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Medicine Balls

Fail

The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks, so Medicine Balls is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 621 of 792 Sports & Outdoors niches · −8 vs the category median of 50
Market size
£106K/yr210K searches / yr
90-day growth
-3.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
70%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 13 sellers

Flapen Score

Medicine Balls against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Medicine Balls is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Medicine Balls market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Medicine Balls 210K times last year and spent an estimated £106K. The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 210K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -3.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £106K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
210K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-3.9%
Conversion, latest week
2.6%
Market size, estimated
£106Ka year
Peak month
May1.2× the quietest month
Top search term
medicine ball60K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £19.20.

Listings sell for £19.20 on average, from £7.11 to £39.73. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £19.20 that is £2K to £5K a year per listing.

Average price
£19.20inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£7.11–£39.73
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£2K–£5K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 29% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #17 within Fitness. It carries 458 reviews at 4.51 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
29%
Out of stock, average day
4.0%
Average rank
#17in Fitness
Average rating
4.51 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
458per listing
Listings tracked
17

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 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 58 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
58 months

Products

Top Medicine Balls 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 29, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 70% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£11K£21K£32K£42K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)3 products missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

13

Est. top-5 brand share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

5%

  • Amazon Basics62%
  • =NORTHERN=12%
  • Lions10%
  • Core Balance5%
  • Fashion Thirsty4%
  • 66fit3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 5%)

Demand

Medicine Balls search demand

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

5K4KSpike '25Spike '26JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Search terms

Top Medicine Balls search terms shoppers use

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

  • medicine ball60K/yr
  • slam ball30K/yr
  • weighted ball16K/yr
  • medicine balls50K/yr
  • medicine ball 10kg5K/yr
  • weight ball7K/yr
  • medicine ball with handles7K/yr
  • medicine ball 5kg6K/yr
  • slam ball 10kg4K/yr
  • weighted balls3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Medicine Balls

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
33%of negative reviews mention “Inflation/Deflation”
0.5%of orders come back
“tricky to pump up considering sending it back to see if there is one to buy inflated”
A buyer, on “Inflation/Deflation”33% 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.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Medicine Balls 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