Protect Your Lead

In a competitive industry, like sport and wellness that is built around delivering results, reactive brand protection is too late. The key is to initiate ongoing brand protection before product launches, and long before counterfeit and impersonation threats gain ground.

This ensures that innovative products always outpace counterfeiters, meet the consumer demand they’ve rightly earned, and protect market position and revenue.

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The Challenge

Counterfeiters are researching and tracking your products before you even go live.

Innovation is an expensive and effort intensive competitive lead. Yet, counterfeiters can now reach global marketplaces and social media within hours of a new product launching. By exploiting your high-intent and excited consumer traffic and bypassing safety standards. They don’t just steal sales and revenue; they hijack your brand’s growth and destroy consumer trust. 
 
When a counterfeit product fails, your brand takes the blame. Protecting your lead requires moving upstream, securing your innovation long before it hits the shelf to protect your revenue, customer trust, and reputation. 
 
Download the Sport Industry Anti-Counterfeit Factsheet to understand how fakes hit the market so fast and use our 5-point assessment to audit your brand’s defences.
 

Impersonation doesn’t need to outrank your brand to hurt you. It just needs to exist alongside you in search, on social, and at a time that matters most to your fans.

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Why Brand Impersonation Often Goes Undetected

Search is an infrastructure that connects billions of data points, making the signals of impersonation fragmented and difficult to detect. First there is weakened brand visibility. Then there is demand capture leakage. Authority fragmentation. Poor experiences for fans. Impact on trust - when consumers buy counterfeit products, (knowingly or unknowingly), 44% say the decline in trust can be immediate.

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purchases made from fake ads

On-Demand Webinar

Protecting Innovation and Creativity in Sport

Watch the recording of the live webinar discussion held in April and hear from experts Mary Kernohan from SnapDragon, and Tiphaine Grosse from Amazon who met live from the International Anti-Counterfeit Conference in Florida, to discuss the critical role of IP and brand protection in safeguarding innovations against increasingly sophisticated fake threats.

The session uncovers how Amazon’s Brand Registry serves as a powerful tool for taking swift action against infringing listings – even for pending trademarks, how we use AI, the importance of consumer education and more.

Why SnapDragon?

Industry Averages

Corsearch, Red Points, MarqVision etc

Adaptive Strategy

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Tailored & Flexible

A bespoke programme that remains flexible to align with your specific business needs.

Scale-Driven Results

Typically report 80%–90% success rates, often prioritised by high-volume automation.

Proven Efficacy

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98% Enforcement Rate

Choice of self-service or managed models with a fully transparent dashboard.

Standardised Frameworks

Often utilise pre-set "Service Tracks" or tiered packages with fixed operational scopes.

Client-Led Tech

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Collaborative R&D

Our development pipeline is directly informed and prioritised by our clients.

Provider-Led R&D

Roadmap is generally driven by internal AI scaling and broad market feature releases.

Total Visibility

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Transparent Management

Choice of self-service or managed models with a fully transparent dashboard.

SaaS-First Models

Primarily platform-centric, high-touch managed services often require premium enterprise uplift.

Empowered Experts

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Dedicated ROI Partners

Responsive experts empowered to ensure every brand receives measurable ROI.

Account Management

Standard support via Customer Success Managers (CSMs) focusing on platform adoption.

Linguistic Advantage

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18+ Native Languages

Direct communication in China, SEA, and Europe, significantly accelerating takedown times.

English-Centric / AI Trans

Heavy reliance on English filings or automated translation, which can impact regional speed.

Strategic Insight

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Deep-Dive Reporting

Detailed ROI, YoY brand health comparisons, and country-specific breakdowns.

Automated Reporting

Standardised dashboards focused on real-time detection counts and automated takedown volume.

Proven Commitment

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90%+ Client Retention

A 3-year track record of consistently delivering against all client expectations.

Standard SaaS Retention

Leading enterprise platforms typically see retention rates between 80% and 85%.

“We don’t just flag infringements; we interpret the landscape, navigate local marketplace bureaucracy in native languages, and execute the takedown. In an industry that averages an 80% success rate, we deliver 98%, so you can protect your lead”

SnapDragon experts offer a free brand protection consultations

Mary Kernohan

Chief Commercial Officer
SnapDragon

Learn how global sports and wellness brands protect their lead

We protect our clients brands, globally and at scale.

The real risks facing the
sport and wellness industry online

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Unsafe counterfeits

Poor quality materials, harmful chemicals and missing certifications

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Lookalikes & knockoffs

Copycat packaging and near-identical product imagery

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Unauthorised sellers

Channel conflict and price erosion

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Artwork misuse

Design, artwork, and brand assets used without permission

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Impersonation

Fake storefronts, social accounts, and customer-support scams

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Phishing sites

Deceptive domains designed to imitate your brand and harvest payment or personal information

What brands gain by taking control of infringement

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Fewer counterfeit listings

Fewer counterfeit and impersonation listings across your priority channels

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Better
trust

Stronger customer confidence, fewer negative reviews, and a drop in returns.

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Stronger
brand protection

Greater control over your digital shelf, more predictable enforcement, and a safer brand presence online.

Coverage

Coverage that protects every corner of your digital shelf

Our award-winning brand protection software combines expert agility with AI precision to find and remove threats wherever they appear.

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Marketplace

We monitor global marketplaces at speed, using AI to identify counterfeit and unauthorised listings, and enforcing fast removals to keep dangerous products away from families.

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Social Media

Our AI scans major social platforms for impersonations, fake promotions, and misleading ads, taking them down quickly to protect parents, children, and your brand reputation.

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Domains

We provide always-on domain monitoring to detect trademark-infringing URLs, copycat sites, and phishing risks, stopping deceptive pages before they mislead customers.

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Trademarks

We safeguard your brand assets by identifying unauthorised use of your trademarks across digital channels and enforcing your rights with speed and accuracy.

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Anti-Counterfeit

Our team and technology work together to uncover counterfeit operations, escalating high-risk infringements and removing dangerous products from circulation.

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App Store

We track global app stores to detect fake, malicious, or unauthorised apps, removing them quickly to protect your customer experience and your brand integrity.

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Resources to help you protect your lead

Articles, guides, and analysis to strengthen your digital shelf and stop counterfeit activity.

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Protecting Innovation and Creativity in Sport

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Protecting Innovation in Sport with IP and Brand Protection – On-Demand Webinar

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Brand Protection Notebook: Exploring the Brand Protection Platform

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How Evolving Counterfeit Risks Are Reshaping Brand Protection Strategies and Consumer Trust

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Creator-Led Dupe Culture in Beauty: What OLAPLEX has Taught us About Brand Trust

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The New Age of Brand Risk: AI is Not Just Challenging Trademarks, it is Challenging Trust