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

AI Interviewer Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without Eightfold AI Interviewer
-12%
Visits, last six months
-83%
Name searches vs October 2025
-3.1%

Every key number on the AI interviewer market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 16 sites I measure got about 165,850 visits from Google, 86% fewer than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 83.1% of them.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for November 2026.

Published 2 November 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI interviewer industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 16 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    165,850
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -86.0% year on year, -2.7% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    47,378
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -94.1% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    28.6%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    41,730
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -3.1% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    118,290
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -5.0% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai interviewer”, US
    Value
    4,400
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai interviewer”, worldwide
    Value
    18,100
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    26,027
    Period and basis
    October 2026 (15 of 16 sites measured); first reading, no year-on-year figure yet
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    83.1%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    97%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai interviewer”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai interviewer”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Alex, Ribbon, Tenzo, Truffle and Willo: 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 (-86%), and October 2026 was about the same as September 2026 (-3%). Eightfold AI Interviewer, which takes 41.3% of all the visits, accounts for most of the fall (99% of it). Without it, visits would be down 11.5% on a year ago instead of down 86.0%.

WorldVisits a month to AI interviewer sites, worldwide

0500K1.0M1.5M2.0MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26166K
Low 166KHigh 1.3MAverage 799K
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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 86% below a year ago, and 87% below the January 2025 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 3% less often than in October 2025 (-3%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

012.5K25.0K37.5K50.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2641.7K
Low 31.6KHigh 46.1KAverage 39.9K
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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 3%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 29 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

0255075100Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2628.6
Low 25.7High 74.2Average 51
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    25,493
    Share of the measured countries
    46.4%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    9,739
    Share of the measured countries
    17.7%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    7,539
    Share of the measured countries
    13.7%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    7,337
    Share of the measured countries
    13.4%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    1,903
    Share of the measured countries
    3.5%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    1,690
    Share of the measured countries
    3.1%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    1,238
    Share of the measured countries
    2.3%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 29 in every 100 visits. India alone is 46.4% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

Eightfold AI Interviewer gets the most visits, HireVue is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “ai interviewer”. The five most-visited sites take 83.1% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 83.1% 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 Metaview (+85%); the steepest fall was at Eightfold AI Interviewer (-94%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • Metaview
    A year ago
    11,065
    Now
    20,507
    Change
    +85%

Declining

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

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Interviewer Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-interviewer/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.