THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

By Campaign

Campaign by a Black-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a Latinx/Hispanic-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a LGBTQ+ Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a Native/Indigenous-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a Woman-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by an Asian-Owned Business NEW! Corporate Social Responsibility NEW! Fundraising Campaign NEW! Global Campaign Integrated Campaign Local Campaign NEW! Multi-Platform Campaign On a Shoestring Pro Bono Social Movement

By Cause

Activism Campaign NEW! Animal Rights & Welfare Arts & Culture Civic Engagement Clean Energy NEW! Clean Water & Sanitation NEW! Conservation & Preservation Disability Awareness Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Education Emergency Relief Environment Gender Equality Human Rights Humanitarian Aid Hunger & Food Insecurity Immigration & Refugees LGBTQ+ Mental Health Poverty Public Health Racial Equality Responsible Consumption & Production NEW! Social Justice Youth & Family

By Industry

Automotive NEW! Business to Business NEW! Education NEW! Entertainment Fashion and Beauty NEW! Financial Services Food & Beverage Government & Politics Healthcare & Pharma Hospitality & Travel Lifestyle & Wellness NEW! News & Media Nonprofit Restaurants NEW! Retail & E-Commerce Sports Technology

By Platform

Emerging Platform Facebook Instagram LinkedIn TikTok Twitch Twitter YouTube

Content and Strategy

Branded Content NEW! Branded Series NEW! Call to Action Community Management Contest or Promotion Creative Use of Technology NEW! Email & Newsletters NEW! Employee Engagement Fundraising Humor Infographics NEW! Live Events Meme and GIFs NEW! Micro-Influencer Strategy NEW! Paid and Amplification Podcast PSA Real Time Response Single Post Storytelling User Generated Content Video

Partnerships

Corporate-Community Influencer & Celebrity Media Partnership Nonprofit Partnership

Special Project

Special Project NEW!

Video Content

Animations Documentary Short Live Streaming Long Form Video NEW! Short Form Video NEW! Video Series Virtual Reality

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

Podcast Mini Series
winner
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…
Podcast Mini Series
finalist
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
finalist
Close to Death
Close to Death, hosted by comedian Utkarsh Ambudkar, profiles people who spend every day working wi…
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
winner
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…
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
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
Hindsight
Hindsight is a genre-bending, docudrama podcast by Al Jazeera. The series resurrects some of histor…
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…
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 …
Podcast Mini Series
finalist
Where I Stay Podcast
Where I Stay was designed to change the way people think about homelessness by spotlighting the pli…