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 Isn't Just Top-of-Funnel Anymore: What Dreamdata's Data Means for Your Budget
Thirty percent of your SQL sessions are now influenced by LinkedIn, not awareness impressions, actual sales-qualified leads. If you've been treating LinkedIn as a brand-building playground and shutting off campaigns after the form fill, the data says you're leaving money on the table.
AI Max After GML: What Ginny Marvin's Clarifications Mean for Your Paid Search Budget
Google's forcing everyone into AI Max by September 2026, but Ginny Marvin's post-GML clarifications reveal the controls that actually matter for protecting your lead quality. Here's how to pilot AI Max without wrecking your cost per qualified lead.
ChatGPT Ads Just Got Competitive: What the Multi-Advertiser Test Means for Your Media Mix
OpenAI just shifted ChatGPT ads from single placements to multi-advertiser auctions, fundamentally changing the economics for B2B marketers. While consumer brands will likely dominate these auctions, the real question is whether B2B can find profitable intent signals in conversational AI.
Post-Launch Ad Optimization: The Missing Metadata Problem
Your dashboard shows which ads performed, but not why they worked. That gap between performance data and creative insights is where most paid media teams lose millions to creative fatigue and educated guessing.
LinkedIn's 2026 Ad Stack: What Actually Moves Pipeline
LinkedIn now commands 41% of B2B paid social budgets with 121% ROAS, but most marketers are missing the biggest performance gap in platform history. Thought Leader Ads are delivering 4.65% CTR at $0.51 CPC while standard formats struggle at 0.68% CTR and $2.42 CPC.
The 27% CTR Cliff: What Ad Fatigue Actually Costs Your Pipeline
Your best-performing ad is dying right now, and by week eight, you're looking at a 27.1% CTR decline that compounds into every downstream metric your board cares about. The data shows most B2B teams refresh creatives three times too slowly, turning healthy unit economics into board-room explanations.
Google Ads for B2B Lead Generation in Australia: Structuring Campaigns That Deliver Qualified Leads
Most B2B Google Ads accounts in Australia are optimising for the wrong thing - chasing form fills from interns instead of qualified leads. The fix requires rethinking what "conversion" means and teaching Google what a good lead actually looks like through offline conversion tracking.
LinkedIn Ads B2B 2026: The Budget Math Your CFO Actually Needs
A $12 click that produces pipeline at $3,000 per opportunity beats a $3 click that produces pipeline at $8,000 per opportunity. Here's the budget math your CFO actually needs to approve LinkedIn ads in 2026.
The Best LinkedIn Ads Services in 2026: A CMO’s No-BS Guide to Finding Your Perfect Match
LinkedIn advertising is like dating in your forties—you know what you want, you’ve been burned before, and you’re not wasting time on agencies that don’t get you. Here’s my no-BS breakdown of the best LinkedIn ads services and how to find your perfect match without the sales pitch fluff.