What's New

below you will find a summary of the improvements we’ve made to marcode recently we tend to have very short development cycles and often release changes to the app multiple times per day, so we update this page as we go january 2026 we're rolling out docid\ vnrtvslnwqf70pdzj4iel , which will automatically manage the keywords in your account to keep them aligned to where fraud is happening globally, seasonal product/brand search trends, and ensure that keywords are updated december 2025 for affiliate networks that support it, marcode now pulls in all information about click ids when we see them you must have previously connected marcode to your affiliate network for this to be enabled affiliates can now be automatically disabled in your affiliate network by a playbook (only for affiliate networks that support this) we plan to extend this functionality to flag fraudulent and hijacking affiliates in your affiliate network platform the dashboard was updated to better highlight the number of searches that had fraudulent and infringing ads task manager can now display arbitrary information on the task view our analysis process and ai agent is now much faster and more accurate marcode now extracts affiliate details from most brand bidding coupon sites browser extension analysis can now be configured to only run on certain domains we expect to release the ability to run it on certain subdirectories (i e domain com/de/) early next year users who create tasks are now automatically added to the task as the primary assignee this means that they should automatically recieve responses to emails sent to that task november 2025 our extension analysis infrastructure has had a significant upgrade which has enabled us to double the number of coupon extensions we're monitoring we're rolling the new system out to client accounts over the next two weeks we've released our beta domain squatting report (see lookalike domains) this monitors the internet for affiliates who own domains similar to yours, and who may be relying on mistypes or incorrectly created links the playbooks interface has been improved it's now much easier to edit playbooks; we've added the ability to add/remove a user to the task automatically several small quality of life improvements to the settings section quick search across the organisations and brands page; easier keyword management; october 2025 we’ve released playbooks, our sequencing and automation feature to beta playbooks allow you to configure actions to take when affiliates are seen hijacking or brand bidding, so that you can, for example, send a first warning, second warning, and report ads to google without clicking a button we’re rolling playbooks out to all accounts over the next few weeks, but let us know if you’d like access now the data that appears in reports can now be customised on all pages custom settings will appear for everyone in the account, so you can set a view that works for your team we’re still adding new datapoints, so let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see marcode can now send you notifications about new advertisers who appear in the css & shopping report we’ve overhauled our settings page to make it easier for you to manage the keywords in your account, and tweak how your account works september 2025 from the task manager, you can now create email drafts and schedule emails to be sent at a later date coupon patterns have been renamed to coupon categories the coupons list can now be filtered by a category, and we have linked the categories chart on the coupons overview page with with coupons list for easy navigation august 2025 we’ve improved our bing searching we’re now able to see more ads in bing, and find more hijacking in the ads that we do see the search page viewer has had an upgrade, and now better signposts what ads were seen on the page july 2025 we’ve drastically improved the reliability of coupon site analyses, and will be rolling out the improvements to other types of analyses shortly automated reports to google now return the case number this is currently being saved to the task, and we will roll out a way to export cases in the future june 2025 we’ve spent a significant amount of time improving the speed and reliability of our data and analytics system this should lead to faster load times and decreased initial wait periods we hope to release this in early july improved our coverage of coupon site and extensions with improved affiliate detail extraction we are planning an additional release for next month may 2025 shopping and css providers have been moved out of the hijacking advertisers report to its own report, due to an increase in css ads across searches this change should make it easier to see fraudulent affiliates tasks email templates have been moved from the ‘actions’ menu to near the email form marcode has had a facelift! our new branding is now being rolled out across our website and app april 2025 the coupon list can now be exported in the same way as other reports creating and deleting tasks has been optimised to reduce delays in the app new filter option in reports so you can show/hide ads that have actions attached to them automatically submit reports to google when an ad is in violation of a google policy when creating or tagging a task relating to a google ad, you can set choose to send a report to google a comment is added to the tasks to confirm the submission march 2025 🗑️ you can now now delete a task from the action board ✉️ send and receive task email improvements including set a cc email address when sending an email and see any cc email addresses in replies send to multiple email addresses email replies will be automatically forward to the email inbox for all task members keyword grouping has been released you can create and manage groups for your keywords, then view reports for your individual groups february 2025 improved exports for the affiliate reports you can now see keywords, cleaner affiliate details, the final url, and more 🏷️ custom tags have been added to the task management system now you can create your own tags and define where they appear / how they look next we’ll be working on the responsiveness of the system and improving the speed of creating new tasks january 2025 ✅ the task management system has been released we’re planning several upgrades to this over the next couple of months, but this currently allows you to create a task for an advertiser or affiliate, track it in the action board, send & track emails, and collaborate with your team read more here 🚀 we’ve released a fairly major update to our underlying analytics system, which should reuse some indexed data to make the app load faster and should improve general performance december 2024 ✅ we’re building out our task management and automated actions system this is a fairly major upgrade, so we don’t anticipate releasing it until january november 2024 🔑 role based access control (rbac) is now available this means that you can add users to your account while only giving them access to certain brands or data rbac is important for many businesses such as agencies or multi brand businesses who do not want all users to access all brands additionally, this feature introduces roles to the user system, meaning you can create some users as admins and others as view only users 🤖 our new ai analysis assistant has been released for ads to coupon & discount sites this will automatically navigate through the website to uncover the affiliate details of these sites the assistant is still experimental, so does not always find a code the first time, and gets particularly lost when the coupon site does not actually have any affiliate details to find (i e those which push users to install a browser extension instead) 💰 we released the “coupon and discount ads” report to help you identify coupon sites who are bidding on keywords that they should be not october 2024 📊 we’re testing our looker studio (aka data studio) connector and hope to release this in november contact us if you would like to test & feedback on the early version 💸 we’ve built an ai powered crawler that will identify brand bidders running coupon sites, and automatically extract their affiliate details 🕷 the crawler is now more reliably detecting a wide range of hijackers in the uk and us 🔬 we’ve made some behind the scenes improvements to the ad analysis platform to extract affiliate details from non hijacking brand bidders (such as coupon sites) 🧪 improved the ad analysis interface to better highlight the extracted affiliate parameters and hide less important details 🪰 fixed a bug in the crawler that was causing some keywords to be searched more than they should have been this resulted in a slight decrease in trends for us tracked keywords september 2024 📰 the affiliate details screen and exports now contain a sample ad so that you can quickly understand the messaging that is being used 🕷 a new crawling strategy was rolled out in early september that improved the amount of ads seen for some brands 🧑‍🎨 many design and usability improvements to make your life easier redesigned app landing page (where you select a brand) improved and reorganised brand dashboard screen reworked ad analysis results page to better highlight the most important information 🌴 alec spent two weeks soaking up the sun (and rain) in costa rica 🍕 andy took some time off in sicily 👨 our newest team member, matt, joined the team to help us take marcode to the world august 2024 📧 we rolled out an improved notification system and two new types of emails instant notifications and periodic summaries we will expand this to finally include slack and teams notifications in q4 🔬 drastically improved ad analysis system we are still able to extract 100% of affiliate details from hijackers, but now we have the tools to extract affiliate details from non hijacking brand bidders (i e discount sites) 💁 we rolled out this new help centre to replace the old & underutilised live chat 💰 we’re currently beta testing a way to see what discounts and sales your competitors are running, and identify how they are enticing your customers away this will launch to most customers later in the year … that’s all! we moved to this system in mid august 2024, so older updates are documented elsewhere