12th Annual Shorty Awards Categories


The final deadline to vote for your favorite nominee or to enter your brand or organization was on Thursday, February 20th, 2020.

Influencers

Honoring the most notable and viral influencers and creators from 2020. See below for official categories.

Arts & Entertainment
Content of the Year
Creative & Media
Team Internet
Tech & Innovation

Brands & Organizations

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

By Campaign
By Design
By Industry
By Overall Presence
Campaign by Platform
Content and Media
Influencer & Celebrity Brand Partnership
Strategy & Engagement
Video by Platform
Video Content
Websites & Apps

From the 11th Annual Shorty Awards Best Overall Facebook Presence

This category honors brands, organizations or institutions that use Facebook's native tools effectively. Unlike Best use of Facebook, this award is for a brand's year-round presence.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Facebook Presence
winner
WWE on Facebook
The goal of WWE's flagship Facebook Page is to offer one location for all of a WWE fan's needs, but our network of Pages provides the Facebook user more opportunity to define their news feed with information on their favorite specific Superstars and WWE TV programs by following the appropriate Facebook Page.If our Facebook followers want the lates…

Finalists

Facebook Presence
finalist
Drop the Mic Facebook Watch Channel
TBS's "Drop the Mic" is a comic battle rap competition series based on the popular segment from "The Late Late Show with James Corden" and hosted by Method Man and Hailey Baldwin. Each week, celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, music, sports and pop culture will face off in a rap battle royale packed with "I can't believe they just said t…
Facebook Presence
finalist
audience
It's A Southern Thing
It's a Southern Thing was launched in 2017 with the goal of creating a highly engaged audience around the often hilarious moments that come with life in the South. In order to grow our Facebook audience in 2018, we prioritized native content, utilized new tools like Watch and produced more content with the goal of increasing audience engagement an…
Facebook Presence
finalist
Jellysmack's Beauty Studio for Best Use of Facebook
Beauty Studio, the unconventional beauty channel's objective is to bring beauty to everyone through original short form video content. For 2018, our goal was to create original programming inspired by our community to increase engagement and video views.
Facebook Presence
finalist
Jukin Media’s Overall Facebook Presence
We own and operate a portfolio of social publishing brands that includes FailArmy, People Are Awesome, The Pet Collective, and JukinVideo. Our social production team is focused on super-serving the audience and growing our communities through innovative story formats that are inspired by user-generated video submissions. With all of our brands, th…
Facebook Presence
finalist
MAFFICK MEDIA
Maffick: a boisterous celebration of our beautiful world and all of its stories. WE ARE sharable stories that matter. Stories that grab you by the brain and get inside your head. Stories that challenge what you think you know about how the world works, and how you work in it. Stories that change you.We ARE NOT cable news. We are not partisan. We a…

Nominees

Facebook Presence
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Facebook Profile
For over 59 years, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has been dedicated to perfecting the travel experience through continued innovation and the highest standards of hospitality. With a global reach that expands 111 hotels and resorts, 39 residential properties in major city centres and resort destinations in 47 countries, the brand social media channels serv…
Facebook Presence
Rotten Tomatoes Facebook
We utilize all aspects of our Facebook platform with a focus on fan & community engagement. We use the platform to encourage debate, amplify our Tomatometer scores, and provide support to various film and television IP's.

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, and the rest of the social web.

the 12th annual shorty awards will take place on may 3rd.