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Pillow Shams

Maybe

The top 5 products take only 25% of clicks. But buyers convert on only 1.1% of searches, so Pillow Shams is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 34% of 11,240 Home & Kitchen niches · +3 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$409K/yr2.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
+0.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
25%top-5 click share · 37 brands · 44 sellers

Flapen Score

Pillow Shams against its category

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

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

Market

The Pillow Shams market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Pillow Shams 2.1M times last year and spent an estimated $409K. The top 5 brands take 52% of clicks. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 2.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +0.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $409K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+0.6%
Conversion, latest week
1.1%
Market size, estimated
$409Ka year
Peak month
January1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
pillow shams447K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $17.61.

Listings sell for $17.61 on average, from $5.85 to $36.77. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 25K to 30K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $17.61 that is $4K to $9K a year per listing.

Average price
$17.61inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.85–$36.77
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
25K–30K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$4K–$9K
Returns
3.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

89% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #82 within Sheets & Pillowcases. It carries 7,871 reviews at 4.54 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.0%
Average rank
#82in Sheets & Pillowcases
Average rating
4.54 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
7,871per listing
Listings tracked
87

04 · Newcomers

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

11 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 50 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
11
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
50 months

Products

Top Pillow Shams 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 25% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

37 falling

Sellers

44

Top-5 brand share

52%

Top 20: 91%

Top-5 click share

25%

Top 20: 57%

Open market

42%

  • Brand 116%
  • Brand 211%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Pillow Shams search demand

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

50K30KPrime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Pillow Shams search terms shoppers use

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

  • pillow shams447K/yr
  • sham261K/yr
  • pillow shams standard size230K/yr
  • pillow shams queen size set of 2142K/yr
  • king pillow shams147K/yr
  • king size pillow shams113K/yr
  • pillow shams king size set of 289K/yr
  • white pillow shams72K/yr
  • pillow sham85K/yr
  • quilted pillow shams70K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pillow Shams

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Soft Feel”
12%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
3.8%of orders come back
“not very generous with sizing”
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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Pillow Shams questions

Answered from the same tracked data.