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

AI Thumbnail Maker Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without Adobe Express
-5.8%
Visits, last six months
-19%
Name searches vs October 2025
0%

Every key number on the AI thumbnail maker market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 15 sites I measure got about 478 million visits from Google, 12% fewer than a year ago, and the five most-visited sites took 99.9% 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 thumbnail maker industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 15 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    477,756,335
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -11.5% year on year, -3.3% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    57,433,248
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -9.3% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    12%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    31,730,720
    Period and basis
    September 2026; 0% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    190,965,120
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -17.7% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai thumbnail maker”, US
    Value
    1,900
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai thumbnail maker”, worldwide
    Value
    12,100
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    2,196,031
    Period and basis
    October 2026; +138801.4% year on year
  • Share of worldwide visits held by the five most-visited sites
    Value
    99.9%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Share held by the ten most-visited sites
    Value
    100%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai thumbnail maker”, US
    Value
    1
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai thumbnail maker”, US
    Value
    2
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

Brand-name searches leave out Thumbly: 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 (-12%), and October 2026 was a weaker month than September 2026 (-3%). Adobe Express, which takes 52.5% of all the visits, accounts for most of the fall (78% of it). Without it, visits would be down 5.8% on a year ago instead of down 11.5%. Adobe Express lost more visits in October 2026 (27,940,972) than the whole market did (16,069,214); without it, visits to the other sites rose 5.5% on September 2026.

WorldVisits a month to AI thumbnail maker sites, worldwide

0250M500M750M1000MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26478M
Low 310MHigh 604MAverage 515M
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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 12% below a year ago, and 21% below the June 2026 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 about as often as in October 2025 (0%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

013M25M38M50MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2632M
Low 12MHigh 32MAverage 26M
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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 about level, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows more people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 12 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 (%)

05101520Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2612
Low 8.4High 13.6Average 12
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    111,187,142
    Share of the measured countries
    69.2%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    18,186,653
    Share of the measured countries
    11.3%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    8,912,363
    Share of the measured countries
    5.5%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    6,840,788
    Share of the measured countries
    4.3%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    6,639,719
    Share of the measured countries
    4.1%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    5,596,419
    Share of the measured countries
    3.5%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    3,365,151
    Share of the measured countries
    2.1%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 12 in every 100 visits. India alone is 69.2% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

Adobe Express gets the most visits, Canva is the name people search for most, and Adobe Express is the highest-placed tracked site on Google for “ai thumbnail maker”, at position 9. The five most-visited sites take 99.9% of all visits.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

Miles explains

The five most-visited sites take 99.9% 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 VidIQ (+13%); the steepest fall was at TubeBuddy (-86%). Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Growing

  • VidIQ
    A year ago
    779,733
    Now
    880,566
    Change
    +13%

Declining

  • TubeBuddy
    A year ago
    639,780
    Now
    89,334
    Change
    -86%
  • Submagic
    A year ago
    907,016
    Now
    216,085
    Change
    -76%
  • Testmythumbnails
    A year ago
    56,111
    Now
    15,154
    Change
    -73%
  • Pikzels
    A year ago
    10,539
    Now
    4,458
    Change
    -58%
  • VEED
    A year ago
    7,043,039
    Now
    3,090,874
    Change
    -56%
  • 1of10
    A year ago
    10,617
    Now
    4,912
    Change
    -54%
  • Simplified
    A year ago
    427,483
    Now
    293,769
    Change
    -31%
  • Vmake
    A year ago
    1,013,179
    Now
    773,783
    Change
    -24%

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 Thumbnail Maker Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-thumbnail-maker/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.