🆚 Vimeo Player vs. YouTube Player
- 📈 YouTube Player is five times more popular than Vimeo Player.
- 🌎 YouTube Player is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Vimeo Player is more popular in American Samoa.
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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.
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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
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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.

