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 Video Series

This award honors the most creative and effective use of a video series (such as a digital web series or docu-series).

Winner

Video Series
winner
HACKED YouTube Series
Sallie Mae wants to help students find all the free money they can to pay for their education — bef…

Finalists

Video Series
finalist
gold honor
Headspace and Star Wars™
Headspace and Star Wars™ joined forces to launch exclusive content featuring the most iconic charac…
Video Series
finalist
silver honor
“I Heard it on the Internet” Explainer Video Content Series
The Challenge As a vaccine maker, Pfizer recognized that COVID-19 misinformation was damaging. Ac…
Video Series
finalist
bronze honor
Meta: Are We There Yet?
In 2021 Facebook rebranded to Meta, sparking a lot of questions—but mostly “What *IS* the metaverse…
Video Series
finalist
audience honor
Animalogic
Educate. Represent. Entertain. With over 490 millions video views across YouTube, Snapchat Discover…
Video Series
finalist
Capital Founder Series
To launch Capital, a buzzy fintech startup fueling some of the most innovative founders today, we f…
Video Series
finalist
HBO Max x ATTN: – Recommended By
In an expansive content ecosystem, Recommended By aims to solve a common user problem…  What do I w…
Video Series
finalist
Nickelodeon's Cartoon Voice Battle
Nickelodeon’s new series Big Nate took the wacky world of Nate Wright from one-dimensional comic to…
Video Series
finalist
PBC: Accounting Comedy Web Series
With the massive retirement of boomers in the industry, the accounting professional population is d…
Video Series
finalist
Quest for Craft
Awareness remains a top priority for the brand in the crowded US whisk(e)y category. The objecti…
Video Series
finalist
Real People, Real Stories Series
AARP’s Real People, Real Stories series celebrates ordinary individuals from diverse backgrounds wh…
Video Series
finalist
THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY X ATTN: A DAY IN THE LIFE
The goal of the campaign was to focus on increasing the awareness of the American Cancer Society’s …
Video Series
finalist
The Afrofuturist Period Room: Meet The Artists
The goal for the Afrofuturist Period Room: Meet The Artists series was to promote the many contempo…
Video Series
finalist
The Gentle Barn: Farm Animals React to Their Names Series
The Gentle Barn is a national non-profit farm animal sanctuary with 200 rescued animals across loca…
Video Series
finalist
Without A Recipe
Cooking content has a huge audience but not everyone is a chef. We set out to make cooking more acc…
Video Series
finalist
“LGBTQ Nation’s Authentic Voices of Pride, presented by Chevrolet”
General Motors’ vision is to be “the most inclusive company in the world”.  GM’s brand Chevrolet so…

Nominees

Video Series
Art & Technology Season 5
Hyundai Motor’s have always been strong supporters of the Arts globally with a commitment to foster…
Video Series
Between 2 Rides
eBay is the OG online marketplace for buyers and sellers, but has faced twin headwinds in recent ye…
Video Series
Bleacher Report: Hero Ball
Bleacher Report has pioneered the use of animation in its sports content and is unmatched in the in…
Video Series
Boss Moves with Rasheeda
In Spring 2022, Philo has formed a strategic deal with Kin to bring our first ever original s…
Video Series
Bretman Rocks Stockholm: Journey of a Jingle
Develop a YouTube series that announces Bretman Rock as Klarna's global ambassador and grow Klarna’…
Video Series
Corey & Carmella
The series Corey and Carmella was created to peel back the curtain on the home lives of real-life W…
Video Series
Director of Social Media
Before the construction of Central Park in 1858, the landscape along what is now the Park’s perimet…
Video Series
Disability Justice, My world
15% of the world’s population experiences some form of disability, but you might never know that ba…
Video Series
ECHO USA: Climbing to the Top, The Path Less Taken, El Lenero (The Woodcutter)
The tagline for ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment has long been "Power On. And on." A fitting line given…
Video Series
Envoy’s FLYDay Campaign Inspires JobSeekers
The COVID-19 pandemic hit the aviation industry hard. For more than two years, Envoy Air has been n…
Video Series
Focus On Your Lungs: A Screening You Don’t Want To Miss
Although lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., when found early, before it …
Video Series
Google Play Generation Play Series
Who do you think of when you think “tech innovators”? Elon Musk? Bill Gates? Tim Cook? Probably not…
Video Series
HangarFour Creative x Indeed – Career Talks
Indeed launched Career Talks to allow some of the most successful C-Suite level executives to share…
Video Series
Hilton: Off The Menu
Hilton’s Off the Menu series highlights the beauty of staying with Hilton through a culinary lens. …
Video Series
Horizon 2022 “It’s Personal” Video Series
At Horizon, we uniquely understand the patient journey because for us, the work we do delivering me…
Video Series
Inspiration Series
Kia believes that movement that inspires can come from anyone, anywhere. So we used our social chan…
Video Series
KOllOK
The objective of bringing KOllOK to AMC Networks FearHQ was to give them an original story and expe…
Video Series
Let’s Talk Utah—Season 3
Utah is so much more than its world-famous Mighty 5 national parks. With overcrowding in and around…
Video Series
Malort Mixology
We wanted to expand on the successful @UnemployedWineGuy account by featuring a series of cocktails…
Video Series
Microsoft OneDrive “Save Yourself” Campaign
Microsoft and Bread n Butter were faced with three overlapping challenges:  Reposition One…
Video Series
Modathon
eBay is the OG online marketplace for buyers and sellers, but it has faced twin headwinds recently:…
Video Series
NASCAR Next Now
This two-part special was to create a reunion of racers who were chosen by NASCAR to be the next cl…
Video Series
Pattrn Explores
One of Pattrn’s 2022 initiatives was a series called Pattrn Explores. Climate change and sustainabi…
Video Series
RA&A Video Series: Inspiring Signs for a Brighter Future
It was December 2021 – the world was still in the throes of the pandemic and a return to normalcy f…
Video Series
Race For The Championship
Race For the Championship captures the passion and drama of competition as nearly a dozen of the be…
Video Series
Reimagining the Future with Smarter IT Infrastructure
At Lenovo, we have always focused on human-centered innovation – from devices to the data center, w…
Video Series
Reporting for Duty Series
Reporting for Duty is an original AARP YouTube series that garners over ten million views per year.…
Video Series
Ride Guys - Entertainment YouTube Series
Universal Parks and Resorts destinations are big, awesome, and thrilling.  Every year we have a goa…
Video Series
Searching for Maximum Flavor with Chef Adrianne
With Searching for Maximum Flavor, I wanted viewers to be able to follow a chef (me) to foodie cent…
Video Series
Spectacular Science: A Regeneron Series
During the pandemic, Regeneron experienced a dramatic increase in name recognition thanks to our in…
Video Series
Technically Divided
Our world has lost some of the art of civilized debate. You don't need to go very far to find toxic…
Video Series
The IRIS Project
Project IRIS is an innovative game created for YouTube star Jacksepticeye's community, featuring an…
Video Series
The Ritz-Carlton — Signature Video Series
With Meta’s growing shift to video, The Ritz-Carlton saw a fresh chance to share its defining momen…
Video Series
The black, French speaking figures who inspired modern struggles
Given that Black History Month (BHM) was coming in February 2023, we thought that it was the perfec…
Video Series
Travel Interviews with W Hotels
The W Hotels brand is known for its bold and dynamic social media presence. In 2022, we relaunched …
Video Series
Unpacked Series
With Unpacked, J.P. Morgan aims to break down complex and newsworthy topics from across the finance…
Video Series
Vikings Friday Challenge Series
Ever wonder what your favorite players like to do off the field? If you've thought about what life …
Video Series
Walker Webcast
The Walker Webcast was launched with the onset of COVID as a way to stay connected with our clients…
Video Series
Wella Ed EXPOSED Youtube Series
Wella Education is a collaborative community where trend-setting salon professionals come to share,…
Video Series
What If - "What If The Largest Asteroid Hit Earth?"
At Underknown our mission is to entertain, inspire and educate young people, around the world, abou…
Video Series
Wolf Pack: Unpacked with Holland Roden
While Wolf Pack is not a Teen Wolf spinoff, we knew that the audience conversion rate would likely …
Video Series
World Cup NOW
FOX Sports, the leader in live sports and official FIFA World Cup English-language broadcast rights…
Video Series
gOD-Talk 2.0: Hip-Hop & #BlackFaith
gOD-Talk 2.0: Hip-Hop & #BlackFaith is the seventh episode of the award-winning web series presente…