THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

Campaign

Awareness Campaign Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign Diverse-Owned Businesses Campaign Fundraising Campaign Global Campaign Integrated Campaign Local Campaign Multi-Platform Campaign Multicultural Campaign On a Shoestring Campaign Pro Bono Campaign Social Movement Campaign

Content & Design

Audio & Music Brand Voice NEW! Branded Content Branded Series Documentary Short Email & Newsletter NEW! Feature Film Gamification NEW! Images Interactive Content Long Form Video Medium Length Video NEW! Micro-site or Blog Podcast Research Reports Short Form Video Video Series

Cause

Animal Rights & Welfare Arts & Culture Conservation & Preservation Disability Awareness Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Emergency Relief Environment & Sustainability Fight Poverty Gender Equality Human Rights Immigration & Refugees Learning & Development LGBTQ+ Mental Health Multi-Cause Initiative Other Causes NEW! Public Health Public Safety Racial Equality Responsible Consumption & Production Responsible Technology NEW! Social Justice Youth & Family

Industry

Automotive Business to Business Consumer Brands Education Entertainment Fashion & Beauty Financial Services Food & Beverage Government & Politics Healthcare & Pharma Hospitality & Travel Lifestyle & Wellness News & Media Non-Profit Other Industry NEW! Retail & E-Commerce Sports Technology

Partnerships

Brand Partnership NEW! Corporate-Community Influencer, Creator & Celebrity Nonprofit Partnership Other Partnerships NEW!

Platforms & Technology

Extended Reality Gaming Generative AI Instagram LinkedIn Other Platforms TikTok YouTube

Special Project

Special Project

Strategy & Engagement

Call to Action Community Engagement Contest or Challenges Data & Insights Earned Media Event & Experiential Guerrilla Marketing Integration with Traditional Media NEW! Paid Media PSA Single Post Storytelling Use of Viral Content NEW! User Generated Content

Of The Year

Breakout Creator Edutainment Creator Of The Year Learning & Development Creator of the Year Mental Health Creator of the Year Studio Of The Year

Nonprofit Partnership

This category honors an outstanding partnership between a non-profit and a brand or agency to achieve a pro-social goal with measurable results.

See previous winners and honorees here.
Nonprofit Partnership
A World of Hope
After 70 years of leading the fight against animal cruelty, the Humane Society of the United States…
Nonprofit Partnership
ARGENT x When We All Vote #VotingSuitsYou Campaign
When We All Vote launched the #VotingSuitsYou campaign in partnership with ARGENT to engage women a…
Nonprofit Partnership
Adobe Film and TV Fund | Creativity for All
Storytelling has always been a powerful tool for connecting people across cultures, generations and…
Nonprofit Partnership
BPD / AdventHealth / Walt Disney World Resort “True Believers in the Human Spirit”
To accelerate its goal of becoming a household name by 2030, AdventHealth leaned into a truly magic…
Nonprofit Partnership
Big Brothers Big Sisters + NFL Inspire Change: The Big Draft Campaign
Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), the country’s largest youth mentorship organization, and NFL Inspi…
Nonprofit Partnership
Chicago Bulls and Beyond the Ball Invest in Chicago's Latiné Youth
The Chicago Bulls partnered with local non-profit Beyond the Ball to help further the shared missio…
Nonprofit Partnership
Confronting Death to Live Better Today - Helping a Nonprofit Change End of Life
Death is universal, but our willingness to talk about it is not. We celebrate so many aspects of bi…
Nonprofit Partnership
Cricket to Conquer Cancer 2025
Cricket to Conquer Cancer (C2CC) was envisioned as a bold, first-of-its-kind fundraising event for …
Nonprofit Partnership
Don’t Forget About the Balls – MANSCAPED™ & Testicular Cancer Society
One man, every hour, every day is diagnosed with testicular cancer. So why is something so common s…
Nonprofit Partnership
Doritos® In Space
Doritos champions boldness everywhere, pushing the limits and paving new paths. With the goal of ra…
Nonprofit Partnership
Farm to Fork: Bringing the Dairy Story to Life Through Fortnite
At Dairy MAX, we're committed to building trust in real dairy by meeting young consumers on platfor…
Nonprofit Partnership
Lenovo x Wine to Water: Clean Water, Global Impact
In March 2022, Lenovo Foundation launched a global partnership with Wine To Water (W|W), a nonprofi…
Nonprofit Partnership
Mercy for a Cause
Building off of a successful partnership in 2018, in 2024, Blizzard Entertainment and the Breast Ca…
Nonprofit Partnership
Sisterhood of Strength
For 20 years, Ann Taylor and LOFT have championed breast cancer research, raising over $62 million …
Nonprofit Partnership
Song for Charlie x Major League Baseball
The rising toll of fentanyl-related overdoses, now the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18…
Nonprofit Partnership
T-SEARCH®
In Brazil, over 200 people go missing every day, yet this public safety crisis goes largely unrepor…
Nonprofit Partnership
The Daily Show - InDogCision
The Daily Show’s InDogCision 2024: Rescuing Democracy brought voter registration to dog rescue shel…
Nonprofit Partnership
The Text
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) is dedicated to ending breast cancer by advancing the …
Nonprofit Partnership
United Nations - Dignity, Health & Hope in Gaza
In October 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel sparked a war that created a humanitarian disaster in …