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?
Search Still Owns the Biggest Line Item – But the Growth Story Just Changed
Search still owns the biggest slice at $114.2 billion, but its 11% growth is getting lapped by social (32.6%), video (25.4%), and commerce media (18%). The performance marketing stack is diversifying faster than most CMOs are acknowledging in their planning cycles.
When Your Google Ads Conversion Rate Drops: A CFO-Ready Diagnostic
Your Google Ads conversion rate is down, the CFO wants answers, and "industry trend" won't cut it when defending next quarter's budget. Here's a systematic diagnostic framework to identify which of twelve specific causes is bleeding your budget – and what the fix actually costs.
Why Your Google Ads Results Keep Repeating the Same Outcomes
Your Google Ads account isn't broken – it's doing exactly what you trained it to do. When growth stalls despite hitting ROAS targets, the real culprit is months of reinforced signals that taught the algorithm to avoid uncertainty and prioritize safe, predictable revenue over expansion.
LinkedIn Ads Dwell Time: What It Is, What “Good” Looks Like, and How to Benchmark Without Lying to Yourself
Learn what LinkedIn Ads dwell time measures, the latest benchmarks by format and objective, and a practical method to baseline and test it.
Thought Leader Ads Didn’t Fix LinkedIn Ads—Executives Did
How LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads and Ruby James’ sequencing turn executive posts into measurable demand gen, with benchmarks and pitfalls in 2026.
Touchpoint Inflation Is Real: How Deal Size and Company Size Change the B2B Journey in 2026
HockeyStack’s 2024 data shows B2B deals now take 266 touchpoints and 2,879 impressions, with deal and company size driving stage-specific complexity.
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.
Google Ads for B2B: The Math Your CFO Actually Wants to See
Most B2B Google Ads accounts optimize for the wrong outcome—celebrating low cost-per-lead while pipeline stagnates and Finance watches budget evaporate into clicks that never become customers. Here’s the CFO-safe framework that connects ad spend to actual revenue.
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