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Topics in this issue:

1. Affiliate Summit West 2007 Sell Out
2. New Year's Resolutions from Shawn Collins
3. Affiliate Thing #4 Podcast Recap
4. Affiliate Program News
5. Affiliate Pop-Up Video
6. Top 10 Affiliate Programs - December 2006

1. Affiliate Summit West 2007 Sell Out
Affiliate Summit 2007 West is on schedule to sell the maximum number of registrations by Friday, January 5, 2007.

As of this morning, there are 100 registration slots remaining for Affiliate Summit 2007 West, the sixth Affiliate Summit conference to date.

Register now at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/.

2. New Year's Resolutions from Shawn Collins
The ball has dropped on another year in affiliate marketing. Time again to make some resolutions for work and non-work.

I'll trot out the standards first: exercise more, eat better, spend less time behind this keyboard, and more time in front of the wife and kids, etc.

Also, 2007 shall be the year that I start on my great American novel - the one that's been marinating in my head and on scraps of paper since the early 90's.

Enough of that stuff - how about the plans for work? I had a bunch of professional resolutions last year, and I lived up to some of them.

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3. Affiliate Thing #4 Podcast Recap
The fourth Affiliate Thing podcast is now available to stream or download.

The latest show, hosted by Lisa Picarille, Editor-in-Chief of Revenue Magazine, and myself, featured a discussion on the busiest online shopping days for Christmas.

We also had an interview with Holly Preuss, Principal of Granular Solutions on social tagging, Search 2.0 and more.

Some other topics of the day were Scott Jangro's Affiliate Blog List, dates for the summer Affiliate Summit, New Year's Resolutions, and the series on Web 2.0 from Sam Harrelson with exchanges on affiliates leveraging YouTube, Twitter, etc.

Download the latest show.

You can subscribe to the Affiliate Thing RSS feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/AffiliateThing, or if you'd rather receive Affiliate Thing updates via e-mail, just send a blank e-mail to affiliatething@aweber.com.

Tune in every Wednesday at noon EST at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/affiliate-thing for thirty minutes of affiliate marketing and fun.

Last thing - Affiliate Thing is now on MySpace. Go to http://www.myspace.com/affiliatething and add us as a friend.

4. Affiliate Program News
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Affiliate only promotion for December 14, 2006 through January 15, 2007, will be $5 off any $60 order. Use Coupon Code: PSS5OFF60. For more information please see the affiliate offers landing page. Visit http://www.paylessaffiliates.com.

5. Affiliate Pop-Up Video
There has been a lot of discussion lately at Sam Harrelson's Cost Per News blog about whether and how affiliates can leverage Web 2.0 to generate transactions.

One of the recent discussions was titled, "Can YouTube Work With Affiliate Marketing?", and I've got an answer for that one.

I came across a site, currently in Beta, called BubblePLY.com which enables affiliates and anybody else to easily make creative additions to any online video.

BubblePLY employs technology where a transparent layer, known as a "PLY" is created. This PLY is placed on top of a video, and according to PLYmedia, the company that developed BubblePLY, this does not infringe upon the original content owner's rights as their video is never altered, edited nor copied.

On this layer, you can add "Bubbles" like the kind in comic strips. They give the option of inserting speech, thought or commentary captions, and any of these bubbles can include comments, links and other effects. There are plans to add pictures and sounds soon.

Anyhow, BubblePLY works with videos from over a dozen sites, including YouTube, MySpace and Google Video.

I threw together an example of how an affiliate could leverage BubblePLY and YouTube in a matter of five minutes.

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6. Top 10 Affiliate Programs - December 2006
Below are the Top Ten Affiliate Programs for December 2006 as tracked by the Affiliate Tip Affiliate Program Directory.

The Top Ten affiliate programs are calculated by the number of clickthroughs each program received in the affiliate program directory.

Disclaimer: While we attempt to include only legitimate programs in this directory, no warranties are made. Please research each company carefully to arrive at your own conclusions. If you experience difficulties with any of the programs listed, contact us, so that we may investigate them.

1. Amazon.com
2. GameTap.com
3. Payless ShoeSource
4. Hydra Network
5. eHealthInsurance
6. zZounds.com
7. Orbitz
8. Advanta Bank Corp
9. Art.com
10. Science Education Affiliate Network

CPA networks are treated as individual affiliate programs for the purposes of the Top 10 Affiliate Programs list.

Affiliate programs can be submitted to the directory at http://www.affiliatething.com/reg.php.

As always, I'd love to hear from you! Drop me a line and let me know if you have any suggestions or questions.

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Take care,
Shawn Collins

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