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.

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
Websites & Apps
Strategy & Engagement
Video by Platform
Video Content

Best use of an Emerging Platform

This award honors the most effective and creative campaigns optimized for an emerging platform. Describe why your team chose the platform, how it enhanced your campaign and how it met or exceeded your goals and objectives.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Emerging Platform
winner
We Do Our Own (Marketing) Stunts
With the 6th installment of Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie took the franchise to new heights. Of course, we had to create a multi-platform, innovative marketing campaign to match. We had to showcase the new movie pushing boundaries in stunts, technology and more. In order to do this, we set out to immerse fans in the ...

Finalists

Emerging Platform
finalist
AT&T Hello Lab Presents “Starter Pack”
Millennials do not want your ads.They block them. Skip them. And should they accidentally see one, 84% say they don't like or trust them.Which is why when AT&T tasked us with driving relevancy with Millennial consumers, we knew traditional ads weren't going to cut it. We needed to create something that added enough value to a young consumer's da...
Emerging Platform
finalist
Guilty Party: Discord
Long gone are the days of passive consumption and primetime tune-in—we've officially surpassed the tipping point wherein audiences require a second screen and sanctioned hashtag while watching their favorite shows. For young consumers, fandom doesn't stop at celebrating. In fact, a recent study found that 84% of Millennials believe that fans hav...
Emerging Platform
finalist
Mastercard Engages Twitch for League of Legends Esports Win
At Mastercard, we believe that experiences matter more than things, and the best way to connect with consumers is to engage with them around their passions. This mantra has been at the forefront of Mastercard for 20 years, but with time and the boom of digital, passions evolve – and Mastercard is listening.The explosive growth of esports made us...
Emerging Platform
finalist
Ready Player One/HQ Trivia Integration
The idea originated as an effort to harness the fervor surrounding the HQ app, particularly amidst Ready Player One's core target audience and align these two brands as much as possible. Before Ready Player One, HQ Trivia had never partnered with a movie studio, and it felt this was a perfect property to be their first foray into film partnershi...
Emerging Platform
finalist
audience
Smirnoff Equalizer
As a global brand, Smirnoff is challenged to remain relevant and equitable on a global scale. As a result, the brand takes on global initiatives that align to its core purpose of inclusivity – the belief that Smirnoff can use the power of good times to make the world more inclusive.Often, at the heart of good times is music, which is why Smirnof...

Nominees

Emerging Platform
2018 MTV Video Music Awards - Voting on Amazon Alexa
We're always looking for new, innovative opportunities to engage with the MTV Video Music Awards audience, especially through one of our most exciting offerings – voting. Goals: Leverage partnerships to execute first-to-market opportunities Engage with our fans in new and innovative ways by utilizing emerging platforms
Emerging Platform
AXE the LABEL
In 2018, AXE was on a mission to increase its credibility in the number one passion point for gen z guys—music. Could AXE, the brand known for getting guys noticed in the real world also get guys noticed in the music world?
Emerging Platform
Music video app Triller helps creators monetize short-form videos
We knew empowering our users to make money from the content they craft would set Triller apart as one of the only social media apps that gives creators the ability to make money directly in our app. While other social media sites encourage influencers to take outside partners and agree to brand sponsorships for peddling products they may or may not fully ...

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.