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!

Other Podcast Genres

This award honors the most effective and creative podcast genre not featured in Shorty categories. Includes single episode, series and mini-series.
Other Podcast Genres
Atomic Gambit: The Cuban Missile Crisis 60 Years Later
In October 1962, the world came perilously close to a global nuclear war that would have resulted i…
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Avatar: Braving the Elements - Nickelodeon & iHeartRadio
Grow the Avatar audience while increasing affinity and sustaining engagement with the core fa…
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Citizen Stewart Show
“The Citizen Stewart Show” is an independent, pull-no-punches podcast about the perils and promise …
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Creative Development
The Creative Development podcast series serves as IFC’s thought leadership outlet on how finance an…
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Ghosthoney's Dream Machine
Pod People is a podcast studio that has primarily created work for clients; however, last year, we …
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Going Mental with Eileen Kelly
Going Mental hopes to paint a picture of mental health as a multi-dimensional topic that involves e…
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Hindsight
Hindsight was born out of a passion to connect the historical and geopolitical dots of the Middle E…
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Longer Tables with Chef José Andrés
I am José Andrés. I am a cook, restaurateur, and the founder of World Central Kitchen, a global non…
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Mobituaries - CBS News & iHeartRadio
The podcast Mobituaries aims to highlight the dearly departed who may not have gotten the spotlight…
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Non-Binary People Answer All Your Burning Questions
Our objective for this topic was to help bring awareness to the general public through our 2nd Try …
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PwC’s Take on Tomorrow
There are plenty of great podcasts about the challenges the world faces, and plenty more about busi…
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Red, Blue, and Brady
Red, Blue, and Brady (RBB) is a unique podcast that aims to bring survivors, researchers, activists…
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Tell Me What Happened—An OnStar podcast. Real stories of people helping people in distress.
The Tell Me What Happened series was conceived to ‘keep listeners on the edge of their seat’* with …
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The End of the Road Podcast
The End of the Road Podcast uses stories to take listeners on a journey to some of the most remote …
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The Heumann Perspective
As a lifelong activist Judy Heumann began using the medium of podcasts since 2021 to further the ca…
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The Holderness Family Podcast
The objective of The Holderness Family Podcast is to give listeners a weekly dose of joy for those …
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The OUTThinking Investor Podcast
More than a conversation, The OUTThinking Investor podcast weaves together interviews with PGIM exp…
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The Sustainability Roll Call
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Travel Tales by AFAR
Since AFAR’s inception in 2009, our mission has been to inspire people to travel deeply. We’re know…
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Walker Webcast
The Walker Webcast was launched with the onset of COVID as a way to stay connected with our clients…
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Women in Influencer Marketing Community
Women in Influencer Marketing (better known as WIIM) has made a huge impact on the influencer marke…