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Mat Board

Fail

The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks, so Mat Board is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 2,312 of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · on the category median
Market size
$197K/yr273K searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
44%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 15 sellers

Flapen Score

Mat Board against its category

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

46Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Mat Board market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Mat Board 273K times last year and spent an estimated $197K. The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 273K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $197K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
273K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.6%
Conversion, latest week
3.7%
Market size, estimated
$197Ka year
Peak month
January1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
mat board67K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $19.61.

Listings sell for $19.61 on average, from $4.97 to $52.48. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $19.61 that is $2K to $5K a year per listing.

Average price
$19.61inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.97–$52.48
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$2K–$5K
Returns
2.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

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 #26 within Picture Framing. It carries 672 reviews at 4.59 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
#26in Picture Framing
Average rating
4.59 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
672per listing
Listings tracked
37

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 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 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Mat Board 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 44% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

15

Top-5 brand share

95%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

44%

Top 20: 83%

Open market

3%

  • Brand 152%
  • Brand 224%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 3%)

Demand

Mat Board search demand

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

6K4KPrime Day '25Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Mat Board search terms shoppers use

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

  • mat board67K/yr
  • backing board21K/yr
  • matboard23K/yr
  • mat board for framing21K/yr
  • acid free mat board13K/yr
  • backer board12K/yr
  • picture frame backing board17K/yr
  • uncut mat board13K/yr
  • matte board11K/yr
  • photo mat board12K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Mat Board

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
27%of negative reviews mention “Thickness”
2.4%of orders come back
“This is not a thick board”
A buyer, on “Thickness”27% 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 Mat Board questions

Answered from the same tracked data.