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Swim Buoy

Maybe

Search demand grew +215.0% this quarter. But the top 5 products take 85% of clicks, so Swim Buoy is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 17% of 8,101 Sports & Outdoors niches · +10 vs the category median of 47
Market size
$398K/yr211K searches / yr
90-day growth
+215.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
85%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 10 sellers

Flapen Score

Swim Buoy against its category

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

57Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Swim Buoy market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Swim Buoy 211K times last year and spent an estimated $398K. The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jun–Jul–Aug. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 211K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +215.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $398K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
211K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+215.0%
Conversion, latest week
8.2%
Market size, estimated
$398Ka year
Peak month
July6.7× the quietest month
Top search term
swim buoy77K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $23.00.

Listings sell for $23.00 on average, from $9.26 to $34.92. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $23.00 that is $17K to $23K a year per listing.

Average price
$23.00inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.26–$34.92
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$17K–$23K
Returns
2.4%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. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #471 within Water Sports. It carries 489 reviews at 4.51 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.2%
Average rank
#471in Water Sports
Average rating
4.51 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
489per listing
Listings tracked
10

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 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 59 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
59 months

Products

Top Swim Buoy 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 85% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

10

Top-5 brand share

95%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

3%

  • Brand 149%
  • Brand 224%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 3%)

Demand

Swim Buoy search demand

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

10K6KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jun, Jul, Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 6.7×

Search terms

Top Swim Buoy search terms shoppers use

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

  • swim buoy77K/yr
  • open water swim buoy35K/yr
  • swim buoy for open water37K/yr
  • swimming buoy16K/yr
  • swimming buoy open water9K/yr
  • tow float6K/yr
  • swim buoy dry bag7K/yr
  • swim bouy6K/yr
  • open water swimming buoy5K/yr
  • inflatable buoy4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Swim Buoy

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

32%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
21%of negative reviews mention “Leak-Proof”
2.4%of orders come back
“it keeps leaking”
A buyer, on “Leak-Proof”21% 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 Swim Buoy questions

Answered from the same tracked data.