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Back scores 65 out of 100, a Pass. Shoppers spend an estimated $4.7M a year here, demand is soft, at -1.4% this quarter, and an estimated 0.9% of orders come back.

Flapen Score
65
65 / 100
Top 4% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +16 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$4.7M/yr3.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
-1.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
37%top-5 click share · 24 brands · 139 sellers

Flapen Score

Back against its category

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

65Pass
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Back market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Back 3.8M times last year and spent an estimated $4.7M. The top 5 brands take 73% of clicks. Flapen scores it 65 out of 100, a Pass.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 3.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -1.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $4.7M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
3.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-1.4%
Conversion, latest week
7.7%
Market size, estimated
$4.7Ma year
Peak month
December1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
icy hot698K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $16.02.

Listings sell for $16.02 on average, from $5.05 to $47.14. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 300K to 400K a year. The average listing sells 6,000 to 8,000 of them. At $16.02 that is $96K to $128K a year per listing.

Average price
$16.02inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.05–$47.14
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
300K–400K
Units per listing a year
6,000–8,000
Revenue per listing a year
$96K–$128K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

71% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #83 within Hot & Cold Therapies. It carries 15,677 reviews at 4.51 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
71%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
0.1%
Average rank
#83in Hot & Cold Therapies
Average rating
4.51 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
15,677per listing
Listings tracked
45

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 55 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
55 months

Products

Top Back 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 37% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

24 flat

Sellers

139

Top-5 brand share

73%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

37%

Top 20: 76%

Open market

24%

  • Brand 157%
  • Brand 26%
  • Brand 34%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 63%

Demand

Back search demand

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

100K60KHoliday '24Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Back search terms shoppers use

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

  • icy hot698K/yr
  • back pain relief products643K/yr
  • back pain422K/yr
  • pain relief340K/yr
  • back pain relief320K/yr
  • icy hot patch266K/yr
  • pain250K/yr
  • lower back pain relief288K/yr
  • muscle pain relief107K/yr
  • lower back pain90K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Back

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

12%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
13%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
0.9%of orders come back
“Never worked”
A buyer, on “Functionality-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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Back questions

Answered from the same tracked data.