Brand-traffic forensics · iGaming

Stop paying affiliates for players you already own.

Affiliates bid on your brand name and hijack your organic results, then intercept players who were already searching for you — so you pay CPA commission on customers you had already won.

Google + BingResidential geo-IPsHash-verified evidence
capture://acmecasino · geo:GB · residentialREC
$query "acmecasino login"
1200google.com0ms
2302bonus-guide.nethidden+180ms
3302trk.aff-cluster.iohidden+240ms
4301smartlink-447.comhidden+90ms
5200acmecasino.com+610ms
Unmasked affiliatebtag=88213-471

€200 CPA charged for a player who searched the brand by name.

02Live capture

Watch a hijack happen, hop by hidden hop.

A player searches your brand and clicks a result that looks like you. Here is where the traffic actually goes — and who gets paid for it.

capture://acmecasino · geo:GB · residential
acmecasino loginBrand search
  1. 1
    200google.com

    https://www.google.com/search?q=acmecasino+login

    Player searches the operator's own brand by name.

  2. 2
    302bonus-guide.netHidden+180ms

    https://acmecasino-official.bonus-guide.net/go?ref=top-pick

    Ad looks like the official site. First hidden redirect fires.

  3. 3
    302trk.aff-cluster.ioHidden+240ms

    https://trk.aff-cluster.io/click?cid=9f3a&geo=GB

    Tracker stamps the click and routes by geo.

  4. 4
    301smartlink-447.comHidden+90ms

    https://r.smartlink-447.com/r/3a7?btag=88213-471

    Final cloaking layer carries the affiliate tag.

  5. 200acmecasino.com+610ms

    https://acmecasino.com/?btag=88213-471

    Player lands on the operator's own site — now tagged to the affiliate.

Unmasked affiliate ID

btag=88213-471

The operator just paid €200 CPA for a player who typed their name into Google.

01How it works

A forensic pipeline, not a keyword alert.

Detection through documented recovery — transparent at every step, so the output stands up to the people who decide whether you get your money back.

  1. 01

    Daily forensic monitoring

    Every day we sweep your brand keywords across Google and Bing — paid and organic — for the markets you sell in.

  2. 02

    Real-browser, geo-attested capture

    Captures run in real browsers through residential IPs in your target country, so we see exactly what a real player sees — defeating cloaking that hides from datacenter scanners.

  3. 03

    Full redirect-chain forensics

    We follow every hop to the final landing page, record the chain, and unmask the affiliate ID concealed in the tracking parameters.

  4. 04

    Evidence packs + weekly ROI reports

    Each violation becomes a timestamped, hash-verified evidence pack — ready for your affiliate network and your regulator — alongside a weekly report of recoverable spend.

03Evidence standard

Proof your network can’t wave away.

Every confirmed violation ships as a self-contained pack: the verdict, the full redirect chain, screenshots, the HAR file, and the exact CPA you were charged — each artifact timestamped in UTC and hash-verified. It reads the same to your compliance team and to a UKGC or MGA auditor.

  • SERP data sourced via SerpApi — we never scrape Google.
  • Landing pages captured live through residential proxies.
  • Loss modeled on your own CPA, not a generic guess.
Evidence packExample
f_3a7c91e2

Confirmed violation

PPC

Non-whitelisted affiliate intercepted brand search traffic and routed it to your own site under their tracking tag.

CPA charged

€200

Unearned commission, this finding.

Redirect hops

4

3 hidden before landing.

Estimated recoverable spend / month

€214,800

Illustrative aggregate across all findings for this brand.

captured 2026-05-28 06:14:09 UTC

sha-256 verified
04Why it’s different

Most tools do one part of the job.

Detection alone, or a screenshot, or one channel watched in isolation, leaves the loop open. BrandShield closes it end to end — detection, forensic evidence, and recovery — across PPC and SEO, with the anti-cloaking depth and regulator-grade proof the recovery step needs.

CapabilitySingle-purpose toolsBrandShield
  • DetectionFlags suspicious ads, but only on one channel (usually PPC).Detects across paid and organic, on Google and Bing.
  • Anti-cloaking depthDatacenter scans get shown the clean page and miss the hijack.Real browsers on geo-attested residential IPs see the real redirect.
  • Forensic evidenceA screenshot or an alert — not something a network will action.Full redirect chain, HAR, screenshots, hash-verified and timestamped.
  • RecoveryLeaves you to chase the affiliate network yourself.Evidence packs built for your network's compliance team and your regulator.
05The technology

It catches what manual checks and basic scanners miss.

The value isn’t a buzzword — it’s that the system runs without you and sees what’s deliberately hidden. Here is exactly what that means.

Always on

Runs continuously, 24/7

Brand hijacking isn't a one-time check. Monitoring runs every day across your markets, so a violation that surfaces on a Tuesday morning is captured that same day — not whenever someone remembers to look.

Anti-cloaking

Defeats cloaking

Hijackers gate their redirects by geo and device, showing scanners a clean page. Capturing through real browsers on residential IPs in your target market makes them show us the same chain they show your players.

Automated

Generates evidence automatically

Every confirmed violation is assembled into a complete, timestamped, hash-verified evidence pack without manual work — so the proof exists the moment the hijack does.

06Pricing

Buy points, run research.

1 research = 30 points = a full forensic scan of one brand in one region — every violation, court-grade evidence, and your estimated loss. No subscription, no seat math. You spend points only when you run a scan.

Founding rate · 50% off
$15/ research
$30·30 points · 1 brand, 1 region

Early customers get 50% off every point they buy — a real founding rate, not a fake countdown or a fake seat limit. It simply holds until we decide to end it for new signups, and we'll say so plainly if we ever do.

Get your free researchRun your first scan free — see your losses before you buy a point.

Start free

Every new account is a gift of 60 points — that's 2 free researches to start. No card, no expiry. Run your first scan, see the real findings, then buy points only if you want more.

30 pts$15$30= 1 researches
100 pts$45$90= 3 researches · +10 bonus
360 pts$150$300= 12 researches · +60 bonus
  • Every non-whitelisted affiliate intercepting that brand, unmasked
  • Full redirect chains with screenshots and timestamps
  • A hash-verified, court-grade evidence pack — your data to keep
07Free research

See your real losses on your first research — free.

Your starter points fund a full forensic scan of your brand in your real target market — the affiliates, the redirect chains, and the spend you could be recovering. No theoretical pitch. Your brand, your market, real findings.

No card · Real findings

The strongest proof we can offer is your own data. We run the scan, you keep the evidence — whether or not you ever buy a point. Once you've seen the real findings, buying points to keep scanning is the natural next step.

Get your free researchBuilt for operators with a $5–50M affiliate budget.
  • A live scan of your brand keywords in your real target markets
  • Every non-whitelisted affiliate intercepting your traffic, unmasked
  • Full redirect chains with screenshots and timestamps
  • An estimate of your recoverable spend, modeled on your own CPA