Two sales engagement platforms are gone from LinkedIn. Updated with comments from Apollo.io and G2.
LinkedIn is one of the best sources of data available for B2B sellers, but the Microsoft-owned platform is known for not making money by sharing its data. Instead, it generates revenue from advertising and premium subscription services, especially those for recruiters and sales professionals.
That hasn’t kept sales engagement platforms from using Chrome extensions to help sellers generate leads by grabbing data from LinkedIn. And that appears to be against LinkedIn’s terms of service prohibiting third-party tools from scraping LinkedIn data.
Sometime on March 6, 2025, a pair of sales engagement platforms — Apollo.io and Seamless.ai — disappeared from the LinkedIn platform. Both companies have Chrome extensions that salespeople use to take data from LinkedIn.
In the case of Apollo.io, the company still comes up in LinkedIn search results:
But click on that View Page button, and poof! Houston, we have a problem:
None of the companies involved have commented on the situation.
Sudipto Paul has more details on the disappearance of Apollo and Seamless on G2.
Clark Barron has a thorough analysis of the situation on LinkedIn:
This wouldn’t be the first time LinkedIn took action against companies trying to get at its data (if that’s what happened). In 2022, a LinkedIn lawsuit led to the shutdown of Singapore-based company Mantheos Ptd. Ltd. LinkedIn lost a case against hiQ Labs, which is still making its way through the appeals process.
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Mike Pastore has spent nearly three decades in B2B marketing, as an editor, writer, and marketer. He first wrote about marketing in 1998 for internet.com (later Jupitermedia). He then worked with marketers at some of the best-known brands in B2B tech creating content for marketing campaigns at both Jupitermedia and QuinStreet. Prior to joining Third Door Media as the Editorial Director of the MarTech website, he led demand generation at B2B media company TechnologyAdvice.
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