THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

Campaign

Brand Awareness Campaign NEW! Campaign by Diverse-Owned Businesses NEW! Global Campaign Integrated Campaign Launch Campaign NEW! Local Campaign Mobile Campaign Multi-Platform Campaign Rebrand Campaign NEW! Regional Campaign NEW! Social Good Campaign

Content and Media

Blog & Micro-blog Branded Content Branded Series Clapback Contest or Promotion Data Visualization Email NEW! Emojis Filter/Lens Hashtag Meme & GIFs NEW! Micro-site NEW! Native Advertising Single Post or Activation User-Generated Content Voice

Design

Animation Art Direction Brand Identity Brand Redesign Graphic Art Images Sound NEW! UX/UI Visual Effects

Industry

Auto Beauty Business to Business Consumer Brand Education Entertainment Family and Parenting Financial Services Fitness, Health, & Wellness Food & Beverage Gaming Government & Politics Hospitality Live Events News & Media Non-Profit Pets & Animals Pharma & Healthcare Real Estate Restaurants Retail & E-Commerce Social Activism Sports Technology Television Travel & Tourism Wine, Beer & Spirits

Influencer & Celebrity Partnership

Emerging Platform Partnership Facebook Partnership Instagram Partnership Multi-Platform Partnership TikTok Partnership Twitter Patnership YouTube Partnership

Metaverse

Artificial Intelligence Extended Reality NEW! Immersive Interactive Content NEW! NFTs NEW!

Overall Presence

Facebook Presence Instagram Presence Instant Message Presence NEW! LinkedIn Presence Multi-Platform Presence Other Platform Presence NEW! TikTok Presence Twitter Presence YouTube Presence

Single Platform

Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Other Platform NEW! TikTok Twitter YouTube

Strategy & Engagement

Brand Partnership NEW! Call to Action Chatbots Community Management Creative Use of Technology Customer Service Earned Media NEW! Employee Engagement Event & Experiential NEW! Fundraising Gamification Globalization Humor Innovative Media Buying Strategy NEW! Insights & Trends Integration with Live Television LGBTQ Community Engagement Localization Micro-Influencer Strategy Multicultural Community Engagement Music & Dance On a Shoestring NEW! Organic Promotion Paid & Amplification Physical and Digital Convergence Public Service Announcement Real Time Response Search NEW! Shopping Storytelling Takeovers

Podcast

Art & Culture Podcast NEW! Branded Podcast Comedy Podcast NEW! News & Politics Podcast NEW! Other Podcast Genres NEW! Podcast Mini Series Science & Technology Podcast NEW! Sports & Health Podcast NEW! True Crime & Documentary Podcast NEW!

Video

360 Video Animal Video NEW! Comedy Video Dance Video NEW! Featurette or Behind The Scenes Video NEW! Instructional Video Live Event Coverage Live Video Long Form Video Medium-Length Video Product Feature Video NEW! Short Form Video Stories Unboxing Video NEW! Vertical Video Video Ad Video Series NEW!

From the 13th Annual Shorty Awards Best use of Animations

This award honors the most creative and effective use of animations in a social media or digital marketing campaign.

Winner

Animations
winner
He Survived Ebola. Now This Doctor Is Battling Coronavirus
At the start of the pandemic, we were looking for ways to bring the seriousness of the situation to…

Finalists

Animations
finalist
audience honor
Doctor Who: Daleks! The Animated Series
‘We wanted to do something epic’ James Goss reflects, producer of Time Lord Victorious and writer f…
Animations
finalist
MindFull: Find Your Calm and Focus
The arrival of COVID-19 created a heightened amount of fear, stress and anxiety for everyone. Incre…
Animations
finalist
Monster Meditations
Headspace, the global leader in meditation and mindfulness, alongside Sesame Street, the leader in …
Animations
finalist
“Unknown 9: Awakening” Teaser Trailer at Gamescom 2020
There were two main goals when launching the Unknown 9: Awakening video game CGI teaser trailer at …

Nominees

Animations
"Our Code is Open"
Red Hat’s in-house creative agency took on a huge challenge at the start of 2020, something that no…
Animations
Benefiber “The Perfect Match” Campaign
Benefiber is a prebiotic fiber that works with the good bacteria in our bodies to support a healthy…
Animations
Choose your blade
The objective is to establish Razer as the premium gaming laptop brand, highlighting the gamer perf…
Animations
finalist
audience honor
Doctor Who: Daleks! The Animated Series
‘We wanted to do something epic’ James Goss reflects, producer of Time Lord Victorious and writer f…
Animations
Gif a Little Love
Confidential. 
Animations
winner
He Survived Ebola. Now This Doctor Is Battling Coronavirus
At the start of the pandemic, we were looking for ways to bring the seriousness of the situation to…
Animations
Interac: The Future of Mobility
Interac is Canada’s leader in payments and payment innovation, synonymous from coast to coast with …
Animations
Introducing Animated Stickers
Animated stickers are a fun, lively and effortless way for our users to express themselves. As with…
Animations
MLB Postseason: The Remix
Due to covid, our Postseason had a new format and we used that opportunity to build a creative visi…
Animations
finalist
MindFull: Find Your Calm and Focus
The arrival of COVID-19 created a heightened amount of fear, stress and anxiety for everyone. Incre…
Animations
finalist
Monster Meditations
Headspace, the global leader in meditation and mindfulness, alongside Sesame Street, the leader in …
Animations
Razer Wireless Flagship | Three Legends. Unleashed.
To establish the benefits of the “Razer Trinity”, their leading headset, keyboard and mouse being m…
Animations
Tales From the Trip: Ramin Nazer
Following comedian/podcaster Shane Mauss’s massively successful episode of Tales From the Trip, the…
Animations
Wheel of Whoa by AT&T
Confidential. 
Animations
Wired: You Need More Sleep
There are few sayings more harmful than "sleep when you're dead." A cornucopia of sleep studies hav…
Animations
YOUTUBE SERIES: QUICK QUESTION
Delving into topics that seek to explain a lot of baseball’s unanswered questions is a tall task th…
Animations
finalist
“Unknown 9: Awakening” Teaser Trailer at Gamescom 2020
There were two main goals when launching the Unknown 9: Awakening video game CGI teaser trailer at …