🆚 ReactPlayer vs. YouTube Player
- 📈 YouTube Player is much more popular than ReactPlayer.
- 🌍 YouTube Player is more popular in all countries.
ReactPlayerType
About
ReactPlayer is a 
React media player component that enables playback of videos and audio from file URLs and multiple online platforms.
It supports 
YouTube, 
Facebook, 
Twitch, 
Vimeo, HLS, DASH, and other media sources, automatically loads only the required player for each source, offers light mode that displays a thumbnail until playback begins, and supports picture-in-picture, custom controls, and extensible custom players.
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.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Video.js
MediaElement.js
Dailymotion Player
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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.