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Cough Drops

Maybe

Buyers convert on 21.4% of searches. But prices span $1.71–$14.97, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Cough Drops is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
55
55 / 100
Top 24% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +6 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$6.7M/yr4.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
-29.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
37%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 698 sellers

Flapen Score

Cough Drops against its category

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

55Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cough Drops market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Cough Drops 4.8M times last year and spent an estimated $6.7M. The top 5 brands take 89% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Dec. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 21.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 4.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 21.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -29.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $6.7M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
4.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-29.6%
Conversion, latest week
21.4%
Market size, estimated
$6.7Ma year
Peak month
January2.8× the quietest month
Top search term
cough drops2.1M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $6.51.

Listings sell for $6.51 on average, from $1.71 to $14.97. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 30,000 to 40,000 of them. At $6.51 that is $195K to $260K a year per listing.

Average price
$6.51under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$1.71–$14.97
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
30,000–40,000
Revenue per listing a year
$195K–$260K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

75% 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 #38 within Cough & Cold. It carries 5,818 reviews at 4.74 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
75%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#38in Cough & Cold
Average rating
4.74 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
5,818per listing
Listings tracked
40

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 92 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
92 months

Products

Top Cough Drops 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

13 falling

Sellers

698

Top-5 brand share

89%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

37%

Top 20: 80%

Open market

9%

  • Brand 148%
  • Brand 218%
  • Brand 316%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 9%)

Demand

Cough Drops search demand

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

150K100KHoliday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.8×

Search terms

Top Cough Drops search terms shoppers use

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

  • cough drops2.1M/yr
  • cough drops for adults746K/yr
  • ricola cough drops682K/yr
  • throat lozenges405K/yr
  • ricola250K/yr
  • lozenges103K/yr
  • sore throat lozenges88K/yr
  • ricola original herb cough drops30K/yr
  • halls soothing cough drops64K/yr
  • cough drop69K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cough Drops

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Cough Relief”
18%of negative reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Unpleasant taste”
A buyer, on “Taste-Overall”18% 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 Cough Drops questions

Answered from the same tracked data.