⚡ Video Players in the United Kingdom

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.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 13.4% of websites from the United Kingdom.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top video players on websites in the United Kingdom in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is MediaElement.js with an impressive share of 39.2%, followed by YouTube with 34.5% and Vimeo with 14.2%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top video players that are more popular in the United Kingdom than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 20 video players used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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
Vimeo
New York, United States

The embedded Vimeo video player.

Free
4
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
5
Plyr
Sydney, Australia

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

FreeOpen source
6
jPlayer
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto.

FreeOpen source
7
flv.js
Shanghai, China

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

FreeOpen source
8
Lite YouTube

A faster YouTube embed.

FreeOpen source
9
Flowplayer
Stockholm, Sweden

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

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
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
14
Vime
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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

FreeOpen source
15
Dailymotion
Paris, France

The embedded Dailymotion video player.

Free
16
Vidstack
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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

FreeOpen source
17
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.
18
🎬 Clappr

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

FreeOpen source
19
VK Video
Moscow, Russia

The embedded VK Video player.

Free
20
Bilibili
Shanghai, China

The embedded Bilibili video player.

Free

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 157,370 websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.