Your journey to music video Nirvana can be very rewarding but potentially just a little bit lonely. We here at VidZone think that this journey would be better shared with friends and fellow music lovers. What if you could break out and explore other people’s MyZone to discover someone else’s perfect playlist, follow a fellow Rock Lover or RnB Fan or even follow your favourite artists. Well guess what? Now you can, and a whole lot more.
This improved and updated version of VidZone allows you to escape from the boundaries of your own imagination. With our all new ‘social features’ you can explore the whole combined musical knowledge of VidZone’s users and collate everything you like into your new and improved customisable MyZone.
Sound good? Well check out below for the full list of changes:
Brand new social features
- MyZone inbox – Send and receive videos, playlists and TV Channels from friends, users and artists.
- Explore other users’ Zones – Do you have a MyZone that the world needs to see? You can now make it publicly viewable to show off your masterful music video collection or check out what other users have in their Zones.
- Follow other users and artists – Receive the latest updates direct to your MyZone from artists, bands and users by following them.
- Subscribe to playlists and TV channels -Want to keep up to date with your favourite user’s playlist? Subscribe to it and it will appear in your MyZone and tell you if it changes!
- Collaborative playlists – Let your PSN friends add and organise one of your playlists to create the ultimate video list.
- User activity rating – The more you create, follow and share, the higher your rating – Watch your activity bar rise and top the charts as a Rock God, Hip-Hop Heavyweight or Pop Idol.
New MyZone features
- New user profile – Link your PSN account and avatar to create your very own public MyZone profile.
- Customisable MyZone – Change the colour of your MyZone to suit you.
New ChartZone
Want to know which artists have the most views? Which user has the top user rating? Who has the most followers? In our new ChartZone you can see all these and more so you can explore the very best of VidZone in one place. The charts include:
- Top video charts
- Most followed user charts
- Most followed artists
- Most active user top artists charts
- VIP user charts
Other Features
- New artist Zone – Full page Artist Zones for you to explore your favourite artist in more detail than ever.
- Faster application start-up – Speedier start-up – Get into VidZone even faster.
…Plus loads of other little fixes and improvements that we don’t have space to write about. So what we suggest that you do is fire up your PlayStation and get social, VidZone style.
30 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:06 am by Osc89
This looks great. Is it any easier to make playlists? We use it for parties, but always use the channels as we aren’t really sure how to make and save playlists
Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:14 am by Ben Creasey
Hi Osc89
The best way to make and save a playlist is to add all the videos you want to your play queue (press triangle on a video and pick “add to play queue)” then go to your play queue and navigate to where it says how many videos are in the queue and press triangle and click “save to playlist”
Hope that helps
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:18 am by Carnivius_Prime
Cool new features yeah but I had a big problem with Vidzone over New Years. All we wanted to do was play some Queen videos and dance about the room but the ads after every couple of videos were horrible. There were only about three or four different commercials over the whole hour we were using Vidzone and they were shown many, many times. The most irritating of which was an anti-rape ad which would often kill the upbeat dancey mood and often played multiple times within the same ad break (at one point playing three times in succession like some bizarre case of Groundhog Day). In the end we got sick of it all and quit Vidzone. Shame really cos the actual app and vast range of music videos is great.
Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:29 am by Ben Creasey
Hi Carnivius_Prime
We have made a lot of changes since the new year to the way ads run trying to make them as unobtrusive as possible. We do have to serve ads so we can keep the application free for everyone but we do our very best to keep them from being annoying.
Feedback is always appreciated, please give VidZone another go, we know you will like the new features
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:21 am by CoolRichy008UK
i never looked at vidzone but i will now ^^
Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:30 am by Ben Creasey
Hey CoolRichy008UK
Great news! We love new users… why not try and be the first person to become a VidZone Superstar!?!
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:30 am by Carl-G
“Create, follow, share, compete…” Sounds like ‘Little Big Planet’
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:38 am by TogusaRusso
Bring it to Russia, please!!!
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:39 am by dean1076
love the new vidzone but like others i would use it more if there were no adds
ps id pay to have no adds although i think us plus users should already have no adds
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:40 am by dean1076
sorry i put adds its ads lol
Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 12:14 pm by Ben Creasey
Hi Dean1076
I know ads can be annoying, we will try every opportunity to keep our users happy and keep VidZone free.
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:44 am by BeanDK
Oh dear… social features…. I hate getting “social features” stuffed down my throat.
Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:55 am by Ben Creasey
Hi BeanDK
The new features are totally optional, if you wish not to use them you use the service as it is now. The social features do include things like following the artists you love so you know when they have new videos live. We hope it doesn’t feel like we are forcing anything on you as this is not our attention.
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:46 am by thelocaluk
This is a fab update to the service, it is a shame you can’t offer an AD free version for PS Plus subscribers.
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:55 am by Carnivius_Prime
I seem to be having trouble removing videos my friend added to myyy playlist from before. I spent a minute going through deleting them and then when I go back it says there was an error and it was reverting back or something.
Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 12:06 pm by Ben Creasey
Hi Carnivius
Thanks for this, we are having a few inevitable teething issues server issues with this, should be fixed shortly.
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 12:08 pm by Carnivius_Prime
Ok, no problem. I’ll give it another go later
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 12:26 pm by Chrizs
A vita version would be nice
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 1:20 pm by KillaT2501
Will vid zone ever come to the Vita?
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 1:28 pm by mh637099
Is it just me?
I just installed the 2.04 update 5 minutes ago, but I can only get past the boot screen. The blue VidZone logo is there for 10 seconds then the screen goes blank and it freezes. Is anyone having this issue?
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 1:40 pm by Basket21
I kinda stopped with vidzone cause the sound of the ads was so loud compared to the musicvideos.
Had to keep lowering volume for ads and put back up for vids.
was kinda annoying
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 1:43 pm by Basket21
Oh btw ..
are there any plans for a premium service?
ad-free ?
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 1:48 pm by HEC007
Yes – Vita version would be great (and please do not tell us to use the Remote play for that as that kinda defeets the whole point of using Vita in a first place).
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 2:10 pm by Rytteren
holy XXXX!!!
this sounds great. music unlimeted can learn a thing or two
Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 2:47 pm by Ben Creasey
Hey Rytteren
Thanks!!!! we try our best
Go get social!
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 2:25 pm by sully1311
Great update VidZone Team! Any chance of HD videos yet?
PS. Miguel – Adorn still isn’t on VZ + Lil Wayne – A Milli needs re-encoding. It stutters after about 30 seconds.
Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 2:46 pm by Ben Creasey
Hey Sully
We are waiting to see how long it takes you to become a VidZone Superstar!
As for the videos, we are looking into these, hopefully sorted soon!
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 2:42 pm by VidZoneOfficial
Hi mh637099
Can you try again please? we had a few teething problems this morning but it should be working fine now.
email ps-problems@vidzone.tv if you have any more problems.
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 2:57 pm by Talk0
When Poland? Bad :/
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 3:45 pm by ScaryKids69
Any new VidZone events coming up in Home? Or even better, a permanent VidZone space in Home?! PLS
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 4:30 pm by mh637099
@VidZoneOfficial Thanks for your reply. I will try again tomorrow.
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 5:11 pm by anunnakid
We need this for Vita, Looks Sweet.
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 5:58 pm by dark_angel69
This looks interesting. Must check it out tonight when i’m next on
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 7:52 pm by bitbydeath
Awesome work Vidzone.
Any news about securing the Warner Music Label?
Also now that you have social features it’d be awesome if you can add a request songs function and a list of most requested songs.
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Posted on 16 January, 2013 at 11:24 pm by Project2insanity
I’m not a fan on all things having ‘social’ features, however, it’s always made sense to bring some to VidZone and will undoubtedly present a more fulfilling experience.
Cookies all round for the VidZone team!
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Posted on 19 January, 2013 at 12:55 pm by TalllPaul
Amazing update, great job guys
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Posted on 19 January, 2013 at 12:56 pm by TalllPaul
Oh and how about a subscription for an advert free version
Or maybe advert free for PS+ subscribers 
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Posted on 21 January, 2013 at 4:47 pm by cipur1
i understand why you have to have advertisement , but can you set it up like every 20 minutes ??? i skip 2 songs that i don’t won’t to see and same 3 comercials for 3 minutes , i skip another 2 songs and comercials … ridiculous , i love you guys for what you doing and i watch VIDZONE from the begining but now its just ADVERTZONE
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