Best use of Gamification in Social Media - Shorty Awards

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.

From the 10th Annual Shorty Awards Best use of Gamification

This award honors a campaign or social app that best uses gaming elements to increase engagement and virality. Please note that the entry doesn't need to be for a game, it just needs to incorporate gaming mechanics such as points, leader boards, badges, incentives and challenges.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

ASICS® Tap to Fly Challenge

ASICS® released three shoes utilizing their Flytefoam® technology as part of the "Feel Fast" campaign. Flytefoam® is their innovative cushioning which makes their running shoes some of the lightest available today. In an extremely competitive category, ASICS wanted to capitalize on its leadership as a running brand, to ensure it's seen as a cutt…

Finalists

Acer Predator "21X Hunt"

Acer wanted to give away a 21 X – a $9,000 gaming laptop – in a random drawing at an in-person gaming event. We saw it as an opportunity to engage with a traditionally marketing-averse audience on a larger scale, encouraging interaction, collaboration, and tapping into their competitive spirit. Our client had one request: get more than 2,000 peop…

Cat Scratch Magic

Last December, New York Lottery launched its holiday campaign with 'Bodega Cat,' the very sweet story of one New York cat's journey to share a little holiday cheer. To continue the journey across social, we created 'Cat Scratch Magic': a one-hour long, Facebook Live event where eight of the cutest cats from the Metropolitan area chose between two …

Red Bull set out to credibly establish themselves within the fitness space, authentically portraying the mission that Red Bull revitalizes both the body and mind. Seeking to reach a global audience through organic social efforts at minimal costs and turnaround time a solution was needed to create engaging, turnkey social content.

Men's Wearhouse Promposal 2.0

While Men's Wearhouse is the number one tuxedo rental store in the country, its consumer demographic continues to age. We needed to ensure Men's Wearhouse stayed top-of-mind for Gen Z, and create a platform they could own within the Prom space for years to come. One year prior, we discovered that the act of asking someone to prom had become a phen…

Mr. Robot: Daily Five/Nine

USA Network's award-winning series Mr. Robot has become a cultural phenomenon, inspiring immediate and passionate fandom worldwide. The series follows a mysterious, underground hacker collective, fsociety, in their fight against income inequality and corporate greed. In their history-making hack—referred to as "5/9," the day on which the hack occu…

Prison Break – Instagram Escape Room

In 2017, FOX revived the breakout hit drama, Prison Break. Going into the marketing campaign, one key competitive advantage was our massive social media following. Our show had accumulated millions of rabid fans from the original series and to re-ignite that fan base, we went on an all-out social media blitz. The goal: build an interactive campai…

Sprint Trainer Rewards

When Sprint partnered with Pokémon GO, with the intention to lure fans of the game into more than 10,500 of its stores, they knew they were about to enter into a whole new world of gaming.Aside from the impressive amount of gamers, (an estimated 750 million app downloads) the Pokémon GO community is hardcore, and Sprint realized they needed to bui…

Nominees

#TheNetworkIntuitive: Cisco Activates the New Network with a Digital Launch

In 2017, Cisco changed forever how we think about the network. Ushering this new era in networking, Cisco ignited The Network. Intuitive (TNI) launch with a digital strategy creating the fastest ramping of a new product introduction in Cisco history, and brought unprecedented advancements in delivering intent-based networking for customers. With a digital m…

American Assassin

As well as being a major operator of cinema exhibition circuits and movie producers, Roadshow distribute films for major international production houses across cinema, VOD and at-home entertainment.For the Australian theatrical launch of 'American Assassin', they tasked us to facilitate awareness of the story and characters; proving it's more than just a sh…

SNICKERS Hungry Roadtrip Chatbot

SNICKERS launched 'Hunger Bars' in 2015, putting the "You're Not You When You're Hungry" campaign idea right into consumers' hands. With hunger symptoms on each pack, fans could use the bars to call each other out for bad behavior, with SNICKERS as the solution.In the summer of 2017, Hunger Bars came back with new symptoms and old favorites. We knew that Sn…

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