Best use of Humor in Social Media - Shorty Awards

11th Annual Shorty Awards Categories

See below for official categories. Entries close and voting ends on February 21st, 2019 at 11:59pm ET.

Influencers

Honoring the most notable and viral Influencers from 2018. See below for official categories.

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.

Best use of Humor

This category honors a brand, organization, agency, news outlet or personality that used humor to effectively enhance its social media presence. Submissions may include intentionally comic social media campaigns as well as humorous responses to real-time news, competitors and customers on social media platforms.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Finalists

In the summer of 2018, The Philadelphia Flyers were tasked with the creation, introduction and implementation of a brand new team mascot to begin in the 2018-19 season. Thinking long term, the marketing team sought to develop a complete mascot program as a tool to increase awareness and scope of the overall Flyers brand and fan base. The mascot,...

IFC tasked GLOW with positioning their network as an authority in the off-beat comedy space on social. In order to make that happen, we needed to transform the IFC social accounts from content promoters to content producers.By diving into the wealth of IFC's original series and licensed movie content, we created uniquely eccentric online comment...

Peter: Deadpool's Number Two

As a plot point to the Deadpool sequel, Deadpool assembled a team of mutants to form the X-Force. But one of the recruits wasn't a mutant at all… aside from having type 2 diabetes. His name was Peter and Peter was… Well, average. But in the most spectacular way. We wanted people to know that they could trust Deadpool's decision, especially afte...

Purge Shopping Channel

The Purge Shopping Channel was created to promote USA Network's The Purge, a TV show based on the hit movie franchise from Blumhouse. The series imagines a world where all crime (including murder) is legal for one night per year. It was our goal to both activate the enormous Purge franchise fanbase in an authentic way and entice a wide range of ...

The Daily Show: Between the Scenes

Between The Scenes transports fans all over the world into the studio during a taping to listen in on Trevor's hilarious, candid, off-the-cuff conversations with the audience.

The World’s Most ‘Extra’ Tampon

Playtex Gentle Glide launched in 1973, at a time when tampons with plastic applicators were considered a revolutionary innovation. But a lot has changed. The market has been flooded with the arrival of specialty competitors. New brands – LOLA, CORA, Diva Cup – are quickly stealing market share by capitalizing on a new generation of health-consci...

Nominees

Rihanna was inspired to create Fenty Beauty after years of experimenting with the best-of-the-best in beauty—and still seeing a void in the industry for products that performed across all skin types and tones. She launched Fenty Beauty "so that women everywhere would be included", focusing on a wide range of traditionally hard-to-match skin tones, creatin...

Portlandia is a show that has permeated pop-culture and social media as both a commentator and a trend-setter. Through the previous seven seasons, Fred and Carrie have created often-quoted sketches, developed beloved characters and pulled in notable guest stars which have impressed critics and built up a loyal following.To give the show a send-off worthy ...

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 11th annual shorty awards will be held may 5, 2019 in nyc.