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?
We Tested Ads in ChatGPT: What the Channel Actually Does
ChatGPT ads work, but not the way Google or Meta ads work. The math is different, the audience is different, and the failure modes are different. If you're allocating test budget, you need to understand what you're actually buying before you write the check.
The $113,000 Paid Search Test: When Your Budget Is Buying Clicks You Already Own
One company paused $113K in monthly paid search and 65% of that revenue came back through organic anyway. The real question isn't whether paid works, it's whether you're buying customers or just buying your own clicks.
What a 13-week paid search pause actually revealed
A 13-week paid search pause showed 65% of paid-attributed revenue shifted to organic and direct, changing how B2B teams should measure incrementality.
Google Ads AI agents need four things before more budget
A practical four-step roadmap for using Google Ads AI agents with better measurement, guardrails, and revenue-focused testing in B2B SaaS.
PPC's Intent Alibi Just Got Revoked
For years, we PPC marketers hid behind 'capturing intent' like it was a bulletproof vest. Google's Demand Gen campaigns just exposed the uncomfortable truth: intent was always just a proxy for prediction, and now Google doesn't need to wait for it anymore.
The PPC Budget Question Nobody Wants to Answer Honestly
I've watched companies burn through six figures on paid search while celebrating 'impressions' like they were actual revenue. The dashboards looked gorgeous. The results were fiction. Here's what actually separates PPC strategies that pay off from expensive habits dressed up as strategy.
Microsoft Search Ads Grow 12% as Brands Rethink Budgets
Microsoft's search ads just posted 12% growth while Bing hit 1 billion users, and Copilot is driving 73% higher CTRs. If your paid media plan still treats Microsoft as a rounding error, this earnings report should trigger a strategic review.
Google Ads Audit: The 2026 Checklist
Most Google Ads accounts aren't broken, they're drifting. I've watched the same pattern unfold across dozens of pipeline reviews: the platform says 200 conversions, the sales team logged 47 qualified leads. That 4:1 gap isn't a reporting quirk. It's the algorithm optimizing toward whatever you told it was a conversion.
The 4-Step Roadmap to AI Agents for Google Ads
Everyone's racing to deploy AI agents for Google Ads, but the teams seeing 34% ROAS improvements aren't the ones who built fastest, they're the ones who got the sequencing right. Here's the four-stage roadmap that separates expensive toys from actual ROI.