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Glue Stick

Fail

The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks, so Glue Stick is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 71 of 104 Arts & Crafts niches · −5 vs the category median of 52
Market size
$84K/yr75K searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
56%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 27 sellers

Flapen Score

Glue Stick against its category

The dotted line is the Arts & Crafts average. Past it, Glue Stick is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Glue Stick market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Arab Emirates searched for Glue Stick 75K times last year and spent an estimated $84K. The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

8.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 75K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Arab Emirates for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 8.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $84K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
75K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.2%
Conversion, latest week
8.8%
Market size, estimated
$84Ka year
Peak month
August3.7× the quietest month
Top search term
glue stick32K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.65.

Listings sell for $12.65 on average, from $0.96 to $50.80. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $12.65 that is $6K to $9K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.65under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$0.96–$50.80
Amazon United Arab Emirates median price
$60.52across 3,090 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
$6K–$9K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United Arab Emirates median 1.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

50% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #32 within Arts & Crafts. It carries 1,124 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
50%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#32in Arts & Crafts
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Arab Emirates average 4.27 stars
Average reviews
1,124per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 48 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
48 months

Products

Top Glue Stick products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 56% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$8K$17K$25K$33K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

27

Top-5 brand share

95%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

56%

Top 20: 98%

Open market

2%

  • UHU61%
  • Scotch16%
  • Fantastick13%
  • Maxi4%
  • McMola2%
  • Portal AE2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 2%)

Demand

Glue Stick search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

6K4KSpike '24Black Friday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.7×

Search terms

Top Glue Stick search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • glue stick32K/yr
  • glue stic15K/yr
  • uhu glue13K/yr
  • glue sticks9K/yr
  • uhu5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Glue Stick

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

33%of positive reviews mention “المنتج المعلن عنه مقابل المنتج الفعلي”
33%of negative reviews mention “الوظيفة - بشكل عام”
0.5%of orders come back
“It didn't work on a plastic spatula”
A buyer, on “الوظيفة - بشكل عام”33% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

12 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Glue Stick questions

Answered from the same tracked data.