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!

Brand Identity

This award honors brand identity on social media and digital. Work that is either standalone or part of a greater campaign is eligible. Creative integrity, strategic integration, shareability and effectiveness will be considered.

See previous winners and honorees here.
Brand Identity
Amazon Prime Video - Reactive
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Brand Identity
Big Yellow and the Starface Universe
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Brand Identity
Embrace Boston
King Boston, now named Embrace Boston, is an organization that seeks to “reimagine what’s possible.…
Brand Identity
French's Mustard Donuts
French's is the market leader in Yellow Mustard, and keeping the brand culturally relevant is key t…
Brand Identity
Hotheads Hair Extensions Brand Identity Refresh
Hotheads Hair Extensions, a salon professional brand held by Beauty Industry Group, felt their bran…
Brand Identity
Hulu IDs
Brand Identity
MeanPug Digital
MeanPug Digital is a full-service digital marketing agency for law firms that views each of our cli…
Brand Identity
Mirror Bar – Brand Identity, Logo Design & Art Direction
Brand Identity
Nauticode
Born on the historic Mississippi River, the American Queen Steamboat Company was an icon that had g…
Brand Identity
PBC: Accounting Comedy Web Series
With the massive retirement of boomers in the industry, the accounting professional population is d…
Brand Identity
Von D Shoes
The campaign for Von D Shoes was a multi-platform digital marketing effort aimed at aligning and gr…
Brand Identity
Walker Webcast
The Walker Webcast was launched with the onset of COVID as a way to stay connected with our clients…
Brand Identity
Welcome to LALALANDIA!
LALA is a dairy brand well-known in Mexico, but largely unknown to American consumers. After LALA U…