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Foam Softballs

Fail

Shoppers spend an estimated $54K a year here, so Foam Softballs is a Fail.

Flapen Score
43
43 / 100
Ranks 5,224 of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · −4 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$54K/yr41K searches / yr
90-day growth
-14.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
70%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 22 sellers

Flapen Score

Foam Softballs against its category

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

43Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Foam Softballs market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Foam Softballs 41K times last year and spent an estimated $54K. The top 5 brands take 75% of clicks. Demand peaks in Mar–Apr–May. Flapen scores it 43 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 41K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $54K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
41K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-14.2%
Conversion, latest week
6.2%
Market size, estimated
$54Ka year
Peak month
April2.7× the quietest month
Top search term
foam softballs19K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $21.18.

Listings sell for $21.18 on average, from $7.57 to $40.57. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $21.18 that is $2K to $5K a year per listing.

Average price
$21.18inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.57–$40.57
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
3K–3K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$2K–$5K
Returns
1.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

92% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #258 within Baseball. It carries 233 reviews at 4.60 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
92%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.1%
Average rank
#258in Baseball
Average rating
4.60 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
233per listing
Listings tracked
13

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 66 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
66 months

Products

Top Foam Softballs 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 25, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 70% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$8K$16K$24K$32K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

12 falling

Sellers

22

Est. top-5 brand share

75%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

20%

  • Thin Air Brands41%
  • Magicorange14%
  • Avesfer10%
  • Tarutaru5%
  • Urspasol5%
  • Champion Sports5%

Demand

Foam Softballs search demand

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

3K2KSpike '24Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar, Apr, May · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7×

Search terms

Top Foam Softballs search terms shoppers use

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

  • foam softballs19K/yr
  • foam softball8K/yr
  • foam softballs 12 inch8K/yr
  • foam softballs 11 inch6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Foam Softballs

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

14%of positive reviews mention “Soft Feel”
14%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
1.9%of orders come back
“not as large as a softball”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”14% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Foam Softballs 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