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

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.

Winner

Long Form Video
winner
Uber Eats presents "DON'T RUN OUT"
Uber Eats grabbed headlines with their Uber Eats Convenience offering with a candy-led campaign tha…

Finalists

Long Form Video
finalist
gold honor
Quest for Craft
Awareness remains a top priority for the brand in the crowded US whisk(e)y category. The objecti…
Long Form Video
finalist
silver honor
MTV News "Need to Know"
“Need to Know” is MTV News’s award-winning flagship video franchise that uses entertainment stories…
Long Form Video
finalist
bronze honor
audience honor
Food Wars
Food Wars is a series which aims to deliver factual, educational information about food and drink t…
Long Form Video
finalist
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…
Long Form Video
finalist
10 Years in Brooklyn
In the NBA, hype films are typically used to amp up fans by being bombastic, even flashy. After pit…
Long Form Video
finalist
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 …
Long Form Video
finalist
Becoming with Keely Henninger
During the River Gorge 50k ultramarathon last spring, professional runner Keely Henninger ate 13 en…
Long Form Video
finalist
I ___ YOU
I have crafted a timeless piece that captures the essence of vulnerability and the complexities of …
Long Form Video
finalist
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…
Long Form Video
finalist
RuPaul's Drag Race LGBTQ Herstory Month 2022
In recognition of LGBTQ History Month (October), the RuPaul’s Drag Race team brought 7 trailblazing…
Long Form Video
finalist
SHOWTIME® Original Series Yellowjackets | The Yule Log
Season 1 of SHOWTIME®'s hit series YELLOWJACKETS, which follows a group of wildly talented high sch…
Long Form Video
finalist
Slo Mo Symphony
There is nothing as captivating as the fast pace of hockey, and nothing as technical as seeing it s…
Long Form Video
finalist
Vlad & NIki
“Vlad & Niki” videos are created to entertain children while challenging them to explore, create, l…
Long Form Video
finalist
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…
Long Form Video
finalist
Who Cares: A Nurse's Fight for Equity
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is a nonprofit organization focused on building a culture of …
Long Form Video
finalist
“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

Long Form Video
"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…
Long Form Video
ATOMICMARI UNEXPECTED XBOX BATTLE IN IHOP
In fall 2022, IHOP was focused on growing awareness for the launch of their delicious loyalty progr…
Long Form Video
Alpha Betas Holiday Special with Cash App
Alpha Betas is a collaboration between global entertainment studio 3BLACKDOT, writers and showrunne…
Long Form Video
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…
Long Form Video
Bikini Bottom Inquirer
Bikini Bottom Inquirer is born from the idea of looking at the wacky underwater world of SpongeBob …
Long Form Video
Black Men of Google
In preparation for their 2022 Black Men Summit, Google aimed to create assets and collateral to cha…
Long Form Video
CMT Stages
The CMT social audience has shown over and over that they love performance content, especially when…
Long Form Video
Chasing Worlds
Under Armour’s mission is to make athletes better, and our professional run teams are one way to ad…
Long Form Video
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…
Long Form Video
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…
Long Form Video
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…
Long Form Video
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…
Long Form Video
Ham or Turkey Time
Bar-S Foods is a value brand that makes hot dogs, sausages, lunchmeat, bacon, and other items, and …
Long Form Video
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…
Long Form Video
Inside Yellowstone Season 5
We know Yellowstone fans are thirsty for any and all content we can provide. Specifically, anything…
Long Form Video
Investing for a Greener World
Our goals:  To show how international financial institutions are changing people’s lives a…
Long Form Video
MTV News "The Method" Season 4
“The Method” is a digital, interview-style documentary series that highlights individual members of…
Long Form Video
MTV's Following: Bretman Rock
With the success of the first season of MTV’s Following, we saw a strong opportunity to dig deeper …
Long Form Video
Mighty Thor Animated Video
The Marvel's Avengers animated comics, or "Animatics," allowed Crystal Dynamics to tell our own sto…
Long Form Video
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…
Long Form Video
NYC Local Legends
As inbound travel and tourism to New York City began to rebound from the pandemic, we at NYC & Comp…
Long Form Video
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…
Long Form Video
Pile of Scrap: The Interview
Pile of Scrap is a podcast presented by Sierra International Machinery to showcase the individuals …
Long Form Video
SQUAD LIFE
We’re not born into our sweat fam, we choose it. In 2022, we continued to build upon our success on…
Long Form Video
SheKnows: Bringing the Heat
Women’s health, women’s bodies, and menopause are topics that are not widely discussed or prioritiz…
Long Form Video
Start Here
The world is complicated. The news doesn’t have to be.  Start Here is the flagship online explai…
Long Form Video
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…
Long Form Video
The Recycler
"Sierra wants to make you an offer you can't refuse: Recycling. After all, everybody in the neighbo…
Long Form Video
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…
Long Form Video
The Second Question
AN IDOL ROOTED IN TRADITION  For over 500 years, Indians have been celebrating Durga Puja, f…
Long Form Video
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 …
Long Form Video
The Wheel Of Time
Amazon Prime Video, one of India’s leading OTT services, was coming out with a new show - The Wheel…
Long Form Video
Turning Red Lofi Beats Video
During our work on Disney Pixar's "Turning Red," we noticed it had captured the hearts of generatio…
Long Form Video
Wolf Pack: Unpacked with Holland Roden
While Wolf Pack is not a Teen Wolf spinoff, we knew that the audience conversion rate would likely …