Nipple Shields
FailDemand is soft, at -5.4% this quarter, so Nipple Shields is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 48 / 100Top 46% of 638 Baby Products niches · +1 vs the category median of 4748
- Market size
- £279K/yr364K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -5.4%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 63%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 36 sellers
Flapen Score
Nipple Shields against its category
The dotted line is the Baby Products average. Past it, Nipple Shields is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Nipple Shields market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Nipple Shields 364K times last year and spent an estimated £279K. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 7.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 364K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £279K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 364K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -5.4%
- Conversion, latest week
- 7.6%
- Market size, estimated
- £279Ka year
- Peak month
- January1.2× the quietest month
- Top search term
- nipple shields for breastfeeding209K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth £10.06.
Listings sell for £10.06 on average, from £4.93 to £21.73. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 25K to 30K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At £10.06 that is £15K to £20K a year per listing.
- Average price
- £10.06under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- £4.93–£21.73
- Amazon United Kingdom median price
- £12.12across 27,606 niches
- Units sold a year
- 25K–30K
- Units per listing a year
- 1,500–2,000
- Revenue per listing a year
- £15K–£20K
- Returns
- 2.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is reviews.
88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 12.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #130 within Nursing & Feeding. It carries 5,247 reviews at 4.18 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 88%
- Prime listings
- 100%
- Out of stock, average day
- 12.4%
- Average rank
- #130in Nursing & Feeding
- Average rating
- 4.18 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
- Average reviews
- 5,247per listing
- Listings tracked
- 17
04 · Newcomers
0 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 43 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 4
- Successful launches
- 0Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 43 months
Products
Top Nipple Shields 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 63% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.
Brands
13 rising
Sellers
36
Top-5 brand share
80%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
63%
Top 20: 100%
Open market
16%
- Brand 140%
- Brand 222%
- Brand 310%
- Brand 45%
- Brand 54%
- Brand 64%
- Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 16%)
Demand
Nipple Shields search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×
Search terms
Top Nipple Shields search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- nipple shields for breastfeeding209K/yr
- nipple shields62K/yr
- mam nipple shields for breastfeeding20K/yr
- nipple shield18K/yr
- nippleshield10K/yr
- mam nipple shields8K/yr
- nipple covers breastfeeding5K/yr
- nipple guards breastfeeding4K/yr
- breastfeeding nipple shields4K/yr
- breast feeding nipple shields4K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Nipple Shields
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Far too big”
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.
19 topics
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