"Pay Per Play" Affiliate Advertising (PPP for short; not to be confused with "Pay Per Post") is a Brand-New Stream of Income for Affiliate Marketers that is just getting ready to "Go Live." The scheduled release date is February 1, 2008.

Here's the gist of what "Pay Per Play" Affiliate Advertising (PPP for short; not to be confused with "Pay Per Post") is all about.

Some Online "Heavy Hitters" have created a new system where an advertiser spends money to have a 5 second audio sound bite hosted on just about any type of website as a little commercial.

The advertisers that are being targeted right now by the PPP folks are BIG ADVERTISERS with large advertising budgets. They're going to pay premium prices to try out his new service.

As a website owner, you can grab a piece of this new pie for yourself fairly simply. You signup with the PPP folks and then you'll be able to get the code necessary to play one of these 5 second "commercials" on any of your webpages that have the PPP code embedded in them.

The commercials are targeted to your website's theme so they'll be relevant to your website's visitors.

But here's the beautiful part. You get paid without your visitors having to do a thing!

This means the more traffic you send to your website, the more commissions you'll make.

According to the PPP folks, "Pay Per Play" Affiliate Advertising will probably make you more money than Google AdSense. Plus, with AdSense, your visitor leaves your website. Not so with PPP. Your visitor hears a short commercial used primarily for brand name advertising for big advertisers.

Right now, you can join the program for free and then use it on your own website(s) where you'll make 25% of the advertising cost of the particular commercial that runs on your site. Plus you can refer other people to the program and earn a residual commission of 5% of the advertising fees they generate as well as a second 5% for anyone they sign up.

You might not get rich off of "Pay Per Play" Affiliate Advertising but to me, it looks like a viable alternative to AdSense that's worth looking into.

They scuttlebutt is that after the program launches February 1, 2008, you might not still have the ability to refer other people to the program so joining now made the most sense to me.

Who knows if PPP will be the next "Latest and Greatest" thing to hit Affiliate Marketing.

But it sounds interesting, has literally no competition right now and you can join for free. Why not give it a try?

The worse thing that can happen is it makes you no money and you quit using it. But maybe the opposite will occur and you'll start raking in commissions from a new source.

Maybe your next stream of income will come from "Pay Per Play" Affiliate Advertising.