Cotton Buds
FailThe top 5 products take 100% of clicks, so Cotton Buds is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 37 / 100Ranks 550 of 638 Baby Products niches · −10 vs the category median of 4737
- Market size
- £693K/yr1.2M searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -4.7%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 100%top-5 click share · 4 brands · 29 sellers
Flapen Score
Cotton Buds against its category
The dotted line is the Baby Products average. Past it, Cotton Buds is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Cotton Buds market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Cotton Buds 1.2M times last year and spent an estimated £693K. All 4 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 37 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 38.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 1.2M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 38.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £693K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 1.2M
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -4.7%
- Conversion, latest week
- 38.2%
- Market size, estimated
- £693Ka year
- Peak month
- February1.3× the quietest month
- Top search term
- cotton buds777K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth £1.54.
Listings sell for £1.54 on average, from £1.00 to £2.98. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 400K to 500K a year. The average listing sells 80,000 to 100,000 of them. At £1.54 that is £123K to £154K a year per listing.
- Average price
- £1.54under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- £1.00–£2.98
- Amazon United Kingdom median price
- £12.12across 27,606 niches
- Units sold a year
- 400K–500K
- Units per listing a year
- 80,000–100,000
- Revenue per listing a year
- £123K–£154K
- Returns
- 0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is reviews.
75% 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 #4 within Health & Baby Care. It carries 9,377 reviews at 4.70 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 75%
- Prime listings
- 100%
- Out of stock, average day
- 0.0%
- Average rank
- #4in Health & Baby Care
- Average rating
- 4.70 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
- Average reviews
- 9,377per listing
- Listings tracked
- 4
04 · Newcomers
1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
1 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 38 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 1
- Successful launches
- 1Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 38 months
Products
Top Cotton Buds 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 100% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.
Brands
4 falling
Sellers
29
Top-5 brand share
100%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
100%
Top 20: 100%
Open market
0%
- Brand 161%
- Brand 219%
- Brand 312%
- Brand 48%
Demand
Cotton Buds search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×
Search terms
Top Cotton Buds search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- cotton buds777K/yr
- ear buds cotton82K/yr
- q tips48K/yr
- cotton ear buds33K/yr
- cotton buds johnsons29K/yr
- cotton swabs23K/yr
- ear cotton buds21K/yr
- johnsons cotton buds20K/yr
- cotton wool buds18K/yr
- qtips17K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cotton Buds
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Bad quality”
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
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