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Purple Shorts

Maybe

The top 5 products take only 14% of clicks. But buyers convert on only 0.7% of searches, so Purple Shorts is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 12% of 16,930 Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry niches · +11 vs the category median of 45
Market size
$80K/yr597K searches / yr
90-day growth
+56.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
14%top-5 click share · 90 brands · 100 sellers

Flapen Score

Purple Shorts against its category

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

56Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Purple Shorts market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Purple Shorts 597K times last year and spent an estimated $80K. The top 5 brands take 34% of clicks. Demand peaks in Sep–Oct. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 597K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +56.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $80K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
597K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+56.2%
Conversion, latest week
0.7%
Market size, estimated
$80Ka year
Peak month
October13.8× the quietest month
Top search term
purple shorts230K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $18.70.

Listings sell for $18.70 on average, from $8.22 to $36.85. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $18.70 that is $0 to $2K a year per listing.

Average price
$18.70inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$8.22–$36.85
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$2K
Returns
7.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

79% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 99% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #400 within Active Shorts. It carries 3,510 reviews at 4.38 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
79%
Prime listings
99%
Out of stock, average day
4.2%
Average rank
#400in Active Shorts
Average rating
4.38 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,510per listing
Listings tracked
175

04 · Newcomers

5 of last year's 38 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

38 products launched here in the last 12 months. 5 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 33 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
38
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
33 months

Products

Top Purple Shorts 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

90 rising

Sellers

100

Top-5 brand share

34%

Top 20: 65%

Top-5 click share

14%

Top 20: 38%

Open market

62%

  • Brand 111%
  • Brand 28%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Purple Shorts search demand

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

45K35KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Sep, Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 13.8×

Search terms

Top Purple Shorts search terms shoppers use

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

  • purple shorts230K/yr
  • purple shorts women92K/yr
  • purple athletic shorts31K/yr
  • purple biker shorts42K/yr
  • purple running shorts22K/yr
  • womens purple shorts20K/yr
  • lavender shorts14K/yr
  • purple workout shorts14K/yr
  • lavender shorts women10K/yr
  • light purple shorts14K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Purple Shorts

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Comfort-Overall”
19%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
7.6%of orders come back
“Runs large”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”19% 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.

21 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Purple Shorts questions

Answered from the same tracked data.