Instant Tan
FailShoppers spend an estimated $49K a year here, so Instant Tan is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 44 / 100Ranks 6,956 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −4 vs the category median of 4844
- Market size
- $49K/yr57K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- +71.9%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 71%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 37 sellers
Flapen Score
Instant Tan against its category
The dotted line is the Beauty & Personal Care average. Past it, Instant Tan is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Instant Tan market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Instant Tan 57K times last year and spent an estimated $49K. The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Jul. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 2.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 57K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +71.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $49K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 57K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- +71.9%
- Conversion, latest week
- 2.9%
- Market size, estimated
- $49Ka year
- Peak month
- January2.3× the quietest month
- Top search term
- clinique bronzer26K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $29.78.
Listings sell for $29.78 on average, from $4.50 to $52.11. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $29.78 that is $7K to $15K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $29.78inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $4.50–$52.11
- Amazon United States median price
- $24.38across 115,062 niches
- Units sold a year
- 4K–5K
- Units per listing a year
- 250–500
- Revenue per listing a year
- $7K–$15K
- Returns
- 1.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is reviews.
65% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 13.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #160 within Face. It carries 5,498 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 65%
- Prime listings
- 94%
- Out of stock, average day
- 13.9%
- Average rank
- #160in Face
- Average rating
- 4.58 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 5,498per listing
- Listings tracked
- 17
04 · Newcomers
3 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
3 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 71 months on average, so the names here are established.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 3
- Successful launches
- 3Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 71 months
Products
Top Instant Tan 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 71% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.
Brands
8 rising
Sellers
37
Top-5 brand share
95%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
71%
Top 20: 100%
Open market
3%
- Brand 183%
- Brand 24%
- Brand 33%
- Brand 43%
- Brand 53%
- Brand 62%
- Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 3%)
Demand
Instant Tan search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Jan, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.3×
Search terms
Top Instant Tan search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- clinique bronzer26K/yr
- clinique bronzer sunkissed9K/yr
- clinique sunkissed bronzer6K/yr
- clinique true bronzer 02 sunkissed3K/yr
- clinique bronzer powder3K/yr
- mens bronzer4K/yr
- clinique mens bronzer4K/yr
- clinique bronzer for men3K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Instant Tan
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Not the right color”
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
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FAQ
Common Instant Tan questions
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