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From Reactive to Ready: The 5 Steps to Protecting Your Beauty Brand Online

Beauty brands are scaling faster than ever, but with growth comes greater exposure to counterfeiters, copycats, unauthorised sellers and brand impersonation. In this article, we explore 5 practical steps brands can take to move from reactive enforcement to proactive brand protection — from embedding protection into the NPD lifecycle and safeguarding innovation before launch, to monitoring social commerce, prioritising high-risk threats and protecting consumer trust. The blog also outlines seven key questions beauty brands should ask when choosing a brand protection provider.

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DFYNE Authenticity: The Fight Against Counterfeits and Copycats

As DFYNE rapidly grew into one of the UK’s fastest-growing activewear brands, so did the threat of counterfeits, copycats and online dupes. With infringement spreading across e-commerce and social media, DFYNE partnered with SnapDragon to combine AI-powered monitoring with specialist enforcement.

The result? A 98% enforcement success rate, more than 18,454 fake listings removed, and 1,600+ pieces of dupe content taken down in the last 12 months—helping DFYNE protect its brand reputation, customer trust and continued growth.

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SnapDragon: Protecting Beauty Innovation and Consumer Safety on TikTok Shop
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Protecting Beauty Innovation and Consumer Safety webinar

Watch this on-demand webinar from SnapDragon and TikTok Shop, featuring cosmetic chemist Kelly Dobos, to discover how beauty brands can protect innovation, consumer safety and brand equity as social commerce accelerates the spread of beauty dupes, counterfeits and imitation products.

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Expert Insights: The Counterfeiting Trends Shaping Summer

For many brands, summer is synonymous with increased consumer spending.
Holiday bookings surge, outdoor events fill calendars, and demand rises for everything from event tickets to fashion and cosmetic products. Unfortunately, this seasonal upshift in consumer purchasing also creates fresh opportunities for counterfeiters. Learn about the latest counterfeit trends affecting brands this summer.

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Beauty AI Diagnostic Models: The New Counterfeit Attack Route

For years, the beauty industry’s battle against counterfeits has focused on fake products, copied packaging and unauthorised online sellers.
But the counterfeit landscape is changing.
As brands invest in AI-powered skin diagnostics, personalised skincare recommendations and virtual beauty consultations, counterfeiters are finding new ways to exploit consumer trust—long before a purchase is made.

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