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Shoes

Maybe

The top 5 products take only 11% of clicks. But buyers convert on only 0.4% of searches, so Shoes is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
60
60 / 100
Top 12% of 2,461 Fashion niches · +12 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£1.7M/yr14.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
+14.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
11%top-5 click share · 45 brands · 165 sellers

Flapen Score

Shoes against its category

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

60Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Shoes market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Shoes 14.8M times last year and spent an estimated £1.7M. The top 5 brands take 77% of clicks. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 14.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +14.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.7M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
14.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+14.0%
Conversion, latest week
0.4%
Market size, estimated
£1.7Ma year
Peak month
December1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
mens trainers2.1M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £30.00.

Listings sell for £30.00 on average, from £7.36 to £85.29. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £30.00 that is £3K to £8K a year per listing.

Average price
£30.00inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£7.36–£85.29
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£3K–£8K
Returns
3.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

74% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #224 within Shoes. It carries 9,449 reviews at 4.40 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
74%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
2.9%
Average rank
#224in Shoes
Average rating
4.40 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
9,449per listing
Listings tracked
269

04 · Newcomers

32 of last year's 87 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

87 products launched here in the last 12 months. 32 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 55 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
87
Successful launches
32Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
55 months

Products

Top Shoes 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 11% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£17K£35K£52K£69K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

45 rising

Sellers

165

Est. top-5 brand share

77%

Top 20: 94%

Est. top-5 click share

11%

Top 20: 28%

Open market

26%

  • adidas49%
  • NIKE10%
  • Amazon Essentials6%
  • Under Armour4%
  • New Balance2%
  • Tommy Hilfiger2%

Demand

Shoes search demand

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

500K300KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Shoes search terms shoppers use

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

  • mens trainers2.1M/yr
  • adidas trainers mens1.7M/yr
  • shoes1.2M/yr
  • trainers men1.1M/yr
  • trainers972K/yr
  • mens shoes1.1M/yr
  • nike trainers men875K/yr
  • adidas658K/yr
  • running shoes648K/yr
  • new balance mens trainers614K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Shoes

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

30%of positive reviews mention “Comfort-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
3.3%of orders come back
“Does not fit”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”20% 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 Shoes 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