How STARS PARTNERS Crushed Ad Hijacking and Grew Organic Traffic by 75.8%
What Was Happening Behind the Scenes.
In June 2024, STARS PARTNERS, a fast-scaling iGaming brand, noticed something was off… We ran a scan. And found 20,000+ hijacking ads stealing branded traffic.
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Hijackers were bidding on brand terms
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Affiliates were delivering the brand traffic
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Low traffic from organic
Hijackers were bidding on brand terms
What We Did
We deployed AdFlagger’s Brand Protection , a scanning branded search 24/7, removing unauthorized ads, and tracking new hijacks.
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Global branded term monitoring
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Affiliate & cloaking detection
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Thousands of takedowns in days
Results After 60 Days
Once hijackers were gone, branded search became predictable again.
Conversions climbed. Noise dropped. ROI recovered.
Metric
Visits
Unique visitors
Organic traffic
Before us
123.9k
37.5k
6.6k
After
249.8k
49.3k
11.6%
Growth
+101%
+19%
75.8%
Why It Mattered
We removed over 120 domains and dozens of ads in 2 weeks. Organic traffic increased by 75.8%. It completely flipped the economics of their brand campaigns.
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