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Pillows

Pass

Pillows scores 69 out of 100, a Pass. Shoppers spend an estimated $7.8M a year here, demand is soft, at -13.8% this quarter, and an estimated 0.4% of orders come back.

Flapen Score
69
69 / 100
Top 4% of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · +18 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£7.8M/yr8.4M searches / yr
90-day growth
-13.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
33%top-5 click share · 29 brands · 44 sellers

Flapen Score

Pillows against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Garden average. Past it, Pillows is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

69Pass
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Pillows market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Pillows 8.4M times last year and spent an estimated £7.8M. The top 5 brands take 59% of clicks. Flapen scores it 69 out of 100, a Pass.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 8.4M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -13.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £7.8M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
8.4M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-13.8%
Conversion, latest week
6.3%
Market size, estimated
£7.8Ma year
Peak month
October1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
pillows2.8M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £14.69.

Listings sell for £14.69 on average, from £6.20 to £34.30. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 500K to 600K a year. The average listing sells 8,000 to 10,000 of them. At £14.69 that is £118K to £147K a year per listing.

Average price
£14.69under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£6.20–£34.30
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
500K–600K
Units per listing a year
8,000–10,000
Revenue per listing a year
£118K–£147K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

98% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 44% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #33 within Home Textiles. It carries 6,370 reviews at 4.36 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
98%
Prime listings
44%
Out of stock, average day
0.5%
Average rank
#33in Home Textiles
Average rating
4.36 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
6,370per listing
Listings tracked
55

04 · Newcomers

12 of last year's 14 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

14 products launched here in the last 12 months. 12 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 43 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
14
Successful launches
12Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
43 months

Products

Top Pillows 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 28, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 33% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£235K£471K£706K£941K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

29 rising

Sellers

44

Est. top-5 brand share

59%

Top 20: 94%

Est. top-5 click share

33%

Top 20: 68%

Open market

37%

  • Slumberdown21%
  • Adam Home16%
  • Utopia Bedding10%
  • SK Stores6%
  • Silentnight6%
  • BedStory5%

Demand

Pillows search demand

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

200K150KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Pillows search terms shoppers use

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

  • pillows2.8M/yr
  • pillows 2 pack1.4M/yr
  • pillow1.0M/yr
  • memory foam pillow895K/yr
  • pillows 4 pack720K/yr
  • pillows for neck and shoulder pain225K/yr
  • side sleeper pillow247K/yr
  • hotel pillows188K/yr
  • firm pillows175K/yr
  • bed pillows97K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pillows

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Comfort-Overall”
15%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.4%of orders come back
“Average quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”15% 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 Pillows 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