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Remote Control

Fail

Products sell for $7.15 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Remote Control is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 26% of 1,488 Electronics & Photo niches · +5 vs the category median of 44
Market size
£109K/yr309K searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
48%top-5 click share · 18 brands · 47 sellers

Flapen Score

Remote Control against its category

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

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Remote Control market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Remote Control 309K times last year and spent an estimated £109K. The top 5 brands take 63% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

4.9% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 309K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 4.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £109K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
309K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.9%
Conversion, latest week
4.9%
Market size, estimated
£109Ka year
Peak month
December1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
remote control90K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.15.

Listings sell for £7.15 on average, from £3.33 to £23.81. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £7.15 that is £2K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.15under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.33–£23.81
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£4K
Returns
1.9%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

97% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #94 within Home Cinema, TV & Video. It carries 6,162 reviews at 4.22 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
97%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
4.3%
Average rank
#94in Home Cinema, TV & Video
Average rating
4.22 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
6,162per listing
Listings tracked
29

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 45 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
45 months

Products

Top Remote Control 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 48% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£5K£11K£16K£22K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

18 falling

Sellers

47

Top-5 brand share

63%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

48%

Top 20: 90%

Open market

33%

  • DRIVE PRO29%
  • MYHGRC14%
  • HJA Trading7%
  • One For All7%
  • APYRDH6%
  • YOSUN5%

Demand

Remote Control search demand

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

10K6KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Remote Control search terms shoppers use

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

  • remote control90K/yr
  • tv remote76K/yr
  • remote33K/yr
  • tv remote control31K/yr
  • remote controls19K/yr
  • smart tv remote14K/yr
  • tv control remote4K/yr
  • remote control tv7K/yr
  • tv remote controls5K/yr
  • remote control for tv6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Remote Control

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

Complain

Functionality-Overall22%−0.21

Did Not Work

Never worked

Not workig

Touch/Button Controls21%−0.17

Button unresponsive

Buttons dont work

Buttons are hard to press

Durability13%−0.13

Did not last more that a couple of weeks

Not durable

Doesnt last

Quality-Overall8%0.00

Bad quality

get a better quality control

Rubbish quality

Compatibility-Overall8%

Not compatible

Not compatible with all brands

will not pair with TV

Love

Remote Control26%+1.88

Good remote

Decent remote

Perfect remote

Advertised Vs Actual Product15%+1.11

Product as advertised

Works as expected

Does what it says

Value For Money14%+0.89

Good Value

Excellent value

Good value for money

Quality-Overall9%0.00

seems well made

Fantastic quality

Fair quality for its price

Compatibility-Overall9%

Compatible

Compatible with my sony tv

is compatible with everything

Return

1.9% Return rate 0% Fixable by listing

Compatibility-Overall42%██████

Not compatible

Not compatible with all brands

will not pair with TV

Functionality-Overall26%▇▇█▇█▇

Did Not Work

Never worked

Not workig

Touch/Button Controls11%█▇██▆▇

Button unresponsive

Buttons dont work

Buttons are hard to press

Connectivity-Overall7%▆█▇██▇

Won't connect

disconnects from the TV I want to use

it was so hard to connect it to the TV had to get a refund

Defective Material/Parts4%██▇▅▇▆

FAQ

Common Remote Control questions

Answered from the same tracked data.