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Blue Socks

Maybe

The top 5 products take only 14% of clicks. But demand is soft, at -1.2% this quarter, so Blue Socks is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 10% of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · +12 vs the category median of 45
Market size
$195K/yr388K searches / yr
90-day growth
-1.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
14%top-5 click share · 87 brands · 134 sellers

Flapen Score

Blue Socks against its category

The dotted line is the Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry average. Past it, Blue Socks is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

57Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Blue Socks market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Blue Socks 388K times last year and spent an estimated $195K. The top 5 brands take 28% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

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

Shoppers searched for this 388K 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 -1.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $195K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
388K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-1.2%
Conversion, latest week
3.7%
Market size, estimated
$195Ka year
Peak month
October2.3× the quietest month
Top search term
blue socks107K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $13.64.

Listings sell for $13.64 on average, from $5.75 to $37.24. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $13.64 that is $1K to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$13.64under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.75–$37.24
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$1K–$3K
Returns
2.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

90% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #2,252 within Socks & Hosiery. It carries 3,549 reviews at 4.55 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.2%
Average rank
#2,252in Socks & Hosiery
Average rating
4.55 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,549per listing
Listings tracked
160

04 · Newcomers

8 of last year's 26 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

26 products launched here in the last 12 months. 8 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
26
Successful launches
8Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Blue Socks 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 14% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

87 rising

Sellers

134

Top-5 brand share

28%

Top 20: 63%

Top-5 click share

14%

Top 20: 39%

Open market

69%

  • Brand 112%
  • Brand 24%
  • Brand 34%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%

Demand

Blue Socks search demand

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

15K10KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.3×

Search terms

Top Blue Socks search terms shoppers use

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

  • blue socks107K/yr
  • navy blue socks42K/yr
  • blue socks for women44K/yr
  • blue socks men28K/yr
  • royal blue socks29K/yr
  • navy socks28K/yr
  • blue ankle socks13K/yr
  • mens blue socks16K/yr
  • blue crew socks11K/yr
  • womens blue socks16K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Blue Socks

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Comfort-Overall”
13%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
2.3%of orders come back
“Too big”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”13% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Blue Socks questions

Answered from the same tracked data.