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Elmo

Fail

The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Elmo is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 1,878 of 2,461 Fashion niches · −7 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£69K/yr147K searches / yr
90-day growth
-9.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
67%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 66 sellers

Flapen Score

Elmo against its category

The dotted line is the Fashion average. Past it, Elmo is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Elmo market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Elmo 147K times last year and spent an estimated £69K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 147K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £69K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
147K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-9.0%
Conversion, latest week
3.5%
Market size, estimated
£69Ka year
Peak month
December4.1× the quietest month
Top search term
elmo100K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £13.25.

Listings sell for £13.25 on average, from £7.94 to £29.26. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £13.25 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£13.25under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£7.94–£29.26
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£3K
Returns
1.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

55% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 90% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #486 within Boys. It carries 566 reviews at 4.38 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
55%
Prime listings
90%
Out of stock, average day
4.9%
Average rank
#486in Boys
Average rating
4.38 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
566per listing
Listings tracked
20

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 9 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

9 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 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
9
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Elmo 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 23, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 67% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£3K£7K£10K£14K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

66

Est. top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

67%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

1%

  • Get Trend45%
  • Sesame Street38%
  • Posh Paws9%
  • Hasbro3%
  • little tikes2%
  • Just Play1%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)

Demand

Elmo search demand

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

13K8KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.1×

Search terms

Top Elmo search terms shoppers use

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

  • elmo100K/yr
  • elmo toys42K/yr
  • elmo toy5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Elmo

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

38%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
33%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
1.0%of orders come back
“Cute little item although could have been a bit bigger for price”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”33% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Elmo 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