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Catnip Ball

Maybe

An estimated 0.3% of orders come back. But prices span $1.94–$11.97, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Catnip Ball is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
51
51 / 100
Top 44% of 875 Pet Supplies niches · +1 vs the category median of 50
Market size
£34K/yr47K searches / yr
90-day growth
-43.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
50%top-5 click share · 23 brands · 42 sellers

Flapen Score

Catnip Ball against its category

The dotted line is the Pet Supplies average. Past it, Catnip Ball is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

51Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Catnip Ball market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Catnip Ball 47K times last year and spent an estimated £34K. The top 5 brands take 57% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 51 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 47K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -43.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £34K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
47K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-43.1%
Conversion, latest week
11.3%
Market size, estimated
£34Ka year
Peak month
December2.8× the quietest month
Top search term
catnip balls25K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.30.

Listings sell for £6.30 on average, from £1.94 to £11.97. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £6.30 that is £630 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.30under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.94–£11.97
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£630–£2K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

86% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #244 within Cats. It carries 718 reviews at 3.82 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
86%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
10.7%
Average rank
#244in Cats
Average rating
3.82 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
718per listing
Listings tracked
28

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 11 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

11 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 25 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
11
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
25 months

Products

Top Catnip Ball 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 50% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£2K£3K£5K£7K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)3 products missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

23 falling

Sellers

42

Est. top-5 brand share

57%

Top 20: 96%

Est. top-5 click share

50%

Top 20: 89%

Open market

40%

  • Dacitiery18%
  • Aucenix16%
  • STARROAD-TIM12%
  • Rosewood5%
  • ShiFaKa5%
  • YEOWWW4%

Demand

Catnip Ball search demand

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

3K2KHoliday '24Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.8×

Search terms

Top Catnip Ball search terms shoppers use

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

  • catnip balls25K/yr
  • catnip ball10K/yr
  • cat nip ball5K/yr
  • cat nip balls5K/yr
  • catnip balls for cats licking951/yr
  • catnip licking ball1K/yr
  • cat nips balls113/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Catnip Ball

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

44%of positive reviews mention “Pet Friendly”
19%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.3%of orders come back
“rubbish do not buy my cats love catnip they can not smell it on these dont even look at them not catnip at all”
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 Catnip Ball 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