⚡ Video Players in Russia

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.

Russia is a Eurasian country with a population of around 144 million people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 5.8% of websites from Russia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is YouTube with an impressive share of 48.8%, followed by MediaElement.js with 17.4% and VK Video with 11.1%.

YouTube 48.8%
MediaElement.js 17.4%
VK Video 11.1%
Video.js 10.6%
jPlayer 4.8%
Plyr 4.7%
Vimeo 3.2%
Flowplayer 2.8%
Lite YouTube 1.7%
HLS.js 1%
flv.js 0.8%
🎬 Clappr 0.4%
Presto Player 0.3%
Dash.js 0.2%
ReactPlayer 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. VK Video ^(-10)
12. 🎬 Clappr ^(-4)
16. Dailymotion ^(-1)
17. PeerTube ^(-4)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 17 video players used on sites from Russia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The embedded Youtube video player. Free	48.8%
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	17.4%
3	VK Video Moscow, Russia The embedded VK Video player. Free	11.1%
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	10.6%
5	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	4.8%
6	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	4.7%
7	Vimeo New York, United States The embedded Vimeo video player. Free	3.2%
8	Flowplayer Stockholm, Sweden A commercial video player, the older version of which is open source. FreeOpen source$$$	2.8%
9	Lite YouTube A faster YouTube embed. FreeOpen source	1.7%
10	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	1%
11	flv.js Shanghai, China An HTML5 Flash Video Player written in pure JavaScript without Flash. FreeOpen source	0.8%
12	🎬 Clappr An open-source, extensible, HTML5 first media player for the web. FreeOpen source	0.4%
13	Presto Player Pune, Maharashtra, India A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics. Free$79+/year	0.3%
14	Dash.js Beaverton, Oregon, United States A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.	0.2%
15	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	0.2%
16	Dailymotion Paris, France The embedded Dailymotion video player. Free	0.04%
17	PeerTube Lyon, France The embedded PeerTube video player. Free	0.02%

👉 See Also

🌎 Video Players in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 90,449 websites from Russia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.