JibJab

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JibJab is a digital entertainment studio based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1999 by Evan's brothers and Gregg Spiridellis, it first gained widespread attention during the 2004 US presidential election when their video of George W. Bush and John Kerry sang This Land Is Your Land becomes viral hit. Originally known for its political and social satire, JibJab produced commercials and shorts for clients such as Sony, Noggin, and Disney before focusing on eCard services and private messages that are now featured. In 2016, the animated sticker app - which has been available since 2014 - is the top IMESSage App Store app with download growth.

In 2012, JibJab is also expanding into the children's education market with a multi-platform learning program, StoryBots, which has since spawned two Netflix TV series, Ask StoryBots and StoryBots Super Songs .

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Political satire

"Capitol Ill"

For the 2000 Presidential Elections' JibJab released a Flash movie titled "Capitol Ill" in July 2000, featuring an animated rap battle between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Appearances by Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush were also created.

"This Land"

For the 2004 Presidential Election, JibJab created the Flash movie titled "This Land," which features animated versions of George W. Bush and John Kerry - voiced by comedian Jim Meskimen - singing a parody of Woody Guthrie's song This Land Is Your Own Land >.

The video was regarded as an instant success, finally being seen on every continent (including Antarctica) as well as the International Space Station, while the site listed number one on Alexa's list of "Drivers and Shakers". Traffic spikes forced the JibJab server to close after a day, and the clip was placed in AtomFilms, where it got more than 1 million clicks in 24 hours.

Once linked to thousands of websites, this video is featured several times in print and on television, including NBC Nightly News, Fox News and ABC World News Tonight, . On July 26, 2004, the creators appeared on the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In December 2004, the Spiridellis brothers were given the People of the Year title by Peter Jennings.

The Richmond organization, the music publisher who owns the copyrights of Guthrie through Ludlow Music Unit, threatens legal action. JibJab responded with a lawsuit in California federal court, claiming the song was protected under the exclusion of fair use for parodies. JibJab and Ludlow Music reached completion after attorney JibJab found evidence that the song had entered the public domain in 1973. The residential terms allow for the continued distribution of The Land .

"Good to be in DC"

In October 2004, JibJab followed up with another original animation, "Nice to be in DC," set to the song from the song Dixie . In this video, animated versions of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John Kerry, and John Edwards sing about their hopes for the upcoming elections.

"Second Provisions"

Shortly after George W. Bush's election victory, JibJab released the third video, "Second Term." Set to tune He Will Come 'Round the Mountain , an animated Bush rambles on a successful bid for a second term as president, though John Kerry will, perhaps, have a turn to be president, someday.

"Time for Multiple Campaigns in"

For the 2008 Presidential Election, JibJab released another election-themed animation, "Time for Multiple Campaigns" in July of that year. Set to Bob Dylan's The Times They A-Changin, animated versions of Bill and Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, George Bush and Dick Cheney sing their presidential hopes. Viewers have the option of entering their own face as a harassed voter.

"He's Barack Obama"

After Barack Obama became President, JibJab released 'He Barack Obama', in which they portray Obama as a super hero. Music became a heavy metal interpretation of Johnny Comes Marching Home, as he promised he would improve the Middle East, defeat the Taliban, fix schools, fight bears, fix deficits and more.

Selection 2012

For the 2012 Presidential Election, JibJab did not make video election and instead began focusing their efforts on their e-card business. However, the web election application was released in October of that year.

2016 election

For the 2016 Presidential Election, JibJab did not make an election video.

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Year Years

Starting in 2005, and for the next nine years in a row until 2015, JibJab annually releases the "Year in Review" video, usually at the end of December between Christmas and New Year. The videos were uploaded on YouTube. On December 11, 2015, JibJab made an announcement on Facebook that they will no longer release the "Year in Review" video.

"2-0-5" - Year 2005 In Reviews

2-0-5 is the year in the review video for 2005, it reflects the song "Auld Lang Syne" and "Turkey in Straw". 2-0-5 sung in the perspective of George W. Bush and reflect on events this year such as:

Kim Jong-il
STS-114 "Back to Flight" shuttle mission
Israeli dismissal from Gaza
2005 United States federal budget
Half of Europe's rejection of George W. Bush
Reject jobs in the US
Al-Qaeda rebellion
Bush himself continues to lower approval ratings, starting a second term curse
Investigating a good cheating jury
Karl Rove
Energy Policy Act of 2005
Michael D. Brown
the housing bubble of the United States
Natural gas price
Decrease in overseas employment
Hurricane Katrina
Federal Emergency Management Agent
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Bird flu
Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas protest
Somali piracy attacks on MV Seabourn Spirit
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Increased popularity of same-sex marriages in the United States and Canada's 2005 Civil Marriage Act
Stem cells
Libby Scooter
Tom DeLay

Nuckin 'Futs! - The JibJab Year In Review 2006

This year's Review described a Christmas concert with children singing about last year, sung to the song Jingle Bells. Topics include:

Iraq War
The war in Afghanistan
The birth of Brad Pitt's daughter and Angelina Jolie, Shiloh Nouvel
The compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad
Britney Spears
The trial and execution of Saddam Hussein
Dick Chen poaching incident
Plot of 2006 transatlantic plane and subsequent liquid ban
UN Hugo Chavez speech
Tom Cruise
2006, Thai coup
Mel Gibson DUI Incident
Tej Haggard fell from grace
The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Google buys YouTube
Fidel Castro health crisis
Ariel Sharon Stroke
Mark Foley Scandal
Paris Hilton
Kim Jong-il underground nuclear bomb test
Escherichia coli in food
Kenneth Lay's death
Lance Bass comes out as gay
The resignation of Donald Rumsfeld's position as Secretary of Defense
Democrats took over the Congress during the US election, 2006
2006 Lebanon War
Iran's nuclear program

At the end of the video stating that the way things are going, Armageddon will not be long.

In 2007

The song "We Do not Start Fire" by Billy Joel is Used in This Year under Review. The theme was the 2007 Annual Humanitarian Report that arrived and a group of angels did not want to anger God so they "coated the sugar" in a song. Topics include:

Global warming
Michael Vick and the dog battle investigation of Bad Newz Kennels
Alberto Gonzales
Cocaine Cocaine Lindsay Lohan
Dennis Kucinich confirms that he has seen an unidentified flying object in the Presidential Presidential Philadelphia debate
Chinese Exports 2007 repeats
Hillary Clinton candidate nomination campaigns, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, John McCain, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson for the 2008 presidential election
War in Darfur
Controversy of Don Imus Rutgers University basketball team
The Death of Anna Nicole Smith
Blackwater USA
Britney Spears appearance at 2007 MTV Video Music Awards
Barry Bond's perjury case
Malibu forest fire
Airbus A380's first passenger flight (with Singapore Airlines)
Bob Barker retired from The Price Is Right (game show AS)
Karl Rove's resignation
The robbery case of O. J. Simpson
Pervez Musharraf
Bashar al-Assad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Caitlin Upton
Cargill beef pulls back
Larry Craig's scandal
The emergence of Facebook
Boston Red Sox 2007 season
Halo 3
The popularity of Nintendo Wii
Martin Scorsese won the 79th Academy Award
Knut (polar bear)
iPhone's first release
Sanjaya Malakar

Year of JibJab in Review 2008

In This Year on New Year's Review The former baby (caricature Jimmy Durante) is seen singing about the events of the last year for the next New Year's Baby for 2009, telling him that year was bad. The song used in this is "Miss Susie Had a Steamboat". Some topics in the video include:

The financial crisis of 2008
The federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
The liquidity crisis of American International Group
Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy
The auto industry crisis in Big Three car manufacturers
Jesse Jackson threatened to castrate Obama
Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton's YouTube videos claim to have seen the corpse of Bigfoot in northern Georgia
Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal
David Duchovny will rehab
the energy crisis of 2000s
Daniel Radcliffe appears in Equus (he's referred to as "Harry" in the video)
Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair cover
Barack Obama's victory during the 2008 United States presidential election
Sarah Palin
Bombay Hotel Islamabad Marriott
Bill Gates
The Russo-Georgian War
The CarrÃƒÆ' Ã‚ Â© d'As IV the subsequent incident and action of Somalia on November 11
Hurricanes Ike and Gustav
John Edwards's extra-marital affairs

Never A Year Like '09

Sung to the song "The Entertainer", he recounted the events of last year. The style of animation is very different from previous years. Featured events include:

Inauguration of Barack Obama
Afghanistan's controversial presidential election
Protests over Iran's presidential election
Henry Louis Gates captures controversy
Jon and Kate Gosselin's divorce
The finger-biting incident at a pro-Obama health rally in Thousand Oaks, California
Public health insurance options
Sarah Palin's resignation
Bill Clinton travels to North Korea and he releases Euna Lee and Laura Ling from their jail
Swine flu pandemic
Attempts to blackmail Letterman David
The reorganization of General Motors Chapter 11
Water landing "Miracle on Hudson" Flight US Airways 1549
Michael Phelps marijuana scandal
The Octomom
The Chicago Summer Olympics bid failed
Michael Vick goes back to the NFL
Brett Favre joins the Minnesota Vikings
Joe Wilson shouted "You Lie!" during Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress, September 2009
Boy Balloon Boy
California budget crisis
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009
Carrie Prejean
Mark Sanford's disappearance and extramarital affair
Sonia Sotomayor
Nobel Peace Prize 2009
The words of the United Nations Muammar Gaddafi
Three Wolves of the Moon
The deaths of Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcett, Walter Cronkite, Ed McMahon, Billy Mays, Ted Kennedy, David Carradine, Bea Arthur, Roy E. Disney, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Mary Travers, Dom DeLuise, Ricardo Montalban, Adam Goldstein, Lou Albano, John Hughes, Jack Kemp, Robert Novak, Robert McNamara, Irving Penn, Gidget Taco Bell Chihuahua, and Socks (cat)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
James Cameron Avatar broke the previous box office record
Levi Johnston in Playgirl
The case of Tiger Woods affair
Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards 2009

So Long To Yes, 2010

The 2010 Review was aired on December 19, 2010 at CBS News Sunday Morning. It featured an Obama doll and Biden singing about what happened in 2010; the song was accompanied by the song "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze". Reviews focused mainly on Barack Obama, as well as on other political events such as:

Tea Party Movement
the foreclosure crisis of the United States 2010
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as Obamacare)
Joe Biden swears on national television when introducing Obama during the signing ceremony
Haiti Earthquake 2010
The eruption of EyjafjallajÃƒÆ'Ã‚Â¶kull in Iceland, disrupting air travel across Europe
Greek Debt Crisis
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Mosque in Ground Zero
WikiLeaks
Campaign financial reform in the United States
Elena Kagan
Obama's approval rating fall
Charles B. Rangel, Stanley A. McChrystal, and Hamid Karzai
Iraq War
Do not Ask, Do not Tell the Revocation Act of 2010
Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck on Fox News
Colleen LaRose (Jihad Jane)
Michelle Obama's trip to Spain
JetBlue flight attendant incident
The majority Republican in the election of the United States House of Representatives, 2010
Rahm Emanuel's resignation
Russian spy
the 2010 Times Car bombing attempt
Support Enforcement of Our Law and Safe Environmental Law
Proposition 19
Inherited inheritance
Debt mountains
A striking politician
Iran's ongoing nuclear threat
The presidential seal fell from the podium during a speech at the women's conference

President Obama concluded the year that states that during his tenure, "that seems to be what you get." The video ended with a basketball thrown at President Obama, dropping it through the first "0" "2010" and Biden stating that it would require stitches.

2011, Buh-Bye!

On December 20, 2011, Year 2011 in Review, titled "2011, Buh-Bye!" released, and available on YouTube and their website. Sung to the song "Bonnie Lies My Over the Ocean", it includes several events. These include:

the introduction of Ben & amp; Jerry's new (but controversial) ice cream flavor, Schweddy Balls
Charlie Sheen's Movement of Two Half Men and then rise to internet popularity
Theft claim by Lindsay Lohan
allegations of sexual assault against Dominique Strauss-Kahn
The nomination process of Republican candidates (including Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain) during the 2012 presidential campaign with plans 9-9-9
Dr.'s experiments and beliefs Conrad Murray
Children's love scandal Arnold Schwarzenegger
Standard & amp; Poor's lowered the United States score for the first time
High unemployment rate
The US debt crisis crisis
Anthony Weiner (Weinergate) sexting scandal
Tax and Classroom War debates
Rupert Murdoch and the World News investigation
Plague listeriosis 2011 United States
Greek debt countermeasures
Arab Spring (including the 2011 Egyptian revolution and Libyan civil war 2011)
Muammar Gaddafi's death
Removal Do not ask, do not tell
Claims and denial of homosexuality in Sesame Street Bert and Ernie
The death of Osama bin Laden
The 2011 T-hoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan
UK Riot 2011
Prediction of the end of 2011 by Harold Camping
Widespread 2012 phenomenon
Short-lived marriage by Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries
The de facto bankruptcy of the Borders Group and Netflix
Justin Bieber's new hairstyle
"Friday" by Rebecca Black
Royal Wedding
Occupy Wall Street Movement and Occupy Occupy Spreading
The deaths of Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Taylor, Betty Ford, Randy Savage, Andy Rooney, Peter Falk, and Amy Winehouse
Nyan Cat
Last Space Shuttle Mission (STS-135)
UC Davis pepper spraying event
Mel Gibson The Beaver
Earthquake on the East Coast of the USA
New Astrology Sign
The incident in Zanesville, Ohio when exotic animals, such as lions, tigers, and bears are released.

2012: End Here!

Originally posted to the Internet on December 20, 2012, Year 2012 in Review uses the so-called "Maya Bernubuat" from the edge of the world as its visual theme, complete with two Mayan characters carved stylized calendar in stone, while meteors seen in the sky glide toward Earth. It was sung for the song "Down by the Riverside". The events covered include:

Arctic ice melt
Felix Baumgartner jumps to the solid ground from the edge of the atmosphere (Red Bull Stratos)
Ongoing conflict in Libya (including Benghazi 2012 attack)
US "Fiscal Cliff"
The popularity of Zumba
Book Fifty Shades of Gray
Sam Champion and Anderson Cooper came out as gay
The Chick-fil-A same-sex marriage controversy
Kristen Stewart cheats on Robert Pattinson
Divorce Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
Lance Armstrong was stripped of his title for using performance-enhancing drugs
The disappointing price dropped from Facebook shares once the company went public
The record-breaking success of Marvel's Avengers movies, above The Dark Knight Rises ; The Hunger Games and The Amazing Spider-Man
Rush Limbaugh refers to Sandra Fluke as a prostitute
Disney purchase of Lucasfilm
First aired Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
"Gangnam Style" by Psy
Failure of restoration of ElÃƒÆ'as GarcÃƒÆ'a MartÃƒÆ'nez Ecce Homo by amateur restorer Cecilia GimÃƒÆ'Ã‚ Â© nez
The popularity of the "Ermahgerd" meme
Secret Service guard scandals
Petraeus scandal
US Supreme Court decision to enforce Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Clint Eastwood's discussion of politics with empty seats representing Barack Obama during the Republican National Convention
Obama's election returns to the Presidency (his opponent, Mitt Romney with his partner, Paul Ryan, is shown carrying a "binder full of women" and a Big Bird doll)
Britain's Queen Elizabeth's monarchical parachute enters the opening of the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medal winners, including Michael Phelps, Missy Franklin, Gabby Douglas, and Usain Bolt
The "unimpressed" facial expression of McKayla Maroney after finishing second place in the women's vault
The Curiosity rover on Mars
Autobiography Arnold Schwarzenegger Total Recall (book)
The deaths of Michael Clarke Duncan, Andy Griffith, Phyllis Diller, Sherman Hemsley, Dick Clark, Larry Hagman, Whitney Houston, Jerry Nelson (represented alongside versions of "Count von Count" Sesame Street, Donna Summer, Neil Armstrong, Hector Camacho, Alastair Burnet, Maurice Sendak, Dave Brubeck, and Ray Bradbury (as well as the bankruptcy and liquidation of the Hostess Brand, represented by the Twinkie mascot shown as an angel)
Hurricane Sandy
Controversial game between Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks that cause public outrage over referees replacing NFL
Continue the friction between Israel and Palestine, the Operation Pillars of Defense
Snooki has a baby

The video ends with a meteor impact on Earth, with early 2013 as a new era.

2013: This Year!

Posted on December 19, 2013, 2013 is reviewed as a music theme as Broadway. The song is sung with the song "Give My Regards to Broadway". Topics mentioned include:

Egyptian Protest of 2012-13 and the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi
Ongoing drone attacks in Pakistan
NSA and Edward Snowden scandals
The 2012 Budget Allowance
United States federal government disable in 2013
HealthCare.gov troubled launch
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and cocaine scandal
The second sexting scandal of Anthony Weiner under the alias "Carlos Danger"
Successful movie success Gravity
Pope Benedict XVI's resignation and next Franciscan election
California Marriage and Support Defense Fraud 8
The birth of North West-Kardashian and Prince George of Cambridge
The Popularity of The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad , as well as the final series last
iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C Launch
"Harlem Shake" by Baauer and the meme was inspired by
Miley Cyrus froliced â€‹â€‹at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards and the launch of her music video for "Wrecking Ball" (followed by SinÃƒ Â© Ã‚ Â© ad O'Connor's critique of Cyrus)
Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post
Controversy over Paula Deen who admitted using the N-word many years ago
The "Blurred Line" by Robin Thicke features T.I and Pharrell
The deaths of James Gandolfini, Roger Ebert, Marcia Wallace, Lou Reed, Ray Harryhausen, Cory Monteith, Paul Walker, Nelson Mandela, Peter O'Toole, Margaret Thatcher, Robin Sachs, Richard Griffiths, Syd Field, Diane Disney and Lisa Robin Kelly
Liquidation of Blockbuster LLC
Popularity of Batkid
The record breaking of Grand Theft Auto V
"The Fox (What's the Fox?)" by Ylvis;
Colorado Flood 2013
Haiyan Storm over the Philippines
Tornado EF5 in Moore, Oklahoma
Sharknado
Controversy Justin Bieber-Anne Frank
Marissa Mayer buys Tumblr
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Jason Collins came out as gay
release of Beyonce's surprise album Ã‚ Â© Knowles
Ben Affleck is casted as Batman
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP2
Emma Roberts's Addiction to Cronuts
50th Anniversary Doctor Who
Despicable Me 2

2014, You Are History

Posted on December 21, 2014, 2014 in reviews sung to the accompaniment of Beethoven's Symphony 9 (Final Movement), a.k.a. "Ode to Joy". Mention includes:

Obama unites Cuba
2014 Winter Olympics
Israeli-Gaza conflict 2014
Sony Pictures Entertainment's December 2014 and (temporary) cancellation Interview
The How I Met Your Mother end series
White House Disorder Omar J. Gonzalez 2014
The viral cover of the Paper magazine featuring Kim Kardashian
The rise of ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
The Republic's victory in the congress's part-time election.
Barack Obama's executive order
Michael Brown's shooting at Ferguson, Missouri, Eric Garner's death on Staten Island and subsequent national unrest
Ebola virus outbreak
Legalization of marijuana in D.C. and Colorado
Ice Bucket Challenge
Hobby Lobby filed a lawsuit over the Affordable Care Act, refusing to cover employee birth control
Allegations of sexual assault on and Bill Cosby's career collapse and subsequent cancellation The Cosby Show .
Pension Jay Leno from The Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon's takeover.
The end of the The Colbert Report as host of Stephen Colbert prepares to replace David Letterman on The Late Show
"All About That Bass" by Meghan Trainor
Shia LaBeouf covers her face with paper bags at the Berlin Film Festival and Rob Cantor's Shia LeBeouf Live.
Roger Goodell ends Ray Rice from Baltimore Ravens and Adrian Peterson of Minnesota Vikings over domestic violence cases.
Brad Pitt's marriage with Angelina Jolie and George Clooney to Amal Alamuddin.
Divorce Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow.
The incident of kidnapping eggs and DUI Justin Bieber, subsequent arrests, and further career destruction.
Tension lift Solange Knowles-Jay-Z.
Cosmos: A Space Odyssey
Rosetta Space Shuttle landed on comet
The success of Guardians of the Galaxy and Interstellar
Leaks of hundreds of nude celebrity photos in 4Chan and Reddit, including Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and Kirsten Dunst.
"Happy" by Pharrell Williams and his giant mountain hat from the 56th Annual Grammy Awards
"Weird Al" Yankovic's Mandatory Fun
Thor Woman
Death of Casey Kasem, Robin Williams, Sid Caeser, Pete Seeger, Richard Attenborough, Mickey Rooney, Maya Angelou, Jan Hooks, Harold Ramis, Joan Rivers, and Philip Seymour Hoffman
The 2014 FIFA World Cup, especially Germany beat Brazil 7-1 in the semifinals
"Anaconda" by Nicki Minaj and Eaten Alive.
The release of iPhone 6 and U2 album circulation albums failed Songs of Innocence .
The loss of Malaysia Airlines aircraft (Losing Flight Malaysia Airlines 370 and shooting Malaysia Airlines Flight 17).
Potato Salad Kickstarter.
Gamergasi controversy.
Chase, Home Depot, and Sony bank data break.
Tracy Morgan's traffic accident and subsequent lawsuit against Walmart.
The Washington Redskins logo changed the controversy.
Malala Yousafzai won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
Discovery Dreadnoughtus schrani, believed to be the largest dinosaur ever.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Announcement.
The racist comments made by Donald Sterling, and the subsequent controversy.

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Big Box Mart

In 2005, JibJab released the video "Big Box Mart". Sung to the song "Oh, Susannah", it tells the story of an American factory worker who buys some cheap "bullshit" and is imported from the local Big Box Mart, parody of the big box stores, running huge amounts of credit card debt. However, others also bought cheap and imported bullshit from Big Box Mart, so the American factory went out of business, leaving the protagonist out of work and mired in debt at age 53. Together with another co-worker, he went to work at the only the remaining workplace in town, the Big Box Mart, where he spent the rest of his life paying salaries to his salary, with little hope of retirement.

What We Call News

Sung to the song "Battle Hymn of the Republic", "What We Call the News" bemoans the decline of journalism in the cable TV era, especially the sensational story and the fact that "great legends find themselves replaced by blondes with big fake breasts!".

Shawshank In Minutes

This sketch is part (and winner) of the 2006 online competition, The Great Sketch Experiment, organized by JibJab and their first direct action production. Participants included the comedy duo Famous Last Nerds (Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner) and John Landis as directors. It sums up and parodies The Shawshank Redemption, solidifying the plot for nearly four minutes and underlining it with rap music.

Do I Creep You Out

JibJab produced a video for the 2006 song "Do I Creep You Out" by satirist Weird Al Yankovic, a parody of Taylor Hicks' Do I Make You Proud. This video depicts the main character who follows a barista in an increasingly disturbing way (as described in the song), ending up being beaten and caught by the police. The last scene reveals that the leader has been singing the song in a prison talent show.

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E-card & amp; Messaging

Beginning in 2007, JibJab started focusing on personalized eCards and videos, allowing users to place photos of their faces onto funny birthday cards, holiday greetings and congratulatory notes and sending them to others as e-cards or "sends ". Initially, this includes branded personal videos, including working with OfficeMax on the Elf Yourself video site, where uploaded photos are placed above nymphs singing and dancing, as well as partnerships with Star Wars (for the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back ) and Mad Men .

Since then, in addition to welcoming eCards, JibJab is also expanding its personalized technology to popular music videos, including:

... Baby One More Time (Britney Spears)
Friday (Rebecca Black)
Gangnam Style (Psy)
Sexy and I Know That (LMFAO)
Shut Up and Dance
Addicted to Love (Robert Palmer)
Roar (Katy Perry)
Take On Me (A-ha)
All About That Bass (Meghan Trainor)
Cookies in the Oceans (DNCE)
Happy (Pharrell Williams)
Sorry (Justin Bieber)
Cheap Thrills (Sia Furler)

Since launching eCard services, more than 100 million people have visited the JibJab website every year. In 2014, the company launched messaging apps for personalized animated GIFs, available on iOS and Android platforms. By 2016, the JibJab app is one of the first mobile apps that allows for IMessage and ranked first among them in growing downloads. The JibJab app is also featured prominently in Apple's annual WWDC product presentation.

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StoryBots

In 2012, JibJab expanded into the children's education market with a multi-platform learning program, StoryBots. Current brands include iOS libraries and web-based educational content, as well as two Netflix television series, Ask StoryBots and StoryBots Super Songs .