🆚 Video.js vs. YouTube Player
- 📈 YouTube Player is three times more popular than Video.js.
- 🌎 YouTube Player is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Video.js is more popular in China, Iran, and the Bahamas.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Video.jsType
Video player
Video player
About
Video.js is an open-source HTML5 video player library that provides a customizable video player for embedding and controlling video playback in web applications.
It supports adaptive streaming formats such as HLS and DASH, and provides a plugin system for adding custom controls, skins, captions, analytics, advertising integrations, and external sources like 
YouTube and 
Vimeo.
The embedded Youtube video player.
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, 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 3 times more popular than Video.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 the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, while Video.js is more popular in China, Iran, and the Bahamas.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
France
India
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Video Players category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Video Players category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Iran in the Video Players category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the Video Players category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States 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 than Video.js in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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.