Cast Iron Skillets
MaybeShoppers spend an estimated $50.0M a year here. But the average product has 44,940 reviews to catch up to, so Cast Iron Skillets is a Maybe.
- Flapen Score
- 60 / 100Top 10% of 11,240 Home & Kitchen niches · +11 vs the category median of 4960
- Market size
- $50.0M/yr16.5M searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- +96.3%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 56%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 110 sellers
Flapen Score
Cast Iron Skillets against its category
The dotted line is the Home & Kitchen average. Past it, Cast Iron Skillets is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Cast Iron Skillets market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Cast Iron Skillets 16.5M times last year and spent an estimated $50.0M. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.
01 · Demand
An estimated 7.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 16.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +96.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $50.0M a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 16.5M
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- +96.3%
- Conversion, latest week
- 7.0%
- Market size, estimated
- $50.0Ma year
- Peak month
- December2.4× the quietest month
- Top search term
- cast iron skillets3.0M searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $43.60.
Listings sell for $43.60 on average, from $12.93 to $164.34. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 500K to 600K a year. The average listing sells 15,000 to 20,000 of them. At $43.60 that is $654K to $872K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $43.60inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $12.93–$164.34
- Amazon United States median price
- $24.38across 115,062 niches
- Units sold a year
- 500K–600K
- Units per listing a year
- 15,000–20,000
- Revenue per listing a year
- $654K–$872K
- Returns
- 3.3%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, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #64 within Pots & Pans. It carries 44,940 reviews at 4.59 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 96%
- Prime listings
- 100%
- Out of stock, average day
- 0.0%
- Average rank
- #64in Pots & Pans
- Average rating
- 4.59 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 44,940per listing
- Listings tracked
- 25
04 · Newcomers
4 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 44 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 4
- Successful launches
- 4Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 44 months
Products
Top Cast Iron Skillets 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 56% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.
Brands
8 flat
Sellers
110
Top-5 brand share
94%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
56%
Top 20: 95%
Open market
3%
- Brand 163%
- Brand 219%
- Brand 35%
- Brand 44%
- Brand 53%
- Brand 62%
- Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 3%)
Demand
Cast Iron Skillets search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.4×
Search terms
Top Cast Iron Skillets search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- cast iron skillets3.0M/yr
- cast iron1.2M/yr
- lodge cast iron840K/yr
- cast iron pan941K/yr
- cast iron skillet540K/yr
- lodge cast iron skillet449K/yr
- lodge350K/yr
- cast+iron46K/yr
- cast iron cookware176K/yr
- iron skillet119K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cast Iron Skillets
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Rusted out”
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
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