AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

Banana Boat AI shopping shelf share

🧴 Skincare · 🇦🇺 AU · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#51

Skincare · AU

#32 outside top 40

Shelf-share

0.2%

of AU answers

0.4% 0.2%

Sentiment

75%

positive

No week-to-week change larger than the variation between readings.

Who's on the skincare shelf

1 La Roche-Posay
14.5%
2 Cancer Council
13.5%
3 Beauty of Joseon
6.3%
4 Hamilton
5.7%
5 Ultra Violette
4.7%
6 CeraVe
4.0%
⋯
51 Banana Boat
0.2%

The shoppers Banana Boat wins

The same answers, sliced by the shopper the question implies — where Banana Boat ranks best.

Where Banana Boat wins the journey

Its rank at each phase of the shopping journey — from first awareness to the moment of purchase.

Awareness

#52

0.2%

Research

—

not surfaced

Comparison

#23

0.6%

Validation

#25

0.4%

Purchase

—

not surfaced

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
0.3%
Google AI Mode
0.2%

What AI says about Banana Boat

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

75% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed budget

71% budget, 29% mid

“[Banana Boat Kids Sport Roll-On]() — potentially handy for kids who hate conventional lotion application.”

ChatGPT

“With children, the quantity used is surprisingly large: Cancer Council estimates around 35mL for an average adult's full body, while Banana Boat gives about 22mL for an average 10-year-old.”

ChatGPT

“Banana Boat Kids SPF50+ — particularly good for your 11-year-old Banana Boat's Kids Lotion SPF50+ is fragrance-free, broad-spectrum, dermatologically tested, sweat resistant and 4-hour water resistant.”

ChatGPT

“There's also a Banana Boat Kids roll-on, which is handy for a school or sports bag, although I'd use a lotion for the main full-body application because getting adequate coverage matters more than the convenience of t...”

ChatGPT

Products AI names

The specific Banana Boat items the engines put in front of AU shoppers.

  • Sensitive 100% Mineral Lotion SPF 50+ 0.1%
  • Baby Zinc Sunscreen Lotion SPF50+ 0.0%
  • Banana Boat Kids Sport Roll-On 0.0%
  • Kids SPF50+ 0.0%
  • Kids SPF50+ Pump 0.0%
  • Sport SPF50+ 0.0%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as Banana Boat.

How to read this

Bar is how often that brand is recommended in the same answer as Banana Boat, relative to the rest.

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Holiday Shopping 2026 · reading updated 11 Oct. An independent measurement by Slingso; not affiliated with Banana Boat.