With standard bot mitigation
Speedy bots outpace detection
Blocked bots quickly retool
Customers get long waits & lower odds
Separate tools fail to work effectively together
With Hype Event Protection
Expand detection for better accuracy
Hide detection to prevent retooling
Ensure fairer sales with shorter waits
Akamai & Queue-it work in unison to stop bots
- Detect and categorize malicious traffic with high accuracy already in your waiting room
- Overcome bots' speed advantages with Queue-it's traffic control, giving Akamai Bot Manager more time & telemetry to identify bad actors
- Layer your defenses by combining Queue-it's suite of bots & abuse features with Akamai Bot Manager
- Keep detection invisible to prevent re-tooling and increase botters' compute resources
- Trigger mitigation only once the sale opens, after visitors are randomized and assigned a spot in queue
- Choose to hard block bots or force them to rejoin at the back of the first-in-first-out queue, behind genuine customers who arrived on time for the sale
"Hype Event Protection helped us put more tickets in the hands of real fans, giving them a fairer, faster onsale experience."
Paul Cosgriff, Global Head of Technical Operations, Ticketek
2 Mil+
bots blocked in one sale
98%
of traffic identified as bots & blocked
50x
higher chance for real customers
* Based on a 2025 analysis of a ticket sale run with Hype Event Protection by a top European ticketing company. See the results.
Lobby
Visitors confirm their presence and join enter the waiting room for the sale. In the background, Akamai Bot Manager will categorize each visitor by risk level.
Pre-queue
Visitors see a countdown timer to the start of the sale. When the countdown reaches 00:00 genuine visitors are randomized and sent to the online queue while malicious users are mitigated.
Queue
Genuine visitors get their position in the customizable waiting room and receive detailed wait information. Access for any arrivals after the start time is on a first-in, first-out basis, ensuring genuine visitors who showed up on time retain their advantage.
Suspicious traffic
Visitors that Akamai’s Bot Manager categorized as malicious can be hard blocked or allowed to rejoin at the back of the queue, ensuring fairness and transparency for genuine customers.
