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?
RSA Optimization for B2B: The Math Your CFO Actually Wants to See
Your Ad Strength score is a setup checklist, not a performance metric, and chasing that green checkmark is costing you pipeline. Here's how to actually optimize RSAs for B2B: better conversion signals, smarter asset strategy, and the new headline-level data your CFO will finally understand.
Real Estate PPC in 2026: The Math Your CFO Needs to See Before You Spend
A $3.22 click sounds cheap until you trace it through the funnel. Real estate PPC has the lowest conversion rate of any industry WordStream tracks, and if you're running Google Ads without a clear model of what a closed deal actually costs, you're not running a marketing channel, you're running a leak.
The Budget Experiment Your CFO Will Actually Approve
Stop treating budget increases like coin flips. Here's the controlled experiment framework that turns your next Google Ads budget request into a risk-managed learning investment Finance can actually model.
Google's Bidding Update Is a Wake-Up Call for Lazy Target Setting
That free lunch you've been enjoying with your Target CPA campaigns? It's over on August 17, 2026. Google's making their bidding system actually hit your targets, which is only a problem if you've been setting them based on vibes rather than math.
Google's August 17 Bidding Change Already Happened. Here's the Math on What You Lost and How to Recover It.
Your campaigns that were 'beating' Target CPA by 30%? That wasn't optimization, it was a budget constraint artifact Google just eliminated. Here's the three-move recovery playbook before your CFO asks why August's numbers look like a dumpster fire.
How to Build a Google Ads Daily Pacing Script
Your CFO just asked why paid media burned through 47% of the monthly budget in nine days, and you're staring at the Google Ads interface with no defensible answer. Here's how to build a pacing script that gives you one, before Finance comes asking.
Google Ads Automated Promotions: What the New Feature Means for Your Forecast
Google Ads now scrapes your landing pages for promotional offers and surfaces them in search results, no approval workflow required. For marketing leaders who've built governance around promotional messaging, this isn't a convenience feature. It's a control question you need to answer this week.
Google's Programmatic Proxy Ban: What the New API Policy Means for Your Paid Media Stack
Your agency's reporting dashboard might be six weeks away from going dark. Google's new API policy bans programmatic proxies, and if your tools route through shared intermediaries, those integrations are now non-compliant, with enforcement already underway.
Limited Ad Serving: Why Your Google Ads Suddenly Show Less Often
Your ads are approved, your budget is intact, and your bids are competitive, yet impressions have cratered. Welcome to Google's new trust layer, where 'approved' and 'serving' are no longer synonyms, and your post-click experience now determines your pre-click reach.