Brightcove vs JW Player

JW Player is used by more websites in our catalog: 652 use Brightcove and 913 use JW Player.

Brightcove sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Brightcove: 67, JW Player: 59).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Brightcove went from 0.10% to 0.07% of all tracked sites, while JW Player went from 0.14% to 0.10%. Brightcove is gaining ground faster in our index.

1 websites in our catalog use both Brightcove and JW Player.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.