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The Vergecast

The best streaming services in 2023

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, Technology, News

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What are the best streaming services in 2023? Nilay, Alex, and David decide in the most chaotic way possible: with draft-style picks. The crew debates the best roster for the future of entertainment — from Netflix to Hulu to HBO Max to a few surprises. Who is the MVP, and who gets snubbed? Find out in our inaugural Vergecast streaming draft. Read more: theverge.com/streaming-wars Vote for us in the People’s Voice Webby Awards for Best Technology Podcast: http://bit.ly/3moCTDs  Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Rabadier and Tennis.

0:06.9

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am doing maybe the weirdest thing on my to do list

0:11.2

in a while.

0:12.2

I am reordering all of the apps on my Roku.

0:14.9

I have 94 things installed.

0:17.0

It looks like which is a way too many and b, total chaos because everything is in a

0:22.2

totally bonkers order and I can't find anything.

0:24.6

So I'm moving stuff around trying to get all of my important services up to the top.

0:28.8

It is way too much work.

0:30.8

It's like six button clicks every time you want to even just move an app, which is why

0:34.9

it's taken me months to finally get fed up enough to do it.

0:38.3

But I'm doing it.

0:39.3

Anyway, today's show is actually all about these streaming services.

0:43.0

We've been trying for a while to figure out a good way to answer a really simple but

0:46.5

really important question.

0:48.2

What are the best streaming services?

0:50.6

So we picked the most subjective, most chaotic way we could think of to actually answer

0:55.3

that question.

0:56.3

Eli, Alex and I are going to draft streaming services and see who picks the best roster

1:01.6

for the future of entertainment.

1:03.3

That's the whole show today and it's coming up in just a second.

1:06.1

But first, I have to figure out whether Hulu or ESPN Plus belongs on the second row of

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