The B2B Stack

The B2B Stack

Why B2B Programmatic Looks Broken — and How to Fix It

The transformation happens when you stop optimising for media metrics and start feeding the DSP business metrics.

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Mike Harty
Nov 21, 2025
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“For B2B … how do you optimise your ad content when programmatic ads generate a 99% bounce rate with no real user engagement or click-through conversions?”
— r/programmatic

You’ve seen the comment before.
Every B2B marketer who’s touched programmatic has felt that pain.
But the problem isn’t the channel.
It’s the measurement.

We’ve spent a decade teaching machines to chase the wrong outcome. And I built an 8 figure business fixing the problem - and here is exactly how I do it

The Wrong Goal

Most B2B campaigns still optimise for click-through rate.
CTR was born in the B2C space - a world of impulse decisions, add-to-cart actions, and instant gratification.

As a consumer, if I see some cheap but cool product, which costs £20, I’m not going to spend 9 months thinking about it. These conversions are easily won, in a way that B2B ones are most definitely not.

In B2B, there’s no “Buy Now.” There’s research, consensus, budget sign-off, and long memory. There’s teams of people, with their jobs on the …

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