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Pads

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $21.2M a year here. But the top 5 brands take 96% of clicks, so Pads is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 13% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +10 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$21.2M/yr14.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
33%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 148 sellers

Flapen Score

Pads against its category

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

59Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Pads market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Pads 14.0M times last year and spent an estimated $21.2M. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 14.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $21.2M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
14.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.8%
Conversion, latest week
11.1%
Market size, estimated
$21.2Ma year
Peak month
February1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
pads3.1M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $13.65.

Listings sell for $13.65 on average, from $4.64 to $25.78. 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 25,000 to 30,000 of them. At $13.65 that is $341K to $410K a year per listing.

Average price
$13.65under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.64–$25.78
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
25,000–30,000
Revenue per listing a year
$341K–$410K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

73% 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 #73 within Feminine Care. It carries 13,497 reviews at 4.63 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
73%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#73in Feminine Care
Average rating
4.63 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
13,497per listing
Listings tracked
48

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 59 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
59 months

Products

Top Pads 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 33% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

9 flat

Sellers

148

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

33%

Top 20: 72%

Open market

2%

  • Brand 169%
  • Brand 218%
  • Brand 34%
  • Brand 42%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 61%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 2%)

Demand

Pads search demand

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

350K250KPrime Day '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Pads search terms shoppers use

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

  • pads3.1M/yr
  • pads for women2.1M/yr
  • always pads1.9M/yr
  • feminine care2.4M/yr
  • pad750K/yr
  • always547K/yr
  • sanitary pads for women482K/yr
  • toallas sanitarias para mujer395K/yr
  • feminine pads432K/yr
  • pads with wings363K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pads

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

14%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
10%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.3%of orders come back
“No adhesion”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”10% 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 Pads questions

Answered from the same tracked data.