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Light Bulbs

Maybe

Shoppers spend $15.0M a year here. But demand is soft, at -7.6% this quarter, so Light Bulbs is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
64
64 / 100
Top 3% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +16 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$15.0M/yr12.3M searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
37%top-5 click share · 31 brands · 85 sellers

Flapen Score

Light Bulbs against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Light Bulbs is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

64Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Light Bulbs market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Light Bulbs 12.3M times last year and spent an estimated $15.0M. The top 5 brands take 60% of clicks. Flapen scores it 64 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

8.2% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 12.3M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 8.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $15.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
12.3M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.6%
Conversion, latest week
8.2%
Market size, estimated
$15.0Ma year
Peak month
November1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
light bulbs5.3M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $14.99.

Listings sell for $14.99 on average, from $4.66 to $34.02. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 20,000 to 25,000 of them. At $14.99 that is $300K to $375K a year per listing.

Average price
$14.99under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.66–$34.02
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
20,000–25,000
Revenue per listing a year
$300K–$375K
Returns
1.8%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, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #127 within Light Bulbs. It carries 5,711 reviews at 4.63 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#127in Light Bulbs
Average rating
4.63 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
5,711per listing
Listings tracked
60

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 4 of last year's 5 launches as successful.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 4 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 56 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
56 months

Products

Top Light Bulbs 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 37% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$451K$901K$1.4M$1.8M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

31 rising

Sellers

85

Top-5 brand share

60%

Top 20: 93%

Top-5 click share

37%

Top 20: 71%

Open market

35%

  • Amazon Basics16%
  • evelor15%
  • TJOY14%
  • LEDVANCE9%
  • Linkind7%
  • dalattin5%

Demand

Light Bulbs search demand

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

300K200KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Light Bulbs search terms shoppers use

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

  • light bulbs5.3M/yr
  • led light bulb1.7M/yr
  • led bulbs721K/yr
  • light bulb601K/yr
  • light bulbs 60 watt soft white322K/yr
  • led light bulbs412K/yr
  • e26 led bulb 60 watt349K/yr
  • dimmable led light bulbs348K/yr
  • e26 bulb385K/yr
  • bulbs273K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Light Bulbs

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

38%of positive reviews mention “Brightness/Shine/Glow”
18%of negative reviews mention “Bulb Flicker/Dimming/Color”
1.8%of orders come back
“flickering a lot”
A buyer, on “Bulb Flicker/Dimming/Color”18% 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 Light Bulbs questions

Answered from the same tracked data.