Brown Paper Towels
MaybeAn estimated 0.2% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at +11.8% this quarter, so Brown Paper Towels is a Maybe.
- Flapen Score
- 62 / 100Top 8% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +13 vs the category median of 4962
- Market size
- $435K/yr111K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- +11.8%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 54%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 694 sellers
Flapen Score
Brown Paper Towels against its category
The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Brown Paper Towels is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Brown Paper Towels market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Brown Paper Towels 111K times last year and spent an estimated $435K. The top 5 brands take 74% of clicks. Flapen scores it 62 out of 100, a Maybe.
01 · Demand
An estimated 12.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 111K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 12.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +11.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $435K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 111K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- +11.8%
- Conversion, latest week
- 12.7%
- Market size, estimated
- $435Ka year
- Peak month
- June1.4× the quietest month
- Top search term
- brown paper towels59K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $30.89.
Listings sell for $30.89 on average, from $4.48 to $65.35. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $30.89 that is $15K to $23K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $30.89inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $4.48–$65.35
- Amazon United States median price
- $24.38across 115,062 niches
- Units sold a year
- 15K–20K
- Units per listing a year
- 500–750
- Revenue per listing a year
- $15K–$23K
- Returns
- 0.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is reviews.
83% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 92% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #145 within Paper Towels. It carries 2,196 reviews at 4.48 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 83%
- Prime listings
- 92%
- Out of stock, average day
- 0.0%
- Average rank
- #145in Paper Towels
- Average rating
- 4.48 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 2,196per listing
- Listings tracked
- 24
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 81 months on average, so the names here are established.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 2
- Successful launches
- 2Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 81 months
Products
Top Brown 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 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.
Brands
12 flat
Sellers
694
Top-5 brand share
74%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
54%
Top 20: 96%
Open market
20%
- Brand 132%
- Brand 215%
- Brand 313%
- Brand 47%
- Brand 56%
- Brand 66%
Demand
Brown Paper Towels search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×
Search terms
Top Brown Paper Towels search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- brown paper towels59K/yr
- brown paper towel roll15K/yr
- brown paper towels for dispenser11K/yr
- brown paper towel8K/yr
- brown roll paper towels4K/yr
- paper towels brown5K/yr
- brown paper towel rolls4K/yr
- brown paper towels rolls3K/yr
- brown paper towel rolls for dispenser2K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Brown Paper Towels
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Wanted something much thicker”
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
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