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Rainbow Pencils

Fail

Demand is soft, at -32.7% this quarter, so Rainbow Pencils is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Top 45% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +1 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$110K/yr253K searches / yr
90-day growth
-32.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
44%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 78 sellers

Flapen Score

Rainbow Pencils against its category

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

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Rainbow Pencils market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Rainbow Pencils 253K times last year and spent an estimated $110K. The top 5 brands take 56% of clicks. Demand peaks in Feb–Dec. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 253K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -32.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $110K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
253K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-32.7%
Conversion, latest week
4.8%
Market size, estimated
$110Ka year
Peak month
December2.3× the quietest month
Top search term
rainbow pencils97K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $9.11.

Listings sell for $9.11 on average, from $4.20 to $22.61. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 25K to 30K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $9.11 that is $5K to $7K a year per listing.

Average price
$9.11under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.20–$22.61
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
25K–30K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
$5K–$7K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

84% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #118 within Drawing. It carries 824 reviews at 4.67 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
84%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
6.7%
Average rank
#118in Drawing
Average rating
4.67 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
824per listing
Listings tracked
31

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 7 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 50 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
7
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
50 months

Products

Top Rainbow Pencils 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

22 flat

Sellers

78

Top-5 brand share

56%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

44%

Top 20: 88%

Open market

38%

  • Brand 116%
  • Brand 214%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Rainbow Pencils search demand

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

10K6KPrime Day '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Feb, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.3×

Search terms

Top Rainbow Pencils search terms shoppers use

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

  • rainbow pencils97K/yr
  • rainbow colored pencils34K/yr
  • rainbow pencil25K/yr
  • rainbow pencils for kids15K/yr
  • multicolor pencil9K/yr
  • rainbow pencils bulk7K/yr
  • multi colored pencils7K/yr
  • rainbow colored pencil19K/yr
  • multi color pencil5K/yr
  • multicolored pencils5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Rainbow Pencils

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

37%of positive reviews mention “Color”
24%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.8%of orders come back
“It did not color correctly”
A buyer, on “Color”24% 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 Rainbow Pencils questions

Answered from the same tracked data.