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  • With Apologies to Charlie Sheen

    Our new St. Patrick’s Day video Beer! Beer! BEER! is going strong, with 750,000 views in the last two days!  We’re excited to see how many people get into the Irish spirit as St. Paddy’s Day approaches. Meanwhile, we put this up on YouTube, because we can’t help ourselves.

  • Cowboy Up and Bottoms Up… New Birthday eCard!

    We’ve just posted our first widescreen Starring You birthday card, of many to come!  Cowboy Kiss Your Behind is a collaboration between JibJab’s animators, songwriter Steffon Moody and character designer Stephen Barron.  As with all of our birthday cards, it’s a Member exclusive, so Members, get making!

  • New St. Patrick’s Day Videos Have Launched!

    Newbies to JibJab, learn about the legend of Charlie Mopps, inventor of beer, with our free musical eCard set to the classic drinking tune “Beer, Beer, Beer”.  JibJab Members, your subscription gets you an all-you-can-drink ticket to creating anything from our newly launched 2011 St. Patrick’s Day collection, where you can find out how to…

  • Justin Hits JibJab

    When Justin Bieber’s crew came our way a few months ago about the prospect of a Starring You music video, we instantly came down with the fever.  Evan spent hours on end listening to Bieber jams (and singing them around the office) as he cut a Starring You video from Justin’s uber-popular video for “One…

  • Teaser Fever

    This just in. He’s coming to JibJab. Brace yourselves.

  • It’s Ladies Night!

    Hey ladies. We’ve launched three new lady-approved Profile Pics, and to celebrate, we’re holding our first ever JibJab Ladies Night.  Tonight, all our profile pics featuring the fairer sex are free to make and add to Facebook for your profile picture needs. Oh and fellas, you can feel free to partake as well. If you’re…

  • Star Wars Starring You Profile Pics!

    Along with our relaunch of Star Wars Starring You, we’re offering JibJab Members a dozen new castable Star Wars photos, featuring a slew of classic characters and their buddies, primed to be Facebook profile pics! We’ve also updated the site and made it super easy to download your pictures after creating them (ie: a giant…

  • Operatic eCards are Here!

    Two new Operatic eCards were launched today, one for Birthdays and another as an Apology eCard!  We had an honest-to-goodness opera singer (Christopher Macchino) record the vocals for this one, and it took the eCard to the next level, making it so catchy that we’ve all had “The Barber of Seville” stuck in our heads…

  • Extra Creepy Crawlers

    Our latest project started with a “Thank You” song written by Steffon and Arlette Moody. How Justin and Mike came to the idea for a subterranean chorus of creepy crawlers, even they don’t know. We’ve posted up an album on Facebook featuring the art that brought our new eCard together, with sets made of clay…

  • JibJab Meets Mad Men

    We’re huge fans of Mad Men here at JibJab and when AMC approached us about adapting the last three seasons of the series into a minute-long recap with a JibJab twist, we jumped on the opportunity.  Now Mad Men Starring You is live on our site, with the ability to cast yourself as Mad Men…

  • Kazoo Guy Does 4th of July!

    You’re a Grand Old Flag is our first of six kazoo videos releasing this year, and dang is it fun! We found Mister Tim, the talented gentlemen starring in the video, on the interwebs, where he became famous for his rocking rendition of Enter Sandman. Yes, that’s all the same guy, and yes, he really…

  • Founding Fathers’ Rap Remake!

    Everyone in the studio is super excited about our Founding Fathers Rap redux/reboot/remix/revamp/remake/what-ever-you-might-call-it.  The original was one of the first animations we did using collage style animation and this year marks it’s tenth anniversary on JibJab.com.  Since then, we’ll admit we’ve gotten a little better at animation.  Check out the decade old version with full…

  • Soccer is Ballin’!

    We knew we wanted to do something big to coincide with World Cup fever, especially for our awesome throng of international fans.  Little did we know just how popular a Starring You soccer scrimmage would be! In just two days, over half a million people found our fun football short, thanks in part to an…

  • Mate for Life

    We’re continuing to look at some of the new content we’ve recently cooked up for our Wedding and Anniversary categories, this time with a wedding Sendable by the name of Mate for Life! We released Mate For Life amist Mother’s Day and Star Wars madness and now we’re finally giving it some of the recognition…

  • JibJab Gets Committed

    We’ve been on a streak for the last few months, working to bring more unique animations and videos to our site’s Wedding and Anniversary categories.  This week, we’ll look at some of the pieces we’ve put up with some behind the scenes info as accompaniment! First up is Octopus Anniversary.  The idea was originated in…