Cotton Wool Balls
FailPrices span $1.53–$8.26, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Cotton Wool Balls is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 39 / 100Ranks 2,047 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −8 vs the category median of 4739
- Market size
- £195K/yr240K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -10.5%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 90%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 58 sellers
Flapen Score
Cotton Wool Balls against its category
The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Cotton Wool Balls is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Cotton Wool Balls market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Cotton Wool Balls 240K times last year and spent an estimated £195K. The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 39 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 25.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 240K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 25.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -10.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £195K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 240K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -10.5%
- Conversion, latest week
- 25.7%
- Market size, estimated
- £195Ka year
- Peak month
- December2.0× the quietest month
- Top search term
- cotton wool balls158K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth £3.17.
Listings sell for £3.17 on average, from £1.53 to £8.26. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 8,000 to 10,000 of them. At £3.17 that is £25K to £32K a year per listing.
- Average price
- £3.17under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- £1.53–£8.26
- Amazon United Kingdom median price
- £12.12across 27,606 niches
- Units sold a year
- 60K–80K
- Units per listing a year
- 8,000–10,000
- Revenue per listing a year
- £25K–£32K
- Returns
- 0.1%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. 88% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #126 within Tools & Accessories. It carries 1,555 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 88%
- Prime listings
- 88%
- Out of stock, average day
- 0.0%
- Average rank
- #126in Tools & Accessories
- Average rating
- 4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
- Average reviews
- 1,555per listing
- Listings tracked
- 8
04 · Newcomers
Brands here are settling in.
The brands on the shelf have sold for 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 0
- Successful launches
- 0Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 52 months
Products
Top Cotton Wool Balls 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 90% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.
Brands
7 rising
Sellers
58
Top-5 brand share
95%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
90%
Top 20: 100%
Open market
2%
- Brand 161%
- Brand 215%
- Brand 38%
- Brand 46%
- Brand 54%
- Brand 63%
- Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 2%)
Demand
Cotton Wool Balls search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×
Search terms
Top Cotton Wool Balls search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- cotton wool balls158K/yr
- cotton balls62K/yr
- cotton balls baby newborn5K/yr
- cotton wool balls baby4K/yr
- cotton wall balls3K/yr
- cotton ball3K/yr
- cotton wool balls large2K/yr
- corton wool balls2K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cotton Wool Balls
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Small balls”
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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