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JibJab is a digital entertainment studio based in Venice, California. Founded in 1999 by Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, it first achieved widespread attention during the 2004 US presidential election when their video of George W. Bush and John Kerry singing "This Land Is Your Land" became a viral hit. The company creates, produces and distributes original content. It has three main sections on the website: eCards; "Everyday Fun Sendables" such as funny videos; and "Originals", including "This Land", "Time for Some Campaignin'", and "Big Box Mart".
JibJab has also produced commercials and shorts for clients such as Sony, Noggin, and Disney.
For the 2004 presidential election, JibJab created a Flash movie entitled This Land, which featured George W. Bush and John Kerry singing a parody of Woody Guthrie's song "This Land Is Your Land".
This animation was an instant success, and the site was listed number one on Alexa's "Movers and Shakers" list. The video was so popular, it was viewed on every continent (including Antarctica) as well as the International Space Station. The traffic surge forced JibJab's server to be shut down after one day, and the clip was placed on AtomFilms, where it got more than 1 million hits in 24 hours.
Jefferson Graham is a Los Angeles based tech columnist for USA Today and the host of USA Today's Talking Tech video and audio series.
The series is seen on USATODAY.com Monday through Friday, while the audio version runs daily on TuneIn.com, iTunes, SoundCloud, and Stitcher. The one-hour edition, #talkingtechLIVE, airs Thursdays on TuneIn at 8 p.m. ET. #TalkingTech is USA TODAY's most listened to podcast, with over 10.6 million downloads to date.
On Talking Tech, Graham covers tech news, gadget reviews and interviews. Guests have ranged from Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Mraz and James Taylor), to consumers and tech experts about living with tech.
Graham, the author of 2012's Video Nation: A DIY Guide to Planning, Shooting and Sharing Great Video from USA TODAY's Talking Tech host (Peachpit Press)
is also a jazz guitarist and portrait photographer in the Manhattan Beach, California area.
Born in Evansville, Indiana Graham grew up in New York City and is the son of late San Francisco broadcaster Jerry Graham and Judy Graham, the host of YouTube's Knitting Tips by Judy web series.
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share and comment on videos, and it makes use of WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video. Available content includes video clips, TV clips, music videos, movie trailers and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via YouTube, as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can watch videos, and registered users can upload videos to their channels. Videos considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old.
This Land was a Canadian television series, which aired from 1970 to 1982 on CBC Television. Evolving from the earlier series This Land of Ours, a documentary series about Canada's agricultural and natural resources, This Land expanded its focus to include environmental and conservation issues.
Hosts of the show included Jon Hopkins, Phyllis Gorman, Laurie Jennings, Mary Chapman, John Foster, Mike Halleran and Don Francks.
USA Today is a national American daily middle-market newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982. The newspaper ties with The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, a distinction it had previously held since 2003. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the paper had 1.8 million copies as of March 2012 compared with The Wall Street Journal's 2.1 million though the latter figure included the WSJ's 400,000 paid-for, online subscribers. USA Today remains the widest circulated print newspaper in the United States.
USA Today is distributed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The newspaper is headquartered in the Tysons Corner, Virginia in Fairfax County.USA Today sells for US $2 at newsstands, although it is often found free at airports and hotels that distribute it to their customers; the paper is also free online.
A funny and all the feels book about a grumpy Santa who has had a bad day, but feels better by the end.
Greg & Evan Spiridellis and JibJab — starring YOU. At EG4 (2010) in Monterey, http://the-eg.com.
DACHSHUND RESCUE OF NORTH AMERICA: http://www.drna.org Animation by Evan Spiridellis Sound Effects by Adrienne Spiridellis Music by Parry Gripp Song inspired by Uter the amazing Wiener Dog
See all of our JibJab Originals at: http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals In our first election satire since 2004's "This Land" and "Good to be in DC", we bid farewell to Bush and give Obama and McCain a proper JibJab hazing! And, of course, who could forget about Hillary and Bill? This rip-roaring musical romp gives the election process the proper spanking it deserves! Check out these links to exclusive content from this video: Early sketches - http://blog.jibjab.com/2008/07/14/gags-and-boards/ Prodution artwork - http://blog.jibjab.com/2008/07/14/production-art/ Character animations - http://blog.jibjab.com/2008/07/14/character-animation/ Putting it all together - http://blog.jibjab.com/2008/07/14/putting-it-all-together/ Obama "Change" Desktop Images - http://blog.jibjab.com...
How brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis turned animated e-cards into a multimillion-dollar success. » Subscribe to CNBC Make It.: http://cnb.cx/2kxl2rf About CNBC Make It.: CNBC Make It is a new section of CNBC dedicated to making you smarter about managing your business, career, and money. Connect with CNBC Make It. Online Get the latest updates: http://www.cnbc.com/make-it Find CNBC Make It. on Facebook: http://cnb.cx/LikeCNBCMakeIt Find CNBC Make It. on Twitter: http://cnb.cx/FollowCNBCMakeIt Follow CNBC Make It. on Instagram: http://bit.ly/InstagramCNBCMakeIt JibJab Turned Holiday E-Cards Into Financial Success | Strange Success | CNBC Make It.
http://techlive.usatoday.com USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham interviews Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, the JibJab guys, at their Venice, California studio, for the Talking Tech USA TODAY web video show. Video by David Medill, produced by Jefferson Graham
The StoryBots are back on Netflix this Friday with an all-new original holiday special! Join Beep, Boop, Bing, Bang and Bo as they travel to the North Pole in "A StoryBots Christmas," premiering December 1st exclusively on Netflix. When Bo mistakenly thinks that her friends don't like her gifts, she heads to the North Pole to ask Santa Claus (special guest star Ed Asner) for help making better presents. She learns along the way that Christmas is about far more than just toys. "A StoryBots Christmas" is a follow-up to the Emmy Award-winning Netflix Original series, "Ask the StoryBots," and its companion show, "StoryBots Super Songs." Starring the voice of Judy Greer as Beep, both series are based on the hit digital children's educational brand StoryBots, which makes learning fun for kids ...
See all of our JibJab Originals at: http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry star in the political animation parody that started it all -- this funny video was seen on every continent (including Antarctica), it even played on the International Space Station! Want more JibJab? Visit us at: http://www.jibjab.com Register to get access to new JibJab releases: http://sendables.jibjab.com/register Read our blog: http://blog.jibjab.com/ Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jibjab Become a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/JibJabcom/7504006361?v=posts&viewas;=1604065 Add us on MySpace: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID;=131256316 Visit our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/jibjab
The StoryBots offer a world of learning and fun for kids and parents! Explore our award-winning apps: Get iPad App → http://sbot.co/YTipad Get iPhone App → http://sbot.co/sb_iphone From Starring You® videos and books that make your child the star of the show, to rockin' ABC videos, the StoryBots offer a creative collection of web and mobile apps designed to entertain grown-ups as much as kids. Parents everywhere are summoning the StoryBots to inject a big dose of happiness into their family routine! Play now at StoryBots.com → http://sbot.co/18U3tUm Download our apps → http://sbot.co/sbapps-yt FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/storybots TWITTER: www.twitter.com/storybots INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/storybots PINTEREST: www.pinterest.com/storybots Check out our other playlists: ABC Jambo...
Evan and Gregg Spiridellis made a video in 2004 called "This Land" that caused an internet sensation.
Slide into JIBJAB BROS. STUDIOS, a leading digital entertainment studio based in Los Angeles, California! JIBJAB is an awesome company run by two brothers, Evan and Gregg Spiridellis. You may know the company for their famous ‘Elf Yourself’ Holiday Cards.
A funny and all the feels book about a grumpy Santa who has had a bad day, but feels better by the end.
Greg & Evan Spiridellis and JibJab — starring YOU. At EG4 (2010) in Monterey, http://the-eg.com.
How exactly is everyone making money through Web Video? Special Guest Gregg Spiridellis, founder and CEO of JibJab tells us his secrets as well as gives us a forecast of things to come in the the Web 3.0 Video space.
February 19, 2014 Digital Kids NY - Digital Kids Conference Personalized Play: Making Kids the Star of the Show JibJab Media Inc. was born in classic Internet startup style, in a Brooklyn garage in 1999, co-founded by brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis. The company grew into a thriving personalized content business at the intersection of art, humor and technology. Now dads, with five children between them, the brothers are continuing JibJab’s legacy of laughter with their new brand, StoryBots. As they saw their own children interacting with mobile devices and tablets, the brothers were inspired to ask (and answer) the question— what would Sesame Street be if it were created in today’s new media landscape? Offering a collection of highly entertaining, educationally-themed web and mobile a...
STORYTELLING 2.0 Evan and Gregg Spiridellis Co-founders, JibJab and StoryBots Technology is not only changing the way content is produced and distributed, it is also enabling new forms of storytelling never before possible in a linear, one-size-fits-all world. Evan and Gregg Spiridellis changed the way we think about stories (and politics) in 2004 with their outlandish "This Land is Your Land" video of John Kerry and George Bush.
Presentor: Gregg Spiridellis Title: Storybots Case Study: The driving inspiration behind these apps, from the makers of JibJab Time and Location: Asilomar, May 20, 2013 Bio: Gregg Spiridellis is the co-founder and CEO of JibJab Media (JibJab and StoryBots). Gregg and his brother Evan created the StoryBots. From Starring You videos and books that make children the star of the show, to rockin' ABC videos, the StoryBots are designed to entertain grown-ups as much as kids. StoryBots is the next chapter in a legacy of laughter from the Spiridellis brothers (who are dads and co-creators). They are joined by a team of 50 artists, technologists and business people on a mission to make "billions of people happy."