BBC: World News & Stories 12+

No one can question the BBC’s quality reporting and coverage but those 15 second adds become increasingly annoying as you scan for news. Without them I would rate it 5 stars.

I understand that without those adds, readers would no doubt be facing subscription fees. I just wonder if there could be a cap placed on the amount you need to view per session?

The advertising in this application is extremely inappropriate! I was watching a news video about how a joint venture between BHP and a Brazilian company created a disaster that took out entire towns and killed over 300 people. BHP were held accountable for their actions and charged with negligence! But before the news video started a commercial came up for BHP showing how good of a company they were and how they are the future! This was an insult to the victims and friends and family that are following this story. This has been screen recorded and will be reported to the advertising standards boards in both the UK and Australia. This advertising before news stories sometimes is a contradiction to the story you are trying to watch/read. I cannot support this app when such carelessness in advertising is happening. I will be Pursuing this and fighting for change for appropriate advertising. I will not support this application and will be send ing screen recordings to appropriate news and media organisations to make sure this application changes its insulting advertising!

I never post a review, but the two latest updates are so bad I have to give feedback.

The previous version was perfect, why fix something that wasn’t broken. Each iteration is getting worse.

Few pain points:
- Can’t customise the news, need to scroll through all the irrelevant news - guess what I don’t care about 95% of it just give me what I want to read
- Why replace the iconic red logo?
- UI is a complete mess, it’s so difficult to navigate nor to know what the category. Previously the category was highlighted red, now they’ll all the same colour
- UX is dreadful, super clunky, one of the worse experiences. Open up the sports section and takes me to what appears to be a app within an app, rather than a seamless interaction
- Ads all over the place

To summarise - the app is a complete mess. Stop whatever you’re doing and rollback two versions to a working product.

Suggestion - do an inspect and adapt, read the comments, and use the app yourself. Perform AB testing and you will quickly find your previous versions will score higher. Don’t waste any more millions on this, simple fix - revert back.