AI marketing automation search trends
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
Search interest■ Steadyand 44% below its May 2026 peak
- Google Trends, year on year
- +2.2%
- US searches vs October 2025
- 0%
- From the five-year peak
- -44%
This page follows one Google search, “ai marketing automation”, over five years. Interest is 2% higher than a year ago, 44% 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 marketing automation search trends: the key numbers for September 2026
The numbers that sum up searches for “ai marketing automation”. Tap one for the detail below.
Interest in “ai marketing automation” is up 2% on a year ago: 46 out of 100 on Google Trends in September 2026, against 45 a year earlier. The five-year peak was 82, in May 2026.
People search for it about 1,600 times a month worldwide, 480 of them in the US (30%). In September 2026, US searches were 390, about the same as in October 2025.
16.4% of visits to the tracked AI marketing automation sites come from the US, down from 20.5% a year ago. India, Canada and Brazil come next.
Five years of interest, worldwide and in the US
WorldGoogle Trends interest, worldwide (0–100)
Source: Google Trends, 100 = peak week.
USGoogle Trends interest, United States (0–100)
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 46 now, higher than a year ago. In the US it’s lower than 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 marketing automation", United States
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.
WorldSearches a month for "ai marketing automation", worldwide
Worldwide, same source.
Miles explains
This is the number I’d plan with: September 2026 had 390 US searches, about the same as 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 9 other countries
Searches a month for “ai marketing automation” in each country with a Google Ads figure, twelve-month average; countries with none are left out. The United States is 30% of the worldwide figure; the next 3 countries together are 28.8%.
- United States480
- India320
- United Kingdom70
- Germany70
- Canada50
- Australia50
- Brazil20
- Philippines20
- France10
- Netherlands10
Miles explains
The top five countries are United States, India, United Kingdom, Germany and Canada. Worldwide, people search for it about 3.3 times as often as in the US alone, so roughly 70% of the searches happen outside the US.
The searches around the term
| Search | US / month | Worldwide / month | US share |
|---|---|---|---|
| “ai marketing automation” | 480 | 1,600 | 30% |
| “ai marketing automation tools” | 260 | 480 | 54% |
| “marketing automation with ai” | 30 | 70 | 43% |
| “ai marketing tools” | 3,600 | 8,100 | 44% |
| “ai marketing platform” | 1,600 | 2,900 | 55% |
Search
- “ai marketing automation”
- US / month
- 480
- Worldwide / month
- 1,600
- US share
- 30%
- “ai marketing automation tools”
- US / month
- 260
- Worldwide / month
- 480
- US share
- 54%
- “marketing automation with ai”
- US / month
- 30
- Worldwide / month
- 70
- US share
- 43%
- “ai marketing tools”
- US / month
- 3,600
- Worldwide / month
- 8,100
- US share
- 44%
- “ai marketing platform”
- US / month
- 1,600
- Worldwide / month
- 2,900
- US share
- 55%
Source: Google Ads, 12-month averages. A dash means no volume reported.
Miles explains
The biggest related search is “ai marketing tools”, at 8,100 searches a month worldwide, more than “ai marketing automation” itself.
Where the visitors to the tracked sites come from
USShare of visits that come from the US (%)
US share of worldwide search visits to all tracked sites, month by month, DataForSEO estimates.
WorldVisits a month from outside the US
Visits from outside the US a month, all tracked sites.
- India42.9%359,083
- Canada14.9%124,960
- Brazil12%99,942
- United Kingdom11.9%99,849
- France6.8%56,551
- Germany6.5%54,670
- Australia4.9%41,085
Source: DataForSEO, September 2026.