niche · 0.2

Player

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Providers using this tag (5)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Dolby.ioMediaStreamingReal-Time StreamingWebRTC2 APIs63.1
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
KalturaVideoLive StreamingTranscodingMedia Management2 APIs47.3
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
BrightcoveVideoMediaStreamingLive Streaming11 APIs38.5BitmovinVideoEncodingStreamingLive Streaming2 APIs35.7JW PlayerVideoStreamingMedia ManagementLive Streaming3 APIs28.6

APIs with this tag (13)

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Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Dolby OptiView PlayerCross-platform video playback (formerly THEOplayer) for web, Android/Fire TV, iOS/tvOS, Roku, React Native ...65.7Dolby OptiView Player SDK (THEOplayer)Cross-platform video player (formerly THEOplayer) with SDKs for Web, Android, iOS & tvOS, React Native, Flu...63.1Zype Player APIRetrieves the embeddable player for a video in html, js or json form — the json form returns metadata plus ...58.1YouTube IFrame Player APIEnables embedding a YouTube video player on websites and controlling playback through JavaScript. The API s...56.6
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Livepeer React Player ComponentReact video player component for HLS/WebRTC playback of Livepeer streams and assets, with customisable cont...52.8Twitch Embed APIAPIs for embedding Twitch live streams, video on demand, clips, and chat into external websites.51.2Spotify Player APIThe Player API from Spotify — 13 operation(s) for player.48.3
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Brightcove Playback APIFetches video and playlist data for players and mobile apps, providing optimized delivery of media metadata...38.5Brightcove Player Management APICreates, edits, and manages Brightcove players as publishable resources with full configuration control.38.5Bitmovin Player APIJavaScript and REST APIs for embedding and configuring the Bitmovin HTML5 player, managing player licenses,...35.7Loom embedSDKEmbed the Loom video player into a web page or app, with playback controls, captions, and engagement events...32.4JW Player JavaScript Player APIClient-side JavaScript API for controlling the JW Player embedded in web pages. Exposes methods and events ...28.6
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
BetSolutions Player APIPlayer information and game data retrieval24.2

Companies reaching this through an API (8)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Player” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

BetSolutions Dolby Livepeer Loom Spotify Twitch Youtube Zype

Score breakdown

Frequency
34.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
48.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

DRM 5 co-occurrences HLS 5 co-occurrences Transcoding 5 co-occurrences Playlists 5 co-occurrences Live Streaming 7 co-occurrences Video 11 co-occurrences Streaming 10 co-occurrences Media 7 co-occurrences

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