jibjab

JibJab is an Internet comedy studio that produces original, often politically themed, videos, as well as online greetings called "Sendables." Their "Starring You" technology allow users to incorporate their own photos into viral videos and e-cards. The website also hosts user-generated video jokes and sells personalized merchandise.

Started in 1998 by brothers Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, JibJab began by producing ecards for other companies as well as animated videos. They came to greater prominence with a parody of the 2004 election, This Land, that landed them on the Today Show, Jay Leno, CNN, and a host of other media outlets. Since then, they have continued to produce political, year in review, and other original videos while building their business on the fee-based Sendables services.

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• Elf Yourself Propagation

  
  Propagation Planning — Authority: 123
  This morning I uploaded my daughters photo to the newest Elf Yourself by JibJab. I really liked the sharing functionality that uses Facebook Connect to upload photos and spread your video. Excellent user experience that makes propagation easy.
  5 hours ago

• Just awesome……

  
  Dad2twins — Authority: 91
  Send your own ElfYourself eCards Tags: Elf yourself , Jib Jab Related posts No related posts.
  14 hours ago

• They’re Baaack! ElfYourself 2009 Is Now Live

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 899
  It’s that time of year again. OfficeMax and JibJab have just launched the latest edition of ElfYourself , the massively popular website that features dancing elves you can customize to feature the faces of you and your friends. The site, which serves as a promotion for OfficeMax , has turned into an Internet ...
  14 hours ago

• They’re Baaack! ElfYourself 2009 Is Now Live

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 164
  It’s that time of year again. OfficeMax and JibJab have just launched the latest edition of ElfYourself , the massively popular website that features dancing elves you can customize to feature the faces of you and your friends. The site, which serves as a promotion for OfficeMax , has turned into an Internet ...
  15 hours ago

• Stress Balls

  
  JibJabbin' — Authority: 421
  We are in insane crunch mode right now as tech and art are wrapped for the holiday season.  Nights are late, mornings are early and it can get pretty intense.  So we started throwing these balls at each other.  It’s cathartic!  In fact, your blogger may have had a ball thrown at him after taking this photograph.
  5 days ago

• Will Elf Yourself Return in 2009?

  
  ViralBlog Viral ideas.Trends. Inspiration — Authority: 471
  The pumpkins come out, the days grow shorter, the weather cools, and there’s no mistaking that the holiday season is upon us. Time to turn yourself, family, friends and pets into hilarious dancing elves again!? Over the past three holiday seasons, the elves of OfficeMax have become not just an annual holiday ...
  5 days ago

• Flash Animation & Viral KidVid? Give Pause

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 120
  Nov. 3, 2009 Here’s a marketing campaign kids LOVE (me too!) No secret I’m a huge Fido fan…Flash animation? Not so much. It often freezes my Firefox and fouls up the works more often than not on a business site but here in this ‘oldie but goodie’ (’06-’07ish?) this viral video making the rounds ...
  6 days ago

• The Monster Mash Animatic

  
  JibJabbin' — Authority: 421
  Take a look at the animatic from our Monster Mash video and you’ll see the skeleton behind the creation of a Starring You.  Location concepts and character angles are decided right away and usually make it to the final cut, the dancing however is quite often left to interpretation.  While the story remains the ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Count you can Count on

  
  JibJabbin' — Authority: 421
  As Monster Mash soars over 7 million views , we continue to look behind the scenes.  Its probably just as fun for us to act in Starring You videos as it is for our fans to cast their faces on the site.  We’re lucky enough to have a staff full of goofballs who added quite a lot to the video, including booty ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rule of Thumbs

  
  JibJabbin' — Authority: 421
  When launching a ton of new content all over the site like we did with Halloween, the responsibilities involved are massive.  Every piece we launch goes through testing, tweaks, renders and troubleshooting with a whole team of people. That aside, one of the biggest tasks can be getting graphics and thumbnails ...
  3 weeks ago

• Where Have We Seen That Brain Before?

  
  JibJabbin' — Authority: 421
  More Monster Mash fun-factoids!  Shooting dozens of videos a year on our little green screen, we often use our small stash of props in as many ways as we can.  JibJabbers with keen eyes will notice toy guns, beat up suits and other hand props making a few repeat appearances.  When it came time to find a brain for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Passing it Along: New Sendables at JibJab

  
  Words and Pictures — Authority: 127
  Check out the rad new Halloween-ish Sendables over at JibJab (started by Parsons Illustration alum Evan N. Spiridellis and his brother!): Do the Monster Mash! You and your friends will make a hell of a Monster Mash when you turn yourselves into creatures of the night using JibJab’s easy and terrifying ...
  4 weeks ago

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