⚡ Video Players in Japan

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.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 11% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 160K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is YouTube, which dominates the market with a substantial 63.6% share.
It is followed by MediaElement.js with 27.2% and Video.js with 5%.

YouTube 63.6%
MediaElement.js 27.2%
Video.js 5%
flv.js 3%
Vimeo 2.8%
jPlayer 1.7%
Lite YouTube 0.7%
Plyr 0.7%
HLS.js 0.4%
Flowplayer 0.1%
Presto Player 0.1%
Dash.js 0.05%
Bilibili 0.01%
🎬 Clappr 0.006%
Dailymotion 0.006%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. flv.js ^(-3)
7. Lite YouTube ^(-3)
13. Bilibili ^(-6)
14. 🎬 Clappr ^(-2)
15. Dailymotion ^(-2)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 16 video players used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The embedded Youtube video player. Free	63.6%
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	27.2%
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	5%
4	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	3%
5	Vimeo New York, United States The embedded Vimeo video player. Free	2.8%
6	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	1.7%
7	Lite YouTube A faster YouTube embed. FreeOpen source	0.7%
8	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	0.7%
9	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	0.4%
10	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player, the older version of which is open source. FreeOpen source$$$	0.1%
11	Presto Player Pune, Maharashtra, India A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics. Free$79+/year	0.1%
12	Dash.js Beaverton, Oregon, United States A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.	0.05%
13	Bilibili Shanghai, China The embedded Bilibili video player. Free	0.01%
14	🎬 Clappr An open-source, extensible, HTML5 first media player for the web. FreeOpen source	0.006%
15	Dailymotion Paris, France The embedded Dailymotion video player. Free	0.006%
16	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	0.006%

👉 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 160,338 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 21 video players across the web.
Of these, 16 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.