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Updated 11/02/2026 · next update 12/01/2026

Is the AI image to video tool market growing or shrinking?

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The answer▼ Shrinkingbut name searches are up 8% since October 2025

Visits, year on year, without Grok
-34%
Visits, last six months
-21%
Name searches vs October 2025
+8.0%

Every month I add up the Google visits to the 27 AI image to video tool 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 29 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, Grok; without it, visits are down 34% on a year ago.

The total hides very different stories: one site grew 1922% in a year while another lost 90% of its visits. See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for November 2026.

AI image to video tool market demand: key numbers, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 27 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

  • The AI image to video tool market is shrinking as of October 2026, but name searches are up 8% since October 2025.
  • The 27 AI image to video tool sites RankDude tracks got 29,035,588 visits from Google search in October 2026, about the same as in October 2025, or 34% fewer without Grok.
  • People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 2,979,630 times in September 2026, 8% more searches than in October 2025.
  • The five most-visited AI image to video tool sites get 80.8% of all visits.
  • Fastest-growing AI image to video tool site over the year: MindVideo AI, +1922% (7.8K to 158K visits a month).
  • Steepest fall over the year: Kling AI, -90% (810K to 84.0K visits a month).
  • Forecast for November 2026: about 29M visits, likely between 27M and 31M.

Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.

1.Are more people visiting AI image to video tool sites than a year ago?

About level with a year ago (+3%); down 11% on September 2026

Only because of Grok. The 27 tracked AI image to video tool sites got 29,035,588 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is about the same as in October 2025, or 34% fewer without Grok, and 11% fewer visits than in September 2026.

The highest month of the last two years was April 2026, with 36,946,323 visits; October 2026 is 21% below it. In the US, visits were 1,686,446, up 39% on a year ago.

WorldVisits a month to AI image to video tool sites, worldwide, two years

013M25M38M50MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2629M
Low 9.1MHigh 37MAverage 27M
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Worldwide, this month

29M

+2.7% on a year ago

United States, this month

1.7M

+38.9% on a year ago

Two-year high

37M

April 2026

US share of visits

5.8%

of worldwide visits

Miles explains

Visits are about level with a year ago. The real changes are between individual sites, shown in section 3.

2.Are people searching for AI image to video tool sites by name?

Up 8% on October 2025; 3.0M name searches a month in the US

Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI image to video tool sites 2,979,630 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 image to video” itself gets about 22,200 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).

USName searches a month for AI image to video tool sites, US

01.3M2.5M3.8M5.0MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 263.0M
Low 2.8MHigh 4.7MAverage 3.4M
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

USMost searched AI image to video tool sites by name, searches a month

  1. Grok2.2M a month
  2. Higgsfield368K a month
  3. Kling AI135K a month
  4. Runway60.5K a month
  5. PixVerse40.5K a month
  6. DaVinci AI22.2K a month

Miles explains

Name searches are up 8%. This number does not change when Google reshuffles its results, so it is the most reliable sign of growth on this page.

3.Which AI image to video tool sites grew, and which shrank?

The five most-visited sites hold 80.8% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 93.7%

The five most-visited AI image to video tool sites get 80.8% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: MindVideo AI, from 7,833 to 158,415 visits (+1922%). Steepest fall: Kling AI, from 809,571 to 84,046 visits (-90%).

Growing fastest, year on year

  1. MindVideo AI158K visits+1922%
  2. Wan451K visits+387%
  3. Morph Studio83.1K visits+249%
  4. Kling AI2.3M visits+190%
  5. Higgsfield1.9M visits+177%

Falling fastest, year on year

  1. Kling AI84.0K visits-90%
  2. Haiper23.5K visits-81%
  3. Hailuo AI497K visits-78%
  4. DaVinci AI20.0K visits-70%
  5. Pika313K visits-57%

Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.