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

AI meme generator market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year
-35%
Visits vs September 2026
-15%
Name searches vs October 2025
-17%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 13 AI meme generator sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 31 million visits, 35% fewer than a year ago and 15% fewer than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 79% in a year), who sits highest on Google, where the visitors live and what comes next.

Data from DataForSEO, Tranco, Chrome UX Report and Ahrefs · not a ranking

AI meme generator market: the key numbers for October 2026

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

  • The tracked sites got 30,779,557 visits from Google in October 2026, 35% fewer than a year ago and 15% fewer than in September 2026.
  • “ai meme generator” gets about 3,600 US searches a month. People searched the site names 293,080 times in the US in September 2026, 17% less often than in October 2025.
  • 2 tracked sites are on Google’s first page for “ai meme generator”; the highest is MemeCam at position 3. Imgflip is the most-visited site.
  • 17.4% of visits came from the US (13.9% a year ago), then India, Canada and United Kingdom. The five most-visited sites took 78.5% of all visits.

1How many visits

In plain words: These sites got fewer visits from Google than a year ago (-35%), and October 2026 was a weaker month than September 2026 (-15%).

Visits, October 2026
30,779,557 (-35.4% on a year ago, -15.2% on September 2026)
US visits
5,360,848 (-18.8% on a year ago)
24-month peak
53,504,596 in January 2025

WorldVisits a month to AI meme generator sites, worldwide

025M50M75M100MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2631M
Low 28MHigh 54MAverage 45M
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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 35% below a year ago, and 42% below the January 2025 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

2How 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, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai meme generator"
3,600 a month in the US, 8,100 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
293,080 in the US (-17.2% since October 2025), 4,171,080 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai meme generator", United States

02.5K5.0K7.5K10.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 262.4K
Low 2.4KHigh 5.4KAverage 3.6K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

0125K250K375K500KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26293K
Low 289KHigh 356KAverage 325K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Most searched by name, US

Ordered by US searches for the brand name in September 2026. A measured order, not a ranking.

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.

3Who is on Google's first page

2 tracked sites are on Google’s first page for “ai meme generator”; the highest-placed is MemeCam, at position 3. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

Ordered by US Google position for “ai meme generator”, then Tranco rank. A measured order, not a ranking.

Site

  • Google US
    3
    Tranco
    2,552,119
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 676,290
    Search visits
    32,365
  • Google US
    8
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 41 days
    –
    Search visits
    91,160
  • Google US
    17
    Tranco
    491,261
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 65,498
    Search visits
    170,039
  • Google US
    –
    Tranco
    5,558
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 240
    Search visits
    4,089,004
  • Google US
    –
    Tranco
    9,347
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,063
    Search visits
    8,543,358
  • Google US
    –
    Tranco
    10,259
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 26
    Search visits
    3,090,874
  • Google US
    –
    Tranco
    13,376
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 72
    Search visits
    2,707,399
  • Google US
    –
    Tranco
    14,101
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 91
    Search visits
    3,228,635
  • Google US
    –
    Tranco
    19,120
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 54
    Search visits
    5,132,712
  • Google US
    –
    Tranco
    34,115
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,731
    Search visits
    186,777
  • Google US
    –
    Tranco
    66,589
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 1,055
    Search visits
    3,173,741
  • Google US
    –
    Tranco
    83,462
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 891
    Search visits
    293,769
  • Google US
    –
    Tranco
    122,437
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 3,356
    Search visits
    39,724

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 13 of 13 sites shown.

Miles explains

No tracked site sits high on Google for “ai meme generator”, so most visits here come from people who already know the names.

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Simplified (+2%); biggest loss: MemeCam (-32%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

Down this month

  • Sep 26
    47,291
    Oct 26
    32,365
    Change
    -31.6%
  • Sep 26
    4,499,502
    Oct 26
    3,173,741
    Change
    -29.5%
  • Sep 26
    4,226,796
    Oct 26
    3,090,874
    Change
    -26.9%
  • Sep 26
    122,781
    Oct 26
    91,160
    Change
    -25.8%
  • Sep 26
    4,085,383
    Oct 26
    3,228,635
    Change
    -21.0%
  • Sep 26
    234,519
    Oct 26
    186,777
    Change
    -20.4%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

Searched less

  • Oct 25
    49,500
    Sep 26
    22,200
    Change
    -55.2%
  • Oct 25
    8,100
    Sep 26
    4,400
    Change
    -45.7%
  • Oct 25
    74,000
    Sep 26
    40,500
    Change
    -45.3%
  • Oct 25
    18,100
    Sep 26
    12,100
    Change
    -33.1%
  • Oct 25
    8,100
    Sep 26
    6,600
    Change
    -18.5%
  • Oct 25
    22,200
    Sep 26
    18,100
    Change
    -18.5%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 17 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
17.4% (13.9% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Canada and United Kingdom
US share of "ai meme generator" searches
44%

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

05101520Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2617.4
Low 11.4High 17.4Average 14
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    8,860,891
    Share of the measured countries
    74.2%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    769,502
    Share of the measured countries
    6.4%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    674,357
    Share of the measured countries
    5.6%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    623,504
    Share of the measured countries
    5.2%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    451,097
    Share of the measured countries
    3.8%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    303,634
    Share of the measured countries
    2.5%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    265,459
    Share of the measured countries
    2.2%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the single biggest market, but only about 17 in every 100 visits. India alone is 74.2% of the countries I measure outside it.

6Links and ratings

Other websites link to these sites more than a year ago (+302%).

The tracked sites had 223,325 referring domains between them in October 2026, +302.1% year on year. The average Domain Rating is 67. invideo has the strongest link profile at DR 87.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.