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Watercolor Pencils

Maybe

An estimated 0.9% of orders come back. But the products selling today already average 4.7★, so Watercolor Pencils is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
55
55 / 100
Top 13% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +9 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$1.2M/yr715K searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
45%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 120 sellers

Flapen Score

Watercolor Pencils against its category

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

55Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Watercolor Pencils market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Watercolor Pencils 715K times last year and spent an estimated $1.2M. The top 5 brands take 82% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 715K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $1.2M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
715K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.1%
Conversion, latest week
5.4%
Market size, estimated
$1.2Ma year
Peak month
December1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
watercolor pencils398K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $31.15.

Listings sell for $31.15 on average, from $6.01 to $179.53. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At $31.15 that is $31K to $39K a year per listing.

Average price
$31.15inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.01–$179.53
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
$31K–$39K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

70% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #154 within Drawing. It carries 3,901 reviews at 4.68 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
70%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.3%
Average rank
#154in Drawing
Average rating
4.68 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,901per listing
Listings tracked
37

04 · Newcomers

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

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 53 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
53 months

Products

Top Watercolor 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 45% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

15 falling

Sellers

120

Top-5 brand share

82%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

45%

Top 20: 85%

Open market

14%

  • Brand 142%
  • Brand 221%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (9 brands, 14%)

Demand

Watercolor Pencils search demand

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

23K18KPrime Day '24Spike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Watercolor Pencils search terms shoppers use

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

  • watercolor pencils398K/yr
  • water color pencils75K/yr
  • watercolor pencils for adults25K/yr
  • faber castell watercolor pencils33K/yr
  • water color pencils set for adults36K/yr
  • watercolor pencil22K/yr
  • watercolor pencils professional29K/yr
  • watercolor colored pencils16K/yr
  • albrecht durer watercolor pencils10K/yr
  • watercolor pencils set17K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Watercolor Pencils

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

40%of positive reviews mention “Color”
18%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.9%of orders come back
“two of my colors are almost gone”
A buyer, on “Color”18% 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 Watercolor Pencils questions

Answered from the same tracked data.