🆚 MediaElement.js vs. YouTube Player

📈 YouTube Player is slightly more popular than 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.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

MediaElement.js

YouTube Player

Type

Video player

About

MediaElement.js is a free, open-source HTML5 audio and video player that enables playback of MP4, WebM, and MP3 media files as well as streamed content in HLS and MPEG-DASH formats.

It provides a unified player interface with customizable controls and cross-browser compatibility, and also supports embedding external media sources including YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitch, and SoundCloud.

The YouTube Player widget allows websites to embed and play YouTube videos and playlists within web pages.

It supports customizable playback controls, captions, autoplay, looping, event notifications, and dynamic loading of videos and playlists without reloading the page.

Headquarters

Dallas, Texas, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

mediaelementjs.com #3,672,279

youtube.com #4

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The YouTube video player is 1.1 times more popular than 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 recreation and hobbies 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.

Name

Rank

#708

#1,011

#1,389

#1,636

#1,662

Name

Rank

#56

#157

#178

#199

#363