How competitive is the Youview Box with Recorder niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

11 brands and 85 sellers compete in Youview Box with Recorder on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Youview Box with Recorder products take 49% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 90% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Youview Box with Recorder?

Youview Box with Recorder buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Functionality-Overall, Quality-Overall, Connectivity-Overall, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 5.7% — above our launch gate.

What does it cost to enter the Youview Box with Recorder niche?

Youview Box with Recorder sells for £124.29 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £52.29–£228.37. The average incumbent carries 1,238 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Youview Box with Recorder

a small market ($11K/yr) — Youview Box with Recorder doesn't clear our bar today.

Signals High Returns High Price

Flapen Score

Skip it

This niche Category average

Is Youview Box with Recorder profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Youview Box with Recorder is a £11K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (21K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 90% of demand. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Verdict: Skip it — 33/100.

Youview Box with Recorder: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -13.0% over the last 90 days and 0.4% of searches end in a purchase.

£11K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr500

Search volume / yr-13.0%21K

Conversion rate0.4%

Avg price£124.29

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 90% of demand, so 10% of the market is open.

10%

open market share

Brands · sellers11 · 85

Top-5 product click share49%

Open market10%

Avg brand age76 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.2★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 26 products

Top Youview Box with Recorder products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Top sellers

by 90-day click share

Manhattan T4-R 500GB Freeview Play 4K TV Recorder

Price: £143.22
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 1,393
Age: 2y ago

EE TV Box Pro 4K HDR Set Top Box Recorder 1TB Storage Subscription Free Youview Receiver

Price: £125.07
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 326
Age: 1y ago

Manhattan T4-R 1TB Freeview Play 4K TV Recorder

Price: £174.11
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 1,393
Age: 2y ago

Manhattan T2-R 500 GB Freeview HD Recorder - Black

Price: £117.59
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 2,371
Age: 8y ago

BT G4 YouView+ Smart 500 GB Freeview HD Digital TV Recorder Set Top Box

Price: £108.71
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 2,204
Age: 12y ago

Newest

by launch date

Manhattan Aero 4K TV Streamer with Freely

Price: £73.50
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 251
Age: 5mo ago

ANNKE 4CH 3K Lite Digital Video Recorder with SSD Internal Solid State Hard Drive 1TB 4 Channel DVR with AI Human/Vehicle Detection H.265 Hybrid 5-in-1 Security DVR Hardware Encryption

Price: £78.90
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 52
Age: 8mo ago

EE TV Box Pro 4K HDR Set Top Box Recorder 1TB Storage Subscription Free Youview Receiver

Price: £125.07
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 326
Age: 1y ago

BT/EE TV Box Pro - 1TB 4K Wireless Freeview TV Box Latest Model - (RTIW387)

Price: £125.31
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 94
Age: 1y ago

BT YOUVIEW T2100 FREEVIEW RECORDER: 1TB SSD Storage 3 Channels HDMI Connectivity

Price: £148.88
Rating: 3.8/5
Reviews: 50
Age: 1y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 49% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

11 rising

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

49%

Top 20: 94%

Open market

Manhattan51%
Generic12%
Panasonic10%
EE Ltd9%
BT8%
August4%
Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 6%)

Youview Box with Recorder demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume21KCVR0.4%Products26Brands11Top 5 Brands90%OOS Rate0.0%Rating4.2★Reviews1,238Avg BSR#73

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.3×

Top Youview Box with Recorder search terms shoppers use

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

manhattan freeview recorder7K/yr +8.7%1.8% conv.
youview box with recorder5K/yr -23.6%0.9% conv.
video recorders for tv3K/yr +22.4%0.7% conv.
hdd recorder for tv2K/yr -33.6%0.8% conv.
manhattan freeview box with recorder1K/yr -34.0%2.1% conv.
manhattan t4-r 500gb freeview play 4k tv recorder2K/yr -38.4%2.2% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Youview Box with Recorder

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

82% of reviews

Assembly/Installation25%

“Easy to install”

Value For Money16%

“Value for money”

Quality-Overall14%

“Good quality and easy to set up”

Ease Of Use9%

“Easy to use”

Advertised Vs Actual Product7%

“Does what it says on the box”

What buyers complain about

59% of reviews

Functionality-Overall12%

“Poor features”

Quality-Overall7%

“not very reliable”

Connectivity-Overall6%

“Keeps losing channels”

Assembly/Installation6%

“Could not even set up this item”

Ease Of Use5%

“it has taken me months to work out how to use it”

Youview Box with Recorder return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

5.7%

Return rate

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Compatibility-Overall

31%

2Connectivity-Overall

17%

3Functionality-Overall

14%

4Advertised Vs Actual Product

5Signal Strength

Common Youview Box with Recorder questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Youview Box with Recorder 33/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £11K/yr across 26 tracked products. 2 of 2 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -13.0% over the last 90 days.