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Light Blocking Strips

Maybe

Products sell for $29.88 on average, inside the sweet spot. But shoppers spend an estimated $76K a year here, so Light Blocking Strips is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 12% of 11,240 Home & Kitchen niches · +10 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$76K/yr111K searches / yr
90-day growth
+41.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
47%top-5 click share · 23 brands · 25 sellers

Flapen Score

Light Blocking Strips against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Kitchen average. Past it, Light Blocking Strips is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Light Blocking Strips market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Light Blocking Strips 111K times last year and spent an estimated $76K. The top 5 brands take 52% of clicks. Demand peaks in May–Jun–Jul. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 111K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +41.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $76K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
111K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+41.6%
Conversion, latest week
2.3%
Market size, estimated
$76Ka year
Peak month
May2.4× the quietest month
Top search term
light blocking strips37K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $29.88.

Listings sell for $29.88 on average, from $6.75 to $74.64. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $29.88 that is $0 to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$29.88inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.75–$74.64
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$3K
Returns
3.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #379 within Window Treatments. It carries 354 reviews at 4.10 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
10.3%
Average rank
#379in Window Treatments
Average rating
4.10 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
354per listing
Listings tracked
33

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 11 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

11 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 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
11
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
34 months

Products

Top Light Blocking Strips 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 47% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

23 rising

Sellers

25

Top-5 brand share

52%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

47%

Top 20: 87%

Open market

42%

  • Brand 113%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 67%

Demand

Light Blocking Strips search demand

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

3K2KBlack Friday '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: May, Jun, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.4×

Search terms

Top Light Blocking Strips search terms shoppers use

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

  • light blocking strips37K/yr
  • curtain side light blocker10K/yr
  • blackout side tracks8K/yr
  • light blockers for sides of blinds11K/yr
  • window side light blocker7K/yr
  • light blocking strips for blinds8K/yr
  • light blocker7K/yr
  • light blockers blackout side tracks3K/yr
  • window light blocker strips4K/yr
  • light blockers4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Light Blocking Strips

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Assembly/Installation”
15%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
3.6%of orders come back
“Not very effective”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”15% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Light Blocking Strips questions

Answered from the same tracked data.