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Where Do the Ghost Heads Come From?

May 17, 2012 – 11:44 am

Do you ever wonder who’s head you are covering up when you make one of our many fun Starring You eCards? As you know we typically use an employee as an actor or model for a new video, but did you know our faces are also the grey default heads? We recently had a photo shoot of some of us [...]

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ATTENTION!! Drill Sergeant Mom

May 10, 2012 – 11:10 am

With Mother’s Day quickly approaching this Sunday we are in no shortage of fun cards to make Mom feel special on her day. In our newest Mother’s Day eCard, Drill Sergeant Mom, we see a cartoon mom singing her way through a day of keeping her house together. It is animated, but did you know we actually photograph [...]

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Ben & Jerry’s Stopped By!

May 3, 2012 – 10:54 am

After reading about the Ben & Jerry’s truck tour in LA, the JibJab team instantly got on Twitter to ask them for some free Ben & Jerry’s! They stopped by last week to share with us their new Greek Frozen Yogurt. We took a break and escaped to the parking lot to try out their flavors: [...]

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MLB Uniform Changes!

April 26, 2012 – 10:59 am

It’s baseball season which means it’s time for you to represent your favorite Major League Baseball team in our Take Me Out to the Ball Game video! Did you know many of the teams went through official uniform changes during the off-season? We followed suit (and uniform) by adding updated logos to the hats and pin [...]

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Happy Birthday to You!

April 18, 2012 – 12:49 pm

Do you have trouble picking out the perfect card for that special birthday someone? Well, choosing a birthday eCard has never been easier with our improved birthday website! We’ve expanded our search options, so it’s quicker and easier to find the perfect card. We added a personalized envelope to make the cards more fun to send and [...]

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Silicon Beach Town Hall

April 13, 2012 – 12:00 pm

Last night we participated in an awesome local event called The Emergence of Silicon Beach, a Venice Town Hall that was hosted by the Venice Neighborhood Council and the Venice Chamber of Commerce. We were one of the twenty-five companies in the showcase portion of the event and had a great table set up to meet the members [...]

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Swinging into Spring!

April 5, 2012 – 10:59 am

Spring has officially sprung & the Easter holiday is this weekend! Of course that means another fun Starring You dance that will give you moves you didn’t even realize you had! Last year we brought you a 50s themed do-wopping dance and this year we were lucky enough to work with some amazing professional swing dancers [...]

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Learn to talk like Robert Deniro!

March 29, 2012 – 10:52 am

The master impressionist behind most of our videos, Jim Meskimen, has produced an instructional video that can help you learn to do a Robert Deniro impression. Check it out here: How’d you do? If you are craving more Hollywood action, check out our Movie Spoof videos and cast yourself & friends into the funny roles!

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Quote Wall!

March 26, 2012 – 11:07 am

When it was decided we were going to change up our office space, Gregg and Evan took the time to explore ideas for decorating the office in cool ways that would keep us inspired. One of their ideas spun out of our JIBJAB: LAB - a text-pattern design that Andy created. They thought it would be awesome to paint [...]

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Sending Your eCards via Email Just Got Easier!

March 16, 2012 – 3:00 pm

Recently we added a great new feature that makes it WAY easier to send your JibJab eCards via email. Thanks to service provider CloudSponge, now you can import your email address book to JibJab to access all of your family and friend’s email addresses. Here are the simple instructions on how to use this new feature: 1. Click [...]

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Magical Brew Animatic

March 15, 2012 – 1:03 pm

Now that you learned more about the song writer for our new St. Patrick’s Day Starring You video, Magical Brew, take a look at the animatic used in the early creation process. In case you are unfamiliar an animatic is where we take the visual gags and ideas and start to lay them out into a timeline [...]

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Break Room Fun!

March 7, 2012 – 5:08 pm

Just when you thought that working 2 blocks from the beach, a wheelbarrow of snacks and a beer fridge was enough distraction at work, we outdid ourselves…one day after a long team meeting we found two more fun additions to our break room! We work really hard to bring all of you fun eCards & kids storybooks, but now [...]

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Magical Brew-The Writing Process

March 1, 2012 – 11:32 am

The newest addition to our St. Patricks’s Day eCard collection, Magical Brew, is set to a very catchy Irish jingle! Our in-house writer, Scott, is the lyrical genius behind it, so we sat down with him to get the scoop on how he gets into his writing groove. Have you ever written a song like [...]

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JibJabbers Play Kickball!

February 24, 2012 – 10:43 am

Recently some of us got together and formed a team under the WAKA (World Adult Kickball Association) league, an awesome organization that brings everyone together to play kickball, win some games and mingle at a bar afterwards (we’re guessing that’s why most people play). Not familiar with kickball? It is a loose combination of soccer and baseball. We are team “Team” [...]

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GIF Off 3.0

February 15, 2012 – 1:09 pm

Every once in a while, when we need a good laugh & a challenge, we hold a GIF contest. The ‘GIF OFF’ is a weeklong competition in which participants create daily themed animated images. Each day we all vote to see which one is our favorite and at the end of the week when all the [...]

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