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Howard Leight Ear Plugs

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Howard Leight Ear Plugs is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 1,596 of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · −7 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£61K/yr35K searches / yr
90-day growth
-14.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
85%top-5 click share · 3 brands · 29 sellers

Flapen Score

Howard Leight Ear Plugs against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Personal Care average. Past it, Howard Leight Ear Plugs is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Howard Leight Ear Plugs market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Howard Leight Ear Plugs 35K times last year and spent an estimated £61K. All 3 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 16.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 35K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 16.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £61K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
35K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-14.9%
Conversion, latest week
16.4%
Market size, estimated
£61Ka year
Peak month
March1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
howard leight ear plugs22K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.51.

Listings sell for £10.51 on average, from £3.36 to £27.57. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £10.51 that is £5K to £8K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.51under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.36–£27.57
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£5K–£8K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

27% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 91% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #184 within Ear Care. It carries 1,697 reviews at 4.27 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
27%
Prime listings
91%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#184in Ear Care
Average rating
4.27 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,697per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 54 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
54 months

Products

Top Howard Leight Ear Plugs 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 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 85% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£6K£12K£18K£24K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

3 rising

Sellers

29

Est. top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Howard Leight90%
  • We Want Your Ears8%
  • BSSAA2%

Demand

Howard Leight Ear Plugs search demand

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

1K600Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Howard Leight Ear Plugs search terms shoppers use

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

  • howard leight ear plugs22K/yr
  • honeywell ear plugs5K/yr
  • laser lite ear plugs5K/yr
  • ear plugs howard leight3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Howard Leight Ear Plugs

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Comfort-Overall”
19%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“Fishy smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Howard Leight Ear Plugs 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