WHO WILL BE JUDGING MY WORK?

Each season the Shorty Impact Awards carefully curates a group of Real Time Academy members to judge the current competition. Here are the 9th Annual Shorty Impact Awards judges whose expertise expands across fields such as marketing, design, communications, strategy and more:

Adam Gausepohl
PopShorts, Inc.

Jennifer Stack
Sid Lee

Lisa Gruber
VML

Lucy Marcus
Marcus Venture Consulting

Carrie Shade
Against Suicide Movement

Gregg Weiss
Citi

Shefik Macauley
Shefik Presents Invocation

Andrew Levine
NA

Eric Toda
Meta

Michael Campos
Neue Lane

Gigi Harville
The Paul Harville Group

Ashley Frohnert
PETA

Victoria Taylor
LinkedIn

Anthony Roberts Jr.
KFC

Nneka Norville

Martin Grosse
KÖNIGSKLASSE

Goldie Chan
Warm Robots

Katie Sturino
Megababe Beauty

Justin Baum
Lenovo

Stephanie Perez
YeahFoodBeer

Cathy Davenport Lee
Eluvio

Gemma Craven
Bosseur

Mark Durney
Porter Novelli

Bill Strickland
Bicycling Magazine

Adina Smith
Principal Consultant

John Attanasio
Toonstar

Peter Minnium
M+ Consulting

Bipasha Mookherjee
Episode Four

Scott Terry
Forsman & Bodenfors

Grant Owens
Critical Mass

Sean DallasKidd
Demonstrate x DDW

Rodrigo Martinez
Cappuccino Agency

Madeleine Nischan
COLOR Creative

Rob Engelsman
Quick Study

Alix McAlpine
GIPHY

Crissy Bogusz
Bravo

Yadira Harrison
Verb

Carmen Boon
Food Bank for New York City

Stephen Leps
IBM

Carla Marshall
Sorbet Digital

Howie Kleinberg
Glow

Jason Morros
Edison Properties

Kevin Petersen
Lenovo

Duc Nguyen
Dentsu

Qianna Smith Bruneteau
American Influencer Council

Steve Rock
Good Kids Creative

Josh Zimmerman
Creator Coach

Sergio Spaccavento
Micidial

Magnus Gylje
Swedish Radio (SR)

Greg Swan
FINN Partners

Josh Mizrachi
Havas

Lara Daniel
Pulse Advertising

Mijal Tenenbaum
Small Girls PR

Patricia Gray
KINESSO

Annie Heckenberger
Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness

Adele Mulford
The Cultivate Company

Alexandre Faure
The Agency Academy

Halley Knigge
REI Co-op

Lewis Williams
Williams Creative Group Chicago

James Gregson

Shawn Ahmed
Freelance

Valerie Carlson
Critical Mass

Christian Varsava
Logitech

Joy Moh
Head of Communications & Marketing

Tina Mulqueen
Kindred PR

Trelanda Lowe
Vision Edge Media

Taylor Carter Erin
Instacart

Dominic Riley
Netflix

Amy Starnes
Best Friends Animal Society

Carmen San Segundo
IBM

Adam Robinson
Paramount Global

Stephanie Lager
Mango Creative Co.

Melissa Chen
Dell Technologies

Genevieve Taft-Vazquez
The Coca-Cola Company

José Eslinger
BBDO LA

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

Keith Pape
YellowPike Media

Erika Bradbury
Consultant

George Olexa
Intel

Samira Rafi
Boomerang Communication

Armani Barron
IMC

Erika Lovegreen
ICUC.social

Adu Adu
A Dose Of Black Joy & Caffeine Podcast

Maz Farrelly
MazSpeaks.com

Castro Desroches
Translation llc

Dmytro Lynnyk
Linnikov Agency

Mitu Yilma
Born This Way Foundation

Lauren Haberfield
Edelman

Cary Smith
Critical Mass

Kiran C K
Independent

James Maclean
Maclean Creative

Erica Henderson
INNOCEAN USA

Caitlin Horrigan
Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Michael Graham
Media Monks

Kirill Lazariev
Lazarev.agency

Eric Sandler
Pushkin Industries

Michelle Underwood
Havas

Sascha Piltz
MRM New York

Katie Soo
DICE

Preeti Nadgar
Essence Mediacom

Bernice Chao
TDW+Co

Andrew Borin Cresswell
Freelance

Ranjana Choudhry
Wakefern Food Corp.

Jerry Hizon
Dentsu Creative Philippines & Dentsu Creative Manila

Burak Canpolat

Mary Toves
Disney

Ivellisse Morales
bombilla

Sera Holland
Ketchum

Ashley Rudder
Deutsch NY

Rebecca Nunez
The MRN Agency

Amy Carvajal

Renee Van den Oetelaar
Head Of Boomerang FT.

Ahmet Hüsrev Sefer
Bilyoner

Josh Paialii
The Many

Lowry Yankwich
LBY Media

Steve Bowen
PPK

Normurod Khasanov
ADMIRE

Andrew Caravella

Maximilian Eugster
Agentur am Flughafen AG

Zeyi Yang
MIT Technology Review

Tatiana Holifield
VP, Social Content & Growth Marketing

Jen Moss
JAR Audio

Naz Nazli
Creative X, Meta

Julie Lee
TDW+Co

John Osborn
Ad Net Zero

Jason Dailey
Meta

Florence Achado
Vee69

Jason Chung
NYU, Zuber Lawler LLP

Kinal Shah
Bloomberg Media

Lola Bakare
[email protected]

Nic Allum
Cultureland

Ravi Sunnak
Porter Novelli

Tiffany Rivers
Media Cause

Tim Leake
Let's Lightbulb

David Skerrett
Critical Mass

Hung Lang
Digitas

Jaime Padilla
Prado & Padilla

Steve Howze
Forsman & Bodenfors

Raquelle Zuzarte
Equity Project For All

Jen Dorman
Critical Mass

Deidre Osei
Rocket Social Impact

Jake Katz
Waiting In The Sky

Emeka Obia
Publicis West Africa

Pierre Babineau
Université de Moncton

Erin Acuff
Insight Creative Group (ICG)

Jenn Bader
BADER

Jonathan Unger
Unger Media

Danielle Brigida
World Wildlife Fund

Zaina Madain
Peacock

Mitesh Kothari
White Rivers Media

Kaleesha Rajamantri
Amazon Ads

Nkululeko Vilakazi
Machine_

Susannah Rubin
Publicis

Miriam Malta
BBDO LA

Ben Yabsley
Dentsu Creative

Jones Krahl
Deloitte Digital

Ariel Sims
Digitas North America

Karen Levy
Tropicana

Jamie Cordwell
Edelman

Jason Rowland
Google

Josefina Rodriguez
Google

Beth Carroll
VML

Diogo Felippelli
FOX Entertainment

Michael Colella
Infillion

Silas Nogueira
Leo Burnett

Jeff Semones
EssenceMediacom

Allison Hobbs
Mediabrands Content Studio

Victor Mattoni
BBDO Group Germany

Abhinit Agarwal
TBWA Singapore

Pancho González
Inbrax

Amber Coleman-Mortley
The Female Quotient

Joy Ekuta
Retrospect

Nickolas James
Sinclair Inc.

Katherine Auguston
Code and Theory

Paul David
Literal Humans

Jessie Mash
SonderCo

Jameson Rossi
McKinney

Sarah Kincaid
Kinesso

James Nord
Fohr

Jack Gillard-Rayer
Amazon Music

Christina Hardy
Bumble

Marcelo Ramirez
Havas New York

Dan Trimarchi
McCann New York

Maria Rastatourova
https://masharastatourova.com

Jason Perelson
ThinkPlaceX at Synergy Group

David Clarke
AKQA

Sauptik Dhar
Eluvio

Daniel Tolentino
AKQA

Carlos Altamirano
Digitas Peru

Diego Lauton
Ogilvy Amsterdam

Jonah Birns
NBCUniversal TV & Streaming

Svetlana Stotskaya
Independent Consultant

Leandro Barral
WILD FI

Christoph Kastenholz
CEO & Co-Founder

Jan Harling
Virtus Asia Consulting

Nick Bilodeau
Quantum

Tamas Adam
VML

Aquayemi-Claude Akinsanya
GCBR and TCSL Campaign

Samer Zeidan
VML CHILE

Kai Deveraux Lawson
Valerie

Ran Wei
Microsoft for Startups Microsoft

Cassidy Lashaway
The Refinery

Gaby Surkin
Bader Media Group

Paolo Deleon
Dentsu Creative Philippines

Kristen Connell
Scholastic

Praveen Kumar Krishnamurthy
Adobe Inc.

Olha Bahaieva
Dish Network

Jiayuan Wang
Vision Studio

Augustina(Ao) Liu
Toast, Inc.

Azizbek Sayidov
Taboo Branding

Sophie Katsali
Canva

Pranjali Ajay Parse
Autodesk, Inc.

Troy Scarlott
Horizon Media

Yan Liu
Microsoft

Ashley Graham
The Conscious Publicist®

Ahmed Alsagheer
Asharq Business with Bloomberg

Edward Mcdonald-Neidenbach
Pantone

Joanne Tombrakos

Jhon Jaimes
Dentsu Creative

Vitali Zahharov
MØDDEN

Karen Freberg
University of Louisville

Marcela Angeles
Media.Monks

Alex Brodsky
Playsense

Eugene Mischenko
President

Arun Gupta
Confiance Tech Solutions

Jose Neves
Forsman & Bodenfors

Gabrielle Prawl
Razorfish

Dustin Sveum
Small Girls PR

Kori Mastroieni
KDM Creative (currently consulting with Macy’s)

Eirasmin Lokpez-Cobo
Republica Havas Health

Kymberlie Adams
Soroptimist International

Sean Brown
Courageous Studios

Sunny Vachher
SUNNY

Justin Ayars
equalityMD

Alex Athanasiou
COLLINS

Matt Klein
Reddit

Charles Ifegwu
THE FIFTH

Daniel Thomer
VML New York

Satenik Ghazaryan
Armenia Digital Awards

Oluwafemi Olugbade
The Soundbaking Company

Eric Wallace
Glo Navy

Jasmine Presson
Mediaplus North America

Alexander Eugster
Agentur am Flughafen AG

Jessie Macneil-Brown
Ben & Jerry's

Thomas Kolster
Goodvertising

Jeffrey L. Bowman
Reframe

Ronnie Stewart
OH HEY COACH

Zanade Mann
Zanade Enterprises, LLC

Stephanie Hind
Patreon

Rosemary Fitzgerald
Spiderweb Studio

Craig Markou
Candybox

Dzu Bui
Ad Council

Jodanna Bird
Lounge

Ina Lins
Ketchum Austria

Catherine Chao
NBA

Bethany Eppner
Amazon

Jaclyn Ruelle
Papa Johns

Gus Haffling
DDB Germany

Angie Gola-Ebue
HER LGBTQ+ Dating /Social

Temeka Easter Rice
Vanguard

Rahul Jain
Netflix

Steve Kerry
Monks

Thomas Guilbert
Lambs

Jennifer Rosenberg
The Honest Company

Dafne Vallejo
Ogilvy México

Cici Ghattas
Paramount Global

Sara Porritt
Omnicom Media Group

Jinal Shah
Zip

Matt Wolff
Ticket Time Machine™

Ekaterina Frolova
BIGO

Gunjan Paliwal
Meta

Nate Jones
United Talent Agency

Megan Baumann
State Farm

Jemma Gould
IPG

Rachel Schnorr
Ad Net Zero

Jessica Williams
Shopify

Andy Pearson
Liquid Death

Daisy Rogers-Byrne

Gabriel Berta
Nu

Santiago Moreno
The LEGO Group

Lorena Costa
Nubank

Alyson Griffin
State Farm

Matthew Dec

Jordan Howard
ShftSpace

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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