drive engagement or attention or leads / sales on the platform - From what I've seen, the organic reach is not that strong for groups. This is likely different if you own the group and the admin 'recommends' the post. You obviously need to provide value otherwise it will get tuned out pretty quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is LinkedIn Groups solving and how is that benefiting you? They are a channel to promote content but to be honest we have a lot to learn in terms of how to best utilize them.....or maybe understand that our markets may not be that ripe for LinkedIn Groups as a channel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite LS Lance S. Senior Director of Development Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/31/2021 "Good idea, but in practice nobody really uses them." 2.5/5 What do you like best about LinkedIn Groups? LinkedIn Groups provides a user-friendly platform for networking and sharing information with groups of people. The group administrator has control over who is and isn't allowed in, so you can ensure there's no one communicating with people that you don't want to communicate with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about LinkedIn Groups? This is tough, as I'm not sure whether it's a problem with the platform or just people's general perception of it. I suspect the latter. I've been involved in a number of LinkedIn Groups, including taking the lead on setting one up, where people specifically want to be able to communicate and share information with a closed group. And in every case, people have used it initially and then just stopped. What I dislike, therefore, is that no one actually seems to use LinkedIn Groups beyond initially joining one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering LinkedIn Groups: LinkedIn Groups to me is one of those things that seems like it should work but never really has. I think an important thing to do when creating a group is to ensure your group really wants to be a group, that they really want to be in regular communication with each other. If you can supply relevant, interesting content to people with enough frequency that they expect and want it, I think it could be an effective way to engage people. But in most cases, I think people just don't use LinkedIn enough to make LinkedIn Groups an effective way of staying in touch with people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is LinkedIn Groups solving and how is that benefiting you? LinkedIn Groups is a way for colleagues to keep in touch to share relevant information and network. I've always used if for groups comprised of colleagues from different organizations. It does solve the problem of facilitating communication among colleagues who want to stay in touch. The benefits are that it makes it easy to communicate with specific groups easily and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Paige H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Paige H.") PH Paige H. Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/6/2022 "Linkedin Experience" 3/5 What do you like best about LinkedIn Groups? Access to all in Business, local and international connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about LinkedIn Groups? Not really user-friendly. You must apply yourself, eg study the guide to tag, etc or you fail to reach your audience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering LinkedIn Groups: Definitely can be helpful if you know what you after or want to achieve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is LinkedIn Groups solving and how is that benefiting you? Getting updates abroad that I would have missed on the norm. See or getting ideas on business conducts /products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![TJ H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "TJ H.") TH TJ H. Vice President of Digital Marketing Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/30/2021 "Starting a user community using LinkedIn Groups" 3/5 What do you like best about LinkedIn Groups? LinkedIn groups allows our team to keep our user base informed of upcoming events (webinars), product or feature updates, and hidden tips and tricks of our platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about LinkedIn Groups? The groups feature on LinkedIn is too hidden in the top navigation so I believe it gets often overlooked by people who don't log into LinkedIn often. I also wish there were gamification-style incentives to get people to participate in the conversations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is LinkedIn Groups solving and how is that benefiting you? While trying to limit the amount of emails and in-app messages we send, LinkedIn Groups allows us to post updates more frequently so that we're still engaging our most active user base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about LinkedIn Groups? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about LinkedIn Groups ](https://www.g2.com/products/linkedin-groups/discussions/new) ![Paige H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Paige H.") 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