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Gloves

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $29.3M a year here. But the average product has 15,214 reviews to catch up to, so Gloves is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
64
64 / 100
Top 5% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +15 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$29.3M/yr24.2M searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
38%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 35 sellers

Flapen Score

Gloves against its category

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

64Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Gloves market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Gloves 24.2M times last year and spent an estimated $29.3M. The top 5 brands take 66% of clicks. Flapen scores it 64 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 12.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 24.2M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 12.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $29.3M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
24.2M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.9%
Conversion, latest week
12.2%
Market size, estimated
$29.3Ma year
Peak month
December1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
gloves6.7M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $9.92.

Listings sell for $9.92 on average, from $6.51 to $36.99. 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 40,000 to 50,000 of them. At $9.92 that is $397K to $496K a year per listing.

Average price
$9.92under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.51–$36.99
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
40,000–50,000
Revenue per listing a year
$397K–$496K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

96% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #141 within Gloves. It carries 15,214 reviews at 4.61 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
96%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.3%
Average rank
#141in Gloves
Average rating
4.61 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
15,214per listing
Listings tracked
49

04 · Newcomers

7 of last year's 9 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

9 products launched here in the last 12 months. 7 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 63 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
9
Successful launches
7Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
63 months

Products

Top Gloves 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 38% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

21 falling

Sellers

35

Top-5 brand share

66%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

38%

Top 20: 74%

Open market

28%

  • Brand 119%
  • Brand 214%
  • Brand 313%
  • Brand 412%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Gloves search demand

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

700K500KHoliday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Gloves search terms shoppers use

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

  • gloves6.7M/yr
  • nitrile gloves2.8M/yr
  • disposable gloves2.4M/yr
  • gloves disposable latex free2.0M/yr
  • rubber gloves1.3M/yr
  • latex gloves1.3M/yr
  • cleaning gloves902K/yr
  • cooking gloves805K/yr
  • black gloves1.0M/yr
  • nitrile gloves large600K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Gloves

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.4%of orders come back
“Not true to size”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”20% 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.

14 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Gloves questions

Answered from the same tracked data.