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 14th Annual Shorty Awards Non-Profit

This award honors the most effective and creative use of social media or digital by a non-profit. For non-profit pricing, please email [email protected]

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Non-Profit
winner
"In an instant" - Refugee Phone Takeover
We wanted to cut through the noise on Refugee Day and create a real sense of connection and empathy…

Finalists

Non-Profit
finalist
bronze honor
Urban Outraged
In a world where humans wear the skin of other living, feeling beings for fashion, PETA’s objective…
Non-Profit
finalist
Delta Variant Force
Despite the introduction of three effective vaccines, COVID-19 continued to ravage much of the Unit…
Non-Profit
finalist
How to build an inclusive economy
Skoll Foundation came to Freethink to raise awareness around the racial inequities and disparities …
Non-Profit
finalist
Let's Change Energy for Good
Today, nearly half the world’s population lives without any access or unaffordable and unreliable a…
Non-Profit
finalist
TeamSeas - MrBeast & Mark Rober
#TeamSeas is a global campaign to raise $30M to remove 30M pounds of plastic and trash from our oce…
Non-Profit
finalist
The Other Side
In 2021, in the face of Asian hate, Digitas teamed up with Ascend to launch a campaign that would s…
Non-Profit
finalist
Together, We Can Help #StopSuicide
Many have experienced fear, anxiety, and uncertainty due to the pandemic, leading people to become …
Non-Profit
finalist
audience honor
VFW #StillServing
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is a nonprofit veterans service organization with a membership c…

Nominees

Non-Profit
winner
"In an instant" - Refugee Phone Takeover
We wanted to cut through the noise on Refugee Day and create a real sense of connection and empathy…
Non-Profit
CATWALK by Catmosphere
In the context of world-leading cat conservation charity, Panthera, working to secure a future for …
Non-Profit
finalist
Delta Variant Force
Despite the introduction of three effective vaccines, COVID-19 continued to ravage much of the Unit…
Non-Profit
God’s Love We Deliver w/ Jane Krakowski
Since 1985, God’s Love has cooked and home-delivered delicious, nutritious meals to New Yorkers liv…
Non-Profit
finalist
How to build an inclusive economy
Skoll Foundation came to Freethink to raise awareness around the racial inequities and disparities …
Non-Profit
finalist
Let's Change Energy for Good
Today, nearly half the world’s population lives without any access or unaffordable and unreliable a…
Non-Profit
THE BIG LITTLE PROJECT
The BIG little Project was designed to bring community awareness to Cooking With Kids (CWK). For 25…
Non-Profit
finalist
TeamSeas - MrBeast & Mark Rober
#TeamSeas is a global campaign to raise $30M to remove 30M pounds of plastic and trash from our oce…
Non-Profit
Thanks to our Final Responders
The ICCFA Educational Foundation is a 501(c)(3) entity, and part of the International Cemetery, Cre…
Non-Profit
finalist
The Other Side
In 2021, in the face of Asian hate, Digitas teamed up with Ascend to launch a campaign that would s…
Non-Profit
finalist
Together, We Can Help #StopSuicide
Many have experienced fear, anxiety, and uncertainty due to the pandemic, leading people to become …
Non-Profit
finalist
bronze honor
Urban Outraged
In a world where humans wear the skin of other living, feeling beings for fashion, PETA’s objective…
Non-Profit
finalist
audience honor
VFW #StillServing
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is a nonprofit veterans service organization with a membership c…
Non-Profit
gOD-Talk: A Black Millennials and Faith Special Edition Dinner Conversation--Dallas, TX
According to the 2020 Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Research Center, American millennials—p…