iDudes Research

What’s the REAL condition of your lines?

Field-tested research on CNAM, STIR/SHAKEN, spam analytics, and contact-rate optimization, written by agents, for agents. Published by the Insurance Dudes Research Team.

LineShield number-reputation dashboard showing a spam-risk gauge at HIGH, a heatmap of flagged numbers, and a 42% answer rate, next to a phone with an incoming call labeled SCAM LIKELY

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Deliverability·Aug 24, 2026

Call Verified by Carrier: What the Checkmark Really Means

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Technical·Aug 17, 2026

Free CNAM Lookup: See the Caller Name Your DID Shows

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Compliance·Aug 10, 2026

FCC Third-Party Rule Compliance: The 2026 Checklist

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Compliance·Aug 3, 2026

TCPA Consent Rules for Insurance Agencies: 2026 Update

Vintage telecom console with cyan clean-number indicators and coral-red flagged-number lights.

Deliverability·Jul 27, 2026

15-Minute DID Audit: Catch Spam Flags Before Producers Do

Vintage telecom console with DID health bays, cyan clean routes, coral-red flagged numbers.

Operations·Jul 21, 2026

How Many DIDs Does Your Insurance Agency Dialer Need?

Vintage telecom console showing attestation routes with cyan A-level and coral-red flagged paths.

Regulation·Jul 20, 2026

FCC KYUP Rules: What Insurance Agency Dialers Need to Know

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Deliverability·Jul 13, 2026

How Dialer Retry Intervals Affect Caller ID Reputation

Retro telecom console, three carrier bays, cyan routes and coral flagged quarantine.

Operations·Jul 6, 2026

Multi-Carrier Dialer Strategy for Insurance Agencies

Retro telecom console: revenue-loss meter, cyan clean routes, coral-red quarantine bay.

Strategy·Jul 4, 2026

What Spam-Likely Labels Cost Your Insurance Agency

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Compliance·Jul 1, 2026

How Insurance Agents Fix Numbers Flagged Spam Likely

Vintage telecom console with upstream verification chains and coral-red quarantine bay indicators.

Regulation·Jun 29, 2026

What the FCC KYUP FNPRM Means for Agency Outbound Dialers

Telecom console warming new DIDs, clean cyan routes rising past flagged red ones.

Deliverability·Jun 22, 2026

How to Warm Up New Phone Numbers for Outbound Dialing

Retro compliance desk with consent logs and do-not-call binders

Compliance·Jun 22, 2026

TCPA Compliance Guide for Insurance Agent Dialers 2026

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Compliance·Jun 22, 2026

STIR/SHAKEN Attestation A, B, and C for Insurance Agents

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Reputation·Jun 22, 2026

Why Insurance Agent Calls Get Flagged as Spam Likely

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Dialer·Jun 22, 2026

Outbound Dialer Stack Guide for Insurance Agents 2026

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Caller ID·Jun 22, 2026

CNAM and Caller ID Reputation Guide for Insurance Agents

Split telecom console showing completing call routes in cyan and blocked routes in red

Operations·Jun 15, 2026

What Call Completion Rate Reveals About Caller-ID Reputation

Telecom console with a green STIR/SHAKEN checkmark and coral-red flags for removed providers

Compliance·Jun 8, 2026

Why the FCC Robocall Database Affects Your Agency's Calls

Reputation switchboard showing attestation cells with cyan clean routes and red flagged lanes

Deliverability·Jun 1, 2026

How Do Carriers Calculate Your Caller-ID Reputation Score?

Telecom console showing AI-call attestation cells with coral-flagged numbers routed to quarantine

Compliance·May 25, 2026

AI Voice Calls: The TCPA Rule That Gets Agents Fined

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Compliance·May 18, 2026

Mini TCPA State Laws 2026: Where Your Dialer Is Exposed

Operator watching a cyan gauge ramp toward a red redline over a carrier-network map

Operations·May 9, 2026

Call Velocity Limits: How Fast Dialing Flags Your DIDs

Phone-number tokens flowing through a cyan filter, rejected entries veering off in magenta

Compliance·Apr 27, 2026

DNC Scrubbing 2026: Rules Insurance Agencies Get Fined On

Agent watching a dialer dashboard where several outbound calls cut off mid-ring

Compliance·Apr 21, 2026

FTC Abandoned Call Rule: Keep Your Dialer Legal in 2026

Agent reviewing a curved LineShield dashboard wall of phone-number health tiles

Deliverability·Apr 7, 2026

DID Health Maintenance: The Quarterly Routine for Agents

Agent in a headset watching a cyan call waveform cut off, showing abandoned-call reputation damage

Compliance·Mar 31, 2026

Call Abandonment Rate: How It Wrecks Your Number Rep

Operations leader reaching toward floating LineShield panels for the 2026 dialer stack

Technical·Mar 24, 2026

Insurance Dialer Stack 2026: The 6 Layers or You Get Flagged

Agent reviewing a LineShield benchmark chart with industry, team, and top-quartile lines

Strategy·Mar 17, 2026

Outbound Dialing Benchmarks 2026: Is Your Team Behind?

Agent weighing fresh-bought phone numbers against ported numbers on two LineShield panels

Technical·Mar 10, 2026

The Economics of Buying vs. Porting Phone Numbers in 2026

Operator watching a US map where local cyan dots get repainted with magenta spam labels

Strategy·Mar 3, 2026

Local Presence Dialers Are Dead: What Works in 2026

Analyst studying a constellation of glowing telecom-acronym tokens in a 3D web

Technical·Feb 24, 2026

LIDB vs CNAM: The Caller ID Fields Carriers Read First

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Strategy·Feb 17, 2026

Rotating DIDs: The Rotation Math That Stops the Flags

Agent at a dashboard with a cyan 10:00 countdown and ten DID-health tiles

Technical·Feb 10, 2026

DID Audit in 10 Minutes: The Weekly Check That Pays

Operator working a step-checklist HUD as magenta tiles turn cyan with each remediation step

Deliverability·Feb 3, 2026

Spam Label Removal: Step-by-Step Playbook for Agencies

Two US maps contrasting local area-code calls with the same calls flagged as spam

Strategy·Jan 27, 2026

Area Code Match Myth: What Really Moves Contact Rates

Manager viewing an office floorplan where every desk shows the same caller ID

Deliverability·Jan 20, 2026

Same Caller ID on 100 DIDs? Why That Flags Your Agency

Executive at a desk with floating consent-form panels and cyan compliance checkmarks pulsing

Compliance·Jan 13, 2026

TCPA 2026: The Consent Rule That Can Fine Your Agency

Executive at a planning table, Q1 to Q4 panels with a January milestone glowing cyan

Compliance·Jan 6, 2026

Compliant Outbound Calling: The 2026 Setup That Survives

Analyst at a 2025 timeline graph where contact rates trend down from cyan to magenta

Strategy·Dec 30, 2025

2025 Contact Rate Collapse: What Killed Your Pickups

Executive facing floating 2026 regulatory panels with an FCC octagon and a calendar

Compliance·Dec 23, 2025

2026 Telephony Regulations: What Hits Agency Dialers

Executive scanned by a floating cyan classification beam, category labels projected above

Technical·Dec 16, 2025

Carrier Business Classification: Why Yours Kills Answers

Analyst watching a phone-number tile split into two identities, cyan and magenta

Compliance·Dec 9, 2025

Reassigned Phone Numbers: The TCPA Risk Agents Miss

Operator examining a magnified phone-number tile glowing cyan with healthy reputation rings

Strategy·Dec 2, 2025

Clean DID Checklist 2026: The 7 Signs Carriers Trust

Agent looking up at three floating reputation-vendor panels in different status colors

Deliverability·Nov 25, 2025

Hiya, TNS, First Orion: Who Flags Your Agency's Calls

Leaderboard chart showing insurance at the bottom for B2C contact rate

Strategy·Nov 18, 2025

Why Insurance Agents Get the Worst B2C Contact Rates

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Compliance·Nov 11, 2025

STIR/SHAKEN for Agents: Why Your Attestation Flags Calls

Registrar at a HUD writing CNAM record fields, one row pulsing cyan

Technical·Nov 4, 2025

CNAM Registration: The 20 Minute Fix Carriers Skip

Agent dashboard where one phone tile pulses magenta with a SCAM-style glyph among cyan tiles

Deliverability·Oct 28, 2025

Scam Likely on Your Calls? Why It Happens, How to Fix It