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Cat Food

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $15.7M a year here. But the top 5 brands take 93% of clicks, so Cat Food is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
60
60 / 100
Top 12% of 875 Pet Supplies niches · +10 vs the category median of 50
Market size
£15.7M/yr7.9M searches / yr
90-day growth
-12.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
38%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 173 sellers

Flapen Score

Cat Food against its category

The dotted line is the Pet Supplies average. Past it, Cat Food is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Cat Food market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Cat Food 7.9M times last year and spent an estimated £15.7M. The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 15.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 7.9M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 15.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -12.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £15.7M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
7.9M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-12.5%
Conversion, latest week
15.7%
Market size, estimated
£15.7Ma year
Peak month
March1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
cat food3.4M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £12.67.

Listings sell for £12.67 on average, from £3.14 to £29.83. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 20,000 to 25,000 of them. At £12.67 that is £253K to £317K a year per listing.

Average price
£12.67under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.14–£29.83
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
20,000–25,000
Revenue per listing a year
£253K–£317K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

59% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #10 within Cats. It carries 3,319 reviews at 4.62 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
59%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#10in Cats
Average rating
4.62 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,319per listing
Listings tracked
37

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 50 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
50 months

Products

Top Cat Food 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 38% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£471K£942K£1.4M£1.9M1001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

173

Est. top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

38%

Top 20: 82%

Open market

1%

  • Felix39%
  • whiskas29%
  • Gourmet12%
  • PURINA ONE6%
  • Sheba6%
  • by Amazon6%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)

Demand

Cat Food search demand

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

225K175KHoliday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Cat Food search terms shoppers use

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

  • cat food3.4M/yr
  • cat food pouches590K/yr
  • felix as good as it looks536K/yr
  • wet cat food463K/yr
  • whiskas cat food pouches in jelly419K/yr
  • gourmet cat food359K/yr
  • felix cat food351K/yr
  • cat food wet273K/yr
  • whiskas238K/yr
  • felix241K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cat Food

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

36%of positive reviews mention “Pet Friendly”
17%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“Absolutely disgusting smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”17% 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.

13 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Cat Food 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