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Airpods

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Airpods is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Top 44% of 1,488 Electronics & Photo niches · +1 vs the category median of 44
Market size
£14.8M/yr6.3M searches / yr
90-day growth
+0.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
88%top-5 click share · 5 brands · 51 sellers

Flapen Score

Airpods against its category

The dotted line is the Electronics & Photo average. Past it, Airpods is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Airpods market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Airpods 6.3M times last year and spent an estimated £14.8M. All 5 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

3.7% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 6.3M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 3.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +0.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £14.8M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
6.3M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+0.3%
Conversion, latest week
3.7%
Market size, estimated
£14.8Ma year
Peak month
December2.5× the quietest month
Top search term
airpods4.1M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £63.55.

Listings sell for £63.55 on average, from £9.51 to £164.88. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 150K to 200K a year. The average listing sells 15,000 to 20,000 of them. At £63.55 that is £953K to £1.3M a year per listing.

Average price
£63.55inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£9.51–£164.88
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
150K–200K
Units per listing a year
15,000–20,000
Revenue per listing a year
£953K–£1.3M
Returns
2.5%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

78% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 89% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #17 within Headphones, Earphones & Accessories. It carries 19,502 reviews at 4.40 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
78%
Prime listings
89%
Out of stock, average day
4.6%
Average rank
#17in Headphones, Earphones & Accessories
Average rating
4.40 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
19,502per listing
Listings tracked
9

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 2 of last year's 2 launches as successful.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 2 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 26 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
26 months

Products

Top Airpods products & what they sell for

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

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 88% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£2.2M£4.4M£6.6M£8.9M1001K10K100K1.0M Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

5 rising

Sellers

51

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

88%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Apple84%
  • YHFvesv7%
  • iLove3%
  • Jxrev3%
  • soundcore3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Airpods search demand

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

400K300KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.5×

Search terms

Top Airpods search terms shoppers use

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

  • airpods4.1M/yr
  • apple airpods982K/yr
  • air pods429K/yr
  • apple earpods172K/yr
  • airpod150K/yr
  • apple air pods68K/yr
  • apple earbuds63K/yr
  • ipods54K/yr
  • air pod35K/yr
  • airpods apple41K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Airpods

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Connectivity-Overall11%−0.15

constantly disconnects

Connection Issues

Unable to connect

Durability10%−0.14

Fall apart easily

broke after a week

Stopped working after one use

Audio Quality9%+0.89

sound is awful

Poor sound quality

Not loud enough

Quality-Overall8%+1.73

Bad quality

again quality is cheap

Rubbish quality

Charging7%−0.04

suddenly stopped charging

will not hold a charge

will not charge

Love

Quality-Overall22%+1.73

The build quality is excellent

Amazing Quality

Great build quality

Audio Quality21%+0.89

Amazing sound

Clear sound

Beautiful sound

Value For Money17%+1.48

Value for money

Affordable price

Great headphones for price

Battery Life6%+0.12

Amazing battery life

Good battery

Battery lasts a long time

Charging4%−0.04

Charging is quick

Easy to use easy to charge

Charges well

Return

2.5% Return rate 16% Fixable by listing

Functionality-Overall14%███▇▆▇

it hardly worked

stopped working

Didnt work

Connectivity-Overall14%▇▇▇▇█▇

constantly disconnects

Connection Issues

Unable to connect

Audio Quality13%█▇▆▇▇▆

sound is awful

Poor sound quality

Not loud enough

Size-Overall10%▅▅▇▆▆█
Charging9%█▇▇▇▆▇

suddenly stopped charging

will not hold a charge

will not charge

FAQ

Common Airpods questions

Answered from the same tracked data.