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Silly Putty

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Silly Putty is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 33% of 3,143 Toys & Games niches · +3 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$738K/yr482K searches / yr
90-day growth
-28.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
97%top-5 click share · 4 brands · 24 sellers

Flapen Score

Silly Putty against its category

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

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Silly Putty market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Silly Putty 482K times last year and spent an estimated $738K. All 4 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Mar–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 482K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -28.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $738K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
482K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-28.2%
Conversion, latest week
8.3%
Market size, estimated
$738Ka year
Peak month
December5.1× the quietest month
Top search term
silly putty365K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $18.33.

Listings sell for $18.33 on average, from $5.85 to $32.93. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 4,000 to 5,000 of them. At $18.33 that is $73K to $92K a year per listing.

Average price
$18.33inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.85–$32.93
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
4,000–5,000
Revenue per listing a year
$73K–$92K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

33% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #133 within Clay & Dough. It carries 1,008 reviews at 4.23 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
33%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.6%
Average rank
#133in Clay & Dough
Average rating
4.23 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
1,008per listing
Listings tracked
6

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 47 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
47 months

Products

Top Silly Putty 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 97% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

4 falling

Sellers

24

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 189%
  • Brand 25%
  • Brand 34%
  • Brand 43%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Silly Putty search demand

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

25K15KHoliday '24Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 5.1×

Search terms

Top Silly Putty search terms shoppers use

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

  • silly putty365K/yr
  • silly putty bulk22K/yr
  • silly putty for kids36K/yr
  • silly putty eggs13K/yr
  • silly putty for adults11K/yr
  • putty bulk7K/yr
  • silly puddy6K/yr
  • putty party favors6K/yr
  • crayola silly putty3K/yr
  • silly putty original4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Silly Putty

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
11%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.9%of orders come back
“only one size functions as thera putty”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”11% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Silly Putty questions

Answered from the same tracked data.