I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

Joy in every zip with red carp now back at Starbucks. Between forgetting the sellotape,

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Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Hypatel, editor and chief of the Verge.

And Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems.

Today I'm talking to Julia Alexander. Julia used to be a reporter at the Verge

who covered streaming TV. She's now the senior strategy analyst at Parrot Analytics,

a company that helps streaming companies do better at streaming. She also hosts a podcast called

Downstream, which is about the business of streaming. So Julia was the perfect guest to come on

and talk about the state of the streaming industry. We're a couple years into Hollywood's big shift

to streaming entertainment and it's clear that it's a re-oriented industry. Apple just won an Oscar

for Best Picture for a film called Coda it bought out of Sundance. Amazon now owns MGM. Netflix,

which is long-medominant, is investing in games and hinting and advertising to grow its review base.

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