Brand protection for regulated markets

Find it. Prove it.Take it down.

Brandfense finds the ads, sites and apps abusing your brand or your market, captures evidence anyone can inspect, and gets them removed — for licensed operators, regulators and the brands that scammers borrow.

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Ad ID

1081••••••••2037

Capture

Phone · DE2026-09-21 07:07 UTC

GGL whitelistimported 2026-09-22 02:16 UTC

Verdict

UnlicensedDestination is not on the licence registerAutomatic — a reviewer confirms before it is reported

Live from our system: the latest unlicensed ad we found. Ad ID partly redacted. 1,655 ads checked so far.

One service. Two halves.

Most tools either spot the problem or file the complaint. Brandfense does both, so the evidence that finds a case is the evidence that closes it.

Brandfense Watch

Every ad in your market, with the evidence behind it.

We read the ads published in Meta’s and TikTok’s ad libraries for your market, follow each one past the cloak to the real site, and check it against the national licence register.

Facebook and Instagram ads, including video
TikTok ads, with the advertiser’s legal entity and 13–17 targeting
Google Search, Display and YouTube cross-check
Licence registers: UK (UKGC), Netherlands (KSA), Germany (GGL)
Regulator-ready reports and CSV exports

Brandfense Takedown

The sites, apps and accounts behind them, removed.

We find the lookalike domains, cloned sites and fake apps using your name, file the abuse reports with the registrars, hosts and platforms that can remove them, and watch for them coming back.

Lookalike and phishing domains
Cloned sites and fake app-store listings
Impersonation pages and accounts
Search results and ads hijacking your brand
Evidence pack with every filing, and re-filing if it returns

How it works

01 · Find

Everything using your name, every few hours.

Ads from the platforms’ public libraries, new domains and apps, search results. We read all of it for your brands and your markets, not a sample.

02 · Prove

Frozen the moment we see it.

Creatives, video frames, voice-over, landing pages and the platform’s own record, archived on sight. Every file gets a SHA-256 fingerprint and a UTC timestamp. Cloaked links are opened the way a real player would see them: on a phone, from a home connection in that country.

03 · Check

Against the register, by rule.

“Unlicensed” means a real gambling site that is not on the national register. Anything uncertain — a Facebook page, an app store, a cookie wall — goes to a person as Unknown, never into a report.

04 · Take down

Reported where it can be removed. Watched after.

Ads go to the platform with their ad ID and evidence; sites and apps go to the registrar, host or store. Removed threats stay on watch, and we file again if they come back.

Who it’s for

Casino, sports betting and poker operators

You pay the tax and follow the rules. The black market advertises to your players anyway — sometimes with your name on it.

Weekly evidence of unlicensed ads in your markets, fake apps and sites using your brand, and the filings to remove them.

Sweepstakes and social casinos

The rules change state by state and month by month, and copycat sites trade on the brands players already trust.

Where each market stands today, lookalike domains and fake apps using your name found and taken down, and ads using your brand tracked.

Prediction markets

Regulators disagree on whether event contracts are gambling, and imitation apps and scam “markets” borrow your name to take deposits.

Impersonation sites, apps and ads found and removed, with an evidence pack for every case, and a market-by-market view of the rules.

Mystery box and collectibles platforms

Paid mystery boxes sit in a grey zone that some countries now treat as gambling — and clones copy your site, your drops and your name.

Cloned stores and fake giveaways taken down, and the markets where mystery boxes are restricted flagged before you advertise there.

Regulators

Your team reports illegal ads one at a time. The campaigns run for days and come back under new pages.

Every illegal ad in your market with the platform ad ID, the redirect chain to the real site, and the register result — ready to send.

Brands

Scam sites and fake apps borrow your name and your customers’ trust.

Lookalike domains, cloned pages and impersonation accounts found and removed, with an evidence pack for every case.

What arrives on your desk

Real screens from the live product. Operator names, ad IDs and creatives are blurred here; your team sees them in full.

Brandfense evidence page for one ad, with the evidence spine and an Unlicensed verdict

Brandfense findings list filtered to unlicensed ads

Platform ad ID: The identifier Meta or TikTok acts on, linked to its library entry.
Destination and redirect chain: Every hop from the ad to the real site.
Verdict and the rule behind it: Licensed, unlicensed, blacklisted or unknown — with the reason.
Human review, kept separate: Who confirmed it, when, and why.
Evidence manifest: Every file with its SHA-256 and capture time.
Reports, CSV and API: An A4 report for case files, CSV for bulk notices, an API for your systems.

Regulations

What the law says in 90 gambling markets.

Who licenses online gambling, whether advertising an unlicensed operator is an offence, and where the licence register is — with sources, checked 2026-09-21.

Popular: Great Britain · Netherlands · Germany · Brazil · Ontario, Canada · Spain

About Brandfense

A product of Aphex Media, part of Aphex Group.

Brandfense is built by Aphex Media, part of Aphex Group, for the people who carry the cost of illegal gambling advertising: the licensed operators who pay tax and follow the rules, the regulators who have to enforce them, and the brands whose names get borrowed.

We work from public sources — the platforms’ own ad libraries, national licence registers and the law of each market — and we show our working. Every finding keeps its evidence, every verdict names the rule behind it, and every case that is not clear-cut goes to a person before it goes into a report.

Evidence firstFiles hashed and timestamped at capture.
People in the loopUncertain cases are reviewed, never guessed.
Sources namedEvery figure and legal summary cites its source.

Pricing

Watch runs on credits: 1 credit = 1 gambling ad checked in 1 country. Ads we have already checked for you, and ads that turn out not to be gambling, cost nothing. Takedown is added per brand portfolio and scoped with you on the demo call.

Starter

One country

€2,500 / month

One country, fully monitored: evidence, regulator reports, CSV and API.

2,000 credits a month
Facebook, Instagram and TikTok ads, including video
Checked against the national licence register
Human review before anything goes into a report
Regulator-ready reports, CSV and API

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More countries, Takedown or a regulator?

Add markets, add Takedown for your brand portfolio, or monitor a whole jurisdiction as a regulator. We scope it with you on the demo call.

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Questions

Is Brandfense one product or two?

One service. Watch finds and proves the ads; Takedown removes the sites, apps and accounts behind them, using the same evidence. You can start with either.

Which markets do you cover?

Meta ads can be watched in any country; TikTok publishes ads for the EU and the UK. Licence checks run against the registers of the UK, the Netherlands and Germany today; more are added on request. Elsewhere, findings are marked Unknown until a register is loaded.

How do you get past cloaking?

We open every link the way a targeted player would: on a phone, through a residential connection in that country, recording each redirect. The page a regulator’s office would see is not the page we judge.

Is the evidence admissible?

That is for your lawyers and your hearing to judge. We make it inspectable: every file hashed and timestamped at capture, every verdict tied to the rule that produced it, and human review recorded separately.

Can we connect our own systems?

Yes. Clients, findings, evidence files and reports are available over an API, so your case management or dashboard can use them directly.