AI Shelf Index · 2026 holiday shopping season

QV AI shopping shelf share

🧴 Skincare · 🇦🇺 AU · updated 12 Oct 2026

Standing

#13

▲41 places

Skincare · AU

#27 #13

Shelf-share

1.4%

▲1.2

of AU answers

0.6% 1.4%

Sentiment

100%

positive

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%
⋯
13 QV
1.4%

The shoppers QV wins

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

Where QV wins the journey

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

Awareness

#32

0.6%

Research

#8

1.7%

Comparison

#48

0.1%

Validation

#19

0.8%

Purchase

#31

0.7%

Where the engines differ

ChatGPT
1.2%
Google AI Mode
0.4%

What AI says about QV

Observed from the answers themselves — not a score.

Sentiment

100% positive · no negative mentions

Price framing

framed budget

89% budget, 11% mid

“My score for you: 9/10. QV — best Australian pharmacy brand for sensitive skin QV QV is less glamorous than the cosmeceutical brands—and that's exactly its strength.”

ChatGPT

“The QV Face Ultra Calming Moisturiser is fragrance-free, colour-free and designed specifically for sensitive, irritated facial skin.”

ChatGPT

“(QV Australia) If your skin is having a “nothing agrees with me” phase, I'd choose QV over a fancy active serum.”

ChatGPT

“It sits in a useful middle ground: more treatment-focused than QV/CeraVe, but generally less “cosmeceutical” than an expensive professional range.”

ChatGPT

Products AI names

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

  • Face Gentle Cleanser 0.4%
  • Face Ultra Calming Moisturiser 0.1%
  • Cream 0.1%
  • Ceramides Cream 0.0%
  • Gentle Wash 0.0%
  • Ceramides Lotion 0.0%
  • Face 0.0%
  • Face Invisible Zinc SPF 50+ 0.0%

Shelved alongside

Brands the engines recommend in the same answers as QV.

How to read this

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

Slingso Managed Outcomes

How would QV grow its revenue from the AI Shopping Channel?

Schedule a call and we'll show you how — starting from the shelf you just saw. Or leave an email and we'll come to you. What Managed Outcomes covers →

Prefer email? Send a note.

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