Basketball
MaybeShoppers spend an estimated $16.1M a year here. But the top 5 brands take 94% of clicks, so Basketball is a Maybe.
- Flapen Score
- 56 / 100Top 19% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +9 vs the category median of 4756
- Market size
- $16.1M/yr15.1M searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- +39.8%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 60%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 65 sellers
Flapen Score
Basketball against its category
The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Basketball is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Basketball market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Basketball 15.1M times last year and spent an estimated $16.1M. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.
01 · Demand
An estimated 2.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 15.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +39.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $16.1M a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 15.1M
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- +39.8%
- Conversion, latest week
- 2.8%
- Market size, estimated
- $16.1Ma year
- Peak month
- December3.3× the quietest month
- Top search term
- nba5.3M searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $38.96.
Listings sell for $38.96 on average, from $11.14 to $136.66. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 300K to 400K a year. The average listing sells 10,000 to 12,500 of them. At $38.96 that is $390K to $487K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $38.96inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $11.14–$136.66
- Amazon United States median price
- $24.38across 115,062 niches
- Units sold a year
- 300K–400K
- Units per listing a year
- 10,000–12,500
- Revenue per listing a year
- $390K–$487K
- Returns
- 1.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is ads and reviews.
100% 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 #25 within Sports Equipment. It carries 6,288 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 100%
- Prime listings
- 100%
- Out of stock, average day
- 0.0%
- Average rank
- #25in Sports Equipment
- Average rating
- 4.58 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 6,288per listing
- Listings tracked
- 24
04 · Newcomers
Brands here are settling in.
The brands on the shelf have sold for 41 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 0
- Successful launches
- 0Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 41 months
Products
Top Basketball 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 60% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.
Brands
8 falling
Sellers
65
Top-5 brand share
94%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
60%
Top 20: 95%
Open market
4%
- Brand 153%
- Brand 219%
- Brand 312%
- Brand 45%
- Brand 55%
- Brand 63%
- Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 4%)
Demand
Basketball search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.3×
Search terms
Top Basketball search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- nba5.3M/yr
- basketball6.6M/yr
- outdoor basketball424K/yr
- basketballs322K/yr
- nba basketball187K/yr
- wilson evolution basketball330K/yr
- wilson basketball254K/yr
- kids basketball217K/yr
- basket ball165K/yr
- wilson134K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Basketball
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Wont stay inflated”
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
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