Is the AI marketing agent market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinkingbut name searches are up 7.5% since October 2025
- Visits, year on year
- -77%
- Visits, last six months
- -58%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +7.5%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 18 AI marketing agent sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In October 2026 they got about 808,196 visits. ManyChat lost more visits in October 2026 (77,901) than the whole market did (71,200); without it, visits to the other sites rose 1.2% on September 2026.
See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for November 2026.
AI marketing agent market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 18 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google808Kvisits-77% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US132Ksearches+8% vs October 2025
- Top five sites95.2%of visitsof all visits
- Expected in November751Kvisitslikely 642K to 860K
- The AI marketing agent market is shrinking as of October 2026, but name searches are up 7.5% since October 2025.
- The 18 AI marketing agent sites RankDude tracks got 808,196 visits from Google search in October 2026, 77% fewer visits than in October 2025.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 131,920 times in September 2026, 8% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI marketing agent sites get 95.2% of all visits.
- Steepest fall over the year: ManyChat, -90% (2.5M to 244K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 751K visits, likely between 642K and 860K.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 1 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI marketing agent sites than a year ago?
Down 77% on a year ago; down 8% on September 2026
No. The 18 tracked AI marketing agent sites got 808,196 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 77% fewer visits than in October 2025, and 8% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was September 2025, with 4,527,203 visits; October 2026 is 82% below it. In the US, visits were 129,666, down 59% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI marketing agent sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
808K
-77.2% on a year ago
United States, this month
130K
-59.1% on a year ago
Two-year high
4.5M
September 2025
US share of visits
16%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago. Most of the drop since September 2026 is one site: ManyChat went from 321,926 to 244,025 visits. Without it, the other sites held about level on the month. Name searches rose (+8%) and Google Trends interest in the term held about level (-2%), so the drop looks like a few big sites losing Google rankings, not people losing interest.
2.Are people searching for AI marketing agent sites by name?
Up 8% on October 2025; 132K name searches a month in the US
Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI marketing agent sites 131,920 times in September 2026, 8% more searches than in October 2025. Someone who searches a site’s name already knows it, so this is the clearest sign of people coming back on purpose. The term “ai agents for marketing” itself gets about 480 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI marketing agent sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI marketing agent sites by name, searches a month
ManyChat110K a month
Jasper8.1K a month
Ryze AI4.4K a month
Simplified2.4K a month
Typeface1.9K a month
Blaze1.6K a month
Miles explains
Name searches are up while visits are down. People still want these sites; what fell was Google rankings, not interest.
3.Which AI marketing agent sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 95.2% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 99.3%
The five most-visited AI marketing agent sites get 95.2% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Steepest fall: ManyChat, from 2,505,252 to 244,025 visits (-90%).
Growing fastest, year on year
No tracked site with 5,000 visits a year ago grew.
Falling fastest, year on year
- ManyChat244K visits-90%
Optmyzr1.4K visits-73%- Blaze12.1K visits-61%
Madgicx94.2K visits-60%
AdEspresso22.9K visits-59%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.