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Shotgun Microphone

Fail

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

Flapen Score
38
38 / 100
Ranks 1,101 of 1,488 Electronics & Photo niches · −6 vs the category median of 44
Market size
£450K/yr272K searches / yr
90-day growth
-26.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
52%top-5 click share · 5 brands · 112 sellers

Flapen Score

Shotgun Microphone against its category

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

38Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Shotgun Microphone market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Shotgun Microphone 272K times last year and spent an estimated £450K. All 5 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 38 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 272K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -26.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £450K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
272K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-26.3%
Conversion, latest week
1.7%
Market size, estimated
£450Ka year
Peak month
December2.2× the quietest month
Top search term
rode mic114K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £95.95.

Listings sell for £95.95 on average, from £15.35 to £194.53. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £95.95 that is £10K to £24K a year per listing.

Average price
£95.95inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£15.35–£194.53
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£10K–£24K
Returns
4.4%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. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #21 within Camera & Photo. It carries 2,365 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
78%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#21in Camera & Photo
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,365per listing
Listings tracked
27

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Shotgun Microphone products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 22, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 52% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£18K£36K£54K£72K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

5 flat

Sellers

112

Est. top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

52%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

0%

  • RØDE82%
  • DJI7%
  • Sennheiser6%
  • Movo4%
  • BOYA1%

Demand

Shotgun Microphone search demand

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

18K13KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.2×

Search terms

Top Shotgun Microphone search terms shoppers use

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

  • rode mic114K/yr
  • rode43K/yr
  • rode microphone50K/yr
  • shotgun mic28K/yr
  • shotgun microphone9K/yr
  • rode shotgun mic7K/yr
  • rhode microphones7K/yr
  • rhode mic4K/yr
  • microphone rode3K/yr
  • rode mics2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Shotgun Microphone

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

19%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
22%of negative reviews mention “Microphone”
4.4%of orders come back
“Mic does not turn off”
A buyer, on “Microphone”22% of negative reviews mention the same topic

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

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Shotgun Microphone questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data