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Marathon Paper Towels

Maybe

An estimated 0.2% of orders come back. But the top 5 products take 71% of clicks, so Marathon Paper Towels is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 36% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +3 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$123K/yr32K searches / yr
90-day growth
+10.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
71%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 170 sellers

Flapen Score

Marathon Paper Towels against its category

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

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Marathon Paper Towels market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Marathon Paper Towels 32K times last year and spent an estimated $123K. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 32K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +10.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $123K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
32K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+10.8%
Conversion, latest week
7.8%
Market size, estimated
$123Ka year
Peak month
September1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
marathon paper towels30K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $49.41.

Listings sell for $49.41 on average, from $30.46 to $96.71. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $49.41 that is $5K to $12K a year per listing.

Average price
$49.41inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$30.46–$96.71
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$5K–$12K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

53% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 53% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #262 within Paper Towels. It carries 4,043 reviews at 4.39 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
53%
Prime listings
53%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#262in Paper Towels
Average rating
4.39 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
4,043per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 105 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
105 months

Products

Top Marathon 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 71% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

170

Top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

71%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

13%

  • Brand 128%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 314%
  • Brand 413%
  • Brand 511%
  • Brand 67%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 13%)

Demand

Marathon Paper Towels search demand

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

900700Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Marathon Paper Towels

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

27%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
30%of negative reviews mention “Thickness”
0.2%of orders come back
“they need to be thicker”
A buyer, on “Thickness”30% 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 Marathon Paper Towels questions

Answered from the same tracked data.