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 Podcast Mini Series

This award recognizes the most creative and effective use of a podcast developed in a multi-episode mini series format.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

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audience honor
Dexter New Blood: Wrap-Up with Scott Reynolds Podcast
In October 2020, SHOWTIME® announced that after almost a decade off air, Dexter, one of the biggest…

Finalists

Podcast Mini Series
finalist
Close to Death
Close to Death, hosted by comedian Utkarsh Ambudkar, profiles people who spend every day working wi…
Podcast Mini Series
finalist
Forced To Flee
"Forced To Flee" had two main objectives. First, we wanted to bring the major issues of forced disp…
Podcast Mini Series
finalist
Heinz - The Black Kitchen Podcast
Back in April 2021, Heinz, the LEE Initiative and Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice partnered…
Podcast Mini Series
finalist
No Denying It: The UN Climate Action Podcast
Climate fatigue is real-- the stories of activists doing what they can, with whatever tools they ha…
Podcast Mini Series
finalist
Syria's Lost Generation
March 2021 marked the tenth anniversary of the Syrian War; presenting a small window of opportunity…
Podcast Mini Series
finalist
The Followers: House of Prayer
A daughter's call to police about memories of her mother's alleged crime triggers a year-long inves…
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Where I Stay Podcast
Where I Stay was designed to change the way people think about homelessness by spotlighting the pli…

Nominees

Podcast Mini Series
Alligator Candy
In this true-crime series, ALLIGATOR CANDY follows the mysterious 1973 disappearance of writer and …
Podcast Mini Series
Art Bust: Scandalous Stories of the Art World
ART BUST: SCANDALOUS STORIES OF THE ART WORLD is an investigative podcast series in which U.K. auth…
Podcast Mini Series
Confronting: Columbine
It’s been more than 20 years since two teenagers killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Color…
Podcast Mini Series
Do You Know Mordechai?
In the genre-bending podcast, DO YOU KNOW MORDECHAI? it was all going so well. Arya had finally fal…
Podcast Mini Series
Hindsight
Hindsight is a genre-bending, docudrama podcast by Al Jazeera. The series resurrects some of histor…
Podcast Mini Series
The Followers: Madness of Two
How did the perfect suburban mom get wrapped up with doomsday preppers and prophets? For months, th…
Podcast Mini Series
The Greatness with Kareem Maddox
Kareem Maddox is a professional 3x3 basketball player and a lifelong fan of the Olympics, and he's …