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

AI thumbnail maker market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinking

Visits, year on year, without Adobe Express
-5.8%
Visits vs September 2026
-3.3%
Name searches vs October 2025
0%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 15 AI thumbnail maker sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 478 million visits, 12% fewer than a year ago and 3% fewer than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 13% 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 thumbnail maker 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 477,756,335 visits from Google in October 2026, 12% fewer than a year ago and 3% fewer than in September 2026. 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.
  • “ai thumbnail maker” gets about 1,900 US searches a month. People searched the site names 31,730,720 times in the US in September 2026, about as often as in October 2025.
  • 1 tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai thumbnail maker”; the highest is Adobe Express at position 9. Adobe Express is the most-visited site.
  • 12% of visits came from the US (11.7% a year ago), then India, Brazil and Canada. The five most-visited sites took 99.9% of all visits.

1How many visits

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.

Visits, October 2026
477,756,335 (-11.5% on a year ago, -3.3% on September 2026)
US visits
57,433,248 (-9.3% on a year ago)
24-month peak
603,606,858 in June 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.

2How 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, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai thumbnail maker"
1,900 a month in the US, 12,100 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
31,730,720 in the US (0% since October 2025), 190,965,120 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai thumbnail maker", United States

06251.3K1.9K2.5KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 261.6K
Low 1.6KHigh 2.4KAverage 1.9K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

013M25M38M50MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 2632M
Low 12MHigh 32MAverage 26M
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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.

Rising next to the term on Google Trends: “canva”.

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.

3Who is on Google's first page

1 tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai thumbnail maker”; the highest-placed is Adobe Express, at position 9. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

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

Site

  • Adobe Express
    Google US
    9
    Tranco
    62
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 7
    Search visits
    250,960,787
  • 1of10
    Google US
    11
    Tranco
    230,967
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 67,917
    Search visits
    4,912
  • Canva
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    280
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 33
    Search visits
    221,411,904
  • VEED
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    10,259
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 26
    Search visits
    3,090,874
  • VidIQ
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    13,080
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 308
    Search visits
    880,566
  • TubeBuddy
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    41,829
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 77
    Search visits
    89,334
  • Vmake
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    54,702
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 1,126
    Search visits
    773,783
  • Simplified
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    83,462
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 891
    Search visits
    293,769
  • Submagic
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    163,460
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 14,886
    Search visits
    216,085
  • Pikzels
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    499,707
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 779,019
    Search visits
    4,458
  • Testmythumbnails
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,728,482
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 41,870
    Search visits
    15,154
  • Miraflow
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    2,311,073
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 2,158,330
    Search visits
    3,332
  • Thumbmagic
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    4,138,831
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 1,949,546
    Search visits
    10,939
  • Thumbly
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 41 days
    –
    Search visits
    412
  • Thumbnailmaker.ai
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    –
    Move in 41 days
    –
    Search visits
    26

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 15 of 15 sites shown.

Miles explains

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

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Canva (+6%); biggest loss: VEED (-27%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

  • Canva
    Sep 26
    208,363,099
    Oct 26
    221,411,904
    Change
    +6.3%
  • VidIQ
    Sep 26
    841,424
    Oct 26
    880,566
    Change
    +4.7%
  • Simplified
    Sep 26
    288,216
    Oct 26
    293,769
    Change
    +1.9%

Down this month

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • 1of10
    Oct 25
    1,300
    Sep 26
    2,400
    Change
    +84.6%
  • VidIQ
    Oct 25
    60,500
    Sep 26
    74,000
    Change
    +22.3%

Searched less

  • TubeBuddy
    Oct 25
    6,600
    Sep 26
    3,600
    Change
    -45.5%
  • Vmake
    Oct 25
    2,400
    Sep 26
    1,900
    Change
    -20.8%
  • VEED
    Oct 25
    22,200
    Sep 26
    18,100
    Change
    -18.5%
  • Submagic
    Oct 25
    6,600
    Sep 26
    5,400
    Change
    -18.2%
  • Pikzels
    Oct 25
    2,900
    Sep 26
    2,400
    Change
    -17.2%
  • Simplified
    Oct 25
    2,900
    Sep 26
    2,400
    Change
    -17.2%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 12 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
12% (11.7% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Brazil and Canada
US share of "ai thumbnail maker" searches
16%

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

6Links and ratings

Other websites link to these sites more than a year ago (+138801%).

The tracked sites had 2,196,031 referring domains between them in October 2026, +138801.4% year on year. The average Domain Rating is 60. Adobe Express has the strongest link profile at DR 95.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.