Companies Using Plyr

The first question to ask about a Plyr detection is who put the player on the page. As of our October 2026 crawl, TechnologyChecker.io finds Plyr on 141,925 live sites, and 84,733 of them match a company record, a 59.7% match rate. Often it wasn't the site owner: a WordPress plugin, a Shopify theme or a careers platform brought it along. And the project itself is now deprecated, which gives every one of these sites a reason to look at its video player again.

What a Plyr detection means

Our rule counts a site when it loads a script from cdn.plyr.io, exposes the Plyr JavaScript object or sets the --plyr-progress CSS variable. Bundled copies trip it just like direct installs. To see the split, I drew a random sample of live Plyr domains and opened the 211 that still responded. 79 loaded Plyr through WordPress plugins or themes, 22 through a Shopify theme or Shopify's media player, and another 79 from cdn.plyr.io, a public CDN or a file on their own server. Eleven came through third parties such as Pixieset's photographer sites or an embedded video host, and on 20 we couldn't find the player on the homepage.

No single product dominates. The largest carrier, the Easy Video Player plugin, accounted for 15 of the 211 sites (7.1%). The rest spread across EmbedPress, HTML5 Video Player, Dynamic Content for Elementor and dozens of themes, each with a handful.

Sales Signal: Read a Plyr hit as "this site plays its own video" and little more. For almost four in ten sites, the real decision-maker is whoever chose the WordPress plugin or theme, often an agency, so ask about the video setup before you pitch anything Plyr-specific.

A deprecated player on 141,925 sites

Our current crawl window shows 108,728 Plyr sites in June 2026, 125,409 in July, 133,070 in August, 140,192 in September and 141,925 in October. Counts are not a like-for-like series over time: the set of domains we crawl turns over every month, with dead sites dropping out and newly found ones added, and our detection signals widen over time. The steps reflect changes on our side, both the domains we cover and the signals we detect Plyr with, rather than a surge in adoption.

Meanwhile the project has wound down. plyr.io and the GitHub repository now say Plyr is deprecated and receives security updates only, and both send new projects to Video.js 10. Video.js 10 went GA on 1 October 2026 as a rebuild that brings together Video.js, Plyr, Vidstack, Media Chrome and Mux Player. Version 3.8.5 of Plyr still reached npm on 6 October, so fixes are flowing. Few sites take them, though. Of the 16 sampled pages that name a version in their cdn.plyr.io link, nine pin 3.7.8 from March 2023 and the other seven are older.

"Almost 142,000 sites run a player whose own homepage now tells you to use something else. None of them is in trouble today, but together they're a dated, countable migration backlog." - Mehmet Suleyman, CEO & Co-founder at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales Signal: The deprecation gives video vendors and agencies a dated reason to call. Lead with the facts: Plyr still gets security patches, but new features now go to Video.js 10.

The companies behind the sites

The matched base is small and fairly young. 57.29% of companies with a size band have 1-10 employees and 81.89% have 50 or fewer, and 71.72% of those with a known founding year date from 2000 or later. Retail leads the industry chart at just 3.62%, and the ten industries charted add up to 27.16%. Religious Institutions and Non-profit Organizations together (2,894 companies) edge past Retail's 2,682.

The enterprise tail is 1,940 companies above 1,000 employees, and for these accounts the subdomain says more than the company name. In our named list, 23 of 50 were detected on careers sites. Thirteen of those, including Allianz, CVS Health, Roche and Boston Consulting Group, run on Phenom, which serves a Plyr 3.7.8 stylesheet from its own CDN. Six more, such as Aon, Ulta Beauty and Travelers, load Plyr inside a video widget from widget.altrulabs.com, a domain that now redirects to the recruiting-software company iCIMS. Six are annual-report microsites with an identical asset layout. The direct deployments sit on main sites: Vale, Engie, CSL, AkzoNobel, Bombardier and Genentech.

Sales Signal: At a large company, Plyr on a careers site tells you about the recruiting platform, not the web team. Sell video or front-end work to the main-site deployments, and treat every Phenom or Altru site as one decision made by the platform vendor.

Industries and countries

The United States leads with 22,275 matched companies, about 3.2 times the United Kingdom (6,885) and Germany (6,425). But the nine European countries in our top 15, leaving out Turkey, total 30,841, more than the US. Australia (3,493) and Canada (2,562) add to the English-speaking share, and India (2,885) and Brazil (2,644) sit just behind Italy (2,887).

Advertising Services is second in the industry chart at 3.4%, and IT Services and IT Consulting follows at 3.03%. Those are the firms that build sites for other businesses, which fits a library that so often arrives inside plugins and themes.

Sales Signal: Start with agencies. One agency that standardised on a Plyr-based plugin can move many client sites to a new player at once, so rank agency domains in this list above single-site owners.

Why this profile has no migration table

We tested where Plyr sites go when they drop it, and we publish nothing on purpose. For every rival in the category, most domains that ever ran both players still run both: 5,568 domains run VideoJS and Plyr together today, and 5,228 run MediaElement.js and Plyr. A site carrying two players usually has two plugins, or a theme plus a plugin, rather than a migration in progress, so the switching counts didn't pass our gates.

Exits are real but noisy. 21,385 domains have dropped Plyr since we began tracking it on 16 March 2026, equal to 15.1% of today's count, and about one in ten of those still load it on another hostname. For a library, a drop is more often a redesign or a dead site than a decision about players.

"When most sites that run two video players keep running both, the overlap is plugin clutter, not switching. I'd rather show no migration table than one built on clutter." - Mehmet Suleyman, CEO & Co-founder at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales Signal: Don't build a "sites leaving Plyr" campaign from drops. Work the current installed base instead, because that's where the Video.js 10 decision is still open.

The stack around Plyr

jQuery runs on 83.53% of the 144,837 domains in our stack analysis, core-js on 66.9% and Swiper on 35.2%. WordPress appears on 45.7%, Elementor on 20.45% and Shopify on 12.65%, with WooCommerce on 9.06%. Bootstrap (28.57%) is ahead of Tailwind CSS (18.69%), and Google Analytics is on 60.13%.

The Video.js side has a corporate owner of its own: according to videojs.org, Brightcove holds the Video.js trademark, and the project's site credits Mux for video hosting and streaming. Neither changes the licence, but both are names a buyer will meet when the Plyr question comes up.

Sales Signal: For video hosts and streaming vendors, a Plyr site that serves its own video files is a prospect for hosted delivery, and the move to Video.js 10 is the moment that choice gets revisited. For WordPress maintenance firms, the jQuery and Elementor overlap describes the typical client.

How to use this list

Pair Plyr with WordPress to reach the plugin-driven sites, or with Shopify for stores that show product video. Companies with 11-200 employees, 34.92% of the matched set, are the ones past the one-person stage. Check the detection URL before you reach out: a careers or report subdomain points to a supplier, a main domain to the company's own web team.

An opener that fits this list: "Your site at [domain] plays video with Plyr, which its maintainers have deprecated in favour of Video.js 10. If a player change is on your list for next year, here's what the move looks like with [product]."

All 141,925 Plyr sites and 84,733 matched companies can be filtered this way and exported from TechnologyChecker.io.