WHO WILL BE JUDGING MY WORK?

Each season, the Shorty Impact Awards carefully curates a panel of Real Time Academy members to judge the competition. This year, as we celebrate our 10th anniversary, we’re proud to present a jury whose expertise expands across fields such as marketing, design, communications, strategy and more:

R. John Fidelino
The Development

JD Rico
Qualititave Intelligence

Flavien Rousé
NKFR (No Kidding For Real)

Grace Kwak
Background Noise

Lisa Balser
New & Improved

Eric Jacks
Collab

Jessalin Lam
Digitas Health

Natasha Mulla
natashamulla.com

Lizzy Bilasano
Whalar

Christine Goos
Croud

Brandon Smithwrick
Kickstarter

Matt Prince
KFC

Sharon Romang
Front Row

Enoma Edevbaro
SEK part of Grey

Megan Gilbert
Fortune Media

Christian Stewart
Logitech

Dave Rosner
Audigent

Greg Swan
FINN Partners

Justin Baum
Lenovo

Alex Athanasiou
COLLINS

Ashley Tolusic Einhorn
TALOOP

Christine Whitemarsh
True Value Company

Francisco Vial
Rompecabeza

Jaime Padilla
Prado & Padilla

Jiri Bures
Imagination

Joanne Tombrakos

Rodrigo Martinez
Cappuccino

Sean DallasKidd
Demonstrate x DDW

Zanade Mann
Zanade Enterprises LLC

Dakota Lowe
Edelman

Jones Krahl
Deloitte Digital

Luminitza Lopez Lozano
TikTok

Rudi Anggono
The LEGO Group

Troy Scarlott
It's All Moonshine

Zaina Madain
Consultant

Abhinit Agarwal
TBWA Singapore

Adele Mulford
The Cultivate Company

Eric Rojas
Six+One

Aihui Dong

Alexandre Faure
FaureMidable

Alix McAlpine
GIPHY

Amy Starnes
Best Friends Animal Society

Asha Cowell
DENTSU

Augustina(Ao) Liu
Toast, Inc.

Bolong Li
Amazon, Audible

Cici Ghattas
Eventbrite

Craig Markou
Candybox

Danielle Brigida
World Wildlife Fund

Deidre Osei
Talawah Impact

Elizabeth Pigg
That's it.

Eric Wallace
Glo Navy

Florence Achado
Vee69

Gemma Craven
Scribd, Inc.

Hardik Dharmesh Ruparel
Nutanix

Jan Harling
Virtus Asia Consulting

Jarrod Corbett
Look Squirrel

Jason Perelson
Daring Waters

Jeffrey L. Bowman
Reframe

Jenn Bader
BADER

Jennifer Blanco
Indeed

Yrbenka Arthus
LinkedIn

Jaclyn Osterloh
Coca-Cola

Jessie Macneil-Brown
Ben & Jerry's

Rebecca Armstrong
Rebecca M. Armstrong llc

Katie Bisbee
DonorsChoose

Maria Lee
Anomaly

Nick Bilodeau
Quantum

John Attanasio
Toonstar

Joanna Cohen
Publicis Groupe

John McAdorey

Kai Deveraux Lawson
Valerie

Nandini Nandakumar
Diageo

Ronnie Stewart
OH HEY COACH

Rick Song
Brand Innovators Strategy Group

Satenik Ghazaryan
Armenia Digital Awards

Scott Terry
Forsman & Bodenfors NY

Sunny Vachher
SUNNY

Svetlana Stotskaya
Independent Consultant

Jonathan Unger
Unger Media

Kindra Meyer
VERB

Kiran C K
Independent Designer

Leandro Barral
WILD FI

Maggie Khoury
Grammarly

Marcela Angeles
MullenLowe Mexico

Chantal Rochelle
Warner Bros. Pictures

Steve Howze
Forsman & Bodenfors

Hung Lang
Digitas

Aidan Kohn-Murphy
Gen-Z for Change

Matthew Walker
We Are Social

Kim Chackal
Equifruit

Mauricio Meza
The Big Ideas Co.

Ashley Frohnert
PETA

Carmen Boon
Food Bank for New York City

Carla Marshall
Sorbet Digital

Ekaterina Frolova
BIGO

Galina Shubik
Affect Group

Joy Ekuta
Stealth

Kasumi Mihori
Duo

Kat Saoyen
McCann

Kristen Connell
Scholastic

Lori Martin
Lori Martin Creative

Normurod Khasanov
ADMIRE

Ran Wei
Microsoft for Startups Microsoft

Tudor Feraru
1000heads

RJ Larese
Creator Economy Leader (Formerly Paramount, Disney, PopSugar)

Shruti Dang
DANG World

Charles Haynes
Ziggurat XYZ

Katie Hartranft
The Martin Agency

Karina Kogan
Napster

Krystal Hauserman
NOYZ

Dan Trimarchi
VML New York

Minho Yi
KRAFTON

Sherilyn Shackell
The Marketing Academy

Nikko Borromeo
Dentsu Creative Manila

Alexandra Cameron
iHeartMedia

Adrianne Smith
FleishmanHillard

Paolo Deleon
Dentsu Creative Philippines

Maz Farrelly
MazSpeaks.com

Josh Zimmerman
Creator Coach

Chris Duffey
Adobe

Brittany Cabriales
GoFundMe

Chidera Ufondu
Netflix

Nicole Loher
Climate Communications Collective

Kristin Maverick
Verizon

Naeem Ghafari
WEST BOOD

Brian Jones
Mint Mobile

JUDGING CRITERIA

The Shorty Impact Awards recognize excellence in digital and social media.

All entries will be scored by judges on these major criteria:

Creativity & Innovation

Demonstrate a well-executed strategy along with originality and innovation, resulting in a memorable and “out of the box” outcome.

Strategy & Execution

Clearly defined and effective strategic plan that is key to a brand, agency or organization meeting their objectives. The plan should be aligned with the objectives.

Impact

Demonstrate the performance, outcome and positive impact that meet or exceed the objectives of the work submitted. Results can be quantitative and/or qualitative.

THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

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