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 17th Annual Shorty Awards judges whose expertise expands across fields such as marketing, design, communications, strategy and more:

Keum Roling
lululemon

JulieAnne Evanina
SiriusXM

Alia Kemet
SHIPT

Matt Zavala
MSL

Leslie Hall
Iced Media

Mark Schroffner
The Media Image

Aaron Francois
Laundry Service/Wasserman | Black Visionaries

Jim Tobin
Ignite Social Media

Jeannine Feyen
Talkspace

Gabe Gordon
Reach Agency

Richard Haire
British Columbia Institute of Technology

Peter Bray
Bray & Co.

Kate Winick
Senior Director, Social Media

Joshua Weaver
Josh Weaver Group

Kara Hendrick
Chewy, Inc.

Tristan Pineiro
Grindr

Harun Zankel
Publicis

Erica Kraus
I Am Rollerskating LLC

Shadille Estepan
Born This Way Foundation

Pam Fujimoto
Golin

Nickie Thongton
Ogilvy

Damian Galvin
VML

Jennifer Winberg
Ogilvy

Stevie Morris
Razorfish

Luke McDade
Netflix

Fahad Khawaja
Hue

Jessica Rudis
The Walt Disney Company

Sami Lambert

Mike Proulx
Forrester

Sarah Harnisch Amatuzio
Freelance/Independent

Hital Pandya
Leo Burnett Chicago

Erica Myers
Starz

Julie Steinhagen
Ugly Wolf

Vitor Elman
Cappuccino

Victor Nguyen-Long
Google

Kate Moriarty
Bloomberg Media

Laura Macdonald

David Vasquez
Fizz Social

Eduardo Chiriboga
ECHO+

Rit Bottorf
Leo NY

Nadezhda Camperlengo
The Martin Agency

Tristan Barrocks
Barrocks INC

Amin Khelil
Friends

Tim McCracken
BarkleyOKRP

Vibhu Arora

Matt Kerbel
Turo

Luna Maroun
Adobe

Felipe Farah
GUT São Paulo

Emery Barnes
DoorDash

Elaine Shui
Whalar

Anurag Goyal
Google

Nick Gallo
Loop

Raul Lima
Gut

Dev Karaca
Kyra

Lia Haberman
ICYMI

Paulie Dery

Robyn Nissim
Social Proof Agency

Henry Mandelbaum
20Dash

Ansley Williams
Ogilvy

Sam Reichman
None Other

Rob Alley
Amazon, Brand Innovation Lab

Sergio Spaccavento
Micidial

Janina Lundy
HARTBEAT

Mars Milisic
Consiglieri X Google

Maggie Perlich
Burns Entertainment

Kate Wolff
Lupine Creative

Julia Fedor
United Airlines

Katerina Kulp
HILLOW HILLOW

Nicolas Presat
Media Experts

Vanessa Beaulac
Media Experts

Haye Anderson
Ubisoft

Drew Forrest
nice&frank

Jane Kendall
The New York Times

Aliah Davis-McHenry

Matt Gardea
Wildtype Health

Christopher Butler
Uber

Reonna Johnson
Deutsch

Vivian Rodal
Subway

Jack Daley
Bose

Dan Moth
VML Aotearoa

Chrissie Hanson
OMD USA

Atiya Zaidi
BBDO Pakistan

Michael Porter
Telescope Inc.

Emily Furtado
Media Experts

Natalia Fredericks
Party Land

Rachel Birnbaum
T Brand Studio at The New York Times

Mantwa TOKA
Publicis Groupe Africa

Leslie Laredo
Academy of Digital Media

Jorge Cabrera Ruiz
Ogilvy

Xiaobi Iris Pan
Amazon

Nick Bianchi
MR NICE WEIRD 🫠

Morgan Wynne
Kalderos

Mikki Bennett
Warner Bros. Discovery

Liam Tjoa
GoSpooky

Diego Enriquez
Warner Bros Discovery

Anar Shah
Background Noise

Cory Conrad
Coinbase

Tatum Pederson
Farrynheight

Tamara Tkachuk
Kinesso

Maria Luisina Puebla Ferro
Felicidad Collective

Nick Francis DiFonzo
Code and Theory

monica marshall
Ruder Finn

João Inácio
DEPT Agency

camille imbert
kettle

Diego Luis
Warner Bros. Discovery

jamie gutfreund
Creator Vision

Ariba Jahan
Anomaly

Nishat Akhtar
Instrument

Annie Granatstein
Marriott International

Megha Goel
Suave & ChapStick

Raf McDonnell
Talent & Brands

Ana Luna
Euphoria Creative

Marcus Hartung
Ogilvy

John Sampogna
Wondersauce

Maya Warburg
Ad Council

Charlie Ibarra
Creator Television

Pablo de Arteaga
Wieden+Kennedy México

Leslie Smith
Bumble

Marcus Gilmore
We Are Social

Todd Feitlin
One Horizon

Paddy Smith
Born Social

Ashlee Piga
Noblestream Marketing

Benjamin Pedrero
BBDO Mexico

Melissa Severin
SVP, Communications

Jason Keehn
Accompany Creative

Ran Wei
Microsoft for Startups Microsoft

Jessie Macneil-Brown
Ben & Jerry's

Edward Anassah
Humble Beginning Stories, Canada

Anthony Cain
Liquid Media

Naz Nazli
Creative X, Meta

Alex Athanasiou
COLLINS

Danielle Brigida
World Wildlife Fund

Ashley Frohnert
PETA

Adele Mulford
The Cultivate Company

Lewis Williams
Williams Creative Group Chicago

Dave Rosner
Audigent

Rudi Anggono
The LEGO Group

Nandini Nandakumar
Diageo

Justin Baum
Lenovo

Justin Ayars
equalityMD

Dakota Lowe
Edelman

Rick Song
Brand Innovators Strategy Group

Sam Kimmel
Hello Sunshine

Joy Ekuta
Stealth

Dan Trimarchi
VML New York

Ranjana choudhry
Inmar Intelligence

Asha Cowell
DENTSU

Scott Terry
Forsman & Bodenfors NY

Alexandre Faure
FaureMidable

Josh Zimmerman
Creator Coach

Alix McAlpine
GIPHY

Sunny Vachher
SUNNY

Rodrigo Martinez
Cappuccino

Tudor Feraru
1000heads

John McAdorey
Omnicom Production

Kindra Meyer
VERB

Luminitza Lopez Lozano
TikTok

Carmen Boon
Food Bank for New York City

Eric Wallace
Glo Navy

Tamas Ádám-Iszlai
VML

Kai Deveraux Lawson
Valerie

Leandro Barral
WILD FI

Craig Markou
Candybox

Abhinit Agarwal
TBWA Singapore

Cici Ghattas
Eventbrite

Jan Harling
Virtus Asia Consulting

Hung Lang
Digitas

Kristen Connell
Scholastic

Carla Marshall
Sorbet Digital

Jennifer Blanco
Indeed

Jaime Padilla
Prado & Padilla

Florence Achado
Vee69

Jonathan Unger
Unger Media

Ekaterina Frolova
BIGO

Vilmar Fernandes
Freelance

Jason Perelson
Daring Waters

Christine Whitemarsh
La-Z-Boy Incorporated

Marcela Angeles
MullenLowe Mexico

Sean DallasKidd
Demonstrate x DDW

Deidre Osei
Talawah Impact

Stephanie Hind
Patreon

John Attanasio
Toonstar

Joanna Cohen
Publicis Groupe

Tessa Banks
GALE

Normurod Khasanov
ADMIRE

Stephanie Lager
Mango Creative Co.

Gemma Craven
Scribd, Inc.

Maggie Khoury
Grammarly

Hardik Dharmesh Ruparel
Nutanix

Satenik Ghazaryan
Armenia Digital Awards

Steve Rock
Good Kids Creative

Ashley Tolusic Einhorn
TALOOP

Zaina Madain
OKPerfect

Svetlana Stotskaya
Independent Consultant

Sherri Solinger
The Atlas Creative CollectiVe, LLC

Samira Rafi
Boomerang Communication

Maz Farrelly
MazSpeaksGlobal.com

Jones Krahl

Aihui Dong
Producer and Creative Advisor

Jenn Bader
BADER

Gigi Harville
The Paul Harville Group

Brian Jones
Mint Mobile

Augustina(Ao) Liu
Toast, Inc.

Lori Martin
...

Jarrod Corbett
Look Squirrel

Francisco Vial
Rompecabeza

Mauricio Meza
The Big Ideas Co.

Jesse Spencer
The Coca-Cola Company

Paolo Deleon
Dentsu Creative Philippines

Brian Schopfel
Ordinary Everything

Jiri Bures
Imagination

Troy Scarlott
Independent

Zanade Mann
Zanade Enterprises LLC

Galina Shubik
Affect Group

Kiran C K
Independent Designer

Anthony Roberts Jr.
University of Utah Dining Services

Greg Swan
FINN Partners

Erika Bradbury
Morning Brew Inc.

Praveen Kumar Krishnamurthy
Adobe Inc.

Emeka Obia
Publicis West Africa

Erica Henderson
INNOCEAN USA

Marcelo Ramirez
Freelance

Kevin Petersen
Lenovo

Michael Colella
Infillion

Valerie Carlson
Critical Mass

Brittany Hennessy
Sprout Social, Inc.

Pancho González
Inbrax

Anne Love Feild
BarkleyOKRP

Josh Paialii

Michael Campos
DeepSleep Studio

Angela Matusik
A.M. Stories

Jamie Cordwell
Edelman

Lisa Gruber
VML

Sascha Piltz
MRM New York

Rob Drury
Cartwheel & Co. Marketing

David Skerrett
Critical Mass

Victoria Taylor
LinkedIn

Jason Dailey
Meta

Silas Nogueira
FCB Chicago

Rob Engelsman
Quick Study

Eduardo Balloussier
Independent

Cary Smith
Brand Power

Enrique Camacho

Burak Canpolat

Raquelle Zuzarte
Equity Project For All

Shawn Ahmed
Freelance

Allison Hobbs
Mediabrands Content Studio

Colin Parajon
Netflix

Meredith Goldberg-Morse
Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios (Paramount)

Brian Lefkowitz
Digitas Health

Stav ozdoba
Rubber Sole Creative

camilo ruano
Ogilvy

Madan Thangavelu
Uber

James Gregson

Nicole Weiss-Calamar

Miriam Malta
BBDO LA

Melissa Chen
Dell Technologies

Armani Barron Elder
Empire Entertainment

Dmytro Lynnyk
Linnik & Linnik

Martin Grosse
KÖNIGSKLASSE

Amy Carvajal
Amy x Co

Kymberlie Adams
Soroptimist International

Annie Heckenberger
Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness

Katherine Auguston
Code and Theory

Christian Varsava
Pilot

Stephen Leps
IBM

Nic Allum
Cultureland

Cathy Davenport Lee
Eluvio

Jen Dorman
Critical Mass

Lara Daniel
Pulse Advertising

Mark Durney
Porter Novelli

Angie Gola-Ebue
HER LGBTQ+ Dating /Social

Magnus Gylje
Swedish Radio (SR)

Caitlin Horrigan
Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Tiffany Rivers
Media Cause

Howie Kleinberg
Glow

Michelle Underwood
Havas

Mitu Yilma
Born This Way Foundation

Adina Smith
Kroll

Katie Soo
DICE

Zeyi Yang
WIRED

Ahmet Hüsrev Sefer
Récreation

Maximilian Eugster
Agentur am Flughafen AG

Shefik Macauley
Shefik Presents Invocation

Keith Pape
YellowPike Media

Jason Morros
Edison Properties

Jerry Hizon
Dentsu Creative Philippines & Dentsu Creative Manila

Carlos Altamirano
Digitas Peru

Eugene Mischenko
E-Commerce & Digital Marketing Association

Aquayemi-Claude Akinsanya
GCBR and TCSL Campaign

Mijal Tenenbaum
Small Girls PR

Sarah Kincaid
Kinesso

Azizbek Sayidov
Taboo Branding

Sophie Katsali
Canva

Andrew Levine
Dotdash Meredith

Vitali Zahharov
MØDDEN

Ahmed Alsagheer
Asharq Business with Bloomberg

Karen Freberg
University of Louisville

Alex Brodsky
Playsense

Trelanda Lowe
Vision Edge Media

Jhon Jaimes
Dentsu Creative

Jennifer Stack
Sid Lee

Gabrielle Prawl
Razorfish

Pranjali Ajay Parse
Autodesk, Inc.

Oluwafemi Olugbade
The Soundbaking Company

Joy Moh
The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)

Carrie Shade
Against Suicide Movement

Alexander Eugster
Agentur am Flughafen AG

Kinal Shah
Bloomberg Media

Erika Lovegreen
ICUC.social

Karen Levy
Tropicana Brands Group

Julie Lee
TDW+Co

Ashley Graham
The Conscious Publicist®

Ina Lins
Ketchum Austria

Temeka Easter Rice
Vanguard

Lola Bakare
[email protected]

Matt Wolff
Ticket Time Machine™

Sara Porritt
Omnicom Media Group

Steve Kerry
Monks

Rebecca Nunez
The MRN Agency

Gunjan Paliwal
Meta

Dafne Vallejo
Ogilvy México

Samer Zeidan
VML CHILE

Megan Baumann
State Farm

Andrew Caravella
Producer & Marketing Advisor

Jessica Williams
Shopify

Santiago Moreno
The LEGO Group

Duc Nguyen
Dentsu

Lorena Costa
Alice Health

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 strategic plan that was key to the organization meeting their objectives.

Creativity/Originality/Innovation

Entries should demonstrate how the 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!