WHO WILL BE JUDGING MY WORK?

Each season the Shorty Awards carefully curates a group of Real Time Academy members to judge the current competition. Here are the confirmed 16th Annual Shorty Awards judges:

Jayson Oertel
Adobe

Janis McGavin
Los Angeles Center of Photography

Erica Kraus
I Am Rollerskating LLC

AJ Rivvers
Creativeish Inc.

Maya Dukes
Delta Air Lines

Todd Feitlin
305 Worldwide

Rae Votta
Netflix

Caroline McKenzie
Prime Video & Amazon Studios

Sergio Rio León
Grey Argentina

Macarena Elissamburu Moreno
VML Argentina

Sara Badr
Ward6 Singapore

Celia Ryan
Open Road

Gerard Caputo
Wieden+Kennedy, New York

Roddy Hyduk
Snowday

Ziad Ahmed
JUV Consulting

Jordan Schultz
Known

Carolyn Thacher
Coinbase

Robyn Nissim
Social Proof Agency

Felipe Galiano
Ogilvy Germany

Rodrigo Melgar
Grey Group México

Vilmar Fernandes

Brandie June
Self & Shout! Studios

Diana Dixon
DixonCo

Firrdaus Yusoff
Forsman & Bodenfors

Nickie Thongton
Ogilvy

Dèja Mays
Freelance

Saurabh Bhutyani
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Laura Mignott
VML Commerce

Toph Clarke
Intuit

Atiya Zaidi
BBDO Pakistan

Tristan Pineiro
Grindr

Abby Ho
Disney Branded Television

Albert Thompson
Walton Isaacson

Morgan Selzer
Headspace

Soo Young Kim
Google

Ana Paola Noriega
FCB México

Nicole Weiss-Calamar

Jacques Spitzer
Raindrop

Maggie Perlich
Burns Entertainment

Jennifer Frommer
Sony Music

Adam Morgan
Splunk

Gino Morrow
Hypergiant

Julian Gamboa-Ramos
Maximum Effort

Tom Chirico
Verizon

Julie Steinhagen
Ugly Wolf

Theresa Helmer
The Walt Disney Company

Sebastian Saldarriaga Rodriguez
Sugarbear Pro

Mike Wente
PayPal

Heather Hatlo Porter
Chegg Inc.

Mary Corigliano
Comic Relief US

Jeannine Feyen
Talkspace

Oren Greenberg
Kurve

Mike Proulx
Forrester

Kevin Green
Moroch

Leslie Smith
Bumble

Sarah Harnisch Amatuzio
Freelance/Independent

Meg Riley
MullenLowe

Richard Haire
British Columbia Institute of Technology

Gemini Babla
Google

Michelle Wong
Sprinkles

Kat Saoyen
McCann

Jared Kozel
VML

Yank Barry
Global Village Champions Foundation

Val Vacante
dentsu

Natasha Wellesley
Ventureland

Dave Rosner
Audigent

Jotham Ndugga-Kabuye
Twitch

Rick Song
Brand Innovators Strategy Group

Leslie Hall
Iced Media

Lauren Gallo-Rodriguez
Nike

Ashley Owen
Self Employed

Madison Li
AT&T

Luke McDade
Netflix

Emily Furtado
Media Experts

Carolina Valencia
Epicenter-NYC

Taylor Guthrie
Media Experts

Sam Reichman
None Other

Peter Bray
Bray & Co.

Karen Chong
AARP

Stevie Morris
Razorfish

Carolyn Rooke
VML

Amanda N. Hammar
Cisco

Hannah Gulla
DoorDash

Mars Milisic
Consiglieri X Google

Rob Alley
Amazon, Brand Innovation Lab

Hital Pandya
Leo Burnett Chicago

Bolong Li
Amazon, Audible

Jude Ambrosio
Ayzenberg Group

Humphrey Ho
Hylink Group

Dan Moth
VML Aotearoa

Kara Hendrick
Chewy, Inc.

Felix Lundqvist
Critical Mass

Shrenik Gandhi
White Rivers Media

Alexander Rea
Aux Works

Liam Tjoa
GoSpooky

Eduardo Longa Nose
AKQA LA

Tunisia Wilson
FX/Disney

Jordan Makow
SPCSHP

João Inácio
DEPT Agency

Rebecca Armstrong
North

Jason Mitchell
Movement Strategy

Zeena Koda
Head of Digital Community Marketing

Edward Hiraldo
TBWA/Chiat/Day

Lauren Garcimonde-Fisher
Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Camila Romero
The Electric Factory

Jacquie Henderson
Midnight Oil

Alex Schmider
GLAAD

Michelle Waring
Tom's of Maine

Hira Mohibullah Amin
VML Kansas City

Gabe Gordon
Reach Agency

Michael Tennant
Curiosity Lab

Julie Bloomfield
Buddha Jones

Kenny Gold
Deloitte Digital

Marianna Ruiz
Edelman

Kate Wolff
Lupine Creative

Lauren Jones
Mattel

Lindsay Harris
Tombras

Damian Galvin
VML

Pilar Franco Borrell
Felicidad Collective

Tricia Clarke-Stone
SHIFT

Jenny Huang
Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK

John Sabine
Merriam-Webster

Sami Lambert
Adweek

Shama Rahman
New York Magazine

Kate Winick
Senior Director, Social Media

Sophie Yan
Everytown for Gun Safety

Mauricio Dias
AKQA

Jason Li
Whalar

Ashley Tolusic Einhorn
TALOOP

Brendan Davis
GLAAD

Gregory Littley
Freelance/ Contractor

Brittany Rice
FX Networks/Disney

Jennifer Blanco
Indeed

Katy Hornaday
Barkley

Luca Jacchia
DOOM Entertainment

Kirsty Marrins
Kirsty Marrins Ltd/ CharityComms Trustee

Dmitrii Osipovskii
PPK

Sarah Gardner
National Geographic

Will Cady
Reddit

Melissa Eccles
TikTok

Marcus Hartung
Ogilvy

Sonika Patel
Ticketmaster

David Matt
Foundry 360 @ Dotdash Meredith

Rachel Theberge
Reach Agency

Mikki Bennett
Warner Bros. Discovery

Pete Johnson
LOVE + RESPECT

Yuriy Mikhalevskiy
Six Plus One

Julia Fedor
United Airlines

Victoria Keichinger
Coldwell Banker Real Estate

Chrissie Hanson
OMD USA

Lauren Brenner
Spotify

Emma Kieckhafer
Babbel

Jessica Rudis
The Walt Disney Company

Stephanie Ocampo
MasterClass

Amy Luca
Media Monks

Mehul Gupta
SoCheers

Tania Rahman
Fast Company

Kinney Edwards
TikTok

Srishti Alette
Google

Pam Fujimoto
Golin

Sarah Minerella
Ralph

Julie Thorne
Media Experts

Liana Ogden
Demonstrate x DDW

Kjetil Njoten
IMAX

Marissa Kraines
Salesforce

Amina Ahmad
The Walt Disney Company

Mariana Ramos
Freelance

Kristin Gallucci
Cognizant

Samara Mackereth
NowThis

Kathy Zucker
Owner and CEO

Tulani André
National Geographic

Greg Harrison
MOCEAN

Rosswell Saunders
Freelance

Adam Ledbury
Uber

Jennifer Winberg
Ogilvy

Naz Nazli
Creative X, Meta

Lewis Williams
Williams Creative Group Chicago

Diogo Felippelli
FOX Entertainment

Emeka Obia
Publicis West Africa

Erica Henderson
INNOCEAN USA

Alix McAlpine
GIPHY

Anthony Roberts Jr.
KFC

Deidre Osei
Talawah Impact

Hung Lang
Digitas

Michael Colella
Infillion

Josh Zimmerman
Creator Coach

Susannah Rubin
Publicis

Scott Terry
Forsman & Bodenfors NY

Valerie Carlson
Critical Mass

Jones Krahl
Deloitte Digital

Pancho González
Inbrax

Josh Paialii
The Many

Stephanie Perez
YeahFoodBeer

Ravi Sunnak
Porter Novelli

Ranjana choudhry
Inmar Intelligence

Michael Campos
DeepSleep Studio

Jamie Cordwell
Edelman

Preeti Nadgar
Essence Mediacom

Jeff Semones
EssenceMediacom

Lisa Gruber
VML

Justin Baum
Lenovo

Michael Graham
.Monks

Sascha Piltz
MRM New York

Carla Marshall
Sorbet Digital

Carmen San Segundo
IBM

David Skerrett
Critical Mass

Kirill Lazariev
Lazarev.agency

Tatiana Holifield
VP, Social Content & Growth Marketing

Jason Dailey
Meta

Silas Nogueira
Leo Burnett Chicago

Rob Engelsman
Quick Study

Jason Chung
NYU, Zuber Lawler LLP

Crissy Bogusz
Bravo

Cary Smith
Brand Power

Zaina Madain

Sera Holland
Ketchum

Eric Sandler
Pushkin Industries

Abhinit Agarwal
TBWA Singapore

Jaime Padilla
Prado & Padilla

Allison Hobbs
Mediabrands Content Studio

Greg Swan
FINN Partners

Goldie Chan
Warm Robots

Jason Perelson
Brand Rebellion

John Attanasio
Toonstar

Maz Farrelly
MazSpeaks.com

Miriam Malta
BBDO LA

Melissa Chen
Dell Technologies

Adele Mulford
The Cultivate Company

Armani Barron
IMC

Dmytro Lynnyk
Linnikov Agency

Nickolas James
Sinclair Inc.

Mitesh Kothari
White Rivers Media

Annie Heckenberger
Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness

Erika Bradbury
Morning Brew

Jenn Bader
BADER

Katherine Auguston
Code and Theory

Gregg Weiss
Citi

Christian Varsava
Logitech

Stephen Leps
IBM

Bernice Chao
TDW+Co

Adam Robinson
Paramount Global

Andrew Borin Cresswell
Freelance

Erin Acuff
Insight Creative Group (ICG)

Kaleesha Rajamantri
Amazon Ads

Nic Allum
Cultureland

Sauptik Dhar
Eluvio

Danielle Brigida
World Wildlife Fund

Amber Coleman-Mortley
The Female Quotient

Jan Harling
Virtus Asia Consulting

Jen Dorman
Critical Mass

Jessie Mash
SonderCo

Lara Daniel
Pulse Advertising

Mark Durney
Porter Novelli

Nkululeko Vilakazi
Machine_

Victor Mattoni
HeimatTBWA\

Normurod Khasanov
ADMIRE

Caitlin Horrigan
Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Stephanie Lager
Mango Creative Co.

Yadira Harrison
Verb

Howie Kleinberg
Glow

Mitu Yilma
Born This Way Foundation

Lowry Yankwich
LBY Media

Renee Van den Oetelaar
Head Of Boomerang FT.

Steve Howze
Forsman & Bodenfors

Katie Soo
DICE

Zeyi Yang
MIT Technology Review

Tim Leake
Let's Lightbulb

Ahmet Hüsrev Sefer
Récreation

Samira Rafi
Boomerang Communication

Shefik Macauley
Shefik Presents Invocation

Keith Pape
YellowPike Media

Ariel Sims
Digitas North America

Jason Morros
Edison Properties

Jerry Hizon
Dentsu Creative Philippines & Dentsu Creative Manila

Ben Yabsley
Dentsu Creative

Andrew Levine
NA

Ryan Coan
Creative Riff

Bipasha Mookherjee
Episode Four

Paul David
Literal Humans

Halley Knigge
REI Co-op

Gemma Craven
Bosseur

Joy Moh
The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)

Madeleine Nischan
COLOR Creative

Carrie Shade
Against Suicide Movement

Jason Rowland
Google

Dominic Riley
Netflix

Erika Lovegreen
ICUC.social

Josefina Rodriguez
Google

Karen Levy
Tropicana Brands Group

Beth Carroll
VML

Joy Ekuta
Retrospect

Andrew Caravella
Producer & Marketing Advisor

JUDGING CRITERIA

The Shorty Awards recognize excellence in digital and social media.

ALL ENTRIES WILL BE SCORED BY JUDGES ON THESE MAJOR CRITERIA:

Strategy

Entries should include a clearly defined and effective communications plan that is key to a brand, agency or organization meeting their objectives.

Creativity/Originality/Innovation

Entries should demonstrate how their work is memorable and/or inspiring for its well-executed, “out of the box” originality and innovation.

Engagement

Entries should demonstrate how the work was key in successfully driving positive interaction with the target audience.

THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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