We’re entering our first full week of Google’s fight with Disney over its YouTube TV agreements, and the pain is.
We’re entering our first full week of Google’s fight with Disney over its YouTube TV agreements, and the pain is starting to spread. In addition to the looming threat of missing out on Monday Night Football, Disney has seemingly pulled its content from Google Play over its failed negotiations.
On the web, searching for Disney-owned movies and shows on Google Play turns up very little in the way of what users are likely looking for. Searches for basic franchises like “The Avengers” or “Star Wars” brings back relatively-unrelated content — for example, the 1998 British spy satire The Avengers or a restoration of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Linking directly to existing store pages, like for the 2002 animated film Lilo and Stitch, just returns basic stubs, without options to do anything but adding an unwatchable movie to your watchlist.
On Google TV, the situation is a little more obscured.
