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

Danielle Brigida
World Wildlife Fund

Alia Kemet
SHIPT

Matt Zavala
MSL

Carmen Boon
Food Bank for New York City

Joy Ekuta
Retrospect

Leslie Hall
Iced Media

Stephen Leps
IBM

Eric Wallace
Glo Navy

Sophie Katsali
Canva

Mark Schroffner
The Media Image

Angela Matusik
A.M. Stories

Eugene Mischenko
E-Commerce & Digital Marketing Association

Jerry Hizon
Dentsu Creative Philippines & Dentsu Creative Manila

Tamas Adam
VML

Kai Deveraux Lawson
Valerie

Kymberlie Adams
Soroptimist International

Dan Trimarchi
VML New York

Ranjana choudhry
Inmar Intelligence

Aaron Francois
Laundry Service/Wasserman | Black Visionaries

Kiran C K
NetBramha - Global UI/UX Design Company

Jim Tobin
Ignite Social Media

Karen Freberg
University of Louisville

Jeannine Feyen
Talkspace

Leandro Barral
WILD FI

Jason Morros
Edison Properties

Sarah Kincaid
Kinesso

Craig Markou
Candybox

Abhinit Agarwal
TBWA Singapore

Katherine Auguston
Code and Theory

Lara Daniel
Pulse Advertising

Cici Ghattas
Paramount Global

Gabe Gordon
Reach Agency

Valerie Carlson
Critical Mass

Asha Cowell

Jan Harling
Virtus Asia Consulting

Richard Haire
British Columbia Institute of Technology

Peter Bray
Bray & Co.

Anthony Roberts Jr.
KFC

Hung Lang
Digitas

Kristen Connell
Scholastic

Kate Winick
Senior Director, Social Media

Rob Engelsman
Quick Study

Gabrielle Prawl
Razorfish

Carla Marshall
Sorbet Digital

Ashley Frohnert
PETA

Scott Terry
Forsman & Bodenfors NY

Jennifer Blanco
Indeed

Ran Wei
Microsoft for Startups Microsoft

Jaime Padilla
Prado & Padilla

Michael Colella
Infillion

Greg Swan
FINN Partners

David Skerrett
Critical Mass

Joshua Weaver
Josh Weaver Group

Armani Barron
IMC

Kara Hendrick
Chewy, Inc.

Tristan Pineiro
Grindr

Florence Achado
Vee69

Jonathan Unger
Unger Media

Ashley Graham
The Conscious Publicist®

Sascha Piltz
MRM New York

Jessie Macneil-Brown
Ben & Jerry's

Harun Zankel
Publicis

Erica Kraus
I Am Rollerskating LLC

Jason Dailey
Meta

Shawn Ahmed
Freelance

Vitali Zahharov
MØDDEN

Annie Heckenberger
Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness

Alex Brodsky
Playsense

Erika Bradbury
Morning Brew

Ekaterina Frolova
BIGO

Melissa Chen
Dell Technologies

Alexander Eugster
Agentur am Flughafen AG

Azizbek Sayidov
Taboo Branding

Tiffany Rivers
Media Cause

Gunjan Paliwal
Meta

Dmytro Lynnyk
Linnikov Agency

Andrew Caravella
Producer & Marketing Advisor

Adele Mulford
The Cultivate Company

Lewis Williams
Williams Creative Group Chicago

Shadille Estepan
Born This Way Foundation

Pam Fujimoto
Golin

Martin Grosse
KÖNIGSKLASSE

Nic Allum
Cultureland

Vilmar Fernandes

Jason Perelson
Brand Rebellion

Nicole Weiss-Calamar
Freelance - Marketing Consultant

Nickie Thongton
Ogilvy

Rebecca Nunez
The MRN Agency

Jessica Williams
Shopify

Mitu Yilma
Born This Way Foundation

Damian Galvin
VML

Jhon Jaimes
Dentsu Creative

Christine Whitemarsh
True Value Company

Marcela Angeles
MullenLowe Mexico

Jennifer Winberg
Ogilvy

Troy Scarlott
Horizon Media

Sean DallasKidd
Demonstrate x DDW

Dave Rosner
Audigent

Alexandre Faure
The Agency Academy

Deidre Osei
Talawah Impact

Marcelo Ramirez
Havas New York

Stevie Morris
Razorfish

Luke McDade
Netflix

Fahad Khawaja
Hue

Mark Durney
Porter Novelli

Sara Porritt
Omnicom Media Group

Jessica Rudis
The Walt Disney Company

Josh Zimmerman
Creator Coach

Caitlin Horrigan
Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Sami Lambert
Adweek

Keith Pape
YellowPike Media

Josh Paialii
The Many

Megan Baumann
State Farm

Mike Proulx
Forrester

Erika Lovegreen
ICUC.social

Emeka Obia
Publicis West Africa

Alix McAlpine
GIPHY

Pancho González
Inbrax

Ahmet Hüsrev Sefer
Récreation

Joy Moh
The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)

Sarah Harnisch Amatuzio
Freelance/Independent

Aquayemi-Claude Akinsanya
GCBR and TCSL Campaign

Sunny Vachher
SUNNY

Hital Pandya
Leo Burnett Chicago

Erica Myers
Starz

Stephanie Hind
Patreon

Ahmed Alsagheer
Asharq Business with Bloomberg

Julie Steinhagen
Ugly Wolf

Vitor Elman

John Attanasio
Toonstar

Rodrigo Martinez
Cappuccino Agency

Joanna Cohen

Victor Nguyễn-Long

Kate Moriarty
Bloomberg Media

Rudi Anggono
The LEGO Group

Annie Granatstein

Laura Macdonald

Aleen Dreksler
Betches

Enrique Camacho

Tessa Banks
GALE

Nandini Nandakumar
Diageo

Duc Nguyen
Dentsu

Normurod Khasanov
ADMIRE

Stephanie Lager
Mango Creative Co.

Brittany Hennessy
The Influence Suite

Carlos Altamirano
Digitas Peru

Cary Smith
Brand Power

Maximilian Eugster
Agentur am Flughafen AG

Gemma Craven
Bosseur

David Vasquez
Fizz Social

Eduardo Chiriboga
ECHO+

camilo ruano
DDB

Rit Bottorf
Publicis NY

Nadezhda Camperlengo
The Martin Agency

Tristan Barrocks
Barrocks INC

Amin Khelil
Friends

Tim McCracken
BarkleyOKRP

Vibhu Arora

Maggie Khoury

Matt Kerbel
Turo

Anne Love Feild

Luna Maroun
Adobe

Felipe Farah

Hardik Dharmesh Ruparel
Nutanix

Emery Barnes
DoorDash

Elaine Shui

Anurag Goyal
Google

Tudor Feraru
1000heads

Satenik Ghazaryan
Armenia Digital Awards

Nick Gallo
Loop

Raul Lima
Gut

Dev Karaca

Lia Haberman

Paulie Dery

Edward Anassah
Humble Beginning Stories, Canada

Robyn Nissim
Social Proof Agency

Henry Mandelbaum
20Dash

Ansley Williams

Steve Rock
Good Kids Creative

Matt Wolff
Ticket Time Machine™

Sam Reichman
None Other

Rob Alley
Amazon, Brand Innovation Lab

Ashley Tolusic Einhorn
TALOOP

Madan Thangavelu
Uber

Zaina Madain

Victoria Taylor
LinkedIn

Trelanda Lowe
Vision Edge Media

Svetlana Stotskaya
Independent Consultant

Sherri Solinger
Revolve Agency

Shefik Macauley
Shefik Presents Invocation

Sergio Spaccavento
Micidial

Anthony Cain
Liquid Media

Janina Lundy

Eduardo Balloussier
Rei do Pitaco

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!