What is the best alternative to YouTube?

By number of websites, the most widely used alternatives to YouTube are Vimeo, MediaElement.js, Wistia, Embedly, JW Player. The right one depends on your needs; compare them on adoption, authority, and audience above.

How many alternatives to YouTube are there?

Site Stats Database tracks 17 other video players & hosts used by 100 or more websites, plus a long tail of rarer ones. YouTube itself is used by 82,680 websites.

Which video player / host has the most websites?

YouTube leads this category with 82,680 websites in our catalog.

Where does this data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; authority (Ahrefs Domain Rating) and traffic come from Ahrefs and DataForSEO. Everything reflects the sites we track and refreshes at least monthly.

YouTube Alternatives & Competitors

Last updated July 1, 2026 · refreshes automatically as new data lands.

Looking for an alternative to YouTube? Site Stats Database tracks 17 other video players & hosts; the top ones are below, ranked by adoption, with authority and traffic for each and the leading sites that use them. YouTube itself is used by 82,680 websites. Back to YouTube.

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YouTube Alternatives & Competitors

The top YouTube alternatives in depth

Vimeo

MediaElement.js

Wistia

Embedly

JW Player

Cloudflare Stream

Video.js

Plyr

Brightcove

Vidyard

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