THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

From the 15th Annual Shorty Awards Sports

This award honors the most effective and creative use of social media or digital by sports teams, athletes, leagues, networks and services. Objectives may include (but are not limited to) engaging current fans, growing the fanbase, driving traffic and educating viewers.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Nominees

2023 UA Next All-America Game
Under Armour Football aimed to highlight the top football players in country and their experiences …
Building Fandom Around New Sport: Real-Time Activating at the United States Sail Grand Prix
For the 2022 San Francisco Sail Grand Prix, SailGP tapped Code3 to create fandom around a new kind …
Carmichael Lynch and H&R Block: A Fair Shot
On July 1, 2021, the new NCAA Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) rule change went into effect, turning col…
Chasing Worlds
Under Armour’s mission is to make athletes better, and our professional run teams are one way to ad…
Colorado Avalanche Social Media
Representing the Colorado Avalanche, our goal was to bring fans along for the ride on the journey t…
ESPN College GameDay Goes "All The Way" With the Ultimate Engagement Hub
ESPN went all-in for this year's fan engagement strategy and turned their oldest standing property …
Football’s best kept secret is no longer a secret
The Overtime audience already knows about 7x7 football and craves the athlete discovery and storyte…
Giddam - Never Retreat
In a country that has been receiving an unjust negative wrap in media outlets throughout the world …
House of Highlights
House of Highlights (HoH) is designed to connect and deliver content for the next generation of spo…
House of Highlights X RDC DreamCon
The HoH Showdown series is known for assembling the internet's biggest creators in engaging live fo…
Intel x The Daily Show with Trevor Noah featuring Michael Kosta & Nate Burleson
Intel approached Paramount looking for an integrated, creative campaign that reached their target a…
The Athletic “Every Second Tells a Story”
The Athletic is the leading digital sports media company, delivering powerful stories and smart ana…
The Volume
The Volume’s skyrocketing growth in 2022 cemented the digital sports media network as an industry t…
The Warm-Up Presented by Ally: NWSL Championship Pre-game Show and Kelley On The Street
Elevated, polished pre-game shows are a staple in men’s sports, but have historically been lacking …
Visa Masters of Movement
With all eyes on Qatar for the first FIFA World Cup in the Middle East, Visa wanted to use their sp…
World Cup NOW
FOX Sports, the leader in live sports and official FIFA World Cup English-language broadcast rights…
World Jai-Alai League
Magic City Casino in Miami, Florida has set out to revive the sport of Jai-Alai in the United State…