Is Selfie Stick profitable to sell on Amazon Germany?

Flapen scores Selfie Stick 51 out of 100 on Amazon Germany, a Maybe. Shoppers spend €858K a year across 19 tracked products. 3 of the 3 products launched in the last year cleared the first-year sales bar. Search demand grew +10.7% in the last 90 days.

How competitive is the Selfie Stick niche on Amazon Germany?

11 brands and 24 sellers compete in Selfie Stick on Amazon Germany. The top 5 Selfie Stick products take 63% of clicks, and the top 5 brands take 86%.

What do buyers complain about in Selfie Stick?

Selfie Stick buyers on Amazon Germany complain most about Haltbarkeit, Stärke, and Qualität insgesamt. An estimated 2.7% of orders come back.

When does demand for Selfie Stick peak?

Search demand for Selfie Stick on Amazon Germany peaks in Jul, and the busiest month runs 1.6× the quietest.

What does it cost to enter the Selfie Stick niche?

Selfie Stick sells for €14.32 on average on Amazon Germany, outside the $15 to $100 sweet spot. Listings run €6.31 to €25.09. The average product has 12,566 reviews, the count a new listing must catch up to.

Selfie Stick

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $858K a year here. But the average product has 12,566 reviews to catch up to, so Selfie Stick is a Maybe.

Flapen Score: 51
51 / 100Top 20% of 1,823 Elektronik & Foto niches · +7 vs the category median of 44
Market size: €858K/yr1.1M searches / yr
90-day growth: +10.7%search demand this quarter
Competition: 63%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 24 sellers

Flapen Score

Selfie Stick against its category

The dotted line is the Elektronik & Foto average. Past it, Selfie Stick is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

51Maybe

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Market

The Selfie Stick market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Selfie Stick 1.1M times last year and spent an estimated €858K. The top 5 brands take 86% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul. Flapen scores it 51 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +10.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €858K a year.

Searches, last 12 months: 1.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90: +10.7%
Conversion, latest week: 5.6%
Market size, estimated: €858Ka year
Peak month: July1.6× the quietest month
Top search term: selfie stick475K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €14.32.

Listings sell for €14.32 on average, from €6.31 to €25.09. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 50K to 60K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At €14.32 that is €43K to €57K a year per listing.

Average price: €14.32under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range: €6.31–€25.09
Amazon Germany median price: €18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year: 50K–60K
Units per listing a year: 3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year: €43K–€57K
Returns: 2.7%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #8 within Foto- & Videozubehör. It carries 12,566 reviews at 4.39 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings: 100%
Prime listings: 100%
Out of stock, average day: 0.4%
Average rank: #8in Foto- & Videozubehör
Average rating: 4.39 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews: 12,566per listing
Listings tracked: 19

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 31 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months: 3
Successful launches: 3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age: 31 months

Products

Top Selfie Stick products & what they sell for

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

The products selling in this niche are for signed-in readers. Every market figure above stays open to everyone.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 63% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

11 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

86%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

Brand 137%
Brand 218%
Brand 313%
Brand 412%
Brand 56%
Brand 66%
Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 8%)

Demand

Selfie Stick search demand

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

Peak months: Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Selfie Stick search terms shoppers use

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

selfie stick475K/yr +10.3%4.5% conv.
selfie stick iphone208K/yr +8.7%5.6% conv.
selfie stick samsung122K/yr +24.7%5.1% conv.
selfie stick stativ53K/yr +14.9%5.2% conv.
selfiestick54K/yr +21.0%4.4% conv.
handy stick25K/yr -4.8%2.8% conv.
handy selfie stick15K/yr +2.2%3.5% conv.
selfie13K/yr -8.1%1.4% conv.
selfie stick mit fernbedienung9K/yr +20.8%4.7% conv.
handystick12K/yr +12.6%3.4% conv.

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Selfie Stick

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

16%of positive reviews mention “Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis”

18%of negative reviews mention “Haltbarkeit”

2.7%of orders come back

“Haltbarkeit begrenzt”

A buyer, on “Haltbarkeit”18% 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.

20 topics

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