🆚 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 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
MediaElement.jsType
Video player
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 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 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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Video.js
flv.js
Google company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.