How it is ordered. Agencies are ranked, with Kiin at number 1 (see "The ranking"). Each also has a "best for" label, and the full entries are grouped by that need. By the way, this is our list, and we've put ourselves first.
Criteria. SaaS and B2B focus, brand and non-brand reporting with CRM conversion import, whether LinkedIn is run alongside search, the stage and budget served, published pricing, and client results we could check on each agency's own site.
Sources. Each agency's own website (services, pricing and case study pages), its LinkedIn company page and public client reviews. Where an agency does not publish something, the table says "not published"; that means we could not find it, not that it does not exist.
Kiin is a LinkedIn-led B2B paid media agency that runs Google Ads as part of the same funnel. Its entry uses the same format and has a tradeoff like everyone else. Nobody paid to be included.
Last checked: 3 November 2026. Spot something out of date? Email [email protected] and we will fix it.
The ranking
Our list, ranked. Kiin publishes this list and is at number 1; the full entries further down are grouped by what each agency is best for.
- Kiin: Google Ads run under a LinkedIn demand engine for sales-led B2B SaaS
- Getuplead: a fixed-fee SaaS PPC specialist with no minimum spend
- Holini: senior-only PPC and analytics for B2B companies spending $10k+ a month
- Marketing Signals: search-led PPC and SEO for technology and SaaS brands
- KlientBoost: an accountable generalist across Google, LinkedIn and CRO
- Powered by Search: paid search inside a full B2B SaaS demand-gen programme
- TripleDart: AI-native SaaS growth with paid media inside it
- Lever Digital: UK SaaS paid acquisition from senior specialists on a rolling contract
- AdConversion: B2B SaaS spending $25k+ a month that wants media, creative and CRO priced by the line
- Omni Lab: Series A to C SaaS spending $10k+ a month across six platforms
- Directive: paid search and LinkedIn inside a large US B2B performance agency
- Refine Labs: demand programmes for Series B+ B2B tech, with published tiers
The shortlist by need
- Google, LinkedIn and other paid channels run as one SaaS programme: AdConversion, Kiin, Omni Lab
- SaaS paid search from a senior PPC specialist: Getuplead, Holini, Lever Digital, Marketing Signals
- Paid search inside a wider SaaS growth programme: KlientBoost, Powered by Search, TripleDart
- Funded SaaS with large budgets and enterprise process: Directive, Refine Labs
SaaS search has three problems generic PPC does not. Volume is low, so smart bidding needs qualified pipeline imported from the CRM to learn from. The conversion is not the sale, so brand, non-brand, competitor and generic have to be reported separately or brand spend hides everything. And search is the last click: most SaaS buyers searched because they saw the company somewhere else first, often LinkedIn. The market splits into senior search specialists, agencies that run Google with LinkedIn and other paid channels as one programme, growth agencies where paid search is one service line, and large agencies built for funded companies with big budgets.
Comparison table
Facts only, no scores. Each row comes from the agency's own site or public profile.
| Agency | HQ / markets | Channels | Published pricing or minimum | Typical client | Standout proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kiin | London; UK, Europe, US | LinkedIn, Google, Meta, Reddit | $2,500 to $5,500/mo; about $5,000/mo ad spend | Sales-led B2B SaaS | Storysnap $3M+ influenced pipeline; Lumi AI CPL $455 to $176 |
| AdConversion | US | LinkedIn, Google, Meta; creative, CRO | Media from $8,600/mo ($25k+ spend) | B2B SaaS | Lines priced separately |
| Directive | Irvine, California | Paid media, programmatic, creative, RevOps | Not published | Mid-market and enterprise B2B | 420+ brands served |
| Getuplead | Not published | Google, LinkedIn, Reddit, Bing | Fixed fee, not published; no minimum spend | B2B SaaS and tech | Adobe, Siemens, Snowflake |
| Holini | Europe | Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, GA4 | Not published; fits $10k+/mo PPC | B2B | Veriff, DeskTime, Zebra BI |
| KlientBoost | California | Google, LinkedIn, CRO, SEO, email | Indicative lines, e.g. $7,500/mo | Growth-stage, any B2B | 4.9 on Clutch, 405 reviews |
| Lever Digital | UK | Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, paid social | Not published; no fixed-term contracts | SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen | Uplisting $100k to $3M ARR |
| Marketing Signals | UK | Google, Microsoft, SEO, AI search | Not published | Technology and SaaS | Not published |
| Omni Lab | Not published | LinkedIn, Google, Meta, YouTube, Bing, Reddit | Not published; $10k+/mo spend minimum | B2B SaaS, Series A to C | Billd -75% cost per SQL |
| Powered by Search | Not published | Paid search, paid social, SEO, ABM, HubSpot | Not published | B2B SaaS | Elastic, Basecamp, Varonis |
| Refine Labs | US | LinkedIn, Google, YouTube, Meta, CTV; creative | Paid media from $14,000/mo | Series B+ B2B tech | +33% pipeline value (portfolio) |
| TripleDart | Plano, TX and Bangalore | Search, social, PMax, SEO, ABM | Not published; $10k to $500k/mo spend | B2B SaaS | $300M+ ad spend managed |
What the agencies on this list charge
7 of the 12 agencies here publish a fee, price or minimum. Media spend is on top in every case.
- Kiin: $2,500 to $5,500/mo; about $5,000/mo ad spend
- AdConversion: Media from $8,600/mo ($25k+ spend)
- Holini: Not published; fits $10k+/mo PPC
- KlientBoost: Indicative lines, e.g. $7,500/mo
- Omni Lab: Not published; $10k+/mo spend minimum
- Refine Labs: Paid media from $14,000/mo
- TripleDart: Not published; $10k to $500k/mo spend
Price on a call: Directive, Getuplead, Lever Digital, Marketing Signals, Powered by Search. Ask each for the fee, whether it is a percentage of spend, the contract length and the notice period.
The agencies, by what they are best for
Best for Google, LinkedIn and other paid channels run as one SaaS programme
Sales-led or product-led SaaS that wants search, LinkedIn and paid social run by one team, sometimes with creative and landing pages attached.
1. Kiin
Best for Google Ads run under a LinkedIn demand engine for sales-led B2B SaaS
Kiin runs Google Ads as the capture layer under LinkedIn: brand and non-brand reported separately, bidding optimised to qualified pipeline imported from HubSpot or Salesforce, and one pipeline report across both channels. Fees are published and are not a percentage of spend.
Named results: Storysnap, $3M+ influenced pipeline and $1.28M closed won; Lumi AI, blended CPL from $455 to $176. All results: case studies. Service page: how Kiin runs SaaS PPC.
Tradeoff: we are not a search-only shop: the advice will always include when to add demand creation. A company that wants search alone, with no view on the rest of the funnel, should pick a specialist from the group above.
9. AdConversion
Best for B2B SaaS spending $25k+ a month that wants media, creative and CRO priced by the line
AdConversion lets you buy media, creative and CRO as separate published lines, which few agencies in this market do. The education arm suits an in-house marketer who wants to keep learning, and the fit is a SaaS company already at $25,000 a month in spend that wants a full performance stack.
Tradeoff: the $8,600 fee is for accounts spending $25k+ a month; below that you are routed to the $2,500 AI product, which is software plus coaching rather than a managed account.
10. Omni Lab
Best for Series A to C SaaS spending $10k+ a month across six platforms
B2B SaaS exclusively, six platforms, a stated $10,000-a-month minimum and SQL-level published results: ShareGate +44% SQLs year on year, Billd 75% lower cost per SQL, Thoropass 2x paid SQLs in a quarter. Named logos include Drata, Firstup and Broadsign.
Tradeoff: no location or leadership stated on the site, and the $10k floor excludes earlier-stage companies.
Best for SaaS paid search from a senior PPC specialist
SaaS companies whose paid programme is mainly Google and Microsoft and who want senior hands on the account rather than a wider programme.
2. Getuplead
Best for a fixed-fee SaaS PPC specialist with no minimum spend
Kamel Ben Yacoub and Katia González's agency works only with B2B SaaS and tech, staffs accounts with senior specialists rather than juniors, and is clear on terms: fixed monthly fee, no long-term contract, no minimum ad spend. Named clients include Adobe, Siemens, Snowflake, NTT Data and Software AG; 5.0 on Clutch.
Tradeoff: the fee itself is not published, and "no minimum spend" does not make a $2,000-a-month category budget produce learnings any faster.
3. Holini
Best for senior-only PPC and analytics for B2B companies spending $10k+ a month
Holini starts with a read-only audit of the ad accounts and GA4 before any proposal, framed around what is holding PPC back from growing qualified pipeline while keeping CAC under control. Case studies quote client revenue and funding rather than vanity metrics, and the team is senior-only.
Tradeoff: PPC and analytics first; LinkedIn is run, but the positioning is search-led, so a LinkedIn-first demand programme is not the strength. No published fee.
8. Lever Digital
Best for UK SaaS paid acquisition from senior specialists on a rolling contract
Lever's pitch is senior people and a month-to-month relationship. The Uplisting case is a four-year engagement from $100k to $3M ARR with a 5x increase in monthly free trials, and Sprintlaw went from a loss-making Google Ads account to its main new-business channel.
Tradeoff: the site describes paid search and acquisition broadly; LinkedIn is not called out as a specialism, and there is no published pricing.
4. Marketing Signals
Best for search-led PPC and SEO for technology and SaaS brands
Search-first, with SaaS named as the focus and AI-answer visibility folded into the same practice as paid and organic search. The fit is a technology company that wants PPC and SEO run together by one team.
Tradeoff: search-led means Google-led; LinkedIn and paid social are not the centre of the offer, and no named clients are on the page.
Best for paid search inside a wider SaaS growth programme
SaaS companies that need search fixed alongside SEO, CRO, RevOps or content, and want one partner for all of it.
5. KlientBoost
Best for an accountable generalist across Google, LinkedIn and CRO
Unusually open for a US agency: each recommendation in the free plan comes with a fee and the goal-hit rate is published. The fit is a growth-stage company that wants one accountable team across search, paid social and conversion rate work.
Tradeoff: a large multi-channel agency for any B2B client; SaaS is one client type, not the specialism.
6. Powered by Search
Best for paid search inside a full B2B SaaS demand-gen programme
Positions on pipeline rather than leads, with a stated guarantee of 30% more sales-ready opportunities in 90 days, and runs paid search as one lever alongside SEO, ABM and HubSpot operations. Named clients include Elastic, Basecamp, Varonis and SentinelOne, with pipeline figures published per case.
Tradeoff: if you only want Google Ads run well, you are buying a programme. Pricing and minimums are not stated.
7. TripleDart
Best for AI-native SaaS growth with paid media inside it
An "AI-native" B2B SaaS agency with a named head of paid media (Sabarinathan) and a proprietary automation platform, Slate. States $300M+ in ad spend managed across clients including SentinelOne, Freshworks, HubSpot and Zuora; 4.8 on Trustpilot.
Tradeoff: paid media is one of six service lines; the centre of gravity is organic and GTM engineering, and a US and India delivery model suits some buyers and not others.
Best for funded SaaS with large budgets and enterprise process
Series B+ and public software companies with a real paid budget that want scale, process and a demand strategy.
11. Directive
Best for paid search and LinkedIn inside a large US B2B performance agency
A B2B-only performance agency with vertical playbooks and a "pipeline not MQLs" position. Paid search and LinkedIn are run as part of a paid media programme alongside programmatic and creative. The fit is a funded or public B2B company that wants scale and process.
Tradeoff: scale cuts both ways; a $10k-a-month account will not get the agency's most senior people.
12. Refine Labs
Best for demand programmes for Series B+ B2B tech, with published tiers
Prices are on the page, so you can qualify yourself in or out. LinkedIn is the core paid channel in most of its programmes, creative is in-house, and it publishes portfolio averages of +41% high-intent demo requests and +33% pipeline value.
Tradeoff: a $14,000 a month starting fee before media rules out most smaller companies, by design, and search is not the centre of the offer.
What SaaS PPC needs that generic PPC does not
Three things. Low volume: a good SaaS category keyword gets a few hundred searches a month, so smart bidding never gets enough conversions unless the agency imports qualified pipeline from the CRM as the conversion. The conversion is not the sale: a demo request is worth nothing until sales accepts it, so brand, non-brand, competitor and generic have to be split and reported separately or brand spend hides everything. And search is the last click: most SaaS buyers searched the category because they saw the company on LinkedIn first, so an agency that runs search alone is capturing demand somebody else paid for. The agencies at the top of this page are built around those three facts; the ones lower down are strong search agencies with SaaS as one client type. The LinkedIn side is in best LinkedIn ads agencies; the UK search view in best B2B PPC agencies UK; what a LinkedIn click costs next to a Google one in the benchmarks.
What it costs to reach a software buyer
Agency fees are the visible cost. These are the media economics underneath them, for the facets a SaaS advertiser actually targets.
| Targeting facet | CPM | Landing page CTR | Cost per landing page click | Cost per lead | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Development | $47.58 | 0.23% | $19.93 | $219 | 100 |
| Technology, Information and Internet | $40.68 | 0.18% | $23.79 | $404 | 136 |
| IT Services and IT Consulting | $44.36 | 0.15% | $23.91 | $123 | 96 |
| Data Infrastructure and Analytics | $24.17 | 0.17% | $22.37 | $122 | 28 |
- Software Development returns the cheapest quality click at $19.93 and the best click through rate at 0.23%, across 100 advertiser accounts. It is the default facet and, unusually, the default is also the best one.
- IT Services and IT Consulting produces leads at $123 against $404 for Technology, Information and Internet. Both are large samples. If your buyer plausibly sits in either, the difference is worth a test before you commit the budget.
- Data Infrastructure and Analytics is the cheapest reach at a $24.17 CPM, roughly half of Software Development, for a $22.37 click. Narrow, technical and underbought.
Source: Kiin Intelligence panel. 1,000+ advertiser accounts, 22,942 campaigns and $65M+ of measured LinkedIn spend across 1.34 billion impressions in the twelve months to 7 September 2026. Medians across advertiser accounts, never pooled totals. LinkedIn Audience Network delivery excluded. An account count sits beside every figure, and anything built on fewer than about ten accounts is a direction rather than a number. Fuller tables and method: LinkedIn Ads Benchmarks 2026.
The lead form problem nobody reports
Most SaaS PPC programmes run some form of gated offer. This is what happens inside it.
| Lead form measure | Median across accounts | Accounts |
|---|---|---|
| Form completion rate (completions divided by opens) | 11.6% | 350 |
| Cost per form open | $18.21 | 350 |
| Cost per completed form | $140.49 | 314 |
- 88% of the people who open a LinkedIn lead form never finish it, at the median account, despite the form being pre-filled from their profile.
- That abandonment costs $122.27 per lead. You paid $18.21 to get the form opened and $140.49 to get one of them completed. Every field you add is priced.
- The spread is twentyfold, from 1.9% completion at the tenth percentile to 37.2% at the ninetieth. It is driven by how much you ask for and what you give in return, not by the creative above it.
- Never let an agency report form opens as leads. The platform reports them prominently and they are, at the median, 88% noise.
Where the cost per demo actually comes from
| Accounts grouped by cost per booking | Cost per booking | Cost per landing page click | Bookings per 100 landing page clicks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest quartile | $269 | $25.22 | 8.9 |
| Dearest quartile | $32,653 | $37.62 | 0.1 |
| The gap | 121 times | 1.5 times | 72 times |
Across 119 accounts the cost per booking ranges 121 times, and only 1.5 times of that is the price of traffic. Seventy two times is conversion rate. If your cost per demo is high while your cost per click looks fine, the problem is almost certainly not in the ad account, and an agency contracted only for the ad account cannot fix it.
Which motion each agency is actually built f
Same agencies, read against the question that decides fit for a SaaS company: is this firm shaped for a self serve product where paid media has to produce signups, or for a sales led product where it has to produce conversations? The stage and budget columns matter because they proxy it. A firm with a $10,000 floor and enterprise reporting is built for the second; a firm running a $3,000 floor on search alone is usually built for the first.
or| Agency | Stage served | Budget floor | Channels | Reporting standard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kiin | Seed to Series C and enterprise, sales-led B2B SaaS and B2B; $6,500+ ACV, 3 to 9 month cycles | $4,000 to $300,000+ a month media; fee from $2,500 to $5,500, published (covers up to $10,000 a month media per platform; stepped tiers above) | LinkedIn (thought leader, conversation, lead gen forms, LinkedIn CTV), Google, Meta, Reddit; signal-based outbound | Landing page clicks and pipeline in HubSpot or Salesforce; benchmarked against 1,000+ accounts |
| Omni Lab | Series A to C B2B SaaS | $10,000+ a month media | LinkedIn, Google, Meta, YouTube, Bing, Reddit | Conversion tracking and analytics (Omni OS) |
| Lever Digital | SaaS and lead gen, growth-stage | Not stated; no fixed-term contracts | Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, paid social | Pipeline, per its case studies |
| KlientBoost | Growth-stage, any B2B | $5,000+ a month media; 3 to 6 month term | Google, LinkedIn, CRO, SEO, email | Goal-based; free resources if pacing behind |
| Holini | B2B investing $10k+ a month in PPC | $10,000+ a month media | Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft | GA4 and CRM-connected analytics |
| Directive | Mid-market and enterprise B2B | Enterprise; not published | Paid media, programmatic, creative, content, RevOps | Pipeline, not MQLs |
| Refine Labs | Series B+, $50M+ ARR | From $14,000 a month fee, six-month minimum | LinkedIn, Google, YouTube, Meta, CTV, OOH | Demand strategy with pipeline reporting |
Trial led and sales led SaaS buy PPC differently
The single biggest source of mismatch between a SaaS company and a PPC agency is not budget or channel. It is which motion the product sells on, because the two need opposite things from paid media.
| Product led / self serve | Sales led / demo | |
|---|---|---|
| What paid media has to produce | Signups at a cost the trial to paid rate can carry | Qualified conversations with a named buying committee |
| The objective that fits | Website conversions: best click through rate measured at 0.45%, $15.28 a click | Website conversions to a booking page, or lead forms where the offer is genuinely low commitment |
| Cheapest leads available | In platform lead forms at $177, across 159 accounts. Cheap, high volume, low intent. Right for a content offer, wrong for a demo. | |
| Where it goes wrong | Optimising to signups that never convert, because the paid cohort is worse than the organic one and nobody segments the trial report | Judging a demand creation campaign on monthly cost per lead, which kills it in month four |
| What to ask an agency | How do you separate paid trial quality from organic trial quality? | How does a lead that converted on a branded search get credited to the campaign that caused the search? |
An agency built for one motion will run the other badly, and most of them are built for one. Say which you are in the first call, and ask for a client on the same motion rather than the same industry.
What to budget against your ACV
Using the measured cost of reaching a software buyer from the table above, a $19.93 landing page click on the Software Development facet, against the panel median conversion economics. Media only; agency fees sit on top.
| Media budget | Landing page clicks a month | Bookings at the median (1.0 per 100 clicks) | Bookings in the top quartile (5.0 per 100) |
|---|---|---|---|
| $5,000 a month | 251 | 2 to 3 | 12 to 13 |
| $15,000 a month | 753 | 7 to 8 | 37 to 38 |
| $40,000 a month | 2,007 | 20 | 100 |
Two things follow. The gap between the median and the top quartile is five times, and it is larger than the gap between the smallest and largest budget row. Moving from median to top quartile execution is worth more than tripling the spend, which is the whole argument for caring who runs the account.
And the ACV test: if your average contract value is under roughly $10,000 and your win rate from booking is 20%, a booking has to cost under about $2,000 for the maths to work at all. At the median conversion rate and a $19.93 click, a booking costs around $1,993. That is the line. Below that ACV, paid search alone rarely carries a sales led motion, and the honest answer is a self serve motion or a different channel mix.
The clicks column and the bookings columns are not a funnel to be divided into each other. Booking rates are the panel distribution of booking-like conversions per 100 landing page clicks, not a forecast for your account, and they depend entirely on the page and the offer rather than on the ad.
Why SaaS PPC accounts stall at the same three points
Brand search flatters the account until someone splits it out
Branded terms convert at several times the rate of everything else and cost a fraction. An account reporting blended cost per acquisition is reporting mostly brand, and the non brand performance underneath can be arbitrarily bad without anyone seeing it. Ask for brand and non brand reported separately from month one; an agency that resists is telling you something.
The capture ceiling arrives without warning
Search harvests intent that already exists, and in a defined B2B category that pool is finite. Accounts scale smoothly for three or four quarters and then stop responding to budget, which gets diagnosed as an agency problem when it is a demand problem. The fix is upstream and takes two quarters, so it has to start before the ceiling, not after.
The page is doing the damage, not the account
Across 119 advertiser accounts the cost per booking varies 121 times while traffic price varies 1.5 times. If cost per demo is climbing while cost per click looks healthy, no amount of bid, match type or keyword work will fix it, and an agency contracted only for the ad account cannot reach the thing that is broken.
How to choose
- "Show me a SaaS account with under 50 conversions a month." If every case study is ecommerce ROAS, the low-volume problem is unsolved.
- "What is the conversion you optimise to?" Qualified pipeline imported from the CRM, or form fills.
- "Are brand and non-brand reported separately?" If not, you cannot see what the non-brand spend does.
- "Who runs LinkedIn?" The same team, a different team, or nobody.
- "Is the fee a percentage of spend?" At $100,000 a month a 15% fee is $15,000. Kiin, AdConversion and Refine Labs publish flat numbers on this page.