PaidLab
B2B Paid Media & PPC Performance Strategy
Your paid media engine stops working when you stop asking why.
Paid media is the fastest lever in B2B marketing and the easiest to waste. PaidLab covers paid search, programmatic, and performance strategy for teams that need ad spend to turn into qualified pipeline — not impressions.
Every piece is built around the question most platforms train you to stop asking: why is this working, and what happens when it stops?
LinkedIn CPCs rose 11% this year. Here's where B2B SaaS teams are bleeding budget.
LinkedIn CPCs rose 11% for B2B SaaS in 2026. Four systemic mistakes explain why most accounts underperform, and each one is fixable without increasing budget.
Google's August Bidding Change Will Punish Lazy Targets
Your Target CPA has been lying to you, and starting August 17, Google will call the bluff. If you've been quietly over-performing on your stated targets, expect the algorithm to start spending exactly what you told it to, whether you meant it or not.
Performance Max Keeps Retargeting Your Existing Customers. Here's How to Stop It.
Stop Performance Max from retargeting existing customers by wiring CRM conversions, exclusion lists, brand restrictions, and uplift experiments for net-new pipeline.
Promotion Mode Is Here: What Google's Ginny Marvin Clarified That Changes the Operational Picture
A single LinkedIn comment from Google's Ads Product Liaison just corrected a widespread assumption about promotion mode, and the clarification matters more than the announcement itself. If you've ever watched a flash sale budget spiral because someone forgot to revert ROAS targets at midnight, this is the feature you've been waiting for.
Smart Bidding in 2026: The CFO-Safe Playbook for B2B Marketers
Your CFO just asked why paid media spend is up 18% while pipeline stayed flat, and 'learning phase volatility' isn't cutting it as an answer anymore. Here's the accountability playbook that turns Smart Bidding from a black box into a boardroom-ready strategy.
B2B Google Ads: The Math Behind Why Most SaaS Campaigns Bleed Budget
Your $45K monthly Google Ads spend is generating 200 leads, but only 18 qualify. The problem isn't the channel, it's that you're optimizing for form fills instead of buying committees. Here's the math on why 40-60% of your budget is pure waste.
Microsoft Advertising's Automated Bidding Overhaul: A CFO-Safe Setup Guide for 2026
Microsoft just killed four bidding strategies and replaced them with two questions. If you've ever second-guessed your campaign setup or watched budget evaporate during the 'learning phase,' this structural change is designed for you, and it's the kind of simplification that actually survives a CFO review.
The Integrated Search Brief: Because Your SEO and PPC Teams Shouldn't Be Strangers
Your SEO team is optimizing blog posts while PPC builds landing pages for the same service, and nobody's talking. I've watched this movie end the same way every time: duplicated effort, misaligned messaging, and a CFO wondering why the budget keeps growing while results stay flat. The fix isn't another meeting. It's a document.
Google's August 2026 auto-classification is coming for your customer lists — here's how to prep
Google Ads will auto-classify conversion-based customer lists in August 2026 — here's the B2B SaaS operator's checklist to prep before automation takes over.