Affiliate fraud, from the evidence side

One coupon site, many networks: what an affiliate network termination actually removes

Affiliate subnetworks, and what you can check from outside

Your Affiliate Network Won't Claw Back the Money — So the Validation Window Is the Only Clock That Matters

From Screenshot to Terminated Publisher: How Affiliate Brand-Bidding Enforcement Actually Works (and the Three Places It Breaks)

Anatomy of a Brand-Bidding Operation: How One Affiliate Becomes a Thousand Front Doors

How Affiliates Hide Brand Bidding: Geo-Targeting, Dayparting, and Cloaking (and Why Your SERP Check Comes Back Clean)

How to Read an Affiliate Redirect Chain

Publisher IDs, click hashes, and the one difference that gets a fraudster terminated.

The State of Affiliate Brand-Bidding 2026: September Edition

71,858 paid ads on brand-name searches in 16 markets, February to September 2026, followed to where they landed. 42.8% were an affiliate intercepting a customer who had already chosen the brand.

Impact Partner ID, Explained: How to Find the Affiliate Account Behind a Brand-Bidding Ad (impact.com)

CJ Publisher ID, Explained: How to Find the Affiliate Account Behind a Brand-Bidding Ad (Commission Junction)

Awin Publisher ID, Explained: How to Find the Affiliate Account Behind a Brand-Bidding Ad

The Coupon Affiliate Playbook: How "[Brand] + Coupon" Bidding Works, and How to Stop It

Can a Competitor — or an Affiliate — Legally Bid on Your Brand Name? The 2026 Reality

VPN Affiliate Fraud: How Coupon Sites Bid on Your Brand and Bill You Twice

Banned by every major VPN program, and happening anyway: the commission math, the cloaked redirect chain, and the publisher ID that ends it.

The PayPal Honey Lawsuit, Explained for Affiliate Managers: Last-Click Hijacking and What It Means for Your Program