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!

True Crime & Documentary Podcast

This award honors the most effective and creative true crime or documentary podcast. Includes single episode, series and mini-series.
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
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
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
Mind of a Monster
Hosted by criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward, Mind of a Monster brings listeners exclusive acc…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Missed Fortune
For most of history, the hoarding and stashing of gold and jewels happened only in times of insecur…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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…
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
Project UNABOM
"The Unabomber was right." Host Eric Benson had heard that provocative, disturbing sentiment in con…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Run Bambi Run
"Run Bambi Run” is a narrative nonfiction Apple Original Podcast about a female police officer who …
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 Deck
Audiochuck creates podcasts and presents stories each week not just to entertain, but to try to mak…
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…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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
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
What the Hack with Adam Levin
What the Hack with Adam Levin is a weekly true cybercrime podcast featuring interviews with people …