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Watercolour Brushes

soft demand (-18.7% this quarter) — Watercolour Brushes doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

48
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Market size 35Growth 16Conversion 79Competition 59Returns 98Price range 44Avg price 27Brand share 57Review moat 46Quality gap 27
This niche Category average

Is Watercolour Brushes profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Watercolour Brushes is a £169K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (230K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 71% of demand. Demand peaks in Dec. Verdict: Skip it — 48/100.

Watercolour Brushes: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -18.7% over the last 90 days and 7.9% of searches end in a purchase.

£169K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr20K
Search volume / yr-18.7%230K
Conversion rate7.9%
Avg price£9.27

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 71% of demand, so 29% of the market is open.

29%

open market share

Brands · sellers18 · 43
Top-5 product click share50%
Open market29%
Avg brand age34 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.6★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 30 products

Sponsored placement80%
New entrants (1y)5· 0 succeeded
Avg rating4.6★
Avg reviews1,926

Top Watercolour Brushes products & what they sell for

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

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 50% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

£0£7K£14K£20K£27K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

18 falling

Sellers

43

Top-5 brand share

71%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

50%

Top 20: 91%

Open market

22%

  • Nicpro22%
  • Winsor & Newton16%
  • Fuumuui13%
  • Daler Rowney12%
  • Thinp8%
  • lokxmve8%

Watercolour Brushes demand & seasonality

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

Volume230KCVR7.9%Products30Brands18Top 5 Brands71%OOS Rate2.0%Rating4.6★Reviews1,926Avg BSR#89
7K5KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Top Watercolour Brushes search terms shoppers use

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

  • watercolour brushes118K/yr
  • watercolour paint brushes19K/yr
  • watercolour brushes for artists15K/yr
  • watercolour brush12K/yr
  • watercolor brushes14K/yr
  • watercolour brush set9K/yr
  • water colour brushes6K/yr
  • watercolour brushes professional6K/yr
  • water colour paint brushes for artists6K/yr
  • watercolour paint brush4K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Watercolour Brushes

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

What buyers love

84% of reviews
Value For Money23%

Good value

Quality-Overall23%

Decent quality

Paint Quality12%

Lovely paintbrushes

Advertised Vs Actual Product6%

As advertised perfect

Ease Of Use5%

were comfortable to work with for extended periods

What buyers complain about

88% of reviews
Quality-Overall32%

The brushes themselves Im told are of not good quality

Durability20%

These wont last more than a week

Size-Overall11%

it quite big

Natural Resource Wastage7%

Total waste of money

Thickness5%

Plastic is very thin

Watercolour Brushes return rate & reasons

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

0.4%

Return rate

40%

Fixable by listing

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

1Quality-Overall
30%
2Size-Overall
26%
3Paint Quality
7%
4Advertised Vs Actual Product
6%
5Functionality-Overall
6%

Common Watercolour Brushes questions

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

Flapen scores Watercolour Brushes 48/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £169K/yr across 30 tracked products. 0 of 5 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -18.7% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Watercolour Brushes on Amazon United Kingdom peaks in Dec, where the busiest month runs 1.9× the quietest.