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Smarties

Fail

The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks, so Smarties is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 687 of 1,367 Lebensmittel & Getränke niches · −1 vs the category median of 46
Market size
€172K/yr293K searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
61%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 38 sellers

Flapen Score

Smarties against its category

The dotted line is the Lebensmittel & Getränke average. Past it, Smarties is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Smarties market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Smarties 293K times last year and spent an estimated €172K. The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 293K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €172K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
293K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.3%
Conversion, latest week
5.3%
Market size, estimated
€172Ka year
Peak month
November1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
smarties111K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €11.01.

Listings sell for €11.01 on average, from €1.82 to €32.32. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At €11.01 that is €17K to €22K a year per listing.

Average price
€11.01under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
€1.82–€32.32
Amazon Germany median price
€18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
1,500–2,000
Revenue per listing a year
€17K–€22K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

32% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 84% ship with Prime. On an average day, 9.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #181 within Süßigkeiten & Knabbereien. It carries 771 reviews at 4.47 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
32%
Prime listings
84%
Out of stock, average day
9.5%
Average rank
#181in Süßigkeiten & Knabbereien
Average rating
4.47 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews
771per listing
Listings tracked
19

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 70 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
70 months

Products

Top Smarties 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 61% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

10 rising

Sellers

38

Top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

61%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

5%

  • Brand 167%
  • Brand 212%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 5%)

Demand

Smarties search demand

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

9K7KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Smarties search terms shoppers use

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

  • smarties111K/yr
  • schokolinsen59K/yr
  • smarties mini47K/yr
  • smarties großpackung23K/yr
  • mini smarties11K/yr
  • schokolinsen großpackung13K/yr
  • smarties mini grosspackung8K/yr
  • schokolinsen mini4K/yr
  • mini schokolinsen4K/yr
  • bunte schokolinsen4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Smarties

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

41%of positive reviews mention “Geschmack insgesamt”
17%of negative reviews mention “Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis”
0.1%of orders come back
“Wahnsinns Preis”
A buyer, on “Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis”17% 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.

13 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Smarties questions

Answered from the same tracked data.