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Capture the Flag

Fail

The products selling today already average 4.6★, so Capture the Flag is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 4,037 of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · on the category median
Market size
$186K/yr158K searches / yr
90-day growth
+36.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
65%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 14 sellers

Flapen Score

Capture the Flag against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Capture the Flag is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Capture the Flag market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Capture the Flag 158K times last year and spent an estimated $186K. The top 5 brands take 86% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 158K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +36.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $186K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
158K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+36.1%
Conversion, latest week
3.0%
Market size, estimated
$186Ka year
Peak month
December3.4× the quietest month
Top search term
capture the flag81K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $38.91.

Listings sell for $38.91 on average, from $8.77 to $73.00. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $38.91 that is $10K to $19K a year per listing.

Average price
$38.91inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$8.77–$73.00
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$10K–$19K
Returns
3.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

93% 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 #283 within Football. It carries 555 reviews at 4.57 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
93%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#283in Football
Average rating
4.57 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
555per listing
Listings tracked
15

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 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
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
44 months

Products

Top Capture the Flag 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 65% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

10 rising

Sellers

14

Top-5 brand share

86%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

65%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

11%

  • Brand 134%
  • Brand 227%
  • Brand 314%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 11%)

Demand

Capture the Flag search demand

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

6K4KHoliday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.4×

Search terms

Top Capture the Flag search terms shoppers use

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

  • capture the flag81K/yr
  • capture the flag set30K/yr
  • capture the flag glow in the dark22K/yr
  • glow in the dark capture the flag11K/yr
  • capture the flag game10K/yr
  • glow in the dark flag4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Capture the Flag

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

39%of positive reviews mention “Fun/Entertainment Experience”
20%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
3.3%of orders come back
“due to the tearing off”
A buyer, on “Durability”20% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Capture the Flag questions

Answered from the same tracked data.