2026-07
Sonar 2.0: public betaNEW
Our detection engine's biggest upgrade: coverage across every major search market, more reliable detection across languages and regions, and fresh case files in minutes once you are monitoring. Included free in Pro.
Changelog
What shipped, and when.
Where AdCrime came from, and everything we have shipped since. Newest first. High level on purpose: what it does for you, not how it works.
2026-07
The State of Affiliate Brand-Bidding 2026NEW
Our first public data report from the detection corpus: thousands of branded-search ads examined across fourteen countries, with the patterns, the networks, and the concentration of offenders laid out in full.
2026-07
Sharper publisher-ID extractionIMPROVED
Classification now resolves the static publisher account more consistently across networks, so more detections ship with the exact ID your affiliate manager forwards to compliance.
2026-06
Intelligence HubNEW
A public library on reading affiliate-fraud evidence: redirect chains, publisher IDs, and tracking parameters, explained for affiliate managers.
2026-06
Report dossier polishIMPROVED
PDF case files got a cleaner evidence layout: publisher and merchant details surfaced up front, tighter page flow, and a forwarding-ready summary page.
2026-05
Email digests redesignedIMPROVED
Scan digests, enforcement updates, and onboarding mails moved to a single dossier-style template with clearer verdicts and case references.
2026-04
Coverage across more marketsIMPROVED
Monitoring expanded to more of the countries where interception actually happens, so a brand's blind spots abroad get watched as closely as its home market.
2026-03
More reliable detectionIMPROVED
A reliability pass meant fewer missed ads and steadier results run to run, especially on the busy coupon and promo queries where interception clusters.
2026-02
AdCrime goes liveNEW
The free brand scan opens to the public: tell us your brand, and we return a full case file of the affiliates bidding on it, with evidence, within 24 hours.
2025-12
First brands monitoredMILESTONE
A closed pilot put the engine on real brands' terms for the first time, running quietly and shipping evidence to a handful of programs.
2025-11
Confidence scoringNEW
The classifier learned to grade every detection: confirmed interception with hard attribution on one side, competitors and legitimate ads cleared on the other, and the uncertain cases labeled honestly.
2025-10
Evidence capture, end to endMILESTONE
The full case file came together: the ad as served, the redirect chain from click to landing page, the tracking parameters, the publisher ID, and screenshots of both ends.
2025-08
From script to systemMILESTONE
The rough prototype became a real, repeatable detection engine, able to run a brand's terms and follow every ad to where it actually went.
2025-05
Committed to building itMILESTONE
Nights-and-weekends research turned into a real project. If affiliate managers could not see this problem, we would build the thing that showed them.
2025-02
Mapping the networksMILESTONE
Months of digging into how the affiliate networks encode a publisher's account, so that a captured link could be turned back into a name a compliance team could actually act on.
2024-11
The first prototypeMILESTONE
A rough tool that followed a single affiliate's redirect chain by hand, just to prove the trail from a hijacked click back to the account being paid could be captured at all.
2024-08
The idea takes shapeMILESTONE
After watching affiliates bid on a brand's own name and quietly skim commission on customers it already had, the question that started AdCrime: why can nobody see who is doing this?
Questions about a release? mario@adcrime.com