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Silent Basketball

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $4.6M a year here. But demand is soft, at -40.7% this quarter, so Silent Basketball is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 12% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +12 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$4.6M/yr2.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
-40.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
50%top-5 click share · 25 brands · 55 sellers

Flapen Score

Silent Basketball against its category

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

59Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Silent Basketball market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Silent Basketball 2.8M times last year and spent an estimated $4.6M. The top 5 brands take 60% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.2% 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 5.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -40.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $4.6M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-40.7%
Conversion, latest week
5.2%
Market size, estimated
$4.6Ma year
Peak month
December12.8× the quietest month
Top search term
silent basketball1.5M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $31.93.

Listings sell for $31.93 on average, from $9.56 to $93.23. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 125K to 150K a year. The average listing sells 4,000 to 5,000 of them. At $31.93 that is $128K to $160K a year per listing.

Average price
$31.93inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.56–$93.23
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
125K–150K
Units per listing a year
4,000–5,000
Revenue per listing a year
$128K–$160K
Returns
2.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #68 within Basketball. It carries 1,460 reviews at 4.53 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
0.2%
Average rank
#68in Basketball
Average rating
4.53 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,460per listing
Listings tracked
35

04 · Newcomers

15 of last year's 18 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

18 products launched here in the last 12 months. 15 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 38 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
18
Successful launches
15Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
38 months

Products

Top Silent Basketball 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 50% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

25 rising

Sellers

55

Top-5 brand share

60%

Top 20: 96%

Top-5 click share

50%

Top 20: 85%

Open market

34%

  • Brand 115%
  • Brand 215%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 412%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Silent Basketball search demand

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

300K200KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 12.8×

Search terms

Top Silent Basketball search terms shoppers use

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

  • silent basketball1.5M/yr
  • indoor basketball433K/yr
  • foam basketball100K/yr
  • silent basketball size 7134K/yr
  • silent ball73K/yr
  • silent basketball size 6111K/yr
  • silent basketball size 570K/yr
  • soft basketball40K/yr
  • quiet basketball61K/yr
  • foam basketball indoor39K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Silent Basketball

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Noise Level”
14%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
2.7%of orders come back
“Falling apart”
A buyer, on “Durability”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 Silent Basketball questions

Answered from the same tracked data.