Basketball Shoes
FailBuyers convert on only 0.1% of searches, so Basketball Shoes is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 48 / 100Top 37% of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · +3 vs the category median of 4548
- Market size
- $790K/yr9.3M searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -24.2%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 11%top-5 click share · 27 brands · 325 sellers
Flapen Score
Basketball Shoes against its category
The dotted line is the Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry average. Past it, Basketball Shoes is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Basketball Shoes market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Basketball Shoes 9.3M times last year and spent an estimated $790K. The top 5 brands take 78% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug–Sep. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 0.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 9.3M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -24.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $790K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 9.3M
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -24.2%
- Conversion, latest week
- 0.1%
- Market size, estimated
- $790Ka year
- Peak month
- July4.9× the quietest month
- Top search term
- basketball shoes3.4M searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $60.45.
Listings sell for $60.45 on average, from $24.27 to $129.79. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $60.45 that is $0 to $6K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $60.45inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $24.27–$129.79
- Amazon United States median price
- $24.38across 115,062 niches
- Units sold a year
- 13K–15K
- Units per listing a year
- 0–100
- Revenue per listing a year
- $0–$6K
- Returns
- 7.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is reviews.
74% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #366 within Shoes. It carries 2,893 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 74%
- Prime listings
- 95%
- Out of stock, average day
- 10.1%
- Average rank
- #366in Shoes
- Average rating
- 4.46 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 2,893per listing
- Listings tracked
- 239
04 · Newcomers
26 of last year's 68 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
68 products launched here in the last 12 months. 26 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 42 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 68
- Successful launches
- 26Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 42 months
Products
Top Basketball Shoes 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 only 11% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.
Brands
27 rising
Sellers
325
Top-5 brand share
78%
Top 20: 98%
Top-5 click share
11%
Top 20: 30%
Open market
23%
- Brand 129%
- Brand 216%
- Brand 313%
- Brand 410%
- Brand 55%
- Brand 64%
Demand
Basketball Shoes search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Jul, Aug, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.9×
Search terms
Top Basketball Shoes search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- basketball shoes3.4M/yr
- mens basketball shoes1.1M/yr
- basketball shoes for men878K/yr
- nike basketball shoes525K/yr
- lebron basketball shoes165K/yr
- boys basketball shoes546K/yr
- womens basketball shoes459K/yr
- adidas basketball shoes182K/yr
- kids basketball shoes267K/yr
- basketball shoes men174K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Basketball Shoes
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Too big”
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.
17 topics
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