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Dog Food

Pass

Dog Food scores 70 out of 100, a Pass. Shoppers spend an estimated $65.5M a year here, search demand grew +4.5% this quarter, and an estimated 0.0% of orders come back.

Flapen Score
70
70 / 100
Top 2% of 3,978 Pet Supplies niches · +19 vs the category median of 51
Market size
$65.5M/yr21.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
+4.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
22%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 165 sellers

Flapen Score

Dog Food against its category

The dotted line is the Pet Supplies average. Past it, Dog Food is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

70Pass
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Dog Food market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Dog Food 21.5M times last year and spent an estimated $65.5M. The top 5 brands take 75% of clicks. Flapen scores it 70 out of 100, a Pass.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 21.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +4.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $65.5M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
21.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+4.5%
Conversion, latest week
11.3%
Market size, estimated
$65.5Ma year
Peak month
July1.2× the quietest month
Top search term
dog food10.7M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $26.92.

Listings sell for $26.92 on average, from $3.27 to $72.31. 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 15,000 to 20,000 of them. At $26.92 that is $404K to $538K a year per listing.

Average price
$26.92inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.27–$72.31
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
15,000–20,000
Revenue per listing a year
$404K–$538K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

80% 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 #41 within Food. It carries 11,005 reviews at 4.65 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
80%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#41in Food
Average rating
4.65 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
11,005per listing
Listings tracked
95

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 76 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Products

Top Dog Food 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 22% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

22 rising

Sellers

165

Top-5 brand share

75%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

22%

Top 20: 48%

Open market

17%

  • Brand 126%
  • Brand 217%
  • Brand 314%
  • Brand 410%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 68%
  • Open — no brand owns it (16 brands, 17%)

Demand

Dog Food search demand

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

600K400KPrime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Search terms

Top Dog Food search terms shoppers use

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

  • dog food10.7M/yr
  • blue buffalo dog food1.9M/yr
  • wet dog food1.6M/yr
  • dry dog food1.0M/yr
  • dog food dry980K/yr
  • dog food wet828K/yr
  • cesar wet dog food713K/yr
  • iams dog food597K/yr
  • pedigree dry dog food513K/yr
  • rachel ray dog food352K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Dog Food

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

36%of positive reviews mention “Pet Friendly”
16%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Little bit too expensive for me”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”16% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Dog Food questions

Answered from the same tracked data.