🆚 Vimeo Player vs. YouTube Player

Type

Video player
Video player

About

Vimeo Player is Vimeo's embedded video player for playing videos on external websites.

It provides customizable playback controls and player appearance, supports autoplay, looping, captions, chapters, picture-in-picture, and fullscreen playback.

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

New York, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️
Free ✔️

Categories

Video Players › Rank #4
Video Players › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The YouTube video player is 5 times more popular than Vimeo Player.
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 Vimeo Player is more popular in American Samoa.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Spain
India
Australia
Netherlands
Italy

Awards

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 Vimeo Player is more commonly used on real estate sites.
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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Rank
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Rank
#157
#199
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See also

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