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  • Intern Appreciation

    As the summer winds down, our amazing squad of summer interns are going their separate ways, back to schools that are located far too far away from JibJab for our tastes. While we get over our empty nest syndrome, we saw off our summer staffers with framed personalized certificates. Thanks for the incredible work guys!…

  • Experimental Jabbery

    In keeping with our weekly goal to further ourselves by sharing tips, tricks and skills with each other, we recently had an in-studio workshop where our very own Maureen put her degree to use and taught us everything she knew about handmade film. After showing the class some examples of other artists at work in…

  • Insert Inserts Here

    There’s nothing we value more at JibJab than outside-the-monitor thinking. That’s why Gregg, our co-founder, was so excited to see a collection of magazine subscription inserts spread out across our product manager’s desk this morning.  Johan has been working on ways to better communicate the value of a JibJab Membership at checkout and rather than…

  • Sun, Sand, Sandwiches!

    The JibJab studio is a mere two blocks from the beach, so we love popping over to the shore and eating by the sea on our lunch breaks.  Usually we get so busy here that we don’t the chance to beach it up as often as we’d like, so today we had a little company…

  • Blog Cabin

    The JibJab office is always beyond hectic.  That’s why every few months Gregg and Evan head somewhere a bit more remote to get away from the day to day craziness of running a web business.  Their go-to spot is always Lake Arrowhead.  It’s close enough to LA that they can drive but it still feels…

  • The Kudos Wheel Revealed!

    Regular readers of this blog will know that early this summer we launched a unique inter-office encouragement system called KudoBot. You can read all about it here but, in a nutshell, if anyone in the company does anything you think is cool, you can log into our internal system and give them Kudos.  Every morning,…

  • C.N.R. B.T.S.!

    We’re going to give you a few good peeks behind the scenes this week, highlighting the fun we had making Weird Al’s new video “CNR”.  The first comes from our green screen, where Devin, Glenn and our crew played the badass body of Mr. Reilly himself.  It’s not every day you’re told to act like…

  • A Tale of Two Studios

    We have a secret we’ve been hiding from you. As we hope you can understand, we always try to show you our good side. Thus, we tend to show you pictures of our studio that are nice and clean and tidy like this: However, as we hope you can also understand, we’re aren’t always so…

  • Staff Picks

    A site feature that we added a little while ago, and that we love, is called ‘Staff Picks’. It’s exactly what is sounds like: It shows a JibJab employee, their favorite eCard and an explanation of why they like it. Here’s an example showing Lauren (yes, she does always look like that): You can find…

  • Vacationers Beware

    As much fun as it is to work here at JibJab — see here and here and here — even we need a vacation. However, the JibJab elves, who have apparently not left the building for the season, like to punish those who dare to take some time off. While Tim was away, all the…

  • In Dedication to Dad

    In praise of our pops we’d like to feature a few JibJab dads tonight, by way of our Starring You postables.  These fathers helped shape our staff of funnymen and funnywomen, so give it up for them!  You can make your own over at our Father’s Day category, with dozens of cards to choose from.

  • Intern Force, Assemble!

    It’s that time of year again.  The days are longer, the temperature is up, trees are looking their greenest and the interns have returned to JibJab!  Hailing from CalArts, we’re excited to have the extreme talent of Marcos, Glenn and Romney here for the warm months to help us with our numerous big summer projects. …

  • Metrics Schmetrics

    This may look like a bunch of normal guys, out drinking beer and having a good time… but if pictures could talk you’d hear things like “uniques”, “conversion rate”, “make-to-share ratio”, and “average recipients per share”.  Yep, JibJab’s crack product engineering team is clearly no ordinary group of dudes sippin brews, here they’re fast at…

  • BIG NEWS! Obama video to premiere in front of POTUS himself!

    We are beyond thrilled to announce that our first satire of the Obama administration will premiere in front of the big man himself at the 65th Annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner on June 19th in Washington, DC! While we can’t give away any of the details about the video yet, we can say…

  • What we ask of our Artists…

    Philip here is inked from elbow to wrist as a special request for our huge Obama spectacular.  It’s nice to work with a crew that’s willing to do anything to help us get the assets we need for animation.  And no, it’s not permanent.  Though it may be permanent marker… We’re revealing the launch date…