Case Study: Market Cube achieves automated bot-blocking and preserves data integrity with Distil Networks

Market Cube blocks major bot attack, ensures data integrity, and beats the competition with Distil Networks

Market Cube is an online market-research firm that runs proprietary panels of over a million respondents and delivers end-to-end survey and data services. Its business was threatened by sophisticated bot attacks that could generate fraudulent survey completions (worth up to $50 each), create traffic spikes that strained infrastructure and caused slowdowns, and ultimately undermine data integrity and client trust. Previous JavaScript-based defenses proved unreliable and added unacceptable latency.

Deploying Distil Networks’ Cloud CDN (a two‑week rollout) gave Market Cube automated bot detection, blocking and granular controls (proxy/data‑center blocking, rate limits, CAPTCHA and machine‑learning tuning) plus clear reporting. Distil automatically thwarted a major April attack—over 1.5 million bad‑bot requests—preventing fraudulent payouts and overnight incidents, eliminating site slowdowns, and helping Market Cube retain more clients by preserving clean, trustworthy data.

Market Cube

Alex Leger

VP Product