AI-Supported Brand Protection: Detecting Counterfeit Products on Marketplaces with CounterShield™
Marketplaces are essential to brand sales volume, visibility and growth. However, they also concentrate counterfeit products, unauthorised sellers and grey-market flows more heavily than other…
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2️⃣ AI brand protection: counterfeit detection with CounterShield™
Marketplaces are essential to brand sales volume, visibility and growth.
However, they also concentrate counterfeit products, unauthorised sellers and grey-market flows more heavily than other channels.
Scanning stores, taking screenshots and collecting links individually is no longer sustainable or measurable.
B10 Digital’s CounterShield™ platform scans every brand listing using AI,
automatically classifies counterfeit/suspicious products and prepares legal evidence files as
an end-to-end AI brand protection infrastructure.
As of 2025, products of a single brand can be listed in dozens of marketplaces, by hundreds of vendors:
- 🛍️ Multiple marketplace coverage: Trendyol, Hepsiburada, Amazon, N11, ÇiçekSepeti, AliExpress, Zalando and others.
- ♻️ Dynamic prices: Bots and promotions cause prices to change constantly, even within a day.
- 🧩 Manipulated listings: False listings with omitted/misspelled brand names, cropped logos or filtered images.
- 🚨 Grey market: Parallel imports outside warranty that disrupt pricing strategy.
Tracking all this manually is nearly impossible.
CounterShield™ steps in:
comes in: by analysing texts, visuals, price behaviours and vendor history together, it marks risky ads within milliseconds.
Traditional brand protection is based on the "action taking when the complaint comes".
CounterShield™ scans marketplaces around the clock to identify risky listings before complaints arise.
Thus, the brand manages the process without losing its legal position, without breaking its price strategy, and without damaging reputation. ⚙️ How does CounterShield™ Marketplace Engine Work?
The system addresses brand visibility in marketplaces in three layers:
- 1️⃣ Listing Intelligence:
Scans titles, descriptions, categories, variants, prices and seller details;
detects similar brand spellings, wrong categories and aggressive discounts. - 2️⃣ Visual Fingerprint:
Uses original product images as references to derive a visual fingerprint ;
matches images with erased/cropped logos or new backgrounds. - 3️⃣ Risk Scoring Engine:
Analyses seller history, price anomalies, reviews, shipping origin and stock behaviour to generate
a 0–100 counterfeiting risk score for each listing.
Brand teams can focus on
high-risk listings rather than getting lost among hundreds of offers.
- ❌ Deliberately misspelled brand names such as “Gues” or “Guesss”.
- 🧪 Listings without genuine product codes/serial numbers, with copied or corrupted descriptions.
- 📉 Products that are sold well below the official distributor price, are likely to be out of warranty.
- 🧺 Mixed product baskets offered with different brand/product visuals.
- 🗺️ Listings shipped from another country, described as “genuine” but showing grey-market signals.
- Detection Coverage: Market and category ratio covered by scanning.
- High-risk match rate: Percentage of counterfeit/inappropriate listings flagged and verified by AI.
- Price integrity index: Compliance with the official pricing policy.
- Takedown success rate: Proportion of listings removed after reports.
These metrics show not only how protection feels but
its actual success.
Every suspicious listing detected by AI is converted into a file that the brand team can use legally:
- 📸 Announcement screenshots (date stamped)
- 🔗 Product link, vendor link and store ID
- 💬 Seller statements, user comments
- 💶 Price history and discount behaviour
LegalSync™ integration packages this evidence
for lawyers, brand owners and marketplace reporting portals in the correct format.
Instead of Excel and screenshot confusion, this creates a standard, repeatable process.
B10 Digital brings Turkish and global marketplaces into one CounterShield™ dashboard:
- 🇹🇷 Trendyol, Hepsiburada, N11, ÇiçekSepeti, PttAVM and others.
- 🇪🇺 Zalando, Otto, Bol, Allegro etc.
- 🌍 Amazon, eBay, Aliexpress and regional platforms.
Each marketplace has different reporting formats, evidence standards and response times.
CounterShield™ handles these differences behind the scenes, providing one dashboard to answer
"What marketplace, how many suspicious ads, where are we?" via a single dashboard.
Counterfeit detection requires more than finding individual links. It needs
AI risk scanning, score-based prioritisation and
a brand protection architecture automating legal workflows.
B10 Digital’s CounterShield™
offers scalable, sustainable protection against counterfeiting, grey-market flows and price erosion.
Sources and related documents
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