The music video is directed by Cuban producer Alejandro Perez, under Enrique Iglesias' longtime collaborators creative director & executive producer Kasra Pezeshki. The music video was produced by Artist Preserve, London. The featured dancers are from Havana's Ballet Lizt Alfonso.
The lead female dancer in the video is Ana Karla Suarez. The video production in the Dominican Republic was produced by Aquiles Jimenez. The Spanish version of the video has been viewed over 2.6 billion times while the English version of the video has received over 290 million views as of December 2018. It is his most viewed video on YouTube, surpassing his 2010 hit '. The Spanish version of the video is the on YouTube. 'Bailando' became the first Spanish-language music video to have been viewed over a billion times.