Past Winners & Nominees - The Shorty Awards

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.

Shorty Awards Entries

Environment & Sustainability, NGO

“Valen’s Reef,” Conservation Comes to Life in Virtual Reality

The world's oceans are under severe threat, but we know one method -- community-based conservation -- can make a measurable difference. Until now, the best way to inspire policymakers, business leaders and everyday citizens to engage and invest in our work was to take them on a …

#SaidNoSchoolEver

Hefty is the only trash bag that supports Box Tops For Education, one of America's largest school earning loyalty programs. By simply clipping Box Tops coupons from hundreds of participating products, families can earn cash for their school to purchase books, field trips, playgr…

Campaign to End Social Media Surveillance of Activists

As the country is faced with how to address, recover from and prevent terrorist attacks, surveillance tools are being rolled out under the guise of increasing public safety. Unfortunately, too often, surveillance tools are used to target some of the most marginalized communities…

Corporate-Community

FIRST and Corporate Sponsors #makeitloud for STEM & Innovation | Instagram Takeovers

Famed inventor Dean Kamen founded FIRST in 1989 with a vision: to transform culture by creating a world where scientists and engineers are celebrated as widely and loudly as athletes and celebrities. FIRST has become the world's #1 child-serving non-profit advancing STEM educati…

Forsaken 4 Million Trailer Views

Forsaken is directed by Jon Cassar starring Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Demi Moore, Michael Wincott and Brain Cox. Nominated for multiple awards including Canadian Screen Awards, Edinburgh International Film Festival etc., the movie achieved lot of positive reviews fro…

Business to Business

Key for Key™ by Concierge Auctions and Giveback Homes

Luxury real estate auction marketplace Concierge Auctions has created a unique giving program: Key for Key™, where for every home Concierge Auctions sells through their luxury real estate auction platform, a home is built for a deserving family alongside Giveback Homes. The ambi…

NO MORE PSA Campaign: Ending the Silence Around Male Sexual Abuse

Joyful Heart's ground-breaking, celebrity-driven NO MORE PSA campaign calls on society to end the silence and inaction around sexual assault and domestic violence.In 2016, we built on its success to address the myths and excuses surrounding male sexual abuse.Male survivors are m…

Pinning Women’s History Month With Free Media From Wikipedia

The 36 million freely licensed images on Wikimedia Commons are for the most part undiscovered by the public. Few people see the beautiful historic, artistic, and community-created photos, GIFs and videos that Wikipedia's media repository has to offer. At the same time, there hav…

Animal & Wildlife

The Extraordinary Honey Bee

Häagen-Dazs recognized early on that the bee population has been steadily declining for years. Bees pollinate one-third of the world's crops. This extends to Häagen-Dazs Brand ice cream as well; one-third of its flavors are made possible by bees.In 2008, Häagen-Dazs launched the…

Fashion, Beauty & Luxury

The First-Ever All-Female Football Pregame Show

In America, women make up nearly half of football's 150 million fans and one-third of the audience for sports coverage. But when it comes to media coverage, women and their opinions are often left on the sidelines. In the 97-year history of American football, there has been only…

Together: Nothing is Impossible

The main objective of the "Together: Nothing is Impossible" campaign was to raise awareness for cancer research and USA Track & Field (USATF) youth programs. The donated funds would go toward targeting the prevention and early detection of cancer, prioritizing the importance of …

Contest or Promotion, Corporate-Community, Animal & Wildlife, Retail & E-Commerce, Multi-Platform Campaign, Twitter Presence

Zappos.com Pawlidayz Campaign

Zappos and partners wanted to provide something special to our customers that money could not buy - the love that comes with rescuing a pet from a shelter. From Nov. 25, 2016 to Nov. 28, 2016 (Black Friday to Cyber Monday), Zappos sponsored free dog and cat adoptions at Best Fr…

'I Was a F*cking Murderer for the State'

To give a platform to a drone whistleblower who became a collateral victim of the military industrial complex, and to amplify his voice for our audience just hours before he was arrested on charges he claims are false; To call attention to the dangers soldiers face when con…

'Illegal birth' in Qatar

In December 2012, Catherine, a Philippines national, emailed Doha News journalist Victoria Scott to ask about Qatar's laws regarding giving birth unmarried. Unfortunately, her questions - and Victoria's answers - came too late.Catherine gave birth two weeks later, and was arrest…

'Witness the Power of Story'

"Anytime you turn on the news, you see young, African-American men being led away in handcuffs." – Vanache Nnadi, on the BET PSA in this campaign.In November 2015, Viacom launched the "Witness the Power of Story" campaign in partnership with WITNESS, the global human rights orga…

Diversity & Inclusion

"A Show of Hands"

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) wanted to play its part in helping to combat racial inequality in the workplace and wider America. Introducing "A Show of Hands," a passionate call to action dedicated to encouraging Americans to move forward together, to build…

"Fierce Compassion"

We aimed to create a powerful inspirational video to open the Skoll World Forum event to set the tone of its theme: "Fierce Compassion". The video would also be promoted online and was intended to consider their place in today's sociopolitical issues and tensions, to provoke act…

Social Movement, Video

As part of their "Disrupt Aging" campaign, AARP partnered with SoulPancake to produce content that ccould create a movement and ultimately show that age is trule just a number. The hope was to create a series of videos that emotionally connected people, and brought them together…

Entertainment, Social Justice, Influencer & Celebrity

"Hands" - A Song for Orlando (Lyric Video)

In the wake of the tragedy at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Interscope, GLAAD, Justin Tranter, and a host of amazing individuals wanted to make a difference by collaborating on the creation of a charity record and lyric video to get people involved and raise money for those affect…

Youth & Family, Call to Action

"If You Mentor Me..."

MENTOR believes in youth speaking for themselves. "If You Mentor Me…" is a compelling reminder of the potential and power of mentoring relationships to build bridges and expand possibilities -- for young people and adults alike. We believe that these mentoring relationships play…

Civic Engagement, Government & Politics, Humor

"Just Like Scott Pruitt" Real Estate Ad

Scott Pruitt, Trump's former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was corrupt beyond belief, using his position for personal benefit and grossly abusing taxpayer money to fund a comically lavish lifestyle. He also opened the EPA's doors to corporate polluters, g…

"Meth. We're on it." The anti-drug campaign that worked.

Blind to gender, age, cultural background and socioeconomic level, methamphetamine’s devastating effects know no boundaries. In South Dakota in 2019, twice as many 12-17-year-olds reported using meth in the past year than the national average, and 83% of court admissions for con…

Virtual Reality, Storytelling

Through virtual reality, Conservation International is able to bring people face-to-face with the communities on the front lines of conservation. Until now, the best way to inspire people to engage and invest in our work was to take them to our field sites to experience our work…

"My Motto: Veterans Edition"

"My Motto: Veterans Edition" was created in partnership with the national veteran campaign Got Your 6 to honor Asian American veterans for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May). Asian Americans are constantly labeled as perpetual foreigners and aren't usually associated wi…

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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!