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OfficeMax Partners with JibJab to Bring Internet Sensation 'ElfYourself' Back for 2008 Holiday Season
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OfficeMax and JibJab, best known for online political parodies such as 'This Land', began conversations following the 2007 holiday season when the companies scored the number one and number two positions respectively for fastest growing sites on the web, according to comScore. Over six weeks during the 2007 holiday season, ElfYourself received more than 193 million site visits, and more Americans were visiting ElfYourself.com (http://www.elfyourself.com/) than Facebook.com (http://www.facebook.com/), according to web measurement firm Quantcast.
ElfYourself enables users to create free personalized holiday eCards by
uploading their photos and transforming themselves, family and friends into
dancing elves. OfficeMax and JibJab have jointly enhanced the ElfYourself
experience by increasing the number of elves a visitor can create, from four
to five, as well as offering three new dances including a disco dance, country
dance and the
"Over the past two holiday seasons, the elves have become not just a holiday tradition but a popular culture phenomenon that we hope generations will enjoy for years to come," said
This year ElfYourself will be running on JibJab's Starring You(R) Technology platform that not only enables users to create personalized online videos, but also get their personalized elves printed on greeting cards and holiday gifts such as ornaments, mouse pads, coffee mugs, and playing cards. For a small fee, users can also get a downloadable version of their video that they can watch offline, burn to a DVD or watch on their mobile devices.
"OfficeMax's ElfYourself is the most successful viral marketing campaign
in history," said JibJab's co-founder and CEO,
About OfficeMax
OfficeMax Incorporated (NYSE: OMX) is a leader in both business-to- business office products solutions and retail office products. The OfficeMax mission is simple. We help our customers do their best work. The company provides office supplies and paper, in-store print and document services through OfficeMax ImPress(R), technology products and solutions, and furniture to consumers and to large, medium and small businesses. OfficeMax customers are served by more than 30,000 associates through direct sales, catalogs, e-commerce and more than 1,000 stores. To find the nearest OfficeMax, call 1-877-OFFICEMAX. For more information, visit http://www.officemax.com/.
About JibJab
JibJab helps people share laughs. From viral political videos like "This Land" to Sendables(R) eCards and personalized Starring You!(R) products, JibJab's artists, technologists and business people are on a mission to make the web a funnier place. A hundred years ago, entrepreneurs revolutionized the entertainment industry with film. Today, at JibJab, we're doing it with computers. For more info, go to JibJab.com/about.
OfficeMax Media Contacts JibJab Media Contact Bill Bonner Jennifer Rook Joey Infortuno 630 864 6066 630 864 6057 310-314-4375
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