⚡ Video Players in Iraq

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.

Iraq is a Western Asian country with a population of over 45 million people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 13.6% of websites from Iraq.

Statistics based on 486 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is YouTube with a substantial share of 54.5%, followed by MediaElement.js with 30.3% and Video.js with 10.6%.

YouTube 54.5%
MediaElement.js 30.3%
Video.js 10.6%
jPlayer 6.1%
Vimeo 3%
HLS.js 1.5%
Plyr 1.5%
Flowplayer 1.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. jPlayer ^(-1)
6. HLS.js ^(-3)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 8 video players used on sites from Iraq, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The embedded Youtube video player. Free	54.5%
2	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	30.3%
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	10.6%
4	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	6.1%
5	Vimeo New York, United States The embedded Vimeo video player. Free	3%
6	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	1.5%
7	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	1.5%
8	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player, the older version of which is open source. FreeOpen source$$$	1.5%

👉 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 486 websites from Iraq.
We currently track the presence of 21 video players across the web.
Of these, 8 were detected on websites from Iraq.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.