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Substrat

Fail

The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks, so Substrat is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Ranks 1,574 of 2,017 Garten niches · −9 vs the category median of 58
Market size
€365K/yr345K searches / yr
90-day growth
-2.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
52%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 43 sellers

Flapen Score

Substrat against its category

The dotted line is the Garten average. Past it, Substrat is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Substrat market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Substrat 345K times last year and spent an estimated €365K. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 345K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -2.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €365K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
345K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-2.0%
Conversion, latest week
9.8%
Market size, estimated
€365Ka year
Peak month
October4.2× the quietest month
Top search term
seramis92K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €10.73.

Listings sell for €10.73 on average, from €3.29 to €26.67. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At €10.73 that is €11K to €13K a year per listing.

Average price
€10.73under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
€3.29–€26.67
Amazon Germany median price
€18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
€11K–€13K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

77% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 80% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #84 within Hydroponik. It carries 3,178 reviews at 4.59 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
77%
Prime listings
80%
Out of stock, average day
0.9%
Average rank
#84in Hydroponik
Average rating
4.59 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews
3,178per listing
Listings tracked
30

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 6 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

6 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 48 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
6
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
48 months

Products

Top Substrat products & what they sell for

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

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 52% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

10 rising

Sellers

43

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

52%

Top 20: 90%

Open market

4%

  • Brand 163%
  • Brand 220%
  • Brand 35%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 4%)

Demand

Substrat search demand

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

25K15KPrime Day '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.2×

Search terms

Top Substrat search terms shoppers use

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

  • seramis92K/yr
  • seramis granulat zimmerpflanzen95K/yr
  • bimsstein granulat26K/yr
  • lavagranulat21K/yr
  • seramis granulat24K/yr
  • bims17K/yr
  • lavagranulat für pflanzen8K/yr
  • lava granulat7K/yr
  • substrat8K/yr
  • bimsstein pflanzen6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Substrat

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

28%of positive reviews mention “Qualität insgesamt”
16%of negative reviews mention “Pflanzenwachstum”
0.2%of orders come back
“3/5 Pflanzen waren nicht mehr zu retten”
A buyer, on “Pflanzenwachstum”16% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Substrat questions

Answered from the same tracked data.