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Archived edition, September 2026

AI Content Automation Industry Report, September 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year
-49%
Visits, last six months
-69%
Name searches vs October 2025
-17%

Every key number on the AI content automation market for September 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 49 sites I measure got about 8.9 million visits from Google, 49% fewer than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 64.9% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for October 2026. This is an archived edition, kept as published; the latest one is here.

Published 15 October 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI content automation industry report: the key numbers for September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 49 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    8,856,904
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -48.6% year on year, -8.6% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    932,320
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -50.3% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    10.5%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    351,370
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -16.5% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    2,586,440
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +9.8% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai content automation”, US
    Value
    50
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai content automation”, worldwide
    Value
    260
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    657,123
    Period and basis
    September 2026; +4639.1% year on year
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    64.9%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    84.7%
    Period and basis
    September 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai content automation”, US
    Value
    1
    Period and basis
    September 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai content automation”, US
    Value
    1
    Period and basis
    September 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out AirOps, Blotato, Buffer, Later, Post Planner and Tailwind: the name is shared with an ordinary word or another product.

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got fewer visits from Google than a year ago (-49%), and September 2026 was a weaker month than August 2026 (-9%). Publer lost more visits in September 2026 (996,868) than the whole market did (830,484); without it, visits to the other sites rose 2.5% on August 2026.

WorldVisits a month to AI content automation sites, worldwide

013M25M38M50MOct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 268.9M
Low 8.9MHigh 30MAverage 21M
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are 49% below a year ago, and 70% below the October 2024 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 17% less often than in October 2025 (-17%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

0125K250K375K500KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26351K
Low 339KHigh 421KAverage 374K
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are down 17%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 11 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 21 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

05101520Oct 24Dec 24Feb 25Apr 25Jun 25Aug 25Oct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2610.5
Low 6.2High 18.7Average 11
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    3,362,416
    Share of the measured countries
    81.7%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    173,589
    Share of the measured countries
    4.2%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    157,757
    Share of the measured countries
    3.8%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    144,148
    Share of the measured countries
    3.5%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    142,405
    Share of the measured countries
    3.5%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    72,075
    Share of the measured countries
    1.8%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    53,586
    Share of the measured countries
    1.3%
  • Mexico
    Search visits a month
    4,114
    Share of the measured countries
    0.1%
  • Philippines
    Search visits a month
    2,759
    Share of the measured countries
    0.1%
  • Italy
    Search visits a month
    1,456
    Share of the measured countries
    0%

Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 11 in every 100 visits. India alone is 81.7% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

Publer gets the most visits, Subscribr is the name people search for most, and ContentBot is the highest-placed tracked site on Google for “ai content automation”, at position 2. The five most-visited sites take 64.9% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

  • Publer
    Visits a month
    1,997,329
  • Hootsuite
    Visits a month
    1,084,969
  • Metricool
    Visits a month
    987,316
  • Buffer
    Visits a month
    917,718
  • Later
    Visits a month
    764,297
  • ContentStudio
    Visits a month
    623,519
  • Sprout Social
    Visits a month
    509,739
  • Simplified
    Visits a month
    288,216
  • SocialPilot
    Visits a month
    192,938
  • Statusbrew
    Visits a month
    138,150

By US brand-name searches

  • Subscribr
    Searches a month
    135,000
  • Metricool
    Searches a month
    60,500
  • Sprout Social
    Searches a month
    40,500
  • Hootsuite
    Searches a month
    33,100
  • Publer
    Searches a month
    12,100
  • Jasper
    Searches a month
    8,100
  • Loomly
    Searches a month
    8,100
  • Planable
    Searches a month
    5,400
  • SEO.ai
    Searches a month
    5,400
  • SocialPilot
    Searches a month
    3,600

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 64.9% of all visits. When one of them gains or loses a big ranking, the whole market total moves with it.

6Who grew and who shrank

The fastest grower in a year was Hypefury (+61%); the steepest fall was at Tailwind (-91%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • Hypefury
    A year ago
    33,237
    Now
    53,612
    Change
    +61%
  • Typeface
    A year ago
    8,865
    Now
    11,698
    Change
    +32%

Declining

  • Tailwind
    A year ago
    413,765
    Now
    39,505
    Change
    -91%
  • Subscribr
    A year ago
    45,393
    Now
    5,252
    Change
    -88%
  • Eclincher
    A year ago
    104,936
    Now
    17,713
    Change
    -83%
  • Postwise
    A year ago
    16,286
    Now
    2,754
    Change
    -83%
  • Predis.ai
    A year ago
    221,755
    Now
    42,678
    Change
    -81%
  • Taplio
    A year ago
    513,980
    Now
    105,561
    Change
    -80%
  • FeedHive
    A year ago
    6,576
    Now
    1,834
    Change
    -72%
  • CoSchedule
    A year ago
    66,965
    Now
    19,324
    Change
    -71%

Worldwide search visits, September 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Content Automation Industry Report, September 2026”, published 15 October 2026, https://rankdude.ai/ai-content-automation/statistics/industry-report/2026-09. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.

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