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Padded Shorts

Fail

Demand is soft, at -70.8% this quarter, so Padded Shorts is a Fail.

Flapen Score
33
33 / 100
Ranks 7,310 of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · −14 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$27K/yr285K searches / yr
90-day growth
-70.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
47%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 24 sellers

Flapen Score

Padded Shorts against its category

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

33Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Padded Shorts market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Padded Shorts 285K times last year and spent an estimated $27K. The top 5 brands take 76% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Dec. Flapen scores it 33 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 285K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -70.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $27K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
285K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-70.8%
Conversion, latest week
0.3%
Market size, estimated
$27Ka year
Peak month
January7.5× the quietest month
Top search term
padded shorts49K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $29.63.

Listings sell for $29.63 on average, from $15.01 to $48.31. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $29.63 that is $3K to $7K a year per listing.

Average price
$29.63inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$15.01–$48.31
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$7K
Returns
12.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

95% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #32 within Skates, Skateboards & Scooters. It carries 2,974 reviews at 4.38 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
95%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.3%
Average rank
#32in Skates, Skateboards & Scooters
Average rating
4.38 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,974per listing
Listings tracked
38

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 6 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

6 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 49 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
6
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
49 months

Products

Top Padded Shorts 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 47% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

22 flat

Sellers

24

Top-5 brand share

76%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

47%

Top 20: 83%

Open market

21%

  • Brand 135%
  • Brand 216%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%

Demand

Padded Shorts search demand

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

20K15KHoliday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 7.5×

Search terms

Top Padded Shorts search terms shoppers use

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

  • padded shorts49K/yr
  • padded shorts women16K/yr
  • padded shorts for skating10K/yr
  • padded shorts for men11K/yr
  • hip pads for skating5K/yr
  • crash pants10K/yr
  • skate & skateboarding padded shorts5K/yr
  • impact shorts men8K/yr
  • butt protector for skating3K/yr
  • snowboard butt pad26K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Padded Shorts

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

16%of positive reviews mention “Size-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
12.4%of orders come back
“They were a little big”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Padded Shorts questions

Answered from the same tracked data.