Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of like the fifth row of apps on your smart TV.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and I'm sitting here reorganizing my Roku.

I end up doing this like once a year or so.

Usually, actually, it's around March Madness when I go to download the NCAA March Madness app so that I can watch college basketball,

only to discover that in this case I have 86 items on my Roku, and a bunch of them are things

that I've never heard of before. Like I have a freebie app. I don't think FreeVe exists anymore.

I have one called Fossum, which is just awesome with an F at the beginning.

What is that? I have an app that's called Purple. There's a thing here for the Food Network Go,

an HGTV go. I'm pretty sure those are not a thing. I have a deal or no deal app on my Roku.

Why? Basically, I assume my smart TV is like most people's, where my top

few rows are like the apps I actually use, and then the rest just becomes chaos. And so every

once in a while, I come in and I clean up chaos. That is not what we're here to talk about today.

This is my lot in life, and hopefully it's not yours. What we're going to do on the show

today is the annual Vergecast streaming draft. Once a year, we like to get together, and as a way of

kind of taking stock of the streaming industry, we do a draft. We see who can put together the

best collection of streaming services, which ones are going to succeed, which ones are going to

fail completely, which ones will be here, which ones won't be here, who's going to win, who's going to lose.

We're going to make a lot of bets about the next 12 months in streaming all on this episode.

All that is coming up in just a second, but first, a quick request for you.

So the Vergecast is nominated for a Webby Award, which means a lot to us. We've been

nominated for this in the past. And the reason we care a lot about this award is because it's voted on

by you. This is an award that you can give to us if you so choose. And so if you're willing to,

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