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Craft Paper

Maybe

The top 5 products take only 17% of clicks. But demand is soft, at -9.3% this quarter, so Craft Paper is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
61
61 / 100
Top 3% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +15 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$601K/yr1.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
-9.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
17%top-5 click share · 89 brands · 144 sellers

Flapen Score

Craft Paper against its category

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

61Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Craft Paper market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Craft Paper 1.5M times last year and spent an estimated $601K. The top 5 brands take 28% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $601K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-9.3%
Conversion, latest week
3.0%
Market size, estimated
$601Ka year
Peak month
November3.2× the quietest month
Top search term
craft paper371K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.85.

Listings sell for $12.85 on average, from $2.90 to $29.88. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 50K to 60K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $12.85 that is $3K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.85under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.90–$29.88
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
50K–60K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$6K
Returns
1.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #226 within Paper & Paper Crafts. It carries 1,200 reviews at 4.62 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.9%
Average rank
#226in Paper & Paper Crafts
Average rating
4.62 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,200per listing
Listings tracked
150

04 · Newcomers

14 of last year's 41 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

41 products launched here in the last 12 months. 14 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 41 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
41
Successful launches
14Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
41 months

Products

Top Craft Paper 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 only 17% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

89 rising

Sellers

144

Top-5 brand share

28%

Top 20: 61%

Top-5 click share

17%

Top 20: 42%

Open market

68%

  • Brand 18%
  • Brand 27%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 63%

Demand

Craft Paper search demand

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

40K30KPrime Day '24Spike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.2×

Search terms

Top Craft Paper search terms shoppers use

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

  • craft paper371K/yr
  • scrapbook paper 12x12233K/yr
  • 12x12 scrapbook paper210K/yr
  • decorative paper87K/yr
  • the paper studio80K/yr
  • collage paper64K/yr
  • 12 x 12 scrapbook paper52K/yr
  • paper crafts60K/yr
  • craft paper sheets57K/yr
  • patterned paper48K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Craft Paper

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
14%of negative reviews mention “Thickness”
1.1%of orders come back
“Not as thick as I would have liked”
A buyer, on “Thickness”14% 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 Craft Paper questions

Answered from the same tracked data.