HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
171,029 websites

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is free to use

https://developer.apple.com/streaming/

Send live or pre-recorded audio and video to iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac using an ordinary web server.

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MPEG-DASH
131,806 websites

MPEG-DASH is free to use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over_HTTP

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), also known as MPEG-DASH, is an adaptive bitrate streaming technique that enables high quality streaming of media content over the Internet delivered from conventional HTTP web servers. Similar to...

Market Share by Top Websites

1 HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is leading in Top 10K Sites, Top 100K Sites, Top 1M Sites and The Entire Web.

2 In terms of market share, MPEG-DASH is clearly lagging behind, losing to HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) in all segments.

Websites Categories

1 HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) has better usage coverage in more websites categories. Including Arts & Entertainment, Games, Computers Electronics & Technology, Adult and 16 other categories.

2 MPEG-DASH is leading in Science & Education, Food & Drink, Travel & Tourism and Heavy Industry & Engineering.

Geography

1 MPEG-DASH is leading in most countries, including United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France and 138 other countries.

2 HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is leading in China, Russia, Vietnam, Iran and 19 other countries.