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Updated: We all know there’s no love lost between Hulu, the Hollywood-backed online video service, and Google-owned YouTube. The two companies have taken snipes at each other. For instance, at the NAB trade show, Hulu was trash-talking YouTube. Jason Kilar, the CEO of Hulu, said that you can’t make money by posting unauthorized and copyrighted videos — with a YouTube page behind him.

Hating your rival is part of the game, which is why it’s hard to ignore the irony of a Hulu Channel on YouTube. YES! What you just read is right. The LA Times discovered the channel and posted about it on their blog. Seems a little disingenuous! The reason for the Hulu-on-YouTube channel is pretty basic — YouTube has what Hulu hopes for: traffic and an audience. Hulu has content from its backers. It makes perfect sense for the two of them to start working together. Kilar should remember that you can’t make money by posting to a site that doesn’t have a lot of traffic.

NewTeeVee talked to Hulu and got a confirmation from them that indeed they are the ones who set up the channel for promotional purposes.

YouTube head of premium content partnerships Jordan Hoffner says: “It’s fantastic that Hulu is providing content to our global community and using our platform to grow and drive traffic to their business. Media companies large and small can set up channels or even partner with us to interact with the world’s largest and most active community. “