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title: "Adobe Captivate: search popularity worldwide"
description: "Adobe Captivate is an e-learning authoring tool. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time."
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# Adobe Captivate: search popularity worldwide

Adobe Captivate is an e-learning authoring tool. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time.

## Key facts

- **Brand**: Adobe Captivate
- **Market**: Global
- **Measured month**: Sep 2026
- **Share of Search among e-learning authoring tools**: 22%

## Where the brand sits

| Competitive set | Rank | Share of Search | Estimated monthly branded searches |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| E-learning authoring tools | 2 | 22% | 9.9K |

- [E-learning authoring tools](/demand/global-en/categories/e-learning-authoring-tools)

## How has branded search demand for Adobe Captivate changed worldwide over the last 12 months?

- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, estimated monthly branded searches for Adobe Captivate worldwide fell from 18.1K to 9.9K.
- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, Adobe Captivate’s estimated Share of Search among e-learning authoring tools worldwide decreased from 29.1% to 22%.
- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, Adobe Captivate’s estimated Share of Search among e-learning authoring tools worldwide peaked at 29.4% in November 2025 and was lowest at 22% in April 2026.

## How did search popularity change for e-learning authoring tools worldwide in September 2026?

- In September 2026, iSpring gained estimated Share of Search among e-learning authoring tools worldwide, from 69.6% to 73.7%.
- In September 2026, Adobe Captivate lost estimated Share of Search among e-learning authoring tools worldwide, from 25.4% to 22%.
- In September 2026, Elucidat lost estimated Share of Search among e-learning authoring tools worldwide, from 4.9% to 4.2%.

## Historical estimated branded-search demand

| Month | Competitive set | Estimated monthly branded searches | Share of Search | Rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | E-learning authoring tools | 18.1K | 29.1% | 2 |
| Nov 2025 | E-learning authoring tools | 18.1K | 29.4% | 2 |
| Dec 2025 | E-learning authoring tools | 12.1K | 25.7% | 2 |
| Jan 2026 | E-learning authoring tools | 14.8K | 29.4% | 2 |
| Feb 2026 | E-learning authoring tools | 14.8K | 29.1% | 2 |
| Mar 2026 | E-learning authoring tools | 14.8K | 25.6% | 2 |
| Apr 2026 | E-learning authoring tools | 12.1K | 22% | 2 |
| May 2026 | E-learning authoring tools | 12.1K | 25.7% | 2 |
| Jun 2026 | E-learning authoring tools | 12.1K | 22.2% | 2 |
| Jul 2026 | E-learning authoring tools | 12.1K | 25.8% | 2 |
| Aug 2026 | E-learning authoring tools | 9.9K | 25.4% | 2 |
| Sep 2026 | E-learning authoring tools | 9.9K | 22% | 2 |

## How is Adobe Captivate measured?

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Adobe Captivate’s name. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for this branded term can be used to understand whether interest in the brand is growing, holding steady, or fading.

- “adobe captivate”

## Which e-learning authoring tools compete with Adobe Captivate?

- [iSpring](/demand/global-en/brands/ispring): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/adobe-captivate-vs-ispring
- [Elucidat](/demand/global-en/brands/elucidat): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/adobe-captivate-vs-elucidat
- [Articulate](/demand/global-en/brands/articulate): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/adobe-captivate-vs-articulate

## Methodology

- [How is branded search demand measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused.

## Cite this page

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