Some days it seems like the real purpose of the Internet is to provide a platform for power struggles between massive companies. Last year the big story was Google and Microsoft playing tug-of-war with Yahoo. This morning, the story is about The Walt Disney Company announcing that it will start providing short form videos to YouTube.

According to AP News, Disney has agreed to provide content to YouTube under an ad-revenue sharing agreement. Currently the company allows full episodes of its shows to broadcast on ABC.com, Fancast and AOL. But this agreement with YouTube only covers shorter videos and excerpts, not full episodes.

Earlier in the week, there were rumors floating around that Disney was in talks with Hulu, a popular video site. Hulu currently serves video content from providers like NBC Universal and Fox. Had the Walt Disney Company elected to move videos to Hulu, it would have created a more robust service.