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Outdoor Fairy Lights

Maybe

The top 5 brands take only 52% of clicks. But shoppers spend only $45K a year here, so Outdoor Fairy Lights is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 9% of 370 Lighting niches · +12 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£45K/yr88K searches / yr
90-day growth
+45.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
37%top-5 click share · 30 brands · 46 sellers

Flapen Score

Outdoor Fairy Lights against its category

The dotted line is the Lighting average. Past it, Outdoor Fairy Lights is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

59Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Outdoor Fairy Lights market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Outdoor Fairy Lights 88K times last year and spent an estimated £45K. The top 5 brands take 52% of clicks. Demand peaks in Apr–May–Dec. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

4.2% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 88K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 4.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +45.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £45K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
88K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+45.6%
Conversion, latest week
4.2%
Market size, estimated
£45Ka year
Peak month
December3.6× the quietest month
Top search term
garden fairy lights40K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £12.20.

Listings sell for £12.20 on average, from £5.11 to £28.81. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At £12.20 that is £0 to £1K a year per listing.

Average price
£12.20under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.11–£28.81
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
£0–£1K
Returns
1.7%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 13.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #96 within String Lights. It carries 2,725 reviews at 4.36 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
13.1%
Average rank
#96in String Lights
Average rating
4.36 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,725per listing
Listings tracked
43

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 7 of last year's 12 launches as successful.

12 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 7 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 37 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
12
Successful launches
7Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
37 months

Products

Top Outdoor Fairy Lights products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take only 37% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£1K£3K£4K£5K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

30 flat

Sellers

46

Top-5 brand share

52%

Top 20: 92%

Top-5 click share

37%

Top 20: 79%

Open market

44%

  • Ollny18%
  • Lezonic14%
  • YRATERVSR7%
  • Moxled7%
  • btfarm5%
  • LITYBY5%

Demand

Outdoor Fairy Lights search demand

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

6K4KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Apr, May, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.6×

Search terms

Top Outdoor Fairy Lights search terms shoppers use

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

  • garden fairy lights40K/yr
  • outdoor fairy lights mains powered40K/yr
  • outside fairy lights mains powered8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Outdoor Fairy Lights

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Durability26%−0.30

Breaks easily

Broke within a week

Did not last

Functionality-Overall12%−0.14

Don't work properly

Did not work

Stopped working

Quality-Overall11%−0.04

Cheap rubbish

Extremely poor quality hardly any of the lights work

Awful quality

Size-Overall6%

But small balls

They are tiny

These are not fit for purpose bought these

Brightness/Shine/Glow4%+2.65

Sadly, they simply do not get bright enough

Not bright enough

the lights aren't particularly bright

Love

Brightness/Shine/Glow34%+2.65

Bright and pretty

glow so bright

Bright lights

Value For Money12%+0.92

Amazing value

Good Value

Worth money

Quality-Overall11%−0.04

the quality is reliable

Nice quality and pretty lights

Brilliant quality

Color4%+0.26

The lights are really vibrant

I love the colour

Very pretty colours

Charging4%+0.06

easy to charge

They're are absolutely gorgeous and fast charging

It charged easily

Return

1.7% Return rate 41% Fixable by listing

Size-Overall25%▆▇▆█▇█

But small balls

They are tiny

These are not fit for purpose bought these

Functionality-Overall20%█▇█▇▇▇

Don't work properly

Did not work

Stopped working

Defective Material/Parts10%▄▅███▇

Half the lights have stopped working

Faulty Product

Half of them didnt work

Brightness/Shine/Glow8%▅█▆█▇█

Sadly, they simply do not get bright enough

Not bright enough

the lights aren't particularly bright

Color7%▆▇█▄▇▅

FAQ

Common Outdoor Fairy Lights questions

Answered from the same tracked data.