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 a Hashtag

This award honors the most creative and effective use of hashtags across any platform for a specific brand, cause, marketing campaign, product, or service.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winners

Hashtag
winner
Mat Kar Forward
  BACKGROUND   Digital footprints have real world consequences Communicating in the dig…
Hashtag
winner
audience honor
Best of Use Hastag / #kalpunutmaz
As quite a popular habit in Turkey, people likes to make a conversation on second screen about TV s…

Finalists

Hashtag
finalist
#GettyMuseumChallenge
When Getty closed to support coronavirus response in March 2020, we as the digital team had to stop…
Hashtag
finalist
2020 US Elections Hashtag - الجزيرة_أمريكا20#
The United States presidential election is an exceptional occurrence that attracts the attention …
Hashtag
finalist
Create No Matter What
When the Covid-19 pandemic took the world by storm in 2020, the creative community was not spared. …
Hashtag
finalist
Thanks, Birth Control
Thanks, Birth Control Day is a national effort to mobilize people to speak positively about all tha…

Nominees

Hashtag
finalist
#GettyMuseumChallenge
When Getty closed to support coronavirus response in March 2020, we as the digital team had to stop…
Hashtag
#SolvingIt
Greta Thunberg. Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Joshua Wong. Ilwad Elman. Kennedy Odede. Nawaal Akram. Wha…
Hashtag
#StayTheFFHome
Cases of COVID-19 are on the rise.  Despite warnings about COVID-19, young adults were viewing them…
Hashtag
finalist
2020 US Elections Hashtag - الجزيرة_أمريكا20#
The United States presidential election is an exceptional occurrence that attracts the attention …
Hashtag
winner
audience honor
Best of Use Hastag / #kalpunutmaz
As quite a popular habit in Turkey, people likes to make a conversation on second screen about TV s…
Hashtag
finalist
Create No Matter What
When the Covid-19 pandemic took the world by storm in 2020, the creative community was not spared. …
Hashtag
Global Movie Day
On February 8, 2020, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences established and launched Globa…
Hashtag
Make It Together
In March 2020, as the severity of the pandemic began to weigh on the world, marketers rushed to tur…
Hashtag
winner
Mat Kar Forward
  BACKGROUND   Digital footprints have real world consequences Communicating in the dig…
Hashtag
finalist
Thanks, Birth Control
Thanks, Birth Control Day is a national effort to mobilize people to speak positively about all tha…