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Brand-locked demand (top 5 brands take 97% of clicks) — this niche doesn't clear our bar today.

Market size 60Growth 56Conversion 46Competition 21Returns 100Price range 48Avg price 79Brand share 7Review moat 23Quality gap 42

Returns

Incredible0.0%

return rate — above 6% kills the launch gate

Avg price

Great$89.30

avg listing price — sweet spot $15–$100

Market size

Good$501K

$501K/yr · 151K searches

Growth

Good+29.6%

90-day search growth — must beat 0% to launch

Price range

Okay$36.59–$167.51

cheapest to priciest tracked listing — scored on the share inside $15–$100

Conversion

Okay3.7%

search→purchase rate — share of searches ending in a sale

Quality gap

Okay4.5★

avg incumbent rating — lower means beatable quality

Review moat

Bad8,333.73

avg incumbent reviews — the moat a new listing must climb

Competition

Bad74%

top-5 click share — a locked-up shelf

Brand share

Bad97%

top-5 brand share — brand-locked demand

Competition

The top 5 products capture 74% of clicks — a locked-up shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

531

Top-5 brand share

97%

Open market

1%

  • BulkSupplements42%
  • Optimum Nutrition41%
  • BSN8%
  • Animal3%
  • Ascent2%
  • Nutricost1%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)

Product shelf

Each bubble is one product — market share against review moat; bubble size tracks estimated sales, color grades how beatable the incumbent looks.

0%10%$50K20%$100K30%$150K40%$201K1101001K10K100K Reviews — right = deep review moat Market share (90d) ≈ est. sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

All 15 tracked products in this niche — three views at once, no toggling.

Demand & seasonality

Weekly Amazon search volume, last 101 weeks — +29.6% search growth over the last 90 days.
5K3KPrime Day '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar, Apr, May, Jun · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.6×

Reviews

What buyers praise and complain about, mined from review topics.

What buyers love

Nutritional Content23%

“Great tasting protein”

Taste-Overall11%

“tastes absolutely divine”

Value For Money9%

“Good deal”

Flavor7%

“Good flavor”

Solubility7%

“The best thing I like is it is easy to dissolve”

Quality-Overall6%

“it is very high quality with a zipper seal”

Blend/Ratio4%

“This blends in well”

Ingredients-Overall2%

“Good clean ingredients”

Advertised Vs Actual Product2%

“in practice it has done exactly what I hoped”

Ease Of Use1%

“simple it is”

What buyers complain about

Taste-Overall13%

“The taste was completely different”

Value For Money11%

“Over priced”

Flavor11%

“The flavor is very artificial”

Nutritional Content10%

“Less protein”

Advertised Vs Actual Product4%

“This product is misleading”

Solubility3%

“Powder didnt dissolve properly”

Smell3%

“the aroma when opening the container has a chemical component to it”

Quality-Overall2%

“Horrible quality control”

Ingredients-Overall2%

“If you want a pure one-ingredient whey isolate do not buy this”

Artificial Sweeteners2%

“Cannot use artificial sweetener”