ClickCease

ClickCease is click fraud protection software for Google, Microsoft and Meta ads, with WordPress bot blocking and HubSpot lead checks. Owned by CHEQ.

ClickCease stops advertisers from paying for clicks that will never turn into customers, such as bots, competitors and click farms clicking on paid ads. Founded in 2014, it was acquired by CHEQ in 2020 and still runs on its own site under its own name. Its job is to protect a pay-per-click budget and keep the leads that budget buys genuine. The core is ad protection, which analyses every click on Google Ads, Microsoft Ads and Meta Ads campaigns in real time. It looks at device fingerprints and on-site behavior, flags click farms, VPN and proxy visitors and competitor clicking, then pushes bad IP addresses and audience segments to each platform's exclusion lists automatically. Bot mitigation extends the same protection to WordPress sites, covering landing pages as well as campaigns. Lead Shield validates every HubSpot form submission and either blocks a fake lead or flags it with a risk score. Reporting can be read per domain, for selected domains or across the whole account, and flagged clicks come with a report that can be submitted to Google. Every plan includes the Pixel Guard Connector, and higher plans add agency permissions, the Account overview and white-label reporting. ClickCease is built for businesses that run their own paid campaigns and feel every wasted click. Starter suits a small company advertising one website, Pro a growing business or agency handling several sites and clients, and Advanced a high-traffic advertiser that wants in-person onboarding. It is sold as a monthly subscription whose tiers rise with the number of websites, the protected traffic and the HubSpot leads checked, with a short trial before the first charge. Brands with very large audiences are pointed to CHEQ's own enterprise offer instead. A marketer connects the ad accounts once and lets the exclusion lists update while campaigns run. A search advertiser watches Google Ads and Microsoft Ads spend stop leaking to repeat clickers, while a social team keeps fraudulent audiences out of Meta Ads Manager. A WordPress site owner uses it to keep bots off landing pages, and a sales team on HubSpot sees fewer fake contacts reach its pipeline. Agencies use the white-label reports to show each client what was blocked on its behalf.