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Monthly CX Review

Marketing Performance Report

Period: January 2026 CX Theme: Tax Season AI Launch
2,303
Total Mentions
+14%
12.3M
Total Reach
+43%
1.9%
Positive Sentiment
6.3:1 ratio
59.7K
Social Interactions
55.7K likes
A
Awareness
Do they see us?
Total Mentions2,303
Total Reach12M
Social Reach9.8M
News Reach2.5M
I
Interest
Are they paying attention?
Video ViewsNeeded from QB
SubscribersNeeded from QB
Watch TimeNeeded from QB
Interactions5,370
D
Desire
Are they looking deeper?
Pricing ViewsNeeded from QB
Product ViewsNeeded from QB
Avg TimeNeeded from QB
UGC Created418
A
Action
Did they raise their hand?
Form SubmitsNeeded from QB
Demo RequestsNeeded from QB
Trial StartsNeeded from QB
ConversionsNeeded from QB
January reach spiked 42% on influencer activations.
TikTok campaign with JVN and Antoni drove 4.2M combined reach. Tax season content ramping.
Mentions
Reach (M)
Positive %
12M 9M 6M 3M 0
TikTok Campaign JVN + Antoni activations Tax Season Ramp +42% reach MoM
AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN
Metric Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Δ MoM
Mentions 1,8041,9122,0872,0142,152 2,303 +7%
Reach 6.0M6.5M7.0M7.5M8.5M 12M +42%
Positive Sentiment 1.5%1.6%1.7%1.8%2.2% 1.9% -0.3pp
Social Interactions 2,1402,8903,2103,7804,260 5,370 +26%
AVE $420K$510K$580K$690K$800K $1.1M +38%
Channel Mix
77.9%
News/web dominates volume
1,793 of 2,303 mentions came from news sites and web sources. Social (508 mentions) delivered disproportionate reach: 22.3M vs news/web's 14.2M.
Top Platform
TikTok
TikTok drove 62% of social reach
JVN (2.1M reach), Antoni (1.5M), and Queer Eye official (600K) posted January 20. Combined: 4.2M reach, 28K interactions. Paid campaign, high visibility.
Sentiment
91%
91% neutral sentiment
Of 2,303 total mentions: 1.9% positive (44), 91.3% neutral (2,103), 1.7% negative (39). The 6.3:1 positive-to-negative ratio is healthy but volume is low.

What People Are Saying

#1

Queer Eye Partnership

JVN, Antoni, and Queer Eye TikToks launched January 20. Combined 4.2M reach. Campaign tagline: "Outdo it with Intuit QuickBooks." High visibility, brand-safe execution.

#2

AI Integration Launch

Intuit AI messaging appeared across influencer content and owned channels. "Handles the busywork so small business owners can focus on what they love." Functional positioning.

#3

Tax Season Prep

Seasonal content ramping. Multiple mentions of 1099 contractor features, mileage tracking, and tax categorization. Practical, product-focused conversation.

#4

Pricing Concerns

Small but pointed thread on Bluesky: users citing price increases and declining support quality. One explicitly seeking "software without AI." Watch area, not crisis.

Verbatims

Positive Highlights

My Intuit QuickBooks tip: Use Intuit AI in QuickBooks to organize my invoices and track my expenses. @QuickBooks #OutdoIt #QuickBooksPartner

@jvn · TikTok · Jan 20
TikTok Positive

Me whenever @QuickBooks sorts my expenses for me. Shoutout to Intuit AI doing the heavy lifting. #QuickBooksPartner #OutdoIt

@antoni · TikTok · Jan 20
TikTok Positive

Business, but make it Queer Eye. Intuit AI in @QuickBooks handles the busywork so small business owners can focus on what they love. That's how you Outdo it with Intuit QuickBooks.

@queereye · TikTok · Jan 20
TikTok Positive

Negative / Watch Areas

We recently moved our payroll off Intuit QuickBooks and it was quite satisfying. They continuously increased the price while service and support got worse and worse. Helluva business model.

@nicktsiopanas · Bluesky · Jan 18
Bluesky Negative

UK freelancers: what accounting software do you use and like that doesn't have AI in it? I'm ditching intuit quickbooks at the end of this tax year.

@mxfrankduffy · Bluesky · Jan 7
Bluesky Negative

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YouTube · Jan 6
YouTube Watch Area

Synthesis

What This Month Means

Queer Eye campaign drove reach, not advocacy.

JVN, Antoni, and Queer Eye TikToks all hit January 20. Reach spiked 43%. But positive sentiment fell 15% period-over-period. Pattern: paid influencer activations generate awareness without organic enthusiasm. The 91% neutral sentiment means people saw it. They didn't feel strongly about it.

Price and AI pushback are real signals.

Bluesky complaints about pricing and anti-AI sentiment appeared in January. Small volume (39 negative total), but the verbatims are pointed: "continuously increased the price while service and support got worse." One user specifically asked for accounting software "without AI." Watch areas, not crises.

News dominates; social is the multiplier.

77.9% of mentions are news/web. But 22.3M social reach vs 14.2M non-social reach. Social creates the distribution. The 55.7K likes came from 1,105 social mentions. Ratio: 50 likes per social mention. That's where the signal travels.

Google Update
26%
26% of buyers now skip Google entirely for purchases.
Digital Third Coast survey (Jan 2026, 1,003 consumers): AI Overviews pulled back to 16% of queries after peaking at 25% in July. The bigger shift: over a quarter of consumers bypassed Google completely for their last purchase. Google VP Robby Stein confirmed AI Overviews are engagement-driven.
Source
Digital Third Coast Consumer Survey, Jan 2026; CNN interview with Robby Stein, Jan 9, 2026
Perplexity Growth
780M
Perplexity hit 780M monthly queries. Now integrated with Snapchat.
January 2026: Perplexity partnered with Snapchat (1B monthly users) to power AI search. 30-45M monthly active users. $100M+ ARR. 57% of users are 18-34. When they ask "best accounting software," QuickBooks either appears in the citations or doesn't exist to this audience.
Source
SeoProfy AI Statistics, Jan 2026; Zebracat Perplexity Report
Sources: Brand24 (Jan 24, 2025 – Jan 24, 2026), Digital Third Coast Consumer Survey (Jan 2026), SeoProfy, Zebracat QB-MKT-2026-01-002 · 2026-01-25