Competitors and rogue affiliates bid on your brand terms — outside your business hours, on mobile, in countries you're not watching. We sample your branded search results relentlessly and hand you the evidence.
Hijackers aren't careless. Evasion is standard practice — and it defeats manual spot checks completely.
They run ads at 2–6am your time and pause during your office hours. Every daytime check you make looks clean.
They target Germany, the UK, Canada — everywhere except the city your team sits in. A VPN check samples one place, once.
Google doesn't serve every ad on every search. Even a live hijack campaign shows on a fraction of queries — catching it takes repeated sampling, not luck.
Your brand terms, queried across countries and devices several times a day — the cadence evasion tactics can't hide from.
Every third-party ad is logged with screenshot, advertiser domain, country, device, timestamp — and the redirect chain that exposes affiliate IDs.
Weekly evidence report, or same-day alerts. File a trademark complaint with Google, or hand your network the proof to cut a rogue affiliate.
Two anonymized examples from live sampling runs — the same evidence format paying customers receive.
A CRM vendor bidding on a rival's brand name — with the rival's trademark in the headline. Takedown-eligible via Google's trademark complaint process. Visible in one US city, absent in two others sampled the same hour.
A coupon aggregator running ads on a VPN brand's terms, capturing buyers who had already decided — the classic pattern that inflates affiliate payouts for traffic the brand owned.
Brands anonymized on this public page. Your report includes full screenshots, advertiser domains, and raw SERP data.
Every incumbent in this space sells through demo bookings and sales calls. We publish our prices and let the evidence sell.
| HijackWatch | Bluepear | BrandVerity | Marcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $99/mo | $199/mo | ~$700+/mo | $850/mo |
| Buying process | Self-serve, cancel anytime | Trial + sales follow-up | Demo required | Demo required |
| Multi-country sampling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filable evidence | ✓ screenshots + redirect chains | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Competitor pricing from public listings (Capterra / vendor sites), checked August 2026. We're new and small — that's why we're cheap, not because the sampling is worse.
Start with the free scan — every plan begins with evidence, not a contract.
They're built for SEO research: they crawl roughly once a day from a handful of locations, and ads aren't their focus. A hijacker who dayparts or geo-targets is invisible at that cadence. Catching them requires ad-focused sampling several times a day across the specific countries where your buyers are.
It only shows domains that entered the same auctions as your own campaigns — with no ad copy, no screenshots, no landing pages, and no affiliate IDs. It can hint that something is happening; it can't prove who, where, or what they're running.
Every third-party ad we captured on your terms: screenshot, advertiser display domain, country, device, timestamp, and the redirect chain (which exposes affiliate network IDs when the ad routes through one). Plus an honest blind-spot note: what we didn't cover and why continuous monitoring closes it.
If they used your trademark in the ad copy — yes, Google's trademark complaint process accepts exactly this evidence. If they're an affiliate breaking your program terms, your network needs the affiliate ID and proof, which the redirect chain provides. Pure brand bidding without trademark use isn't a policy violation, but knowing who's doing it changes how you bid and who you partner with.
The underlying SERP sampling costs a few dollars per month per brand at today's API prices. Incumbents charge enterprise prices because they sell through sales teams. We're a small operation with no sales team — you're paying for sampling and evidence, not demos.
Then you get a clean report — which is genuinely useful, and free. Hijacking spikes around promo seasons and new affiliate cohorts, so many customers start monitoring after a clean scan precisely to catch the day that changes.
We'll sample your brand terms across 5 countries for a week and email you the evidence — screenshots included. No card, no call.
The only question is whether you can see who's bidding. Start with the evidence — it's free.
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