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Amazon Paper Towels

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Amazon Paper Towels is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 7,720 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · −1 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$1.0M/yr424K searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
83%top-5 click share · 5 brands · 36 sellers

Flapen Score

Amazon Paper Towels against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Amazon Paper Towels is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Amazon Paper Towels market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Amazon Paper Towels 424K times last year and spent an estimated $1.0M. All 5 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Oct. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 15.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 424K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 15.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $1.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
424K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.8%
Conversion, latest week
15.8%
Market size, estimated
$1.0Ma year
Peak month
October2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
amazon paper towels117K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $15.39.

Listings sell for $15.39 on average, from $4.36 to $31.11. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 6,000 to 8,000 of them. At $15.39 that is $92K to $123K a year per listing.

Average price
$15.39inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.36–$31.11
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
6,000–8,000
Revenue per listing a year
$92K–$123K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #8 within Paper Towels. It carries 69,806 reviews at 4.52 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#8in Paper Towels
Average rating
4.52 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
69,806per listing
Listings tracked
10

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 60 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
60 months

Products

Top Amazon Paper Towels 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 83% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

5 flat

Sellers

36

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 156%
  • Brand 224%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 52%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Amazon Paper Towels search demand

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

20K15KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Amazon Paper Towels search terms shoppers use

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

  • amazon paper towels117K/yr
  • amazon basics paper towels83K/yr
  • presto paper towels53K/yr
  • paper towels amazon basics70K/yr
  • amazon basic paper towels23K/yr
  • paper towels amazon20K/yr
  • paper towels presto7K/yr
  • amazon paper towel7K/yr
  • amazon essentials paper towels5K/yr
  • amazon brand paper towels5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Amazon Paper Towels

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

31%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
24%of negative reviews mention “Thickness”
0.1%of orders come back
“Tube is thicker”
A buyer, on “Thickness”24% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Amazon Paper Towels questions

Answered from the same tracked data.