Embedly vs YouTube

YouTube is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,880 use Embedly and 82,680 use YouTube.

Embedly sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Embedly: 36, YouTube: 29).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Embedly went from 0.37% to 0.33% of all tracked sites, while YouTube went from 11% to 9.4%. Embedly is gaining ground faster in our index.

2,164 websites in our catalog use both Embedly and YouTube.

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.