THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

From the 10th Annual Shorty Awards Creator of the Decade

Wow, it’s finally here. 10 years of Shorty Awards honoring the best on social media. We only felt it was appropriate to honor the OG creators, who have been entertaining us since the start of social media, and haven’t slowed down at all. These truly are the titans of the industry.

Nominees

finalist
Casey Neistat
From his early days criticizing the City of New York for their lack of safe bike lanes to gliding t…
Dude Perfect
Who knew hanging out with your college roomates and videotaping backyard trick shots could turn int…
Gigi Gorgeous
She may have changed her name to Gigi in 2014, but she has always been gorgeous. What began in 2008…
Hannah Hart
Isn’t it great when you’re just trying to cheer up a friend but your video for her goes viral and l…
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Jenna Marbles
A sensation since posting her first video in 2010, Jenna Marbles is now a titan of YouTube. That vi…
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Lilly Singh
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s ||Superwoman||! Since starting her YouTube career in 2010, Lilly Si…
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Liza Koshy
In 2017, Liza Koshy became the fastest YouTuber ever to reach 10M subscribers, finishing the year w…
winner
MKBHD
Should you use an iPhone or a Galaxy? Is it worth it to buy the $3000 drone, or is the $300 one bas…
Markiplier
Mark Fischbach, aka Wilford Warfstache, aka Markiplier, has gamed his way into becoming one of the …
Philip DeFranco
Philip DeFranco has come a long way from shooting videos with a $20 B&W; camera. For the past decad…
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Rhett & Link
Imagine how much less funny the world would be if Rhett McLaughlin and Charles “Link” Neal weren’t …
Tyler Oakley
Tyler Oakley couldn’t have known when he started posting videos as a college freshman in 2007 that …