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Highlighter

Maybe

Products sell for $21.62 on average, inside the sweet spot. But demand is soft, at -5.5% this quarter, so Highlighter is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 14% of 53 Office Products niches · +8 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$137K/yr155K searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
38%top-5 click share · 23 brands · 82 sellers

Flapen Score

Highlighter against its category

The dotted line is the Office Products average. Past it, Highlighter is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

57Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Highlighter market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Arab Emirates searched for Highlighter 155K times last year and spent an estimated $137K. The top 5 brands take 59% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

4.1% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 155K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Arab Emirates for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 4.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $137K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
155K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.5%
Conversion, latest week
4.1%
Market size, estimated
$137Ka year
Peak month
August3.4× the quietest month
Top search term
highlighter86K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $21.62.

Listings sell for $21.62 on average, from $3.59 to $65.05. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $21.62 that is $2K to $5K a year per listing.

Average price
$21.62inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.59–$65.05
Amazon United Arab Emirates median price
$60.52across 3,090 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$2K–$5K
Returns
1.3%of orders · Amazon United Arab Emirates median 1.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

65% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #70 within Office Products. It carries 1,914 reviews at 4.48 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
65%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.0%
Average rank
#70in Office Products
Average rating
4.48 starsAmazon United Arab Emirates average 4.27 stars
Average reviews
1,914per listing
Listings tracked
43

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 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 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Highlighter 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 only 38% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$4K$8K$12K$16K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

23 falling

Sellers

82

Top-5 brand share

59%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

38%

Top 20: 82%

Open market

36%

  • Faber-Castell24%
  • deli14%
  • Odluzy8%
  • Maped7%
  • Stationery-AT5%
  • STABILO5%

Demand

Highlighter search demand

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

13K8KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.4×

Search terms

Top Highlighter search terms shoppers use

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

  • highlighter86K/yr
  • highlighter pen26K/yr
  • هايلايتر10K/yr
  • highlighters20K/yr
  • pastel highlighters9K/yr
  • highlighter marker5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Highlighter

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

33%of positive reviews mention “الجودة الشاملة”
38%of negative reviews mention “الجودة الشاملة”
1.3%of orders come back
“Very poor quality”
A buyer, on “الجودة الشاملة”38% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Highlighter questions

Answered from the same tracked data.