⚡ 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.

Statistics based on 159K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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%, followed by YouTube with 34.6% and Vimeo with 14.3%.

MediaElement.js 39%
YouTube 34.6%
Vimeo 14.3%
Video.js 11.9%
Plyr 4.6%
jPlayer 3.5%
flv.js 1.2%
Lite YouTube 0.8%
Flowplayer 0.7%
Presto Player 0.6%
HLS.js 0.4%
Dash.js 0.2%
ReactPlayer 0.04%
Vime 0.03%
Dailymotion 0.03%

🚀 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.

1. MediaElement.js ^(-1)
3. Vimeo ^(-1)
5. Plyr ^(-1)
8. Lite YouTube ^(-2)
10. Presto Player ^(-1)
13. ReactPlayer ^(-2)
14. Vime ^(-4)
15. Dailymotion ^(-2)
16. Vidstack ^(-4)

✨ 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.

Rank	Name	Market 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	39%
2	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The embedded Youtube video player. Free	34.6%
3	Vimeo New York, United States The embedded Vimeo video player. Free	14.3%
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	11.9%
5	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	4.6%
6	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	3.5%
7	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	1.2%
8	Lite YouTube A faster YouTube embed. FreeOpen source	0.8%
9	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player, the older version of which is open source. FreeOpen source$$$	0.7%
10	Presto Player Pune, Maharashtra, India A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics. Free$79+/year	0.6%
11	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	0.4%
12	Dash.js Beaverton, Oregon, United States A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.	0.2%
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	0.04%
14	Vime Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A customizable, extensible, accessible and framework agnostic media player, the predecessor of Vidstack. FreeOpen source	0.03%
15	Dailymotion Paris, France The embedded Dailymotion video player. Free	0.03%
16	Vidstack Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A framework and collection of UI components for building and managing custom media players on the web. FreeOpen source	0.02%
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.	0.01%
18	🎬 Clappr An open-source, extensible, HTML5 first media player for the web. FreeOpen source	0.009%
19	VK Video Moscow, Russia The embedded VK Video player. Free	0.005%
20	Bilibili Shanghai, China The embedded Bilibili video player. Free	0.005%

👉 See Also

🌎 Video Players in other countries

🗃️ 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 159,418 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 21 video players across the web.
Of these, 20 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.