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Painters Tape

Maybe

Shoppers spend $7.7M a year here. But the top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Painters Tape is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
50
50 / 100
Top 39% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +2 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$7.7M/yr4.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
+15.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
83%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 127 sellers

Flapen Score

Painters Tape against its category

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

50Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Painters Tape market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Painters Tape 4.0M times last year and spent an estimated $7.7M. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Flapen scores it 50 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

21.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 4.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 21.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +15.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $7.7M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
4.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+15.9%
Conversion, latest week
21.8%
Market size, estimated
$7.7Ma year
Peak month
July1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
painters tape2.5M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $8.75.

Listings sell for $8.75 on average, from $4.20 to $17.68. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 800K units or more a year. The average listing sells 60,000 to 80,000 of them. At $8.75 that is $525K to $700K a year per listing.

Average price
$8.75under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.20–$17.68
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
800K or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
60,000–80,000
Revenue per listing a year
$525K–$700K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

64% 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 #74 within Painting Supplies & Tools. It carries 5,663 reviews at 4.59 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
64%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#74in Painting Supplies & Tools
Average rating
4.59 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
5,663per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 46 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
46 months

Products

Top Painters Tape 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 83% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$767K$1.5M$2.3M$3.1M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 flat

Sellers

127

Top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • ScotchBlue51%
  • SmaringRobot36%
  • Amazon Basics5%
  • SmaringWing3%
  • DEART2%
  • Duck2%

Demand

Painters Tape search demand

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

100K60KPrime Day '25Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Painters Tape search terms shoppers use

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

  • painters tape2.5M/yr
  • blue tape403K/yr
  • blue painters tape285K/yr
  • painters tape 1 inch wide210K/yr
  • painter tape140K/yr
  • paint tape139K/yr
  • painting tape77K/yr
  • blue painters tape 1 inch57K/yr
  • blue masking tape50K/yr
  • painters tape 1 inch27K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Painters Tape

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
34%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.7%of orders come back
“Horrible adhesion”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”34% 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 Painters Tape questions

Answered from the same tracked data.