# NetBase Quid: new features and launches URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/ Covers: 2010 to Oct. 22, 2026 Updated: 2026-10-28 License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: Newsprint, "NetBase Quid: new features and launches", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/, updated 2026-10-28 > We confirmed 11 product launches from NetBase Quid since February 2026. The latest, Adds average engagement to Quid Trends, was announced Oct. 22, 2026. We also record 1 acquisition and 1 new company. NetBase Quid, now branded Quid, sells a consumer and market intelligence platform. It takes in social, review, news, broadcast, podcast and search data, and its Communications product gives PR teams crisis alerts, sentiment and share of voice. Q Agents write AI briefs, including how AI assistants describe a brand. ## Facts - Site: [quid.com](https://www.quid.com/) - Founded: 2010 - Category: Media monitoring and analysis - Status: Active - Price: no list prices; sales-led (demo and free trial requests). CEO Anthony Lye on 2026-02-26: 'We don't charge for seats, and we don't charge for modules; customers pay us for results.' ## Every dated launch, newest first ### Adds average engagement to Quid Trends Announced Oct. 22, 2026. The Quid Trends side panel now shows average engagement for each TikTok trend next to reach, so users can see whether people acted on a trend as well as saw it. Features: [Trend detection](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-trend-detection). Source: [Quid product release](https://www.quid.com/knowledge-hub/resource-library/blog/product-release-q-trends-engagement-metrics). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-LRBHSJR5B ### Ask Q upgrade: multi-dataset questions Available Oct. 15, 2026. Ask Q now answers one question across several datasets, plans the steps to an answer, and reaches company and patent data from Quid Discover. Features: [Chat assistant](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-chat-assistant), [AI agents](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-agents). Source: [Quid blog](https://www.quid.com/knowledge-hub/resource-library/blog/product-release-ask-qs-been-upgraded). In [PR software this week: Oct. 5 to 19, 2026](https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/2026-10-20/#launch-V045). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-V045 ### Q Alerts Available Oct. 8, 2026. Scheduled alerts on a dataset: metric alerts fire when volume, sentiment or engagement crosses a threshold; post alerts fire when a post matches a plain-language description. Features: [Trend detection](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-trend-detection), [Media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-media-monitoring). Source: [Quid blog](https://www.quid.com/knowledge-hub/resource-library/blog/product-release-q-alerts). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-V044 ### Live Briefs Available Sept. 30, 2026. Briefs that refresh on a set cadence from monthly to hourly, with custom filters and Ask Q running on the same data. Features: [Reporting and measurement](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-reporting-and-measurement). Source: [Quid blog](https://www.quid.com/knowledge-hub/resource-library/blog/product-release-live-briefs). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-V043 ### Quid MCP Available Sept. 28, 2026. MCP server that lets Claude, Copilot and other MCP clients query Quid datasets through Ask Q, run Q Agents and read trend leaderboards; needs a Quid Terminal account. Features: [MCP servers and connectors](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-mcp-and-connectors), [MCP server](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-mcp-server). [In the skills library](https://www.newsprint.com/skills/#launch-V042). Source: [Quid blog](https://www.quid.com/knowledge-hub/resource-library/blog/product-release-quid-mcp). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-V042 ### Podcast search returns labeled segments, with coverage up to 35,000 shows Available Sept. 21, 2026. Podcast results in Quid are now split into AI-labeled segments (interview, ad, topic discussion and others) with speaker names and roles. Coverage grew from about 24,000 to 35,000 podcasts. Features: [Media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-media-monitoring). Source: [Quid product release](https://www.quid.com/knowledge-hub/resource-library/blog/product-release-ai-segmented-podcast-data). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-LW8APNE9S ### Fortune 1000 CEOs on LinkedIn dataset Announced Sept. 14, 2026. A new certified dataset collects what Fortune 1000 chief executives post on LinkedIn since 2016, tagged by company, CEO, industry and ticker and refreshed weekly. Features: [Media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-media-monitoring). Source: [Quid product release](https://www.quid.com/knowledge-hub/resource-library/blog/product-release-fortune-1000-ceos-on-linkedin). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-LHA4E5E52 ### Ask Q answers in every language, at two depths Announced Sept. 3, 2026. Ask Q in Quid Terminal now answers from the last 30 days of news and social conversation in all languages, not English only, with a quick mode and a deeper reasoning mode. Features: [Chat assistant](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-chat-assistant). Source: [Quid product release](https://www.quid.com/knowledge-hub/resource-library/blog/product-release-dig-deeper-with-ask-q-in-terminal). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-L6T7JDHEZ ### Publish Monitor topics into Terminal as datasets Announced Aug. 20, 2026. Quid Monitor users can publish their own topics and analyses into Quid Terminal as datasets in a couple of clicks, so their team can query them at once. Features: [Media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-media-monitoring). Source: [Quid product release](https://www.quid.com/knowledge-hub/resource-library/blog/product-release-push-datasets-from-monitor-to-terminal). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-LYTNGY0DA ### Dataset Library for choosing the data behind each answer Announced July 22, 2026. Quid Terminal gives every dataset a visible identity in one library, so users choose which body of data a question or agent runs against. Source: [Quid product release](https://www.quid.com/knowledge-hub/resource-library/blog/product-release-dataset-library). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-LT24H79YJ ### Q Platform, Q Access and Q Agents Available Feb. 26, 2026. A workflow system where Q Agents run on source and first-party data, plus Q Access, which exposes Ask Q and Q Agents over MCP and in Microsoft Teams and Slack. Features: [AI agents](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-agents), [MCP servers and connectors](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-mcp-and-connectors), [Chat assistant](https://www.newsprint.com/features/#feature-chat-assistant). Source: [Quid press release](https://www.quid.com/quid-launches-q-platform-q-access-and-q-agents-to-power-enterprise-grade-consumer-and-market-insights). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-V041 ### NetBase and Quid merge Announced Jan. 28, 2020. NetBase (social analytics) and Quid (AI text analytics) announce a merger under the name NetBase Quid; NetBase CEO Peter Caswell leads, Quid CEO Bob Goodson becomes President. Source: [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/netbase-and-quid-to-merge-300994662.html). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-E481 ### Quid founded Announced 2010. Quid, an AI company in San Francisco, was founded in 2010. Source: [PR Newswire (NetBase and Quid)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/netbase-and-quid-to-merge-300994662.html). Link: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/netbase-quid/#launch-E480 ## Methodology and corrections How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology