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

Of The Year

Commercial Creator of the Year Dual-Format Creator of the Year Large Agency of the Year Large Brand of the Year Large Non-Profit of the Year Mid-Sized Agency of the Year News Creator of the Year Site of the Year Small Agency of the Year Studio of the Year

From the 15th Annual Shorty Awards True Crime & Documentary Podcast

This award honors the most effective and creative true crime or documentary podcast. Includes single episode, series and mini-series.

Winner

True Crime & Documentary Podcast
winner
Mother Country Radicals, an original podcast from Crooked Media and Audacy
Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents radicals and counterculture outlaws leading a revolut…

Finalists

True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
gold honor
Run Bambi Run
"Run Bambi Run” is a narrative nonfiction Apple Original Podcast about a female police officer who …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
silver honor
Project UNABOM
"The Unabomber was right." Host Eric Benson had heard that provocative, disturbing sentiment in con…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
silver honor
The Deck
Audiochuck creates podcasts and presents stories each week not just to entertain, but to try to mak…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
bronze honor
Missed Fortune
For most of history, the hoarding and stashing of gold and jewels happened only in times of insecur…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
Father Wants Us Dead
The List family murders is a chapter of Westfield, N.J. history that many may want to forget. But a…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
Justice for Shireen
On May 11, 2022, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh - a Palestinian and U.S. citizen - was sho…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
There's No Place Like Home
2021 began with a rumble that became a roar heard across the country: Australian women would no lon…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
audience honor
Tom Rinaldi Presents: Wesley
In the more than 150-year history of Major League Baseball, only one player has ever been murdered …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
What the Hack with Adam Levin
What the Hack with Adam Levin is a weekly true cybercrime podcast featuring interviews with people …

Nominees

True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Betrayal
Betrayal opens as a series about a fairytale marriage gone wrong and develops into a journey about …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Catching a Killer: Legendary Mindhunter on Idaho Student Murders
Surviving The Survivor has re-defined the wildly popular true crime genre by bringing together the …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Mind of a Monster
Hosted by criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward, Mind of a Monster brings listeners exclusive acc…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty - 48 Hours & CBS News
In the “My Life of Crime” podcast "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty takes listeners through i…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Sword and Scale
Sword and Scale is an internet radio show and website covering the dark underworld of crime and the…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
The Perfect Scam Podcast
Fraud is a billion-dollar industry affecting people of all ages, across all walks of life. Transnat…