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Brown Playdough

Fail

Demand is soft, at -16.0% this quarter, so Brown Playdough is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 37% of 3,143 Toys & Games niches · +2 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$164K/yr154K searches / yr
90-day growth
-16.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
46%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 200 sellers

Flapen Score

Brown Playdough against its category

The dotted line is the Toys & Games average. Past it, Brown Playdough is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Brown Playdough market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Brown Playdough 154K times last year and spent an estimated $164K. The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks. Demand peaks in Mar–Apr–Nov. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 154K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -16.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $164K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
154K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-16.0%
Conversion, latest week
5.1%
Market size, estimated
$164Ka year
Peak month
March4.6× the quietest month
Top search term
brown playdough33K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $20.66.

Listings sell for $20.66 on average, from $6.23 to $44.18. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $20.66 that is $5K to $10K a year per listing.

Average price
$20.66inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.23–$44.18
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
8K–10K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$5K–$10K
Returns
1.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

72% 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 Clay & Dough. It carries 2,639 reviews at 4.55 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
72%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#127in Clay & Dough
Average rating
4.55 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,639per listing
Listings tracked
36

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 50 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
50 months

Products

Top Brown Playdough 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 46% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

11 rising

Sellers

200

Top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

46%

Top 20: 85%

Open market

5%

  • Brand 166%
  • Brand 216%
  • Brand 35%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 5%)

Demand

Brown Playdough search demand

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

5K4KSpike '24Black Friday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar, Apr, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.6×

Search terms

Top Brown Playdough search terms shoppers use

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

  • brown playdough33K/yr
  • brown play doh17K/yr
  • playdoh kitchen18K/yr
  • brown playdoh9K/yr
  • playdoh kitchen creations12K/yr
  • playdough kitchen8K/yr
  • play doh kitchen creations12K/yr
  • play doh food sets5K/yr
  • brown play dough4K/yr
  • play dough kitchen4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Brown Playdough

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

35%of positive reviews mention “Fun/Entertainment Experience”
17%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
1.2%of orders come back
“Did not work”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”17% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Brown Playdough questions

Answered from the same tracked data.