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Cardstock

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $8.4M a year here. But the products selling today already average 4.7★, so Cardstock is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 22% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +6 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$8.4M/yr5.7M searches / yr
90-day growth
+0.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
69%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 77 sellers

Flapen Score

Cardstock against its category

The dotted line is the Arts, Crafts & Sewing average. Past it, Cardstock is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cardstock market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Cardstock 5.7M times last year and spent an estimated $8.4M. The top 5 brands take 91% of clicks. Demand peaks in Aug. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 12.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 5.7M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 12.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +0.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $8.4M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
5.7M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+0.1%
Conversion, latest week
12.7%
Market size, estimated
$8.4Ma year
Peak month
August1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
cardstock1.7M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.63.

Listings sell for $11.63 on average, from $5.66 to $26.33. 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 60,000 to 80,000 of them. At $11.63 that is $698K to $930K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.63under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.66–$26.33
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
60,000–80,000
Revenue per listing a year
$698K–$930K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

95% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #13 within Paper & Paper Crafts. It carries 5,584 reviews at 4.70 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
95%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#13in Paper & Paper Crafts
Average rating
4.70 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
5,584per listing
Listings tracked
19

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Cardstock products & what they sell for

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

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 69% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

10 rising

Sellers

77

Top-5 brand share

91%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

69%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

6%

  • Brand 138%
  • Brand 230%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 6%)

Demand

Cardstock search demand

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

150K100KPrime Day '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Cardstock search terms shoppers use

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

  • cardstock1.7M/yr
  • card stock859K/yr
  • cardstock paper694K/yr
  • white cardstock465K/yr
  • cardstock printer paper 8.5 x 11380K/yr
  • card stock paper 8.5 x 11 white297K/yr
  • white cardstock 8.5 x 11296K/yr
  • colored cardstock223K/yr
  • white card stock111K/yr
  • card stock paper106K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cardstock

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
22%of negative reviews mention “Thickness”
0.6%of orders come back
“Not very thick”
A buyer, on “Thickness”22% 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 Cardstock questions

Answered from the same tracked data.