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Catfish

Fail

The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Catfish is a Fail.

Flapen Score
40
40 / 100
Ranks 6,016 of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · −7 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$117K/yr248K searches / yr
90-day growth
+25.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
87%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 189 sellers

Flapen Score

Catfish against its category

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

40Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Catfish market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Catfish 248K times last year and spent an estimated $117K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Flapen scores it 40 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 248K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +25.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $117K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
248K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+25.5%
Conversion, latest week
3.7%
Market size, estimated
$117Ka year
Peak month
August1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
catfish235K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.76.

Listings sell for $12.76 on average, from $7.57 to $18.89. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At $12.76 that is $13K to $16K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.76under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.57–$18.89
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
$13K–$16K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

63% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #68 within Terminal Tackle & Accessories. It carries 1,328 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
63%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.1%
Average rank
#68in Terminal Tackle & Accessories
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,328per listing
Listings tracked
8

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 60 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
60 months

Products

Top Catfish products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 23, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 87% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$12K$23K$35K$47K1001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

189

Est. top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • XFISHMAN60%
  • Amazon Fresh18%
  • FishTrip8%
  • kaleodam7%
  • Catfish Sumo3%
  • Seafood3%

Demand

Catfish search demand

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

10K6KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Catfish search terms shoppers use

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

  • catfish235K/yr
  • catfis10K/yr
  • bagre3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Catfish

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

21%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
23%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
0.1%of orders come back
“Expensive for what you get”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”23% 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.

22 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Catfish questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data