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Benzinga Financial News & Data
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Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"news"
23 negative reviews mention this · 35% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Super Glitchy App. News articles frequently fail to load and the app freezes. Very annoying." - AlMalqa Area
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"benzinga"
16 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The worst news outlet. Real talk: Benzinga is the worst news outlet and their app is a piece of garbage. Why does the app require me to sign in every day? There’s absolutely no reason it can’t remember my login like every other app. Why is a paid service so cramm…" - Jovialcity
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"articles"
11 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Super Glitchy App. News articles frequently fail to load and the app freezes. Very annoying." - AlMalqa Area
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"stock"
11 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The worst news outlet. Real talk: Benzinga is the worst news outlet and their app is a piece of garbage. Why does the app require me to sign in every day? There’s absolutely no reason it can’t remember my login like every other app. Why is a paid service so cramm…" - Jovialcity
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"financial"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The worst news outlet. Real talk: Benzinga is the worst news outlet and their app is a piece of garbage. Why does the app require me to sign in every day? There’s absolutely no reason it can’t remember my login like every other app. Why is a paid service so cramm…" - Jovialcity
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"company"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "False suspicous company. Their tell about activity which they just bought, you get in and instantly drop and not moving. Making money of us😄" - Asaaaaaaaa h
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"article"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Super Glitchy App. News articles frequently fail to load and the app freezes. Very annoying." - AlMalqa Area
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Will not login no matter how many times I set up
Useless
The worst news outlet
Real talk: Benzinga is the worst news outlet and their app is a piece of garbage. Why does the app require me to sign in every day? There’s absolutely no reason it can’t remember my login like every other app. Why is a paid service so crammed full of ads? There are so many ads, they even cover the articles so you can’t read all the text no matter how you scroll. Why is the feed so full of junk like “Dave Ramsey tells a couple they’re broke”? There are always multiple “articles” about basic financial advice Dave Ramsey says on his show. Guess what? We don’t care. The worst offenses are how Benzinga reports. They mislead us every day with articles saying “why is this stock up today?” Look at that stock and it will be down. “Analysts say buy this,” then you look and it’s a piece of garbage they’re pumping for who - hedge funds? Why are you misleading your readers with bad news? Even for legit news, Benzinga is always late reporting important news - always. They are Always late - Always. Bloomberg is always a few minutes faster and you can get headlines faster for free on Twitter. Seriously a corrupt piece of garbage.
Not optimized for iPad
This app is made for an iPhone, not an iPad. It looks terrible. I’m much better off just visiting the website rather than using the app on my 13” iPad.
False suspicous company
Their tell about activity which they just bought, you get in and instantly drop and not moving. Making money of us😄
Too many ads
One video per ad. Fun.. uninstalling..
Get rid of that!
Get rid of that stupid video that you want to play when opening any article! Nobody should pay for this app, let alone premium. until that is removed
Disappointing Experience with Trial Cancellation and Refund Policy
I signed up for a trial with Benzinga and tried to cancel it on the last day, but they still charged me $197. When I reached out to request a cancellation and refund, they told me there are no cancellations allowed after the trial, even though I canceled before midnight on the final day.
Most services are willing to work with customers and issue refunds in these situations, but Benzinga refused. I regret this experience because I didn’t even use the service during the trial, and now I’m stuck with a $197 charge. This is disappointing and not good customer service.
Most services are willing to work with customers and issue refunds in these situations, but Benzinga refused. I regret this experience because I didn’t even use the service during the trial, and now I’m stuck with a $197 charge. This is disappointing and not good customer service.
Definitely Not Worth
I took this subscription today and I am already regretting the decision.
The current market prices are very lagging compared to market.
Its not giving any option to customize. Showing some ETF tickers all the time on the screen which is completely useless. They should have updated with main indices.
Pls don’t go for this subscription. Simply useless!
The current market prices are very lagging compared to market.
Its not giving any option to customize. Showing some ETF tickers all the time on the screen which is completely useless. They should have updated with main indices.
Pls don’t go for this subscription. Simply useless!
Almost unusable.
I was a paid monthly customer for the Benzinga Yield Report and I can barely navigate the app without encountering multiple pop ups or it scrolls and won’t allow me to click command functions. I decided to cancel my subscription and on an iPhone 11 Pro Max with a ginormous screen had issues scrolling and clicking even the cancel button. Screens within screens don’t work and pop ups make it almost unusable.
Very Buggy
I love the service but the app is unusable. It was ok previously but now after the last update it seems opens then everything goes blank with a graphic that says “something went wrong, try again”. Over and over. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app several times. I can’t even get to the login screen to try and logout and back in.
App ≠ desktop
App frequently inaccurate data; dissimilar content compared to website.
Unreliable.
Unreliable.
Expensive, not accurate, slow
There are so many problems with this app that it’s at the bottom of useful apps, websites, or other financial trading platforms, or investing platforms. Benzinga also doesn’t support feedback and questions. And be careful, they won’t refund you if you try too cancel immediately after purchasing this app, so try for one month only and watch so they don’t automatically set your subscription to an annual subscription. The stock prices are wrong, not updated, making it worthless to scan stocks, which doesn’t help trading. The news feed is everywhere, some good, but much is superfluous. Lots of distractions throughout. I use Seeking Alpha, Fidelity, barons, WSJ, Morningstar, and some others. Fifelity gets most of the Benzinga feeds - so don’t need that part. Seeking Alpha has everything Benzinga has,but in a better format, and a lot more for less money. And SA has support. Fidelity has better investing information through the Analyst section. And of course investing ideas and detail information can be found in MS, WSJ, Barrons, and others. I’m not a big trader anymore, about 3000 trades per year, so I don’t need much to get in and out, and I don’t get screwed on the spread either. If you’re a 50 hr trader, then something else might be better than what I use. Bottom line: Benzinga doesn’t support the app, slow price updates, wrong prices, expensive app, and not suitable for investing.
Bad Update
Their edge version is now providing less unless you give them money.
Paid to Slander GME
You guys were paid to slander GME, had I sold or taken into consideration your articles and sold I’d be screwed. I do not recommend advice from Benzinga.
Scam
Signed up for a $.99 per month newsletter program, was notified in the bottom sentence of a four page email that all increasing your monthly fee by 900%, requested cancellation through every channel and they are all refusing to respond.
This is a low rent scam operation, and to seek financial advice from them is about the stupidest thing I could imagine.
This is a low rent scam operation, and to seek financial advice from them is about the stupidest thing I could imagine.
Left wing extremists writers spreading lies. Stick to finance
Too many left wing lies coming from the so called writers at Benzinga.
You broke the app for existing users
I have had a Benzinga account for years. With a recent app update I’m no longer able to sign into my account, I now have to go through some mandatory onboarding screens to create a new account. Why? Just let me sign into my account!
This company does not fact check!
Short and distort! They are colluding with Wall St to write articles to spread a false narrative without fact checking. Beware of anything that this so called News article reports.
If you like Financial Propaganda, this is perfect!
Posting erroneous information on a financial news website is egregious. The recent article saying AMZN had bought AMC further made me realize AMZN has seen its better days. The Twitter explanation was absurd. We “posted news from another site”. OK, which site and while you are at it journalistic plagiarism is not cool. Deleted app today.
Spreading false information
Recently bezinga posted that amc was purchased by Amazon which was 100% false. Beziinga wrote that they made a mistake and posted the lies due to a different source reporting it. That tells me bezinga does not fact check anything in fact I’m sure bezinga new it was false but allowed it sue to corruption and possibly being sold out to to financial organizations to promote false info to the public to allow these financial organizations to profit off retail by misguiding them with false information. By the way this isn’t the first time they do something of this nature but it’s the first time I’ve had enough of their lies and misinformation. I sincerely hope anyone that listen to them to cross check and fact check anything you read here. Always do your own research ( not financial advice)
False info
These people will charge you yo feed you garbage info generated by 3rd parties with agendas. TRASH
Benzinga lies
The company post fake news on a daily, especially about AMC and GME. The recently reported that AMC was acquired by Amazon, which was n fact is a complete lie.
Terrible company trying to steer your investments by lying.
Terrible company trying to steer your investments by lying.
FAKE NEWS ALL AROUND !!!
The company posts fake news on a daily!
Especially about AMC and GME. They recently reported that AMC was acquired by Amazon, which is completely false!
Terrible company run by terrible people.
Especially about AMC and GME. They recently reported that AMC was acquired by Amazon, which is completely false!
Terrible company run by terrible people.
A junk
Lock me out for no reason
Are you for real?
Not very well designed and not very useful. Would be nice if there was an app for Benzinga Pro because the iPhone experience with the web version isn’t very good since it doesn’t go fullscreen..the top and bottom of a window is taken up by the browser.
A nightmare
No cooperation, difficult to navigate
You’d get 5 stars
But you ask to be rated way too often
Not what I expected
I was looking for an app that provided alerts to a stock hitting a buy or sell price point.
Instead the app fills your inbox with tons of emails on every piece of news articles.
Instead the app fills your inbox with tons of emails on every piece of news articles.
Anti-Trump liberal propaganda
This site is used by Webull to push stock information/news alerts. It uses DWAC NOT to send financial info but instead irrelevant ANTI-Trump content. Today was “Trump didn’t recognize Al Qaida leader name”. 2so sick of liberal deflection to Trump (who DUH had ADVISORS because he can’t know EVERYTHING) ignoring a demented liberal Biden. AVOID THIS PLATFORM if you’re not already politically gaslit to liberalism. Propaganda not financial.
Not user friendly
This mobile app used to be straight and to the point and now it’s all just mass confusion! It’s very difficult trying to find certain things and when you finally “sort of” find what you’re searching for; by that time it’s too late due to the lengthy process it takes.
Too many ads
I’m seeing way too much spam type messages. Totally dissatisfied with this app.
Huh?
Total garbage. Written by five year olds. Nothing significant. Don’t waste your time
Phony Financial Journalism
Illegitimate stories circulated here to manipulate readers. Lame.
Deception M.O.
Witnessed this institution deliberately report falsified offering information to manipulate Sunshine Biopharma’s price and action without verifying sources (April 8 report), ultimately initiating and influencing the tanking of a stock price minutes before opening bell. The amendment added post “error” after a more than 35% drop was a double down on the deception.
Adam Eckert’s deceptive and manipulative reporting based on Internet comment sections is sadly how this organization and their journalists practice and report without verifying any source or credibility. A simple phone call to the company and the actual source was all that was needed. Adam is lazy, Benzinga has lost credibility, neither have addressed nor care.
Lazy journalism or they are in on it, either way the credibility of benzinga is toast for me. Disgusting.
Adam Eckert’s deceptive and manipulative reporting based on Internet comment sections is sadly how this organization and their journalists practice and report without verifying any source or credibility. A simple phone call to the company and the actual source was all that was needed. Adam is lazy, Benzinga has lost credibility, neither have addressed nor care.
Lazy journalism or they are in on it, either way the credibility of benzinga is toast for me. Disgusting.
Misinformation
Benzinga needs to fact check their articles before sending them out. Unless they are meant to be misleading?
Creating false news
False news to bring down stocks to there benefit $sbfm did not announce a offering yet they still wrote a article saying they did honestly they have done it in the past and they should be penalized i hope they get investigated for manipulation
Shady
Dropped a news article that was over a month old. The news story was about an offering that had already closed but tricked people into thinking the offering was today causing the stock to drop over 30% when it was climbing quickly. If they told me it was sunny outside I would have to go check now on
Manipulators
They are paid for and owned by hedge funds. They will destroy any stock that will ruin the potential profits of their filthy rich friends. Corrupt and a disgrace.
Fake news
Fake news
Lies
Super misleading articles. To entice people to sell or buy. They are completely paid by hedge funds and are not aReliable source for information. It’s like they have angry children writhing their articles.
Crashes every time I change period in a stock
Unusable with this level of quality
DON’T PAY FOR THE PREMIUM VERSION FOR THIS!!!!!!
THIS APP IS FULL OF CRAP!!!! It doesn’t show real life stock prices nor alert you on stocks!!! Worst app in the world!!!
Horrible company filled with misinformation
This company does not accurately report facts. They put out fake news that are paid for to spread misinformation.
What a shame…
I tried using this but what a shame you can’t use it horizontally on an iPad, i had to delete it the very minute i downloaded it as i use my iPad on an apple magic keyboard and the portrait mode just don’t do it for me. Today in 2021 companies don’t know how to format an app properly? What a shame…
Disappointing
Is this the official app? It’s iOS 10 and 32 bit compatible it looks and behaves very simple and dated. Only way for me to refresh news was to kill the app and reopen. I don’t think I noticed any difference in its function after logging in. Love the desktop app, but I’m not sure what this is or how it has such great reviews.
No Landscape view?
In this day and age…seriously!?
What a garbage!
Totally garbage from the point of news perspective, packed with annoying advertising and popups. Reciting old quotes IS NOT NEWS! Dumpster of a site and the app. Absolute promoters of PUMP AND DUMP. It is due to organizations like this one the concept came up in the first place.
Not so good anymore
They changed the format of this app about a month ago and it’s really not that user friendly anymore. It’s just clunky, the news feeds are all over the place, now I have to go to different tabs to check different news feeds. Good grief, what a pain. I’d say 80% of the articles no one reads, cause all we mainly do is catch the headlines of most snippets and that’s it. Now I have to go back and forth between different tabs for the headlines, definitely annoying. There’s no time stamp on the news articles anymore. All in all a very inefficient and poor upgrade.
Non-stop intimidation emails
I signed up for some newsletter from Benzinga, now I get nonstop emails with titles such as “Warning, last chance” and literally emails everyday that sound like threats rather than promotions. I reported them, but I’ll just have to block them for sure. Useless app, useless newsletters.
Total crap
They either sell you yesterday’s news or they sell you FUD to redirect you from winners. This is just hedge fund printing press to encourage you to lose your money.
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