⚡ Video Players

Online video players allow websites to embed and display video content using HTML5 technology, supporting a range of video sources from local files to popular video platforms. These players typically provide features such as playback controls, adaptive streaming, subtitles, and customization options.

According to our data, video players are detected on 12.2% of all websites.
88.4% of these sites use only one video player, 10.6% use two, and 1% use three or more of them.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the leading video players on the web in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is MediaElement.js with an impressive share of 40.8%, followed by YouTube with 38.9% and Video.js with 12.2%.

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of video players that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of all video players we track, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
MediaElement.js
Dallas, Texas, United States

A free audio and video player with support for media files (MP4, WebM, MP3), streaming content (HLS, Dash), and embeddable players (YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch, SoundCloud, etc).

FreeOpen source
2
YouTube
Mountain View, California, United States

The embedded Youtube video player.

Free
3
Video.js
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

An open source web video player that supports HTML5 video and modern streaming formats, as well as YouTube and Vimeo.

FreeOpen source
4
Vimeo
New York, United States

The embedded Vimeo video player.

Free
5
jPlayer
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto.

FreeOpen source
6
Plyr
Sydney, Australia

A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player.

FreeOpen source
7
flv.js
Shanghai, China

An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash.

FreeOpen source
8
Flowplayer
Stockholm, Sweden

A commercial video player, the older version of which is open source.

FreeOpen source$$$
9
Lite YouTube

A faster YouTube embed.

FreeOpen source
10
Presto Player
Pune, Maharashtra, India

A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics.

Free$79+/year
11
HLS.js
Paris, France

A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions.

FreeOpen source
12
Dash.js
Beaverton, Oregon, United States

A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.
13
VK Video
Moscow, Russia

The embedded VK Video player.

Free
14
Onnetwork.tv

A Polish video advertising platform that provides a multimedia player that allows publishers to flexibly manage video and audio content, as well as broadcast pre-roll and mid-roll ads.
15
ReactPlayer

A React component that can also be used as a standalone library to play a variety of URLs, including file paths, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Vimeo, and more.

FreeOpen source
16
🎬 Clappr

An open source, extensible, HTML5 first media player for the web.

FreeOpen source
17
Dailymotion
Paris, France

The embedded Dailymotion video player.

Free
18
Bilibili
Shanghai, China

The embedded Bilibili video player.

Free
19
Vime
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A customizable, extensible, accessible and framework agnostic media player, the predecessor of Vidstack.

FreeOpen source
20
Vidstack
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A framework and collection of UI components for building and managing custom media players on the web.

FreeOpen source
21
PeerTube
Lyon, France

The embedded PeerTube video player.

Free

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 2,754,576 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.