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?
The 20% CAC Drop Hiding in Your Channel Silos
Most B2B marketing teams run SEO and paid search as separate line items, separate teams, separate dashboards. The result is a 20% CAC penalty they never see because no one owns the gap between the two, and closing it could free up $100,000 in annual spend.
The One Google Ads Setting That's Bleeding Your Budget
Your paid search campaigns are probably serving ads to people who will never become customers, not because your targeting is wrong, but because Google's default location setting is designed to maximize reach, not relevance. Changing a single dropdown can cut invalid clicks by half.
Google's "Strongest Match" Label Test: What B2B Marketers Should Actually Measure
Google just handed advertisers a new variable they cannot control, cannot predict, and cannot yet model. The label exists, the criteria remain opaque, and the downstream effects on your paid search economics are unknowable, here's how to instrument your measurement stack before it matters.
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.
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.
How A B2B SaaS Company Cut CPL While Keeping Strategic Control With Done-With-You Google Ads
A B2B SaaS company spending $30K-$80K monthly on Google Ads discovered their paid search contributed almost nothing to closed revenue. Here's how they rebuilt around pipeline metrics and cut cost per qualified lead by 36% without losing strategic control.
The B2B Paid Search Playbook: How to Stop Burning Money and Start Building Pipeline
Most B2B marketers treat Google Ads like a slot machine, feeding it budget and hoping for qualified leads to tumble out. The playbook that crushed it in 2019 is collecting dust for a reason—the game has changed, and if you’re still running campaigns like it’s the pre-privacy era, you’re lighting you
Google Ads for SaaS: The Math Your CFO Needs Before You Spend a Dollar
Google Ads can torch your budget or build a predictable pipeline—the difference is doing the math first. Before you bid on a single keyword, you need product-market fit, sufficient margin, and validated commercial intent demand.
The B2B Paid Search Playbook: How to Stop Burning Money and Start Building Pipeline
Most B2B paid search campaigns are optimised for the wrong metrics. This playbook shows you how to rebuild your approach around pipeline, not click-through rate.