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Virgin Remote Control

Fail

The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks, so Virgin 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
£188K/yr64K searches / yr
90-day growth
-9.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
75%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 16 sellers

Flapen Score

Virgin Remote Control against its category

The dotted line is the Electronics & Photo average. Past it, Virgin 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 Virgin Remote Control market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Virgin Remote Control 64K times last year and spent an estimated £188K. The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 22.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 64K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 22.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £188K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
64K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-9.3%
Conversion, latest week
22.3%
Market size, estimated
£188Ka year
Peak month
December1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
virgin media remote control43K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £13.17.

Listings sell for £13.17 on average, from £9.23 to £18.85. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At £13.17 that is £10K to £13K a year per listing.

Average price
£13.17under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£9.23–£18.85
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
£10K–£13K
Returns
1.8%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

86% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 86% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #628 within Home Cinema, TV & Video. It carries 320 reviews at 4.22 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
86%
Prime listings
86%
Out of stock, average day
2.9%
Average rank
#628in Home Cinema, TV & Video
Average rating
4.22 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
320per listing
Listings tracked
14

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 6 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

6 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 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
6
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Virgin Remote Control 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 75% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£19K£38K£56K£75K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 rising

Sellers

16

Est. top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

75%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

4%

  • Generic50%
  • Retailverse16%
  • DragonSat15%
  • ElectraWiz7%
  • RYQIF5%
  • EETU2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 4%)

Demand

Virgin Remote Control search demand

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

2K2KSepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Virgin Remote Control search terms shoppers use

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

  • virgin media remote control43K/yr
  • virgin remote control4K/yr
  • virgin tv remote control5K/yr
  • virgin 360 remote control4K/yr
  • virgin remote4K/yr
  • virgin remote control replacement4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Virgin Remote Control

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

44%of positive reviews mention “Remote Control”
19%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
1.8%of orders come back
“Doesn't work”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”19% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Virgin Remote Control 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