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- The app provides comprehensive sports coverage and timely updates on breaking news.
- Users appreciate the ability to customize notifications for their favorite sports and teams.
- The app is generally easy to navigate and offers a good user experience when it functions properly.
- The latest update has introduced significant bugs, causing frequent crashes and slow loading times.
- Users are frustrated with excessive advertisements, often having to watch long ads before short video clips.
- The app fails to provide a satisfactory experience for Virgin Media customers, often resulting in login issues and playback errors.
- monetization89 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The monetization strategy of the app has drawn significant criticism from users, primarily due to the excessive and often longer-than-video advertisements that disrupt the viewing experience. Many users express frustration over having to watch multiple ads before accessing short video clips, especially given that they are already paying for a subscription. Additionally, the app's frequent crashes and slow loading times further exacerbate the negative impact of the intrusive ads, leading to a perception that the app prioritizes ad revenue over user experience.
“To play a video, you need to watch ads that are longer than the video itself.”
“Monetized to the extreme, I pay a Sky Sports subscription yet still have to watch 30 seconds of adverts before I can see a 22-second clip of a press conference, then bookended with more ads at the end for good measure.”
“I pay a fortune for Sky and I can't even watch a 30-second clip on the app without being force-fed multiple ads every time.”
- story29 mentions
- 10 % positive mentions
- 79 % neutral mentions
- 10 % negative mentions
Users express significant frustration with the app's story delivery, citing frequent crashes, irrelevant video content, and persistent cookie consent pop-ups that disrupt the reading experience. Many report that notifications fail to direct them to the intended stories, often leading to blank pages or incomplete content. Overall, the recent updates have negatively impacted the app's functionality, making it difficult for users to engage with the news effectively.
“When they win a game, whoever it's against, it's the top story.”
“Rows of one star reviews tell the same story.”
“Often a story pops up as a notification but when you tap the link the app opens as planned but the story hasn't been uploaded yet.”
“But since the last update, every time I try to open a latest story it won't fully load up and the screen goes blank.”
“Whenever I open a story, only half the story downloads, then the rest of the app is frozen. I shut down, reload, and the same again; been happening for weeks if not months.”
“The push notifications are absolutely garbage; click on the notification, and it never takes you to the story you clicked on.”
- stability19 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The stability of the app has significantly declined, with users reporting frequent crashes, freezes, and slow loading times, particularly after recent updates. Many express frustration over the inability to access content smoothly, with videos and articles often failing to load or becoming unresponsive. Overall, the app is described as buggy and unreliable, detracting from the user experience.
“The video freezes regularly when watching highlights, no way to resolve apart from restarting the app.”
“Since the update, the app keeps crashing. It lets you click on one story, works fine, then when you try to go on another one, the app either crashes or freezes. It needs to be closed down and then re-opened. 30-second ads for a 40-second video, half the time the video won't load after the ad has played perfectly fine. I had no problems with it before the latest update.”
“The app freezes constantly and has done for months; one star is all I can give it now.”
- optimization2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The optimization of the app is criticized for its poor performance, with frequent freezing issues and the need to restart after reading articles. Users feel that the company prioritizes attracting new customers over addressing the ongoing problems faced by current users.
“Absolutely poor performance, continued issues with freezing after visiting almost every page. I have to close the app and restart after every article read. Please update ASAP or revert back to the previous version.”
“Very poor performance overall, which is indicative of a company concerned only for new customers and not current ones.”
- graphics1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- -200 % neutral mentions
- 300 % negative mentions
Users express disappointment with the latest update, citing a decline in aesthetics and frustration over mandatory sign-up requirements, which detracts from the overall visual experience of the app.
“The latest update has ruined the app for me; the aesthetics look awful and it forces me to sign up just to avoid more spam.”
“The graphics are outdated and lack detail, making the game feel unpolished.”
“The visual design is bland and uninspired, which detracts from the overall experience.”
- gameplay1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Users express frustration with the lack of comprehensive gameplay information and statistics from other teams on Sky Sports, indicating a desire for more detailed insights during broadcasts.
