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 Long Form Video

This award honors the most effective and creative use of long form video in a social media or digital marketing campaign or editorial content. Videos must be 2 or more minutes in length to qualify.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Finalists

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gold honor
Quest for Craft
Awareness remains a top priority for the brand in the crowded US whisk(e)y category. The objecti…
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silver honor
MTV News "Need to Know"
“Need to Know” is MTV News’s award-winning flagship video franchise that uses entertainment stories…
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bronze honor
audience honor
Food Wars
Food Wars is a series which aims to deliver factual, educational information about food and drink t…
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bronze honor
The Daily Show: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Globe - Hungary for Democracy
In Jordan Klepper Fingers the Globe - Hungary for Democracy, The Daily Show takes Jordan’s signatur…
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10 Years in Brooklyn
In the NBA, hype films are typically used to amp up fans by being bombastic, even flashy. After pit…
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Ancestry “A Dream Delivered: The Lost Letters of Hawkins Wilson” Documentary
Ancestry is the leader in helping people discover the richness and depth of their family’s history …
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Becoming with Keely Henninger
During the River Gorge 50k ultramarathon last spring, professional runner Keely Henninger ate 13 en…
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I ___ YOU
I have crafted a timeless piece that captures the essence of vulnerability and the complexities of …
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MTV's Siesta Key / Power to Decide
In the season 4 finale of Siesta Key, cast member Madisson shared her experience of losing her baby…
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RuPaul's Drag Race LGBTQ Herstory Month 2022
In recognition of LGBTQ History Month (October), the RuPaul’s Drag Race team brought 7 trailblazing…
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SHOWTIME® Original Series Yellowjackets | The Yule Log
Season 1 of SHOWTIME®'s hit series YELLOWJACKETS, which follows a group of wildly talented high sch…
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Slo Mo Symphony
There is nothing as captivating as the fast pace of hockey, and nothing as technical as seeing it s…
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Vlad & NIki
“Vlad & Niki” videos are created to entertain children while challenging them to explore, create, l…
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War Dog Reunites With His Best Friend
Reporting for Duty is a YouTube series born out of the success of AARP’s veteran library that garne…
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Who Cares: A Nurse's Fight for Equity
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is a nonprofit organization focused on building a culture of …
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“A Visit From St. Nicholas” as Read by Louis Armstrong
In the fall of 2022, Verve Records released the first-ever official Christmas album from Louis Arms…

Nominees

"1877: For THEE Culture" - Jackson State University Day of Giving Film
Jackson State University’s Day of Giving is an annual one-day fundraising event that affords JSU al…
ATOMICMARI UNEXPECTED XBOX BATTLE IN IHOP
In fall 2022, IHOP was focused on growing awareness for the launch of their delicious loyalty progr…
Alpha Betas Holiday Special with Cash App
Alpha Betas is a collaboration between global entertainment studio 3BLACKDOT, writers and showrunne…
Beats Presents “Dark Mode” By Lil Baby Starring Ja Morant
Beats is a brand built on being defiant and resonant in culture, something that lends to our DNA as…
Bikini Bottom Inquirer
Bikini Bottom Inquirer is born from the idea of looking at the wacky underwater world of SpongeBob …
Black Men of Google
In preparation for their 2022 Black Men Summit, Google aimed to create assets and collateral to cha…
CMT Stages
The CMT social audience has shown over and over that they love performance content, especially when…
Chasing Worlds
Under Armour’s mission is to make athletes better, and our professional run teams are one way to ad…
Couple Reunites 42 Years After Racism Broke Them Up
The idea driving this long-form video profile was to inspire, connect and uplift people with a stor…
ECHO USA - EPISODE 4: El Lenero (The Woodcutter)
The tagline for ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment has long been "Power On. And on." A fitting line given…
Game Developer Accuses Real-Life Weapons Manufacturer of Stealing Its Gun Design... Twice
This piece began with a single anonymous email, asking our news team to look into a strange situati…
Gay People Get Their Dream Fashion Makeovers
The objective of this video was to highlight the LGBTQ+ culture in a way that harnesses the positiv…
Ham or Turkey Time
Bar-S Foods is a value brand that makes hot dogs, sausages, lunchmeat, bacon, and other items, and …
HangarFour Creative x Indeed – Rising Voices: Turn the Camera
As part of Indeed’s Rising Voices program, we wanted to shine a spotlight on those behind the camer…
Inside Yellowstone Season 5
We know Yellowstone fans are thirsty for any and all content we can provide. Specifically, anything…
Investing for a Greener World
Our goals:  To show how international financial institutions are changing people’s lives a…
MTV News "The Method" Season 4
“The Method” is a digital, interview-style documentary series that highlights individual members of…
MTV's Following: Bretman Rock
With the success of the first season of MTV’s Following, we saw a strong opportunity to dig deeper …
Mighty Thor Animated Video
The Marvel's Avengers animated comics, or "Animatics," allowed Crystal Dynamics to tell our own sto…
Minnesota Vikings: NFL Playoffs Showtime Video
In January of 2023, the Minnesota Vikings hosted the 2nd-ever playoff game at U.S. Bank Stadium.  U…
NYC Local Legends
As inbound travel and tourism to New York City began to rebound from the pandemic, we at NYC & Comp…
Norse Myth Expert Reacts to God of War Ragnarok
The video game series God of War heavily relies on traditional Norse mythology to tell its story, b…
Pile of Scrap: The Interview
Pile of Scrap is a podcast presented by Sierra International Machinery to showcase the individuals …
SQUAD LIFE
We’re not born into our sweat fam, we choose it. In 2022, we continued to build upon our success on…
SheKnows: Bringing the Heat
Women’s health, women’s bodies, and menopause are topics that are not widely discussed or prioritiz…
Start Here
The world is complicated. The news doesn’t have to be.  Start Here is the flagship online explai…
The Long Road From Field to Track
The agency's primary goals with the project were to get Porsche to publish our user generated conte…
The Recycler
"Sierra wants to make you an offer you can't refuse: Recycling. After all, everybody in the neighbo…
The Return Key
The Return Key is a story. It’s not an ad. It’s not a campaign. It’s not a sales gimmick. The Retur…
The Second Question
AN IDOL ROOTED IN TRADITION  For over 500 years, Indians have been celebrating Durga Puja, f…
The Weird and Wonderful Fans Still Playing Fallout 76 | IGN Inside Stories
After a disastrous launch, the hotly anticipated video game Fallout 76 was considered to be a huge …
The Wheel Of Time
Amazon Prime Video, one of India’s leading OTT services, was coming out with a new show - The Wheel…
Turning Red Lofi Beats Video
During our work on Disney Pixar's "Turning Red," we noticed it had captured the hearts of generatio…
Wolf Pack: Unpacked with Holland Roden
While Wolf Pack is not a Teen Wolf spinoff, we knew that the audience conversion rate would likely …