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Foam

Maybe

Products sell for $24.72 on average, inside the sweet spot. But the products selling today already average 4.6★, so Foam is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
51
51 / 100
Top 36% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +4 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$1.6M/yr2.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
+3.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
60%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 17 sellers

Flapen Score

Foam against its category

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

51Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Foam market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Foam 2.8M times last year and spent an estimated $1.6M. The top 5 brands take 77% of clicks. Flapen scores it 51 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 2.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +3.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $1.6M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+3.5%
Conversion, latest week
2.4%
Market size, estimated
$1.6Ma year
Peak month
November1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
foam898K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $24.72.

Listings sell for $24.72 on average, from $6.41 to $53.51. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At $24.72 that is $37K to $49K a year per listing.

Average price
$24.72inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.41–$53.51
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
1,500–2,000
Revenue per listing a year
$37K–$49K
Returns
2.2%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. 86% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #10 within Balance Trainers. It carries 4,247 reviews at 4.61 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
86%
Out of stock, average day
0.7%
Average rank
#10in Balance Trainers
Average rating
4.61 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
4,247per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

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

3 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 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Foam 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

15 falling

Sellers

17

Top-5 brand share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

60%

Top 20: 97%

Open market

20%

  • Brand 136%
  • Brand 218%
  • Brand 313%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Foam search demand

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

60K40KSepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Foam search terms shoppers use

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

  • foam898K/yr
  • upholstery foam277K/yr
  • foam pad217K/yr
  • high density foam160K/yr
  • craft foam187K/yr
  • foam sheets187K/yr
  • foam padding172K/yr
  • foam cushion89K/yr
  • cushion foam74K/yr
  • polyurethane foam73K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Foam

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
12%of negative reviews mention “Thickness”
2.2%of orders come back
“It is not 2 inch thick”
A buyer, on “Thickness”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 Foam questions

Answered from the same tracked data.