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Updated 10/15/2026 · next update 11/01/2026

AI ad generator search trends

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

Search interest▼ Fallingand 30% below its May 2026 peak

Google Trends, year on year
-14%
US searches vs October 2025
-33%
From the five-year peak
-30%

This page follows one Google search, “ai ad generator”, over five years. Interest is 14% lower than a year ago, 30% below its peak in May 2026.

Below: the five-year chart, searches month by month, country by country and the searches people make around it.

Google Trends via SerpApi (pulled 15 October 2026); search volume and visits via DataForSEO · not a ranking

AI ad generator search trends: the key numbers for September 2026

The numbers that sum up searches for “ai ad generator”. Tap one for the detail below.

Interest in “ai ad generator” is down 14% on a year ago: 62 out of 100 on Google Trends in September 2026, against 72 a year earlier. The five-year peak was 89, in May 2026.

People search for it about 6,600 times a month worldwide, 1,900 of them in the US (29%). In September 2026, US searches were 1,600, 33% fewer than in October 2025.

9.7% of visits to the tracked AI ad generator sites come from the US, down from 11.1% a year ago. Indonesia, India and Brazil come next.

Five years of interest, worldwide and in the US

WorldGoogle Trends interest, worldwide (0–100)

0255075100Oct 21May 22Dec 22Jul 23Feb 24Sep 24Apr 25Nov 25Sep 2662
Low 0High 89Average 26
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Source: Google Trends, 100 = peak week.

USGoogle Trends interest, United States (0–100)

0255075100Oct 21May 22Dec 22Jul 23Feb 24Sep 24Apr 25Nov 25Sep 2641
Low 0High 59Average 19
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United States only, same scale.

Miles explains

Here’s how I read these two lines. They don’t show how many people search, only when interest rose and fell. Worldwide, it peaked in May 2026 and sits at 62 now, lower than a year ago. In the US it’s level with or above a year ago. When you see a sharp spike, think news story, not new customers. The baseline between the spikes is the demand I actually care about.

What the term is worth, month by month

USSearches a month for "ai ad generator", United States

01.3K2.5K3.8K5.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 261.6K
Low 1.6KHigh 2.9KAverage 2.1K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

WorldSearches a month for "ai ad generator", worldwide

02.5K5.0K7.5K10.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 265.4K
Low 5.4KHigh 8.1KAverage 7.1K
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Worldwide, same source.

Miles explains

This is the number I’d plan with: September 2026 had 1,600 US searches, 33% fewer than in October 2025. Google Ads rounds these figures into steps, so a small move from one month to the next usually means nothing.

The US against 24 other countries

Searches a month for “ai ad generator” in each country with a Google Ads figure, twelve-month average; countries with none are left out. The United States is 28.8% of the worldwide figure; the next 3 countries together are 40.9%.

  1. United States1,900
  2. India1,900
  3. Pakistan480
  4. United Kingdom320
  5. Canada320
  6. Australia320
  7. South Africa260
  8. Philippines90
  9. Germany70
  10. Netherlands50
  11. Turkey30
  12. Nigeria30
  13. France20
  14. Spain20
  15. Poland20
  16. Sweden20
  17. Brazil10
  18. Japan10
  19. Mexico10
  20. Italy10
  21. Indonesia10
  22. South Korea10
  23. Argentina10
  24. Ukraine10
  25. Vietnam10

Miles explains

The top five countries are United States, India, Pakistan, United Kingdom and Canada. Worldwide, people search for it about 3.5 times as often as in the US alone, so roughly 71.2% of the searches happen outside the US.

The searches around the term

Search

  • “ai ad generator”
    US / month
    1,900
    Worldwide / month
    6,600
    US share
    29%
  • “ai ad maker”
    US / month
    880
    Worldwide / month
    2,900
    US share
    30%
  • “ai ad creative”
    US / month
    170
    Worldwide / month
    480
    US share
    35%
  • “ai video ad generator”
    US / month
    390
    Worldwide / month
    1,000
    US share
    39%
  • “ai ad copy generator”
    US / month
    90
    Worldwide / month
    210
    US share
    43%
  • “free ai ad generator”
    US / month
    390
    Worldwide / month
    1,300
    US share
    30%
  • “best ai ad generator”
    US / month
    260
    Worldwide / month
    480
    US share
    54%
  • “ai ad creator”
    US / month
    480
    Worldwide / month
    1,300
    US share
    37%
  • “ai ads”
    US / month
    8,100
    Worldwide / month
    18,100
    US share
    45%

Source: Google Ads, 12-month averages. A dash means no volume reported.

Miles explains

The biggest related search is “ai ads”, at 18,100 searches a month worldwide, more than “ai ad generator” itself.

Where the visitors to the tracked sites come from

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

05101520Oct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 269.7
Low 7.8High 13.3Average 11
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US share of worldwide search visits to all tracked sites, month by month, DataForSEO estimates.

WorldVisits a month from outside the US

0625K1.3M1.9M2.5MOct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 261.9M
Low 966KHigh 2.1MAverage 1.4M
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Visits from outside the US a month, all tracked sites.

  1. Indonesia38.5%630,965
  2. India31.4%514,704
  3. Brazil6.8%111,020
  4. Philippines4.1%67,836
  5. Spain3.5%56,649
  6. Mexico2.3%36,871
  7. United Kingdom1.6%25,669
  8. Canada1.5%24,443
  9. Turkey1.3%21,970
  10. Germany1.3%21,508
  11. Ukraine1.3%21,300
  12. South Korea1.3%20,778
  13. France1.3%20,714
  14. Japan0.8%12,698
  15. Netherlands0.7%11,712
  16. Italy0.7%11,632
  17. Australia0.6%9,885
  18. Argentina0.5%8,835
  19. Poland0.3%4,709
  20. Sweden0.1%1,988
  21. South Africa0.1%1,986

Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.