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. Searching for Disney-owned media does bring back plenty of accurate results, but if you don’t have a Disney+ subscription — or you don’t already own the entertainment in question — you’ll be left without a way to buy or rent those specific movies. For example, the Google TV results for *Jurassic Park *(a Universal production) gives me the ability to rent or buy a 4K copy of the movie alongside a quick link to Peacock, where the film is currently streaming. But Thunderbolts* is only viewable through Disney+, without the option to rent or buy via Google.

This expands well beyond Disney’s usual kid-friendly and franchise fare. For years, Disney distributed more adult-oriented works through units like Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures, and those titles too have been affected. The Sixth Sense, Lincoln, Quiz Show, The Help, and Pretty Woman were just a handful of the movies I found on Google’s services that are either only available through Disney+ or completely unavailable entirely. Likewise, 20th Century Fox productions — both those made prior to and following Disney’s acquisition — fall under the same umbrella, with films like Alien and Die Hard limited to streaming services.

These limitations also apply to YouTube, where Disney-owned media either doesn’t appear or only points to services like Disney+ or HBO Max. In one example, a “buy” button on Return of the Jedi was rendered completely broken.

Thanks to the pure size and scope of Disney as a corporation, the end result of this movie is a massive amount of films and TV shows now no longer available to rent through any Google service. Google TV and Android users still have other options for their digital storefronts, including places like Amazon Prime Video, but largely speaking, this appears to be yet another consequence of Disney and Google’s ongoing feud over its newly-expired contract. Whether it’ll end as cleanly as NBC Universal’s carriage dispute remains to be seen.

Thanks Andrew

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