Protect Your Brand from Social Media Crises

Social media crises can damage your brand's reputation, harm customer trust, and disrupt operations. Handles helps you proactively detect and resolve threats to your online presence, so your brand remains safe, trusted, and in control.

The Risk of a Social Media Crisis for Your Brand

Impersonation, fraud, and account hijacking can significantly harm your brand's credibility and customer relationships. With online threats on the rise, brands face the constant risk of losing control over their social media presence.

Customer Confusion

Fake accounts and misinformation mislead your audience and damage their experience with your brand.

Legal & Compliance Issues

Unauthorized activity can result in regulatory violations or lawsuits.

Brand Dilution

Ongoing impersonation or fraud weakens your brand identity and market authority.

How Handles Helps You Manage Social Media Crises

Radar

Continuously monitor your brand's social footprint to detect impersonators, fraudulent accounts, and emerging threats before they escalate into a crisis.

1

Audit

2

Vault

3

Governance

4

Facebook

37

posts

16K

followers

0

following

@heights_new

Your Heights

Wrong handle

Instagram

3K

posts

547K

followers

214

following

@goingofficial

going ✈️

Fraud handle

TikTok

4

posts

153

followers

0

following

@ai.com_marketing

ai.com

Wrong handle

Before handles.ai

After handles.ai

Instagram

56

posts

16K

followers

12

following

@adidas_shoes_cheap

Your Heights

Fake account handle

Instagram

24

posts

8K

followers

122

following

@buyrolex

Your Heights

Fake account handle

TikTok

56

posts

83K

followers

472

following

@adidasshoes

Your Heights

Fake account handle

TikTok

431

posts

5K

followers

79

following

@adidasnew

Your Heights

Fake account handle

TikTok

23

posts

21K

followers

162

following

@solanacoinn

Your Heights

Fake account handle

Telegram

158

posts

9K

followers

38

following

@adidasbrasill

Your Heights

Fake account handle

woman staring directly at camera near pink wall

Sarah Mitchell

sarah.mitch@brand.com

Marketing Lead

person wearing blue top smiling

Oliver Schmidt

oliver.schmidt@brand.com

Backend Engineer

woman in white crew neck shirt

Sofia Rossi

sofia.rossi@gmail.com

Former Employee

grayscale photo of man

Daniel Park

daniel.park@brand.com

Designer

Brand

A woman with auburn hair looks over her shoulder.

Emily Chen

emily.chen@brand.com

Contractor

man wearing Lacoste zip-up hooded top

Lucas Moreau

lucas.mor21@outlook.com

Former Employee

woman in white crew neck shirt smiling

Priya Sharma

priya.sharma@brand.com

Growth

man in blue crew neck shirt

Mateo Alvarez

mateo.alvarez@brand.com

Software Engineer

Radar

Continuously monitor your brand's social footprint to detect impersonators, fraudulent accounts, and emerging threats before they escalate into a crisis.

1

Audit

2

Vault

3

Governance

4

Facebook

37

posts

16K

followers

0

following

@heights_new

Your Heights

Wrong handle

Instagram

3K

posts

547K

followers

214

following

@goingofficial

going ✈️

Fraud handle

Instagram

56

posts

16K

followers

12

following

@adidas_shoes_cheap

Your Heights

Fake account handle

Instagram

24

posts

8K

followers

122

following

@buyrolex

Your Heights

Fake account handle

TikTok

56

posts

83K

followers

472

following

@adidasshoes

Your Heights

Fake account handle

TikTok

431

posts

5K

followers

79

following

@adidasnew

Your Heights

Fake account handle

TikTok

23

posts

21K

followers

162

following

@solanacoinn

Your Heights

Fake account handle

Telegram

158

posts

9K

followers

38

following

@adidasbrasill

Your Heights

Fake account handle

woman staring directly at camera near pink wall

Sarah Mitchell

sarah.mitch@brand.com

Marketing Lead

person wearing blue top smiling

Oliver Schmidt

oliver.schmidt@brand.com

Backend Engineer

woman in white crew neck shirt

Sofia Rossi

sofia.rossi@gmail.com

Former Employee

grayscale photo of man

Daniel Park

daniel.park@brand.com

Designer

Brand

A woman with auburn hair looks over her shoulder.

Emily Chen

emily.chen@brand.com

Contractor

man wearing Lacoste zip-up hooded top

Lucas Moreau

lucas.mor21@outlook.com

Former Employee

woman in white crew neck shirt smiling

Priya Sharma

priya.sharma@brand.com

Growth

man in blue crew neck shirt

Mateo Alvarez

mateo.alvarez@brand.com

Software Engineer

How Adidas Prevented a Social Media Crisis with Handles

Adidas partnered with Handles to detect and neutralize threats across its social media presence at scale.

Protected 100M+ followers from impersonation and fraudulent activity.

Conducted 10M+ brand variant searches to detect and prevent misuse.

Removed 9,000+ fake social accounts in Phase 1, with 50,000 more projected by 2025.

Unified 250+ licensed handles under one management suite for full visibility.

Essential Features for Social Media Crisis Prevention

Map Your Social Ecosystem

Gain full visibility across your brand's social accounts and identify risks before they become crises.

Identify official accounts, partners, and impersonators across platforms.

Detect account overlap and squatted handles before issues escalate.

Surface hidden risks to enable proactive monitoring and brand protection.

Bring Order to Cross-Platform Chaos

Review and secure access to your social media accounts so you're not scrambling when a crisis hits.

Audit internal and external account permissions for safety.

Lock down business managers and sensitive account access.

Ensure compliance with your brand's security and governance policies.

Keep Your Handles Safe

Securely store verified accounts and brand assets to prevent misuse and speed up crisis response.

Manage all social media handles in one place.

Prevent unauthorized access and fraudulent activity.

Maintain full control over your brand's digital identity.

Manage Your Social Policies 

Enforce consistent policies and oversight so your team can respond to crises quickly and effectively.

Define team roles and account permissions clearly.

Monitor access and manage sensitive account controls.

Ensure adherence to governance standards and compliance rules.

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