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

AI tools for marketing market, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▲ Growingbut visits without ChatGPT are down 14% on a year ago

Visits, year on year, without ChatGPT
-14%
Visits vs September 2026
+1.0%
Name searches vs October 2025
+3.8%

Every month I measure Google visits to the 116 AI tools for marketing sites I track, and how often people search for them by name. In October 2026 they got about 1.5 billion visits, 68% more than a year ago and 1% more than in September 2026.

Below: who grew fastest (one site is up 320% in a year), where the visitors live and what comes next.

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

AI tools for marketing 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 1,497,897,562 visits from Google in October 2026, 68% more than a year ago and 1% more than in September 2026. ChatGPT, which takes 61.3% of all the visits, gained more visits on its own than the whole market gained in a year. Without it, visits would be down 13.7% on a year ago instead of up 68.3%.
  • “ai tools for marketing” gets about 3,600 US searches a month. People searched the site names 171,164,330 times in the US in September 2026, 4% more often than in October 2025.
  • No tracked site ranks on Google for “ai tools for marketing”. ChatGPT is the most-visited site.
  • 9.7% of visits came from the US (9.7% a year ago), then India, Canada and Germany. The five most-visited sites took 96.2% of all visits.

1How many visits

In plain words: These sites got more visits from Google than a year ago (+68%), and October 2026 was about the same as September 2026 (+1%). ChatGPT, which takes 61.3% of all the visits, gained more visits on its own than the whole market gained in a year. Without it, visits would be down 13.7% on a year ago instead of up 68.3%.

Visits, October 2026
1,497,897,562 (+68.3% on a year ago, +1.0% on September 2026)
US visits
145,020,410 (+68.2% on a year ago)
24-month peak
this month, 1,497,897,562

WorldVisits a month to AI tools for marketing sites, worldwide

0500M1000M1500M2000MNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 261498M
Low 440MHigh 1498MAverage 940M
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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 68% above a year ago, and this is the highest month in two years. 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 4% more often than in October 2025 (+4%). That is the loyalty number, because nobody types a name by accident.

Searches for "ai tools for marketing"
3,600 a month in the US, 8,100 worldwide (12-month average)
Name searches, September 2026
171,164,330 in the US (+3.8% since October 2025), 1,662,931,180 worldwide

USSearches a month for "ai tools for marketing", United States

02.5K5.0K7.5K10.0KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 262.4K
Low 2.4KHigh 5.4KAverage 3.4K
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Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

050M100M150M200MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 26171M
Low 124MHigh 171MAverage 158M
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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 up 4%, 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

No tracked site is on Google’s first page for “ai tools for marketing”. Being on that page is the biggest single thing that decides how many visits a site gets.

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

Site

  • Adobe
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    62
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 7
    Search visits
    250,960,787
  • ChatGPT
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    112
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 37
    Search visits
    918,686,520
  • Shopify
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    171
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 7
    Search visits
    6,827,436
  • HubSpot
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    260
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 3
    Search visits
    2,147,457
  • Canva
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    280
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 33
    Search visits
    221,411,904
  • Grammarly
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    323
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 244
    Search visits
    21,845,704
  • Claude
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    417
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 21
    Search visits
    28,705,332
  • Klaviyo
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    554
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 45
    Search visits
    186,997
  • Mailchimp
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    777
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 42
    Search visits
    1,539,004
  • Twilio
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    1,137
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 367
    Search visits
    774,155
  • Customer.io
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    2,063
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 92
    Search visits
    21,573
  • Ahrefs
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    2,132
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 62
    Search visits
    1,879,377
  • Constant Contact
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    2,219
    Move in 41 days
    ▼ 74
    Search visits
    451,941
  • Brevo
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,056
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 124
    Search visits
    413,793
  • Iterable
    Google US
    –
    Tranco
    3,269
    Move in 41 days
    ▲ 126
    Search visits
    14,830

Source: DataForSEO (US Google positions) and Tranco, October 2026. First 15 of 116 sites shown.

Miles explains

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

4Who grew, who faded

Biggest gain in October 2026: Nextify (+270%); biggest loss: Brevo (-86%). Year-on-year growers are on the demand page.

Biggest moves in October 2026

Up this month

Down this month

  • Brevo
    Sep 26
    3,040,826
    Oct 26
    413,793
    Change
    -86.4%
  • Katteb
    Sep 26
    7,737
    Oct 26
    2,524
    Change
    -67.4%
  • Writer
    Sep 26
    98,395
    Oct 26
    56,909
    Change
    -42.2%
  • Surfer
    Sep 26
    163,885
    Oct 26
    101,189
    Change
    -38.3%
  • ImagineArt
    Sep 26
    1,285,758
    Oct 26
    883,459
    Change
    -31.3%
  • Brandmark
    Sep 26
    63,848
    Oct 26
    45,873
    Change
    -28.2%

Brand demand, since October 2025

Searched more

  • Claude
    Oct 25
    1,220,000
    Sep 26
    9,140,000
    Change
    +649.2%
  • Higgsfield
    Oct 25
    110,000
    Sep 26
    368,000
    Change
    +234.5%
  • Brevo
    Oct 25
    33,100
    Sep 26
    49,500
    Change
    +49.5%
  • Buffer
    Oct 25
    4,400
    Sep 26
    5,400
    Change
    +22.7%
  • Twilio
    Oct 25
    135,000
    Sep 26
    165,000
    Change
    +22.2%
  • beehiiv
    Oct 25
    22,200
    Sep 26
    27,100
    Change
    +22.1%

Searched less

  • Writecream
    Oct 25
    1,900
    Sep 26
    320
    Change
    -83.2%
  • Appy Pie
    Oct 25
    5,400
    Sep 26
    1,000
    Change
    -81.5%
  • Creatopy
    Oct 25
    3,600
    Sep 26
    880
    Change
    -75.6%
  • getimg.ai
    Oct 25
    1,900
    Sep 26
    480
    Change
    -74.7%
  • Rytr
    Oct 25
    3,600
    Sep 26
    1,000
    Change
    -72.2%
  • Copy.ai
    Oct 25
    8,100
    Sep 26
    2,400
    Change
    -70.4%

Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO.

5Where the visitors live

About 10 of every 100 visits come from the United States.

US share of visits
9.7% (9.7% a year ago)
Largest outside the US
India, Canada and Germany
US share of "ai tools for marketing" searches
44%

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

05101520Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 269.7
Low 8.1High 12.3Average 10
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    294,348,048
    Share of the measured countries
    76.4%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    22,184,819
    Share of the measured countries
    5.8%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    21,947,692
    Share of the measured countries
    5.7%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    21,487,424
    Share of the measured countries
    5.6%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    11,002,449
    Share of the measured countries
    2.9%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    8,680,411
    Share of the measured countries
    2.3%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    5,560,127
    Share of the measured countries
    1.4%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the single biggest market, but only about 10 in every 100 visits. India alone is 76.4% of the countries I measure outside it.

6Links and ratings

Other websites link to these sites more than a year ago (+2853%).

The tracked sites had 8,542,360 referring domains between them in October 2026 (115 of the 116 sites measured), +2852.8% year on year. The average Domain Rating is 69. Shopify has the strongest link profile at DR 97.

By Domain Rating (Ahrefs)

By referring domains

Source: DataForSEO and Ahrefs, October 2026.