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Black Towel Bar

Maybe

The top 5 products take only 18% of clicks. But demand is soft, at -4.5% this quarter, so Black Towel Bar is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 10% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +11 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$362K/yr480K searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
18%top-5 click share · 56 brands · 103 sellers

Flapen Score

Black Towel Bar against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Black Towel Bar is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Black Towel Bar market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Black Towel Bar 480K times last year and spent an estimated $362K. The top 5 brands take 38% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jun–Jul. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

4.3% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 480K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 4.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $362K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
480K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.5%
Conversion, latest week
4.3%
Market size, estimated
$362Ka year
Peak month
July2.2× the quietest month
Top search term
brushed nickel towel bar117K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $17.57.

Listings sell for $17.57 on average, from $7.07 to $41.87. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $17.57 that is $2K to $4K a year per listing.

Average price
$17.57inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.07–$41.87
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$2K–$4K
Returns
4.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

89% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #133 within Bathroom Hardware. It carries 1,742 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.4%
Average rank
#133in Bathroom Hardware
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,742per listing
Listings tracked
130

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 7 of last year's 17 launches as successful.

17 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 7 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
17
Successful launches
7Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Black Towel Bar products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take only 18% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$7K$14K$22K$29K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

56 falling

Sellers

103

Top-5 brand share

38%

Top 20: 76%

Top-5 click share

18%

Top 20: 46%

Open market

58%

  • MIROAMZ11%
  • Command9%
  • Moen8%
  • AcGlbauric5%
  • USHOWER5%
  • HITSLAM4%

Demand

Black Towel Bar search demand

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

13K8KSpike '25Prime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jun, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.2×

Search terms

Top Black Towel Bar search terms shoppers use

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

  • brushed nickel towel bar117K/yr
  • adhesive towel bar110K/yr
  • self adhesive towel bar39K/yr
  • stick on towel bar26K/yr
  • 18 inch towel bar24K/yr
  • adjustable towel bar21K/yr
  • 30 inch towel bar17K/yr
  • no drill towel bar19K/yr
  • 18 towel bar14K/yr
  • 16 inch towel bar12K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Black Towel Bar

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Assembly/Installation”
16%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
4.1%of orders come back
“Did not stick”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”16% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Black Towel Bar questions

Answered from the same tracked data.