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Smart Light Bulbs

Maybe

Shoppers spend $5.9M a year here. But the average product has 8,570 reviews to catch up to, so Smart Light Bulbs is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 15% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +9 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$5.9M/yr4.4M searches / yr
90-day growth
+5.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
55%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 34 sellers

Flapen Score

Smart Light Bulbs against its category

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

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

Market

The Smart Light Bulbs market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Smart Light Bulbs 4.4M times last year and spent an estimated $5.9M. The top 5 brands take 84% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

5.1% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 4.4M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 5.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +5.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $5.9M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
4.4M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+5.6%
Conversion, latest week
5.1%
Market size, estimated
$5.9Ma year
Peak month
December2.2× the quietest month
Top search term
smart light bulbs1.1M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $26.42.

Listings sell for $26.42 on average, from $6.72 to $61.18. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 250K to 300K a year. The average listing sells 12,500 to 15,000 of them. At $26.42 that is $330K to $396K a year per listing.

Average price
$26.42inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.72–$61.18
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
250K–300K
Units per listing a year
12,500–15,000
Revenue per listing a year
$330K–$396K
Returns
2.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

76% 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 #219 within Light Bulbs. It carries 8,570 reviews at 4.42 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
76%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#219in Light Bulbs
Average rating
4.42 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
8,570per listing
Listings tracked
25

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 3 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 3 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 37 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
37 months

Products

Top Smart 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 55% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$296K$593K$889K$1.2M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

11 rising

Sellers

34

Top-5 brand share

84%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

55%

Top 20: 94%

Open market

12%

  • Govee33%
  • Amazon Basics23%
  • Linkind15%
  • Lightinginside6%
  • DAYBETTER6%
  • LEDVANCE4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 12%)

Demand

Smart Light Bulbs search demand

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

200K150KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.2×

Search terms

Top Smart Light Bulbs search terms shoppers use

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

  • smart light bulbs1.1M/yr
  • smart bulb626K/yr
  • alexa light bulbs625K/yr
  • govee light bulb462K/yr
  • smart bulbs245K/yr
  • smart bulbs for effortless lighting43K/yr
  • smart bulbs that work with alexa185K/yr
  • smart lights179K/yr
  • smart light bulb105K/yr
  • smart light119K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Smart Light Bulbs

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Brightness/Shine/Glow”
27%of negative reviews mention “Connectivity-Overall”
2.9%of orders come back
“Cannot connect”
A buyer, on “Connectivity-Overall”27% 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 Smart Light Bulbs questions

Answered from the same tracked data.