⚡ Video Players in Ireland

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.

Ireland is a Western European country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 14.1% of websites from Ireland.

Statistics based on 16K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is YouTube with an impressive share of 34.4%, followed by MediaElement.js with 33.2% and Video.js with 18.5%.

YouTube 34.4%
MediaElement.js 33.2%
Video.js 18.5%
Vimeo 15.4%
Plyr 4.6%
jPlayer 3.9%
flv.js 1.1%
Lite YouTube 0.6%
Flowplayer 0.6%
HLS.js 0.4%
Presto Player 0.4%
Vime 0.2%
ReactPlayer 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

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

8. Lite YouTube ^(-1)
12. Vime ^(-6)
13. ReactPlayer ^(-3)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 13 video players used on sites from Ireland, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The YouTube Player widget allows websites to embed and play YouTube videos and playlists within web pages. Free	34.4%
2	MediaElement.js Dallas, Texas, United States A free, open-source HTML5 audio and video player that enables playback of MP4, WebM, and MP3 media files as well as streamed content in HLS and MPEG-DASH formats. FreeOpen source	33.2%
3	Video.js Boston, Massachusetts, United States An open-source HTML5 video player library that provides a customizable video player for embedding and controlling video playback in web applications. FreeOpen source	18.5%
4	Vimeo New York, United States Vimeo's embedded video player for playing videos on external websites. Free	15.4%
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 An HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen source	3.9%
7	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	1.1%
8	Lite YouTube San Francisco, California, United States A lightweight YouTube embed designed to improve page loading performance. FreeOpen source	0.6%
9	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player and delivery platform for on-demand, live, and simulated live streaming. FreeOpen source$$$	0.6%
10	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	0.4%
11	Presto Player Pune, Maharashtra, India A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics. Free$79+/year	0.4%
12	Vime Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A customizable, extensible, accessible and framework-agnostic media player, the predecessor of Vidstack. FreeOpen source	0.2%
13	ReactPlayer San Francisco, California, United States A React media player component that enables playback of videos and audio from file URLs and multiple online platforms. FreeOpen source	0.04%

👉 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 16,429 websites from Ireland.
We currently track the presence of 21 video players across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from Ireland.
Statistics were last calculated on November 2, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.