THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

From the 5th Annual Shorty Awards Best Use of Social Media for a Consumer Brand

If Don Draper were alive today, he’d surely have “social media" in his job title and be pitching big ideas to brands on how to insert themselves into the conversation on the real-time web. This award honors marketing campaigns that have best integrated Twitter, Facebook, or other social media in a creative and meaningful way to successfully launch or promote a consumer brand. Click here to see the previous winner and nominees.

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Nominees

#friskissthlm
In January all gyms and health clubs advertise to catch everyone who made the classic New Year’s re…
A story platform on wheels | How Pepsi becomes LikeFriends
In the Netherlands Pepsi’s social media isn’t a campaign, its a program defined by fans. Pepsi show…
Arnold, Brownberry, and Oroweat Sandwich Thins
Since entering the social space, Sandwich Thins has successfully set themselves apart from their co…
Brush Buddies Worldwide Music Search
Brush Buddies is an emerging consumer brand with a growing social media audience of people who lik…
Clorox’s Bleach It Away Program Encourages Parents to Talk about Pee, Poop and Puke
After nearly 100 years, bleach sales were fading as its traditional consumers aged. To reverse decr…
Dell Music
Dell wanted to engage and reach a younger audience (Generation Y) promoting that Dell’s products em…
Entertainment Weekly
Our mission: In 2012, EW kicked off a continuing campaign to leverage the magazine's unparalled …
Launching a Social-Minded Brand, CLEAR SCALP & HAIR THERAPY
Unilever partnered with Weber Shandwick in 2012 to launch a revolutionary line of shampoos and cond…
Maybelline Color Show
Maybelline Color Show is an innovative, user-centric approach to nail polish discovery. Historicall…
Nikon 1" Small Moments are Huge" Online Facebook Gallery
MWW sought to raise consumer awareness of its Nikon 1 system line of compact interchangeable lens c…
Nokia Music and AT&T Present Green Day's Numero Uno Fan Contest
Green Day’s “Numero Uno Fan" contest generated more than 165,000,000 social impressions and 179,000…
Skinnygirl Cocktails #WinningTheOscars
#Winning at the Oscars® Awards About this Entry: Skinnygirl® Cocktails stole the spotlight at th…
The '+' Project in Asia Pacific by Philips
The key business objective was to raise awareness of the brand in Asia and establish Philips as a c…
The Clorox Lounge
Studies say 75 percent of people use smart devices while on the toilet, indicating they want entert…
The MSNBC Experience at the DNC
For MSNBC’s passionate fans, political events like the Democratic National Convention are not a spe…
TopChicret - Announcing Charlotte Free as New Face of #1 Cosmetic Brand in the World
Did You Hear? In order to announce model Charlotte Free as the new face of Maybelline New York, IC…
Unboxing Furby Online
In 2012 Furby returned to store shelves evolved with new features to make it even more interactive …
Your Set by Calphalon
Calphalon is cultivating its own brand of cook — one born of creativity, experimentation and, above…
got milk? The Breakfast Project
In 2012, the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP, the organization behind the got milk? campa…