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 Campaign by Diverse-Owned Businesses Global Campaign Integrated Campaign Launch Campaign Local Campaign Multi-Platform Campaign Rebrand Campaign Regional Campaign Social Good Campaign

Content and Media

Blog & Micro-blog Brand Voice Branded Content Branded Series Contest or Promotion Copywriting Email & Newsletter Filter/Lens Meme, GIF, & Emojis Micro-Site Single Post or Activation Use of Viral Content User-Generated Content

Design

Animation Art Direction Audio & Music Brand Identity Brand Redesign Generative AI Graphic Art Images Website/App

Industry

Auto Beauty Business to Business Consumer Brand Education Entertainment Financial Services Fitness, Health, & Wellness Food & Beverage Gaming Government & Politics Hospitality Insurance 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

Instagram Partnership Multi-Platform Partnership Other Platform Partnership TikTok Partnership X Partnership YouTube Partnership

Overall Presence

Facebook Presence Instagram Presence LinkedIn Presence Multi-Platform Presence Other Platform Presence TikTok Presence X Presence YouTube Presence

Platforms & Technology

Artificial Intelligence Extended Reality Facebook Immersive Instagram Interactive Content LinkedIn Other Platform TikTok X (formerly Twitter) YouTube

Podcast

Art & Culture Podcast Branded Podcast Business Podcast NEW! Health & Wellness Podcast Lifestyle & Entertainment Podcast News & Politics Podcast Other Podcast Genres Podcast Mini Series Sports Podcast Technology and Education Podcast True Crime & Documentary Podcast

Strategy & Engagement

Brand Partnership Call to Action Community Management Creative Use of Technology CTV/OTT Data & Insights Earned Media Event & Experiential Gamification Humor Innovative Media Buying Strategy Integration with Traditional Media Internal Communications LGBTQ Community Engagement Micro-Influencer Strategy Multicultural Community Engagement Music & Dance On a Shoestring Organic Promotion Paid & Amplification Physical and Digital Convergence Public Service Announcement Real Time Response SEO & SEM Social Commerce Storytelling

Video

Comedy Video Documentary Feature Film NEW! Featurette or Behind The Scenes Video Instructional Video Live Video Long Form Video Medium-Length Video Music Video Product Feature Video Short Form Video Unboxing Video Vertical Video Video Ad Video Series

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

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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
CATWALK by Catmosphere
In the context of world-leading cat conservation charity, Panthera, working to secure a future for …
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
THE BIG LITTLE PROJECT
The BIG little Project was designed to bring community awareness to Cooking With Kids (CWK). For 25…
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
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…