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Find out what the internet actually thinks about your brand.

Every month, we read every Reddit thread, news article, X and forum post about you and your competitors — and send you a sharp, one-page brief. No dashboards. No surveys. No noise.

Built for DTC brands, scale-ups, and challenger companies. Cancel anytime.

You're flying blind — or drowning in dashboards.

Marketing teams have two options today, and both are bad.

  • Survey-based brand trackers cost $20–100k/year and tell you what moved, never why.
  • Social listening tools cost $15k+/year and dump 40,000 mentions on you with no narrative.
  • Doing it manually — searching Reddit, reading reviews — is the only way to get the real story. Nobody has time.
  • Agencies charge $10k for a one-off report that's stale the day it lands.

Meanwhile, your customers are out there — on Reddit, X, in reviews, on podcasts — telling each other exactly what they think of you. You should be reading it.

One brief. Every month. Everything that matters.

Hearsay reads the internet for you and ships a single document straight to your inbox.

📡 Sources we read

Reddit, X, Hacker News, Google News, industry forums, and review sites — every public corner where your customers talk.

🎯 Competitive lens

Track up to 5 competitors. We compare share of voice, sentiment, and themes head-to-head — so you know where you stand.

🧠 AI-synthesized narrative

Not a wall of mentions. Not a chart explosion. A real brief written like an analyst would write it — with quotes and links.

📬 Delivered to your inbox

No login. No dashboard. No "let me schedule a quick sync." Just an email on the first of each month. Forward it to your boss.

This is what lands in your inbox.

Short. Specific. Sourced. Built to be forwarded.

Hearsay Brief — Liquid Death

Period: last 30 days · Generated June 1

1. Executive Summary

Liquid Death extended its lead in share of voice this month, driven by the Martha Stewart collab. Sentiment held steady at ~78% positive. Waterloo gained ground in fitness subreddits; Olipop's "soda alternative" framing is starting to leak into Liquid Death conversations as a competitive frame to watch.

2. Share of Voice

Liquid Death: 1,243 mentions · Waterloo: 412 · Spindrift: 388 · Olipop: 901

3. Sentiment & Themes — Liquid Death

  • "Brand worship" — fans defending the brand unprompted in unrelated threads. [r/marketing]
  • "Tallboy aesthetic" — packaging consistently called out as the buy-trigger. [r/CrappyDesign — positively!]
  • "Price creep" — emerging complaint in 4 threads about $2.99 single cans. [r/Costco]

4. Competitor Watch

  • Olipop: "Soda but healthy" pitch is winning in /r/loseit. Threat to LD's "fun water" positioning.
  • Waterloo: Steady but quiet. No notable moments.

5. Risks & Opportunities

  • Price sensitivity surfacing. Consider a value pack response before Q3.
  • Martha collab generated 18% of monthly volume — replicable formula.

Not another dashboard.

We replaced the dashboard with a person writing a brief — and then automated that person.

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Setup time 5 minutes 2–4 weeks 2–6 weeks
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Marketing leads who'd rather read than click around.

If you've ever paid for a brand tracker and used it twice, this is for you.

  • DTC brands tracking sentiment as they scale
  • Challenger brands hunting weaknesses in incumbents
  • CMOs who need to brief the board, not run reports
  • Founders who care what people say but don't have a research team
  • Agencies briefing clients monthly

One plan. Less than a single survey response.

No seats. No tiers. No "talk to sales." Track your brand and up to 5 competitors.

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Quick answers.

How is this different from Brandwatch / Meltwater / Tracksuit?

Those tools sell you a dashboard. We sell you a brief. They cost $15–100k a year and require a team to use. Hearsay is $199/mo, takes zero setup, and lands in your inbox already synthesized. Different shape of product for a different kind of buyer.

How accurate is the sentiment / theme analysis?

Every claim in the brief links back to the actual source — a Reddit thread, an article, a review. You can audit any insight in one click. We don't invent quotes or numbers.

What sources do you cover?

Reddit, X, Hacker News, Google News, industry forums, and major review sites (Trustpilot, G2, App Store, Google Reviews). We're adding podcast transcripts and YouTube comments soon.

What if my brand doesn't have much online discussion?

Honest answer: if you have fewer than ~50 mentions a month across all sources, the brief gets thin. Email us before you subscribe and we'll do a free check.

Can I cancel?

Yes, anytime, in one click from your Gumroad account. No emails, no retention calls.

How do I sign up?

Click a pricing button above. You'll fill in your brand name and competitors at checkout. First brief arrives within 7 days, then monthly on the 1st.

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