⚡ Video Players in New Zealand

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.

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 13% of websites from New Zealand.

Statistics based on 14K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is YouTube with an impressive share of 38%, followed by MediaElement.js with 34.9% and Video.js with 14%.

YouTube 38%
MediaElement.js 34.9%
Video.js 14%
Vimeo 12.5%
Plyr 3.7%
jPlayer 3.1%
flv.js 1.4%
Lite YouTube 0.7%
Flowplayer 0.7%
Presto Player 0.6%
HLS.js 0.4%
Dash.js 0.2%
Vime 0.1%
ReactPlayer 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. Plyr ^(-1)
8. Lite YouTube ^(-2)
10. Presto Player ^(-1)
13. Vime ^(-5)
14. ReactPlayer ^(-2)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 14 video players used on sites from New Zealand, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The embedded Youtube video player. Free	38%
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	34.9%
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	14%
4	Vimeo New York, United States The embedded Vimeo video player. Free	12.5%
5	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	3.7%
6	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	3.1%
7	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	1.4%
8	Lite YouTube A faster YouTube embed. FreeOpen source	0.7%
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	Vime Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A customizable, extensible, accessible and framework agnostic media player, the predecessor of Vidstack. FreeOpen source	0.1%
14	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	0.1%

👉 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 14,649 websites from New Zealand.
We currently track the presence of 21 video players across the web.
Of these, 14 were detected on websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on June 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.