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Black Lantern

Maybe

The top 5 products take only 17% of clicks. But buyers convert on only 1.3% of searches, so Black Lantern is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
61
61 / 100
Top 8% of 11,240 Home & Kitchen niches · +12 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$313K/yr557K searches / yr
90-day growth
+18.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
17%top-5 click share · 85 brands · 104 sellers

Flapen Score

Black Lantern against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Kitchen average. Past it, Black Lantern is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

61Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Black Lantern market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Black Lantern 557K times last year and spent an estimated $313K. The top 5 brands take 29% of clicks. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 557K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +18.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $313K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
557K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+18.1%
Conversion, latest week
1.3%
Market size, estimated
$313Ka year
Peak month
November1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
outdoor candle holder37K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $45.04.

Listings sell for $45.04 on average, from $6.82 to $163.10. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $45.04 that is $0 to $5K a year per listing.

Average price
$45.04inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.82–$163.10
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$5K
Returns
4.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

94% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 99% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #182 within Candleholders. It carries 370 reviews at 4.44 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
94%
Prime listings
99%
Out of stock, average day
2.8%
Average rank
#182in Candleholders
Average rating
4.44 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
370per listing
Listings tracked
161

04 · Newcomers

26 of last year's 38 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

38 products launched here in the last 12 months. 26 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 36 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
38
Successful launches
26Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
36 months

Products

Top Black Lantern 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 17% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

85 rising

Sellers

104

Top-5 brand share

29%

Top 20: 69%

Top-5 click share

17%

Top 20: 42%

Open market

67%

  • Brand 18%
  • Brand 27%
  • Brand 35%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Black Lantern search demand

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

18K13KSpike '24Black Friday '24SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Black Lantern search terms shoppers use

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

  • outdoor candle holder37K/yr
  • black lanterns42K/yr
  • floor lantern42K/yr
  • large outdoor lanterns40K/yr
  • black lanterns decorative outdoor39K/yr
  • large outdoor lanterns for porch34K/yr
  • outdoor table lantern21K/yr
  • wedding lanterns28K/yr
  • farmhouse lantern33K/yr
  • black lanterns decorative indoor32K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Lantern

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Brightness/Shine/Glow”
12%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
4.1%of orders come back
“Extremely small”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”12% 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 Black Lantern questions

Answered from the same tracked data.