THE shorty awards entry period is now closed. finalists will be announced in march.

13th Annual Shorty Awards Categories

The Shorty Awards honor the talented agencies, brands, and industry leaders behind the best and most innovative work on social media and digital channels, campaigns, websites and applications.

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Shorty Awards Entries

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Sports, Influencer & Celebrity
finalist
#TheRealHeroes Project
The Real Heroes Project was a non-profit initiative intended to rally support for frontline healthcare workers in celebration of National Nurses Day. It was a joint effort to combine forces between fourteen major sports leagues and unite behind a common cause for good, by using …
Integrated Campaign
#TurboTaxLiveIt
The U.S. Latinx community continues to be a major driver in the economic growth of our nation. Building on its commitment to the Latinx community, TurboTax was looking to empower the Latinx community and increase awareness of TurboTax, its culturally-relevant support content, an…
Social Movement
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#VenmoItForward
Venmo was founded in 2009 by two former college roommates who wanted a better way to pay each other back. Over the years, Venmo has evolved from a simple SMS platform to send and receive money, to a social payments app with over 60 million users using the app to split bills, pay…
Hashtag
finalist
gold
#VisibleActsofKindness
During the early days of the pandemic, Visible launched the #VisibleActsofKindness campaign to encourage and drive conversations and acts related to kindness. But that wasn’t all! Through social listening, Visible also directly reached out to over 1000 people who were impacted b…
Government & Politics
2020 Census COVID-19 Commericals
Reingold is the Census Bureau’s lead digital agency for the federal government’s largest public education and mobilization campaign, designed to reach every U.S. household and drive response to the first-ever online decennial census. In the wake of COVID-19, Reingold immediately…
Healthcare & Pharma
2020 Nurses Week Video
The World Health Organization dubbed 2020 the "Year of the Nurse" before we even knew what was coming. COVID-19 has proven nurses to be literal superheroes in scrubs. For Nurses Week, we wanted to create a video that conveyed our undying gratitude for all they do, putting themse…
Environment & Sustainability
75: A Story about Whales, Fish, and Trees
The objective of this film and reforestation project is to restore healthy habitats for the Southern Resident Orca. One Tree Planted partnered with local organization Promise the Pod to plant over 1.5 million trees in the Pacific Northwest, specifically along the rivers and stre…
Influencer & Celebrity
A Black Lady Sketch Show
To launch HBO’s ground-breaking, new sketch comedy series, A Black Lady Sketch Show, executive produced by Robin Thede and Issa Rae, HBO partnered with Black Card Revoked and the McBride Sisters for a one-of-a-kind “Game Nights & Screenings” event, in the key markets of Atlanta …
Public Health
A Lockdown Lifeline in South Africa
South Africa has been one of the countries worst affected worldwide by the coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic. The virus has endangered not only the health of the country’s 57 million inhabitants, but has also jeopardized the livelihoods of many, particularly those living on or bel…
Video
A New World by One Tree Planted
The world was turned upside down in March of 2020 when the seriousness of COVID-19 struck. One Tree Planted wanted to help refocus the public’s energy towards hope and the idea that we now have an opportunity to do things a different way. A way in which we care for one another a…
Documentary Short, Global Campaign, Gender Equality
winner
silver
A Piece Of Me
For decades, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has promoted the abandonment of female genital mutilation (FGM); an extreme violation of the rights of women and girls, and a manifestation of deeply entrenched gender inequality. With 68 million girls at risk of being m…
Animal & Wildlife
finalist
A Wild Life - Our Better World's Wildlife Series
Our Better World (OBW) is the digital storytelling initiative of the Singapore International Foundation that tells stories across Asia to inspire people online to take action and create a positive impact in the world. At OBW, we create specific series so you can dive deeper i…
Video Series
AARP Purpose Prize 2019-2020
You live. You learn. You give back. No one knows this better than people ages 50 and older, who have spent decades accumulating a wealth of knowledge that only life experience can bring. Armed with this wisdom, they are a powerhouse of innovation tackling some of the greatest so…
Documentary Short
AARP Veteran Caregiving Profile: The Challenge of Caring for a Veteran With Survivor’s Guilt
One of AARP’s core missions is to provide support, hope, and resources to family caregivers. In the United States, an estimated 53 million adults are family caregivers and of that, over 5.5 million of them are military families. These are parents, partners and friends who provid…
News & Media, Public Health, Nonprofit, Facebook
finalist
gold
AARP: Helping the 50+ Community Navigate COVID-19
In March 2020, the United States was plunged into the COVID-19 pandemic. As a society, we were dealing with something we’d never faced before; there was little information and a lot of fear. As the situation unfolded, it became evident that older adults were the most at-risk for…
Public Health
AARP's Coronavirus FACTS Digital Series
The Coronavirus Facts series brings important health and safety information to viewers in a visually dynamic way. Since Covid-19 is a novel virus, that means much of the information that we have gotten since the beginning of the pandemic is new, and often confusing. We strived t…
Podcast
winner
AARP's The Perfect Scam Podcast
Fraud, already a billion dollar a year industry, has grown exponentially during the pandemic. AARP is dedicated to fighting back by educating people of all ages on new and ongoing forms of fraud. As part of a larger fraud prevention initiative "The Perfect Scam" podcast’s blend …
Community or Employee Engagement
Acts for Racial Justice - What Now?
Our goal for this work was to get non-Black people in the US who proactively support, are curious about, or are indifferent to combating racism against the Black community to take action against racism by donating, volunteering, and peacefully protesting (and beyond). Amplifying…
Community or Employee Engagement, Financial Services, Integrated Campaign
finalist
Acts of Caring: Mobilizing CIT employees, customers and others to give back
CIT is committed to giving back in communities it calls home. Each year, the company spearheads an annual employee volunteer initiative in June called CIT Cares Month. This year, however, CIT transformed its annual employee volunteer initiative to reflect the needs of the cur…
Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Campaign, Pro Bono
finalist
AdTheorent and The Ad Council’s “Goodwill® Bring Good Home Mobile Advertising Campaign”
As the world’s leading workforce nonprofit provider, Goodwill is composed of local organizations that empower people and help them reach their full potential through career and community services. The revenue from the sale of goods at Goodwill stores fund job placement, career s…
Documentary Short
finalist
silver
Africatown
This short film was a part of a short documentary series entitled DREAMS: Unsung Heroes of African American History, produced by Wondros and Round Mound Media to accompany a Black history curriculum on an online educational platform made available across middle schools and high …
Public Health
AIDS LifeCycle
This year, HBO’s Human By Orientation initiative partnered with AIDS/LifeCycle to raise awareness and funds for both Los Angeles LGBT Center and San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Due to stay-at-home orders caused by COVID-19, the physical bike ride was canceled. As AIDS/LifeCycle s…
Animations
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Akima's Iñupiaq Shareholders
Akima, an enterprise that supports more than 14,700 Iñupiat shareholders and 40+ operating companies, wanted to create a visual journey that explores the values and history that define the native inhabitants of the NANA region in northwest Alaska. The goal of the animated video …
Storytelling
ALL FOR 1
It's a bird, it's a plane. No, it's the next generation of young leaders. The future is now looking bright and full of activism, thanks to Nike and PAPER's 'All for 1' campaign which highlighted those who are breaking ground in their communities. In anticipation of its AF1 Tr…
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About the Shorty Awards

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media.

Millions of people participate in The Shortys to recognize individuals and organizations producing great content on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, TikTok, Snapchat, and the rest of the social web.

shorty awards finalists will be announced in mid-march!