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:

Naz Nazli
Creative X, Meta

Lewis Williams
Williams Creative Group Chicago

Alex Athanasiou
COLLINS

Stephanie Hind
Patreon

Praveen Kumar Krishnamurthy
Adobe Inc.

Catherine Chao
NBA

Diogo Felippelli
FOX Entertainment

Jessie Macneil-Brown
Ben & Jerry's

Emeka Obia
Publicis West Africa

Jaclyn Ruelle
Papa Johns

Mary Toves
Disney

Christina Hardy
Bumble

Eric Toda
Meta

Jack Gillard-Rayer
Amazon Music

Erica Henderson
INNOCEAN USA

Jodanna Bird
Lounge

Jonah Birns
NBCUniversal TV & Streaming

Alix McAlpine
GIPHY

Marcelo Ramirez
Havas New York

Deidre Osei
Rocket Social Impact

Josh Mizrachi
Havas

Hung Lang
Digitas

Kevin Petersen
Lenovo

Michael Colella
Infillion

Ashley Frohnert
PETA

Josh Zimmerman
Creator Coach

Genevieve Taft-Vazquez
The Coca-Cola Company

Susannah Rubin
Publicis

Scott Terry
Forsman & Bodenfors

Valerie Carlson
Critical Mass

Jones Krahl
Deloitte Digital

Pancho González
Inbrax

Josh Paialii
The Many

Stephanie Perez
YeahFoodBeer

Bill Strickland
Bicycling Magazine

Ravi Sunnak
Porter Novelli

Ranjana Choudhry
Wakefern Food Corp.

Michael Campos
Neue Lane

Qianna Smith Bruneteau
American Influencer Council

Jamie Cordwell
Edelman

Preeti Nadgar
Essence Mediacom

Jeff Semones
EssenceMediacom

Lisa Gruber
VML

Justin Baum
Lenovo

Michael Graham
Media Monks

Sascha Piltz
MRM New York

Carla Marshall
Sorbet Digital

Carmen San Segundo
IBM

Lucy Marcus
Marcus Venture Consulting

David Skerrett
Critical Mass

Kiran C K
Independent

Victoria Taylor
LinkedIn

Kirill Lazariev
Lazarev.agency

Tatiana Holifield
VP, Social Content & Growth Marketing

Katie Sturino
Megababe Beauty

Alexandre Faure
The Agency Academy

Jason Dailey
Meta

Silas Nogueira
Leo Burnett

Rob Engelsman
Quick Study

Jason Chung
NYU, Zuber Lawler LLP

Crissy Bogusz
Bravo

Cary Smith
Critical Mass

Zaina Madain
Peacock

Sera Holland
Ketchum

Burak Canpolat

George Olexa

Eric Sandler
Pushkin Industries

Raquelle Zuzarte
Equity Project For All

Shawn Ahmed
Freelance

Abhinit Agarwal
TBWA Singapore

Jaime Padilla
Prado & Padilla

Allison Hobbs
Mediabrands Content Studio

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

Greg Swan
FINN Partners

Goldie Chan
Warm Robots

Jason Perelson
ThinkPlaceX at Synergy Group

John Attanasio
Toonstar

James Gregson
OLIPOP PBC

Maz Farrelly
MazSpeaks.com

Miriam Malta
BBDO LA

Castro Desroches
Translation llc

Melissa Chen
Dell Technologies

Adele Mulford
The Cultivate Company

Armani Barron
IMC

Dmytro Lynnyk
Linnikov Agency

Martin Grosse
KÖNIGSKLASSE

Amy Carvajal

Kymberlie Adams
Soroptimist International

Nickolas James
Sinclair Inc.

Mitesh Kothari
White Rivers Media

Annie Heckenberger
Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness

Erika Bradbury
Consultant

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

Taylor Carter Erin
Instacart

Andrew Borin Cresswell
Freelance

Sergio Spaccavento
Micidial

José Eslinger
BBDO LA

Jake Katz
Waiting In The Sky

Erin Acuff
Insight Creative Group (ICG)

Kaleesha Rajamantri
Amazon Ads

Steve Bowen
PPK

Nic Allum
Cultureland

Sauptik Dhar
Eluvio

Daniel Tolentino
AKQA

Danielle Brigida
World Wildlife Fund

Pierre Babineau
Université de Moncton

Adam Gausepohl
PopShorts, Inc.

Amber Coleman-Mortley
The Female Quotient

Cathy Davenport Lee
Eluvio

Carmen Boon
Food Bank for New York City

Christoph Kastenholz
CEO & Co-Founder

David Clarke
AKQA

Jan Harling
Virtus Asia Consulting

Jen Dorman
Critical Mass

Jessie Mash
SonderCo

Lara Daniel
Pulse Advertising

Mark Durney
Porter Novelli

Nick Bilodeau
Quantum

Nkululeko Vilakazi
Machine_

Patricia Gray
KINESSO

Victor Mattoni
BBDO Group Germany

Normurod Khasanov
ADMIRE

Peter Minnium
M+ Consulting

Angie Gola-Ebue
HER LGBTQ+ Dating /Social

Magnus Gylje
Swedish Radio (SR)

Caitlin Horrigan
Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Stephanie Lager
Mango Creative Co.

Tiffany Rivers
Media Cause

Yadira Harrison
Verb

Howie Kleinberg
Glow

Michelle Underwood
Havas

Mitu Yilma
Born This Way Foundation

Florence Achado
Vee69

Adina Smith
Principal Consultant

Sean DallasKidd
Demonstrate x DDW

Lowry Yankwich
LBY Media

Adu Adu
A Dose Of Black Joy & Caffeine Podcast

Renee Van den Oetelaar
Head Of Boomerang FT.

Steve Howze
Forsman & Bodenfors

James Maclean
Maclean Creative

Katie Soo
DICE

Zeyi Yang
MIT Technology Review

Tim Leake
Let's Lightbulb

Ahmet Hüsrev Sefer
Bilyoner

Maximilian Eugster
Agentur am Flughafen AG

Samira Rafi
Boomerang Communication

Shefik Macauley
Shefik Presents Invocation

Keith Pape
YellowPike Media

Ariel Sims
Digitas North America

Jason Morros
Edison Properties

Cici Ghattas
Paramount Global

Matt Klein
Reddit

Jerry Hizon
Dentsu Creative Philippines & Dentsu Creative Manila

Ivellisse Morales
bombilla

Amy Starnes
Best Friends Animal Society

Ben Yabsley
Dentsu Creative

Carlos Altamirano
Digitas Peru

Dan Trimarchi
McCann New York

Diego Lauton
Ogilvy Amsterdam

Svetlana Stotskaya
Independent Consultant

Eugene Mischenko
President

Tamas Adam
VML

Aquayemi-Claude Akinsanya
GCBR and TCSL Campaign

Thomas Kolster
Goodvertising

Charles Ifegwu
THE FIFTH

Paolo Deleon
Dentsu Creative Philippines

Gaby Surkin
Bader Media Group

Jiayuan Wang
Vision Studio

Troy Scarlott
Horizon Media

Mijal Tenenbaum
Small Girls PR

Dustin Sveum
Small Girls PR

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

Kristen Connell
Scholastic

Sarah Kincaid
Kinesso

Olha Bahaieva
Dish Network

Augustina(Ao) Liu
Toast, Inc.

Azizbek Sayidov
Taboo Branding

Sophie Katsali
Canva

Andrew Levine
NA

Yan Liu
Microsoft

Gigi Harville
The Paul Harville Group

Ran Wei
Microsoft for Startups Microsoft

Vitali Zahharov
MØDDEN

Jen Moss
JAR Audio

Ahmed Alsagheer
Asharq Business with Bloomberg

Karen Freberg
University of Louisville

Alex Brodsky
Playsense

Arun Gupta
Confiance Tech Solutions

Lauren Haberfield
Edelman

Justin Ayars
equalityMD

Trelanda Lowe
Vision Edge Media

Sean Brown
Courageous Studios

Sunny Vachher
SUNNY

Jose Neves
Forsman & Bodenfors

Jhon Jaimes
Dentsu Creative

Kai Deveraux Lawson
Valerie

Jennifer Stack
Sid Lee

Marcela Angeles
Media.Monks

Tina Mulqueen
Kindred PR

Joanne Tombrakos

Maria Rastatourova
https://masharastatourova.com

James Nord
Fohr

Gabrielle Prawl
Razorfish

Cassidy Lashaway
The Refinery

Pranjali Ajay Parse
Autodesk, Inc.

Steve Rock
Good Kids Creative

Bipasha Mookherjee
Episode Four

Paul David
Literal Humans

Grant Owens
Critical Mass

Halley Knigge
REI Co-op

Gemma Craven
Bosseur

Daniel Thomer
VML New York

Gus Haffling
DDB Germany

Oluwafemi Olugbade
The Soundbaking Company

Jonathan Unger
Unger Media

Joy Moh
Head of Communications & Marketing

Jasmine Presson
Mediaplus North America

Madeleine Nischan
COLOR Creative

Nneka Norville

Carrie Shade
Against Suicide Movement

Eric Wallace
Glo Navy

Alexander Eugster
Agentur am Flughafen AG

Jason Rowland
Google

Jeffrey L. Bowman
Reframe

Ronnie Stewart
OH HEY COACH

Dominic Riley
Netflix

Kinal Shah
Bloomberg Media

Zanade Mann
Zanade Enterprises, LLC

Andy Pearson
Liquid Death

Erika Lovegreen
ICUC.social

Josefina Rodriguez
Google

Craig Markou
Candybox

Dzu Bui
Ad Council

Karen Levy
Tropicana

Julie Lee
TDW+Co

Ashley Graham
The Conscious Publicist®

Ina Lins
Ketchum Austria

Beth Carroll
VML

Ashley Rudder
Deutsch NY

Edward Mcdonald-Neidenbach
Pantone

Bethany Eppner
Amazon

Satenik Ghazaryan
Armenia Digital Awards

Temeka Easter Rice
Vanguard

Lola Bakare
[email protected]

Thomas Guilbert
Lambs

Rahul Jain
Netflix

Matt Wolff
Ticket Time Machine™

Sara Porritt
Omnicom Media Group

Steve Kerry
Monks

Jinal Shah
Zip

Rebecca Nunez
The MRN Agency

Gunjan Paliwal
Meta

Dafne Vallejo
Ogilvy México

Samer Zeidan
VML CHILE

Nate Jones
United Talent Agency

Megan Baumann
State Farm

Jennifer Rosenberg
The Honest Company

Jemma Gould
IPG

Rachel Schnorr
Ad Net Zero

John Osborn
Ad Net Zero

Joy Ekuta
Retrospect

Andrew Caravella

Jessica Williams
Shopify

Daisy Rogers-Byrne

Gabriel Berta
Nu

Santiago Moreno
The LEGO Group

Rodrigo Martinez
Cappuccino Agency

Duc Nguyen
Dentsu

Lorena Costa
Nubank

Alyson Griffin
State Farm

Jordan Howard
ShftSpace

Rosemary Fitzgerald
Spiderweb Studio

Matthew Dec

Eirasmin Lokpez-Cobo
Republica Havas Health

Ekaterina Frolova
BIGO

Anthony Roberts Jr.
KFC

Leandro Barral
WILD FI

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!