Sports Balls
FailThe top 5 products take 69% of clicks, so Sports Balls is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 45 / 100Ranks 4,637 of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · −2 vs the category median of 4745
- Market size
- $123K/yr121K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- +2.0%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 69%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 40 sellers
Flapen Score
Sports Balls against its category
The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Sports Balls is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Sports Balls market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Sports Balls 121K times last year and spent an estimated $123K. The top 5 brands take 77% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 3.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 121K 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 +2.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $123K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 121K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- +2.0%
- Conversion, latest week
- 3.7%
- Market size, estimated
- $123Ka year
- Peak month
- December4.3× the quietest month
- Top search term
- sports balls59K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth $27.29.
Listings sell for $27.29 on average, from $11.48 to $87.38. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $27.29 that is $3K to $7K a year per listing.
- Average price
- $27.29inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- $11.48–$87.38
- Amazon United States median price
- $24.38across 115,062 niches
- Units sold a year
- 5K–6K
- Units per listing a year
- 100–250
- Revenue per listing a year
- $3K–$7K
- Returns
- 1.1%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. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #125 within Leisure Sports & Game Room. It carries 3,645 reviews at 4.52 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 100%
- Prime listings
- 100%
- Out of stock, average day
- 0.2%
- Average rank
- #125in Leisure Sports & Game Room
- Average rating
- 4.52 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
- Average reviews
- 3,645per listing
- Listings tracked
- 16
04 · Newcomers
1 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 2
- Successful launches
- 1Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 47 months
Products
Top Sports Balls 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 69% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.
Brands
13 falling
Sellers
40
Top-5 brand share
77%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
69%
Top 20: 100%
Open market
17%
- Brand 136%
- Brand 216%
- Brand 315%
- Brand 45%
- Brand 55%
- Brand 65%
- Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 17%)
Demand
Sports Balls search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.3×
Search terms
Top Sports Balls search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- sports balls59K/yr
- sport balls12K/yr
- sports ball set10K/yr
- sports ball10K/yr
- sports balls for kids14K/yr
- kids sports balls6K/yr
- sport ball4K/yr
- football basketball soccer ball set3K/yr
- sports balls for kids 8-123K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Sports Balls
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Sizing a bit tricky”
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
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FAQ
Common Sports Balls questions
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