MTV Reviews

Let me just start off by saying one thing that really bugs me about MTV is that it is not consistent with there episodes they upload. For example, if a show aires on cable Thursday, they don’t upload that episode until the following week when a NEW episode aires. Considering I do not have cable, this is highly annoying. More inconveniently, MTV NEVER leaves off where I was at in an episode. Not only do I have to remember the EXACT time I left off, but it also doesn’t show the scene when I’m trying to find where I left off. Therefore, I have to literally find where ever I left off. Lastly and more importantly, it is WAY to sensitive to my chrome cast, meaning it disconnects without actually disconnecting to the point I can’t pause the show without completely exiting out of MTV , finding the episode I want, and reconnecting to my chrome cast. And it doesn’t even leave off where I was watching after I do this. This happens roughly 3-4 times while watching an episode that I can’t pause it. By the look of the other reviews, this has been an issue for a long time and makes me question how much you people care about what the people who are actually using MTV have to say about it.
As I’m writing this, I had to pause the episode I’m watching and after only 2 MINUTES of it being paused, I hit play and it started the whole episode ever. Great work this app.

I know, I get it! This is how they make money is by the ads, however, there is WAY TOO MANY!! I’ll only watch like 5 mins of an episode and there’s already an ad on! Like are you kidding me?! And the ads each are like 3 mins long. Makes it to where I don’t want to watch the show anymore because of how many ads. It’s ridiculous. Even on tv they don’t show a commercial every 5 mins! Unlike MTV watching shows seem almost impossible. A couple times I’d be watching a show on my phone and all of a sudden it will skip WAY ahead even when I’m watching it and I NEVER clicked anything, and then another ad plays and I can’t get out of it. Finally once the ad is over, I go back to where I originally was before it skipped lots of parts, and without a surprise, BOOM, another AD! So annoying. I feel like I can’t enjoy the show without an ad coming in a million times an episode and destroying the purpose of it. And not to mention they’re the SAME ADS EVERYTIME. It gets annoying after awhile. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if they were different ads. I wish they’d get new ones here and there, but not the same ones each time. Please if there’s anyway you can fix this issue, please do. 😤

I LOVE The Challenge shows and have been watching since Season1... MTV lists the episodes from Finale to Premiere! This ruins the anticipation of who will get sent home because you can see it when having to scroll through them all to get to episode 1. I have a big family and rarely get to watch my shows when they happen so this really ruins a lot of what makes this show so great!! I don’t want to know who made it to the Final before I even know who is on this Season!! And the ‘play next’ takes you to the episode before the one you just watch, so then you have to back out and start at the Finale episode and then scroll through them all to get to the episode you need! So every time you want to watch a new episode you have to scroll through the entire season which shows you pictures of people on every episode! So by the time you watch a couple episodes you can tell by the pictures what going to ultimately happen!! And now every episode of every show is locked even with my Dish subscription, and the few that aren’t won’t do anything when clicked on!! I have AppleTV and this app is the worst app by far out of everything I watch!! And I love so much of this app’s programs!! It’s so FRUSTRATING!!

MTV is awful. I am logged in on the same user on my Apple TV for one room and cast to Chromecast in another room from my iPhone. The "Continue Watching" feature is never correct where I left off - not even the right episode. So I have to not only remember where I left off, but to troubleshoot and fast forward I have to sit through ads I might have JUST watched 20 minutes before (cueing up an episode I stopped and want to restart). The Apple TV app is a bit more efficient during active watching but the iPhone app is awful. If I'm casting to my TV and do anything else on my phone, when I go back to MTV to pause or do anything, MTV is back to he home screen with no option to see "What's Playing" even AS it is playing on my tv. So I have to experiment with closing MTV , connecting to my cast device, disconnect from cast device, and start ALL over again (find my episode, find my spot, watch ads I've just seen). Ridiculous. And no, I do not need nor do I have the time to "troubleshoot" by emailing back and forth with tech support. By the tons of other reviews saying the same thing, it just needs to be fixed.

This is quite possibly the worst app I’ve ever used and I’ve used a lot. You’d think with where the world is at with technology, they’d figure out how to make MTV not glitch or lag every single time you try to watch a new episode of something. I have to reset MTV several times in an evening because it just freezes or glitches. On top of that, it doesn’t save your spot in the episode when it does glitch. You have to manually search for where you left off which is EXTREMELY annoying when you have to do it multiple times. Not to mention every time you try to skip ahead to find your spot, you get hit with MORE ads than you usually have to deal with. I’m okay with ads here and there, I get that’s what makes these things free to us, but this app takes it to a whole different level. They have to fix MTV and the functionality of it, because I’ve been trying to use it for years, on multiple devices, and nothing has gotten better. It’s like they don’t care how awful it is for users. If I could give MTV 0 stars, I would. Lucky for them I can’t, so they get 1.

This is quite possibly the worst app ever. I have had it on a Pixel, Kindle, iPhone, and Apple TV. It is very buggy and glitchy. It appears the servers are not strong enough to handle the workload. Constant error messages, constant loading/playing issues - the shows stop every two or three minutes for anywhere from 15 seconds to three minutes. If you pause and try to slow it to buffer, it makes no difference. The organisation is awful. Episodes are not in order and auto play goes to whatever is listed next. So you may jump from episode 10 to episode 37 and have no idea until you’re so confused you realise you must have missed something. Then to try to look and it takes ten minutes to pause, go back, find the episode you were on, scroll through and find the next episode, press play, wait for it to load if it ever does since have the time it give you an error message that it is having trouble...just a really crappy app all around. I cannot believe it has as many good reviews as it does - those people must be getting paid for good reviews.

MTV usually works perfectly but recently it is in need of bug fixes. When I go to live tv i’m not even able to watch what is on because it just shows a repeated series of commercials that never end. Another thing that I don’t like is that it doesn’t show the correct name/title for what is being shown on the channel. For an example, on the this app channel it will just have the same list for what’s being shown through out the day from the mtv2 channel and not the this app channel.

It’s not even letting me submit my app support stuff.
I am trying to watch on my Apple TV, it only lets me watch a few episodes and then the others are locked. It won’t let me sign in to a tv provider at all. When i click it says they are trying to get all tv providers to participate. Like doesn’t even let me select my provider or enter my info. I get MTV to work on my phone, and I’m able to watch all the episodes, but the screen it soo small, and it doesn’t give me the option to stream it to my Apple TV, nor make it full screen on my actual phone, so it’s annoying to watch it on like a 3rd of my screen. I tried moving my phone to horizontal and still nothing. Anytime i tried to click on the screen to see if there were hidden buttons, it just paused. Go to MTV support and type all this up and the send button won’t work. Thought maybe i typed too much, so i erased a bunch and still didn’t work. Refresh and tried again and still nothing. Soo now it can be part of my review. Fix MTV please

This is hands down the worst app I have ever used. It glitches constantly. When watching episodes back to back it doesn’t play through to the next episode, it says it’s not available so I have to go back and select the episode to watch it. Then if by some miracle the video loads (half the time it doesn’t) I get to watch 3-5 minutes of the show before I get thrown into a 3 minute ad series where it plays the same ad over and over and over and over again. It is also near impossible to figure out how to turn on closed captioning. I still haven’t figured it out. In settings, there are no actual settings, just information about the setting but no buttons! I.e. if you click closed captioning, you get a whole lot of info about who provided them, and nowhere does it allow you to actually TURN THEM ON. What kind of settings feature is that? Honestly if my show was available ANYWHERE ELSE I would run there in an instant. Please this app. Get it together.

MTV has never worked perfectly for me. Until recently, I would have given MTV 3 stars. It used to load slowly anytime and would have many ads, but at least I could watch shows. Now, I would give MTV 0 stars if that were possible. First off, I do not think that the new format is user friendly at all. It just makes it harder to find what you’re looking for. Secondly, There are so many ads in one episode! They are not keeping up with other tv network apps in this department. Also, I can’t even wat shows now. MTV does 1 of 2 things when I try to watch a show: 1) loads the ads at the beginning perfectly, then skips every 30 seconds to load the show before stopping completely or 2) plays the ads at the beginning and then continues to play ads while the time for the show is running.
My app is updated. My internet is working properly. MTV is ridiculous.

I am a National media strategist. I sell advertising and have 10 years of digital marketing experience... I get it. But the way this platform sets up ads is insane, I get an ad when I log into MTV , another when I click on a show, and 2 more before the episode even starts... that is nearly 5 minutes of ads before any content. Not to mention the fact that this app doesn’t do a $5-$10/month offer for an ad free version is ridiculous. I think most people that still, in 2021, watch this app at all are willing to pay for an ad free version for their OTT device. Just doesn’t make sense to the UX IF THE VIEWER IS FRUSTRATED AT THE AD THAT IS SUPPORTING YOUR COMPANY... if brands aren’t receiving an ROI for the impressions served on your platform then they will stop advertising with you! To top it all off every show has 6+ minutes of ads for 40-50 minute episodes... that is obnoxious.

Nope. Your update didn’t fix it. MTV already had issues casting to where I had to hit “cast” and quickly tap the video I wanted to cast in order for it to work but this week- constant crashes, constantly stopping mid-stream with an error on screen saying something went wrong and try again later, then when I’d try watching just on my phone it starts from the beginning again and watching the same commercials over and over instead of progressing along in the video...Its almost like MTV streams the video from the router to device to tv whereas most apps are kinda like a remote control just telling the router what to grab from the internet, but then you often need to reconnect to the chromecast to do anything like pause or stop. this app seems to continue to stream from two devices the entire length of the video causing delay, lag and glitching.

TLDR: ADS, this app = 70% ads 30% content
2 Stars for its ability to reliably push ads.
Ok so I got ads a few seconds before the end of an episode cool right? I play the next episode I get even more ads at the start. I then get a quick few seconds recap of that episode at the beginning ( not even 20 seconds ), then I get even more ads. Then it plays the 5 second intro theme to the episode I am watching and then I get yet another set of ads. That’s right 4 ad sets in a row for 20 seconds of content. That’s end, start, recap and intro. Welcome to the this app ads app. 10/10 at playing ads, #adgameonfleek.

- EASY FIX: Literally had to buy a VPN to block the never ending ads. Now I can watch ad free! When using MTV I recommend using a paid ad blocking service / VPN provider. It’s worth it’s weight in gold.

They play 2 seconds of footage then 500 hours of ads! There should at least be a feature where you pay monthly for no ads because that makes me never want to be on MTV. I currently have no cable because I can’t afford it and this is my only way to watch shows. If y’all are that desperate for money (from ads) do you know how many people would pay for no ads ? Seriously, like do you know how many people would pay for no ads ? A LOT. You want MTV to stop having such a HORRIBLE rating ? STOP SO MUCH ADS AND MAKE THERE BE A NO ADS FEATURE FOR $4.99 A MONTH. I would definitely change this rating to a 5 star if there was less ads for those who don’t buy the no ads feature & if there was a no ads feature. And if I pause to go do something else I expect it to play where I left off but it doesn’t, please fix that too. Until this happens, deleting app & leaving my rating at 1 star. Would give 0 stars if possible.

I usually don’t review apps but this is so bad I had to leave a review. MTV on the Apple TV never remembers cable provider information. So after re entering the cable provider details MTV will occasionally actually open and let me browse for shows. Then if I do find a show to watch I click click play and almost every time it will not load and just have the spinning wheel. Have to come all the way out of MTV re enter cable info and then try the same process again. Usually I give up after the second attempt and it is so annoying to use. I have a lot of streaming apps and this is by far the worst of all and there is honestly no comparison MTV is terrible. I don’t even know if it can be fixed it may just need a total re write. I also have the issues others have where after a commercial it will start playing a section from another episode. Absolute junk

Wish I could give negative stars.

I love the idea of what MTV is. However, I frequently have to log out of my provider and log back in because even though I’m logged in only half of the episodes show up. For example; trying to rewatch Snooki and JWoww and after an episode plays through it tells me the content is no longer available even though it is to me through my provider. I then have to force close MTV , reopen it, log out and log back in. Sometimes I have to do this more than once to have all the content show back up. A “continue watching” feature would be nice, I have to search the show I’m watching every time I reopen MTV . It does feature a lot of ads, which I understand generates revenue, but they are definitely excessive. Would love it more if it were user friendly and had more “Classic” this app shows on it.

Wish I could go lower than one star. MTV has way too many problems. I can’t watch one episode of any show without MTV crashing. It has gotten to the point where after 45 seconds it crashes. This especially happens during all of the ads. And when it crashes during the ads, it restarts all of the ads again. So I’m sitting there trying to watch an episode and all I get to watch are advertisements over and over again. Speaking of ads, there are way too many. While watching an episode, I actually timed to see how long the ads run for vs the actual episode itself. I kid you not the show ran for 30 seconds and then I had to sit through 2 minutes of ads. And then after another 30 seconds, more ads appear. I highly recommend this app updates MTV and fixes the many problems it has.

Whenever I am watching my shows right in the middle of them MTV just closes! I know that my phone can run it just fine (iPhone 11) but whenever I watch stuff it just kicks me out it also never correctly saves where I’m at in an episode if I am on episode 12 of a show and I skip to episode 13 because I already saw episode 12 then the auto play just sends me back to episode 12 instead of episode 14. Another thing is when you are going back to watch a show you have to go and search for your show there is no continue watching section just their featured shows. It also is inconsistent with what episodes it has one series i watch is missing 8 seasons and it is missing multiple episodes in other seasons too.

Don’t waste your money. I paid monthly for commercial free I also paid $25 extra to watch a particular show that I really wanted. I let the show run over on accident on my phone without watching and now I am locked out of watching it again. Are they kidding me? If you pay you should be able to watch anytime like any other app that’s out there I have most other apps. I tried to get ahold of support to no avail. MTV is a complete waste of time. It wanted me to pay $2.99 an episode at first so I paid a lump sum of $25 thinking it was better on top of my monthly payment I couldn’t be more wrong. Do not make the same mistake. There are much better apps out there that once you pay your monthly fee you don’t have to pay anything else. They also respond to their support calls this app does not respond again waste of money.

So since the latest update, it does seem to be streaming better...when it’s streaming...until you have to put it down for a minute & the phone goes dark. When you try to go back in to the show you’re watching, it says “no internet connection” which in fact is not true, esp when you’re connected to a strong wi-fi signal, has been connected all along. Every time this happens, you have to close out MTV ...go back in and then watch a couple more commercials before the show resumes. Very frustrating! Come on developers, you can do it! You can make MTV just like every other channel I stream & have zero issues with, which is almost every other major network. It’s better, but not quite right yet.

They play 2 seconds of footage then 500 hours of ads! There should at least be a feature where you pay monthly for no ads because that makes me never want to be on MTV. I currently have no cable because I can’t afford it and this is my only way to watch shows. If y’all are that desperate for money (from ads) do you know how many people would pay for no ads ? Seriously, like do you know how many people would pay for no ads ? A LOT. You want MTV to stop having such a HORRIBLE rating ? STOP SO MUCH ADS AND MAKE THERE BE A NO ADS FEATURE FOR $4.99 A MONTH. I would definitely change this rating to a 5 star if there was less ads for those who don’t buy the no ads feature & if there was a no ads feature. And if I pause to go do something else I expect it to play where I left off but it doesn’t, please fix that too. Until this happens, deleting app & leaving my rating at 1 star. Would give 0 stars if possible.

Don’t even know where to start, first of all MTV is usually pretty good. But when MTV decides to not let you log to your tv provider. Granted you want to watch multiple episodes this is when MTV starts to go downhill. I specifically have this problem with U-verse not being able to log because of a subscription error even though U-verse provides it. I also have an issue with amount of ads being played in a video it seems like overkill with how many videos are plastered through an episode, And If you leave an episode or click away in any form. this app makes you restart the video or makes you rewatch the same ad you already saw. This apps needs some interface tweaking so MTV is less glitchy going forward

I’m so beyond frustrated with MTV! Every show I watch MTV literally shuts down in the last 2 minutes!!! It’s bad e light that we have to sit through all the commercials even though we are already paying for the services through our provider but every time MTV shuts down I have to sit through the commercials all over again! Sometimes back to back because it plays commercials before the show and then again when I try to find the place where MTV shut down! So we have an app that stops playing the show and the forces us to sit through 1-3 more additional rounds of commercials when trying to reboot where MTV shut down. Extremely frustrating especially when again we are already paying for this service with our provider!

I would like to provide some insight into how MTV is severely lacking in comparison to other apps. I stream my tv through google chromecast. First off I could never get MTV to work with my Comcast Xfinity log in — it makes no sense and there are countless inquiries online. How is that possible? Now I have a Spectrum log in and now out of the blue it says this app is no longer part of the subscription package which is wrong. In addition, the new episodes can take up to a week to be added to MTV . We have entered a time where a ton of people are streaming and it’s frustrating that MTV is extremely inefficient and I feel like you are losing a lot of streamers. Streaming is our reality and I have zero issues with the Bravo, NBC, ABC, HBO apps etc. I think MTV needs to be better, its 2018.

2 annoying issues I have found in a very short period of using MTV. So first, the “play next feature” if you want to leave it to play the next episode actually plays the previous episode which is super annoying. Second I have been watching Laguna Beach and The Hills and there are full episodes that are duplicates even tho they are named differently with different descriptions. And even weirder, the last episode I watched the first half was the right episode and after the commercial break it was the second half of an episode from 3 episodes prior. So they are whole plot lines that I missed that I get a briefing of in the “previously” section of the episodes. Soooo annoying. Get a better media manager and a better app developer. I’m sure there a million out there now.

The only reason why I’m subtracted the two stars is because of ads and tv providers—-is it a possibility you can get two options: to either watch all of your commercials at once in the beginning of the episode or throughout the episode. Because it really pains me to sit through a 3-minute commercial every 5-6 minutes. And the tv providers—I’m an Xfinity customer and I was curious for why Xfinity is no longer listed as a tv provider? This change happened around December/ January. I used to use MTV all the time, but now the only chance I get to is if a use the free hour pass. Other than that, I see no other flaw in this application. Thank you!