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:

Sergio Spaccavento
Micidial

Naz Nazli
Creative X, Meta

Alex Athanasiou
COLLINS

Jessie Macneil-Brown
Ben & Jerry's

Adam Robinson
Paramount Global

Ran Wei
Microsoft for Startups Microsoft

Lewis Williams
Williams Creative Group Chicago

Ashley Frohnert
PETA

Justin Baum
Lenovo

Adele Mulford
The Cultivate Company

Danielle Brigida
World Wildlife Fund

Steve Howze
Forsman & Bodenfors

Justin Ayars
equalityMD

Alix McAlpine
GIPHY

Josh Zimmerman
Creator Coach

Scott Terry
Forsman & Bodenfors NY

Ranjana choudhry
Inmar Intelligence

Alexandre Faure
FaureMidable

Ariel Sims
Digitas North America

Dan Trimarchi
VML New York

Sunny Vachher
SUNNY

Jeffrey L. Bowman
Reframe

Ronnie Stewart
OH HEY COACH

Joy Ekuta
Stealth

Rodrigo Martinez
Cappuccino

Stephanie Hind
Patreon

Deidre Osei
Talawah Impact

Hung Lang
Digitas

Jones Krahl

Carla Marshall
Sorbet Digital

Zaina Madain
OKPerfect

Abhinit Agarwal
TBWA Singapore

Jaime Padilla
Prado & Padilla

Jason Perelson
Daring Waters

John Attanasio
Toonstar

Maz Farrelly
MazSpeaksGlobal.com

Jenn Bader
BADER

Carmen Boon
Food Bank for New York City

Jan Harling
Virtus Asia Consulting

Nick Bilodeau
Quantum

Normurod Khasanov
ADMIRE

Stephanie Lager
Mango Creative Co.

Florence Achado
Vee69

Sean DallasKidd
Demonstrate x DDW

Samira Rafi
Boomerang Communication

Cici Ghattas
Eventbrite

Amy Starnes
Best Friends Animal Society

Svetlana Stotskaya
Independent Consultant

Tamas Ádám-Iszlai
VML

Paolo Deleon
Dentsu Creative Philippines

Kristen Connell
Scholastic

Augustina(Ao) Liu
Toast, Inc.

Gigi Harville
The Paul Harville Group

Kai Deveraux Lawson
Valerie

Marcela Angeles
MullenLowe Mexico

Joanne Tombrakos
New York University

Steve Rock
Good Kids Creative

Gemma Craven
Scribd, Inc.

Jonathan Unger
Unger Media

Madeleine Nischan
COLOR Creative

Eric Wallace
Glo Navy

Zanade Mann
Zanade Enterprises LLC

Craig Markou
Candybox

Satenik Ghazaryan
Armenia Digital Awards

Ekaterina Frolova
BIGO

Leandro Barral
WILD FI

Praveen Kumar Krishnamurthy
Adobe Inc.

Qianna Smith Bruneteau
American Influencer Council

Michael Graham
.Monks

Kiran C K
Independent Designer

Greg Swan
FINN Partners

Erika Bradbury
Morning Brew Inc.

Anthony Roberts Jr.
University of Utah Dining Services

Catherine Chao
NBA

Diogo Felippelli
FOX Entertainment

Emeka Obia
Publicis West Africa

Jaclyn Ruelle
Homes.com

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

Marcelo Ramirez
Freelance

Josh Mizrachi
Havas

Kevin Petersen
Lenovo

Michael Colella
Infillion

Genevieve Taft-Vazquez
The Coca-Cola Company

Susannah Rubin
Publicis

Valerie Carlson
Critical Mass

Pancho González
Inbrax

Josh Paialii

Stephanie Perez
YeahFoodBeer

Bill Strickland
Bicycling Magazine

Ravi Sunnak
NY-LON Collective

Michael Campos
DeepSleep Studio

Jamie Cordwell
Edelman

Preeti Nadgar
Essence Mediacom

Jeff Semones
EssenceMediacom

Lisa Gruber
VML

Sascha Piltz
MRM New York

Carmen San Segundo
IBM

Lucy Marcus
Marcus Venture Consulting

David Skerrett
Critical Mass

Victoria Taylor
LinkedIn

Kirill Lazariev
Lazarev.agency

Tatiana Holifield
VP, Social Content & Growth Marketing

Katie Sturino
Megababe Beauty

Jason Dailey
Meta

Silas Nogueira
FCB Chicago

Rob Engelsman
Quick Study

Jason Chung
NYU, Zuber Lawler LLP

Crissy Bogusz
Bravo

Cary Smith
Brand Power

Sera Holland
Ketchum

Burak Canpolat

George Olexa

Eric Sandler
Pushkin Industries

Raquelle Zuzarte
Equity Project For All

Shawn Ahmed
Freelance

Allison Hobbs
Mediabrands Content Studio

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

Goldie Chan
Warm Robots

James Gregson

Miriam Malta
BBDO LA

Castro Desroches
Translation llc

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

Nickolas James
Sinclair Inc.

Mitesh Kothari
White Rivers Media

Annie Heckenberger
Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness

Katherine Auguston
Code and Theory

Gregg Weiss
Citi

Christian Varsava
Pilot

Stephen Leps
IBM

Bernice Chao
TDW+Co

Taylor Carter Erin
Instacart

Andrew Borin Cresswell
Freelance

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

Pierre Babineau
Université de Moncton

Adam Gausepohl
PopShorts, Inc.

Amber Coleman-Mortley
The Female Quotient

Cathy Davenport Lee
Eluvio

Christoph Kastenholz
CEO & Co-Founder

David Clarke
AKQA

Jen Dorman
Critical Mass

Jessie Mash
SonderCo

Lara Daniel
Pulse Advertising

Mark Durney
Porter Novelli

Nkululeko Vilakazi
Machine_

Patricia Gray
KINESSO

Victor Mattoni
HeimatTBWA\

Peter Minnium
M+ Consulting

Angie Gola-Ebue
HER LGBTQ+ Dating /Social

Magnus Gylje
Swedish Radio (SR)

Caitlin Horrigan
Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Tiffany Rivers
Media Cause

Yadira Harrison
Verb

Howie Kleinberg
Glow

Michelle Underwood
Havas

Mitu Yilma
Born This Way Foundation

Adina Smith
Kroll

Lowry Yankwich
LBY Media

Renee Van den Oetelaar
Head Of Boomerang FT.

James Maclean
Maclean Creative

Katie Soo
DICE

Zeyi Yang
WIRED

Tim Leake
Let's Lightbulb

Ahmet Hüsrev Sefer
Récreation

Maximilian Eugster
Agentur am Flughafen AG

Shefik Macauley
Shefik Presents Invocation

Keith Pape
YellowPike Media

Jason Morros
Edison Properties

Matt Klein
Reddit

Jerry Hizon
Dentsu Creative Philippines & Dentsu Creative Manila

Ivellisse Morales
bombilla

Ben Yabsley
Dentsu Creative

Carlos Altamirano
Digitas Peru

Diego Lauton
Ogilvy Amsterdam

Eugene Mischenko
E-Commerce & Digital Marketing Association

Aquayemi-Claude Akinsanya
GCBR and TCSL Campaign

Thomas Kolster
Goodvertising

Charles Ifegwu
THE FIFTH

Gaby Surkin
Bader Media Group

Jiayuan Wang
Vision Studio

Mijal Tenenbaum
Small Girls PR

Dustin Sveum
Berk

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

Sarah Kincaid
Kinesso

Olha Bahaieva
Dish Network

Azizbek Sayidov
Taboo Branding

Sophie Katsali
Canva

Andrew Levine
Dotdash Meredith

Yan Liu
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

Trelanda Lowe
Vision Edge Media

Sean Brown
Courageous Studios

Jose Neves
Forsman & Bodenfors

Jhon Jaimes
Dentsu Creative

Jennifer Stack
Sid Lee

Tina Mulqueen
Kindred PR

Maria Rastatourova
https://masharastatourova.com

James Nord
Fohr

Gabrielle Prawl
Razorfish

Cassidy Lashaway
The Refinery

Pranjali Ajay Parse
Autodesk, Inc.

Bipasha Mookherjee
Episode Four

Paul David
Literal Humans

Grant Owens
Critical Mass

Halley Knigge
REI Co-op

Daniel Thomer
VML New York

Gus Haffling
DDB Germany

Oluwafemi Olugbade
The Soundbaking Company

Joy Moh
The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)

Jasmine Presson
Mediaplus North America

Nneka Norville

Carrie Shade
Against Suicide Movement

Alexander Eugster
Agentur am Flughafen AG

Jason Rowland
Google

Dominic Riley
Netflix

Kinal Shah
Bloomberg Media

Andy Pearson
Liquid Death

Erika Lovegreen
ICUC.social

Josefina Rodriguez
Google

Dzu Bui
Ad Council

Karen Levy
Tropicana Brands Group

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

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
Perform Properties

Jemma Gould
IPG

Rachel Schnorr
Ad Net Zero

John Osborn
Ad Net Zero

Andrew Caravella
Producer & Marketing Advisor

Jessica Williams
Shopify

Daisy Rogers-Byrne

Gabriel Berta
Nu

Santiago Moreno
The LEGO Group

Duc Nguyen
Dentsu

Lorena Costa
Alice Health

Alyson Griffin
State Farm

Jordan Howard
ShftSpace

Rosemary Fitzgerald
Spiderweb Studio

Matthew Dec

Eirasmin Lokpez-Cobo
Republica Havas Health

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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