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Glue Sticks

Maybe

An estimated 0.2% of orders come back. But the top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Glue Sticks is a Maybe.

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Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 19% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +7 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$3.6M/yr4.9M searches / yr
90-day growth
+148.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
90%top-5 click share · 2 brands · 149 sellers

Flapen Score

Glue Sticks against its category

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

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Glue Sticks market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Glue Sticks 4.9M times last year and spent an estimated $3.6M. All 2 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 4.9M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +148.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $3.6M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
4.9M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+148.4%
Conversion, latest week
9.6%
Market size, estimated
$3.6Ma year
Top search term
glue sticks3.3M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $7.52.

Listings sell for $7.52 on average, from $3.14 to $17.20. 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 80,000 to 100,000 of them. At $7.52 that is $602K to $752K a year per listing.

Average price
$7.52under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.14–$17.20
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
80,000–100,000
Revenue per listing a year
$602K–$752K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

89% 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 #27 within Adhesives. It carries 23,449 reviews at 4.77 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#27in Adhesives
Average rating
4.77 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
23,449per listing
Listings tracked
9

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 54 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Glue Sticks 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 90% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

2 flat

Sellers

149

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 195%
  • Brand 25%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Glue Sticks search demand

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

250K150KSpike '26NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAug

Peak months: Jul, Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.5× · 10 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Glue Sticks search terms shoppers use

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

  • glue sticks3.3M/yr
  • glue stick544K/yr
  • glue sticks for school169K/yr
  • elmers glue stick265K/yr
  • elmers glue sticks89K/yr
  • glue sticks for kids140K/yr
  • gluesticks65K/yr
  • purple glue sticks40K/yr
  • glue sticks elmers31K/yr
  • elmer glue sticks26K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Glue Sticks

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

31%of positive reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
41%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.2%of orders come back
“Does not work as glue”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”41% 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 Glue Sticks questions

Answered from the same tracked data.