🆚 MediaElement.js vs. YouTube Player
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 YouTube Player is as popular as MediaElement.js.
- 🌎 YouTube Player is more popular in Japan, India, and Brazil.
- 🌎 MediaElement.js is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
Type
Video player
Video player
About
MediaElement.js is a free audio and video player with support for media files (MP4, WebM, MP3), streaming content (HLS, Dash), and embeddable players (YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch, SoundCloud, etc).
The embedded Youtube video player.
Headquarters
Dallas, Texas, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The YouTube video player is as popular as MediaElement.js.
Total websites
Market share
Video Players
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
YouTube Player is more popular in Japan, India, and Brazil, while MediaElement.js is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
France
Italy
Australia
India
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Video Players category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
YouTube Player is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while MediaElement.js is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, Internet services, and art, culture and heritage sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
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