VICE Media Reviews

by Poodle-lover

Vice used to be full of cutting edge journalism and a maturity that is lacking in so many newer news organizations. What happened?! It’s turned into a waste bin of mediocre and irrelevant coverage. I literally think my IQ is reduced with every article or show consumed. I’m done.

by WOWE!

I am in the middle of politics. I struggle between Democrats and conservatives. Besides one thing. Not every single tiny story, should have to do with American politics. Not everything Biden says is good. Not every thing Trump says is bad. Yes, a lot of what Trump has said is bad. A lot of what Biden said is good. But if you’re going to be biased, at least have the common decency to not lie. Even if you make up little details. Which Vice has been proven to do. As a news site, you have an obligation to want what’s best for this country, and it’s people. So call out people on their bluff, and be on your way, and don’t be 100% biased on one side, since that can lead to brainwashing. Which in my opinion, is evil. Be optimistic.

by GrabbaBeer

This platform has a reputation for writing twisted and/or completely false articles. One article was written about a parade and march I was at. Everything written within the article never even happened. If people at that march cared enough, I’m sure they could have had a nice slander/defamation case against Vice.

by SpecialFlav

The ‘for you’ tab is constantly loading ads in the background. That’s not a problem. You have a right to make money. The problem is when it loads a new ad that I have already scrolled past and that ad is a different size, it moves the article I am reading out of view. The page refreshes and I’m lost. This isn’t isolated, it’s constant. To the point where I lose articles all the time I am trying to read. I generally give up and go somewhere else. Shame because I love vice news.

by Jkhaz

I’ve had the various Vice news apps for years and they’ve never worked properly. It used to never load Twitter content - articles referencing Twitter posts just showed a bunch of blank space.

Now this new app loads ads in the feed in a way that causes the page to scroll up and down despite screen input. Before you can even ride the article title it’s already shot off screen to load and ad :(

by Leon-808

After the recent update I’m no longer able to watch a full vice news show. VICEMedia keeps crashing after 10 to 15 minutes of streaming.

by Matt554367

The mobile site has a section called “latest”, which is a reverse chronological list of all the articles published. VICEMedia doesn’t have that. All I really want is to to see everything that’s been posted on Vice and associated sites since the last time I checked. I do this multiple times per day.

by JustinMabee

Essentially, VICEMedia will not work if you choose to opt out of allowing Vice to sell your information to third parties. Looks like this is from the update from a couple weeks ago and it’s a bit bizarre. App is basically unusable.

by Honesty I$ The Best Policy

Every time I try to read an article with video multiple adds come up then the video plays with no way to pause or mute the video. Both the pause and mute buttons on the video played don’t work. It makes it impossible to just read an article.

by Nth1a

New version needs landscape for iPad.

by 8xwygg

Lacks a landscape view
Share button doesn’t work
Asks for Bluetooth? Why?

I want an app, but the website is still the easiest way to access Vice’s work right now. I doubt I’ll be using this in its current state. Convince me to come back!

by JayGrill

When I downloaded VICEMedia I click don’t accept cookies and VICEMedia went blank. I then deleted VICEMedia and chose accept cookies to see if that would work and again the screen went black. If someone could help me fix this, I’d appreciate it.

by Jo Jo Devil

The stories are good but the ads are ridiculous. Play a video and you are going to have 2, 30 second ads every minute or so.

Stick to the site and your ad blockers will work for you.

by Southbay Guy

I do love Vice content. But even though I do not choose “Life” as my content, it keeps showing me my horoscope for the very first daily content. Because I have no way to change this, I gave it a 3 star.

by Whereswilbert?

It’s difficult to scroll and look through the articles, as the list constantly refreshes due to loading ads.

Articles that I’ve read already are still there in the list for days.

The “for you” doesn’t make accurate or relevant predictions of what I like to read, and is mostly cooking videos? Which I’ve never watched.

Sharing because I want to be able to use VICEMedia .

by Sowza

They ask me to update my review.. looking a lot better and seems to be working. I like that combined several apps. 👌👌👌

by PLIFIT

Love vice news and their investigative journalism, VICEMedia is easy to use, and has lots of interesting articles.

However, they don’t seem to have proofreaders or editors checking the articles before uploading them. There are articles where the same paragraphs are repeated over and over, word misspellings (Vile instead of vial) that wouldn’t be picked up by Word but an editor could easily proof, and symbols in weird places. Even the biggest news organizations make mistakes, but when half an article is just duplicate paragraphs, kind of makes you not want to read or share it.

by Clothes4all

The updated app is so much better than the old version! No more crashing, more content. Will be using this every day!

by Ejay2215

Most definitely needs a search option. Can’t keep scrolling to find what I want to watch

Update : they’ve added a search bar. Thanks

by Jh20060101

I think VICEMedia will be big within couple years and become major media content rich app. Congratulations to those developers.

by Delta67375

This has been an issue with almost every iteration of VICEMedia, but it seems to be worse now. The top list of stories rarely works and mostly just perpetually loads. If you go out of VICEMedia for a second, say to reply to or read a text, then VICEMedia crashes and makes you scroll through to find your story again and your spot within the story. Even if you don’t switch out of VICEMedia it will sometimes crash mid story. Additionally, there are pop up ads that seems to appear without rhyme or reason and take over the screen. I like vice articles, but I am seriously considering ditching VICEMedia .

by Hippie83

Last update I stated how much I love Vice but VICEMedia has been unusable for over 6 months now. Not clunky, not glitchy...unusable. CONTENT WILL NOT LOAD! Also stated I was giving it one more update to correct issue (there’s been 4 total). I’m done with VICEMedia . Maybe someday down the road Vice will pay more attention to their reviewers...I’m certainly not the only one with this issue. At this point it’s wasting space in my news folder. Again...totally dig Vice but don’t waste your time with this poor excuse of an app. Horrible representation of the organization as a whole.

by Caos7820

C’mon guys, fix VICEMedia . VICEMedia used to be great, would check it every morning. But now when I open it the screen just sits there blank with the little loading spin wheel spinning endlessly. This is just wasting space on my phone at this point. FIX VICEMedia PLS.

by Cvcvcpdtj

This title from the Vice website encouraging us to stop working immediately and download VICEMedia is very similar to what VICEMedia actually does, only “immediately” can be changed to read “randomly part way through every story.”

by Greasemonkeychic

This new version won’t even open on my phone. I can’t read anything anymore. I have an iPhone XS so i see no reason for VICEMedia to be incompatible.

by Tilecruncher

Vice used to be filled with good quality journalism and interesting stories. Vice has steadily gone down hill and finally crashed and burned. Apparently they'll accept a story from any millenial with a word pad program. Spelling and grammatical errors are constant, and bias bleeds through like a gunshot wound on a white t-shirt. Old version of VICEMedia used to allow you to
at least search for the decent stories left. New version blows. May as well download the cnn app. It's about the same quality and bias. 0 out of 10 will not use again.

by Artf0rm

To start, I love vice.. Full stop. However, this review is about VICEMedia not at all the content.

It might look cool (good UI design) but it lacks some common features for an iPhone app. It doesn't allow you to read stories offline, it doesn't rotate to landscape, you can't click to enlarge photos, gifs don't load at all and occasionally story text doesn't load at all.

Again, I can't say enough about the actual journalism of vice but this is a terrible delivery method of some awesome content.

by Construct

iPhone 5s, OS 10.0.2, TV shows no worky. Load listings, select show, watch the word "loading" and OSC appear, fail. No error message. Restart fixes temporarily. Memory leak? Device access issue? Pointer circle??? Is this--like, the new norm? Modern OS memory management issues? Kick to desktop--sorry, "springboard"--and return no error message? Y'all have experience with error handling, right? If not, then I think my collegiate C, VB, and SQL professors could give you a crash course. Else you could always contact me directly. Ha. Ha. Did you understand my jokes, Y/N?:

by J McCann

Huge fan of Vice and I enjoy all different forms of their content. Although VICEMedia has been a huge disappointment. I had convinced myself that it would start working well after one more update. Many updates later I’m about to give up on it. The social media posts like twitter that they embed in the stories never show up. There’s always just a blank space. I’m really not sure how this hasn’t been addressed.

by Halfengraved

Okay so I LOVE Vice. I obsessively check VICEMedia and I love reading everything on it. Probably my favorite news source. HOWEVER, there is a lot of stuff wrong with VICEMedia . One thing that really bothers me is that images and embedded tweets NEVER load, which can make a story confusing if the image/tweet was essential to the readers' understanding. I also wish there was a search bar so I could search for specific things without having to go to the website. Another issue that I've been having a lot is that every time I leave VICEMedia and then come back, VICEMedia freezes and I have to close it and then come back and then I lose my place in whatever I was reading, but I'm not sure if that's a widespread problem or just an issue for me.

by BeSolow

I like VICEMedia , and I've been using it for a year or two now. There is one thing that frustrates me. I'm not sure about other devices, but on iPhone, about 80% of the images contained in all of the articles are blank. It is really dissatisfying particularly when a majority of an article's content revolves around its images.
For the extended amount of time I've been using your app, I've always expected an update to fix this issue. As I sit here and wait, I figured ought to at least bring it to your attention.

by G Dog And Money Griff Meister

I follow Vice frequently and like having the mobile friendly-app. All and all I like the design and layout. However, I noticed that there is for some reason no spaces between two words fairly often. At first I thought it was just a bad typo but it was occurring in every story I read, about twice per paragraph. I don't why this is but I might just stick to reading on Safari until I or Vice finds away to fix this.

by JordanG91.

VICEMedia is great so far! I really appreciate the non-traditional approach to news that vice brings to its readers. Most of their journalists seem to immerse themselves in their work which makes for some great literature. Risky stories and interviews are a couple of reasons why vice is one of my go to sources for news. Not to mention it is a really enjoyable break from the everyday news you would regularly see. Download VICEMedia!

by Juice McPatterson

So, Vice does great stories, especially their HBO series. VICEMedia works well for me. One issue, would rather right-swipe to go back to the article list, instead of going to the previous article. Also, if you accidentally start to page left or right, your current article jumps to the top and you lose your place. Minor issue, thanks for the great stories.