THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

Campaign

Awareness Campaign Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign Diverse-Owned Businesses Campaign Fundraising Campaign Global Campaign Integrated Campaign Local Campaign Multi-Platform Campaign Multicultural Campaign On a Shoestring Campaign Pro Bono Campaign Social Movement Campaign

Content & Design

Audio & Music Brand Voice NEW! Branded Content Branded Series Documentary Short Email & Newsletter NEW! Feature Film Gamification NEW! Images Interactive Content Long Form Video Medium Length Video NEW! Micro-site or Blog Podcast Research Reports Short Form Video Video Series

Cause

Animal Rights & Welfare Arts & Culture Conservation & Preservation Disability Awareness Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Emergency Relief Environment & Sustainability Fight Poverty Gender Equality Human Rights Immigration & Refugees Learning & Development LGBTQ+ Mental Health Multi-Cause Initiative Other Causes NEW! Public Health Public Safety Racial Equality Responsible Consumption & Production Responsible Technology NEW! Social Justice Youth & Family

Industry

Automotive Business to Business Consumer Brands Education Entertainment Fashion & Beauty Financial Services Food & Beverage Government & Politics Healthcare & Pharma Hospitality & Travel Lifestyle & Wellness News & Media Non-Profit Other Industry NEW! Retail & E-Commerce Sports Technology

Partnerships

Brand Partnership NEW! Corporate-Community Influencer, Creator & Celebrity Nonprofit Partnership Other Partnerships NEW!

Platforms & Technology

Extended Reality Gaming Generative AI Instagram LinkedIn Other Platforms TikTok YouTube

Special Project

Special Project

Strategy & Engagement

Call to Action Community Engagement Contest or Challenges Data & Insights Earned Media Event & Experiential Guerrilla Marketing Integration with Traditional Media NEW! Paid Media PSA Single Post Storytelling Use of Viral Content NEW! User Generated Content

From the 2nd Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best in Public Health

This award honors a program, project, or initiative that seeks to promote and protect the health of people and the communities they live, learn, work, and play in.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Public Health
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GIVE THE TALK
In the digital age, the average age of exposure to porn is 11-years-old. Additionally, 87% of hardc…

Finalists

Public Health
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#0to60
In May 2016, the National Fitness Foundation, in partnership with the President's Council on Fitnes…
Public Health
finalist
#IDEFY
For over 100 years, Planned Parenthood has been a leading healthcare provider for millions of Ameri…
Public Health
finalist
Be Your Own Baby
Upstream USA is on a mission: to prevent unplanned pregnancies by making effective contraception ac…
Public Health
finalist
IT’S ON US: Autocorrect
Created by Mekanism in partnership with the Obama administration, IT'S ON US aims to end sexual…
Public Health
finalist
Nasty or Nice
Last November 8th, America elected Donald Trump, who had campaigned to end government-funded birth …

Nominees

Public Health
Together: Nothing is Impossible
The main objective of the "Together: Nothing is Impossible" campaign was to raise awareness for can…
Public Health
#BeBetter Road Safety Tour by TaskUs
Hit and run cases may have diminished since 2010, though the numbers remain to be alarming. Media s…
Public Health
#WearWhite Day - For a Future Immune to Cancer
Cancer Research Institute (CRI), established in 1953, is the world's leading nonprofit organization…
Public Health
#YESmeansTEST: Empowering Sexually Active Young Adults to Get Tested for STDs
We're facing an STD epidemic—and young people are getting hit the hardestIn 2015, reportable STDs r…
Public Health
BET Goes Pink
For the sixth year in a row, BET Networks launched BET Goes Pink to promote awareness of the most c…
Public Health
Brutal Cut
Three million girls in Africa aged 4-12 are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) each year.Th…
Public Health
CME Pink and CME Movember
CME Group launched our partnership with Bright Pink and the Movember Foundation in the fall of 2015…
Public Health
Comedy Central's The Daily Show + truth
truth® strives to make smoking relevant to teens and Gen Z, a critical audience, by connecting smok…
Public Health
Contaminated
Across the U.S., hazardous waste sites, landfills, incinerators, and other hazardous facilities are…
Public Health
Dancing Romance
How to boost the visibility and switch the image of Fondation Visio from a small regional foundatio…
Public Health
HCF - Wellness Apps (Be Happier, Get Fitter and Quit Smoking)
Insurance claims and preventable health problems are spiraling out of control. And who better pl…
Public Health
Happy Family's Infant Feeding Support Platform
Happy Family is dedicated towards democratizing access to great infant nutrition for all familie…
Public Health
Herstory
Women's rights are human rights and the struggle for equality has been one of the most important ba…
Public Health
How to talk about STDs
STIs continue to be a significant public health concern in the U.S. The CDC estimates 20 million ne…
Public Health
How truth “Woke” Teens Up to a Public Health Epidemic & Social Injustice
Engaging teens in a conversation about tobacco isn't easy. Somewhere between scare tactics and publ…
Public Health
LISTEN
Social impact is a huge piece of Viacom's cultural legacy. We spearhead conversations about the iss…
Public Health
Little Lungs in a Great Big World
In the U.S., cigarette smoking kills more people than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, homicide, suici…
Public Health
Making Connections That Will Change The World
The goal of the video was to integrate the experience of living with HIV into a general marketing …
Public Health
Operation Prevention
Every day, 91 Americans die from an opioid overdose, and overdose deaths have quadrupled since 1999…
Public Health
PUSH
In 2011, Ken Frazier President and CEO of Merck (known as MSD for Mothers outside of the U.S. and C…
Public Health
Parents of Fertility
30 Million couples in India are infertile, but only 5% approach clinicians. Infertility issues are …
Public Health
Persil: Wild Explorers App
Persil's long-standing Dirt is Good positioning is often held up as an exemplar of Unilever's commi…
Public Health
Reducing Leading Causes of Workplace Injury and Illness
National Safety Month is observed annually in June and focuses on reducing the leading causes of in…
Public Health
Ronald McDonald House of Long Island 30th Anniversary Gala
The Ronald McDonald House of Long Island makes magic for kids and their families at their most vuln…
Public Health
Suicide Prevention Month
As the Department of Defense's champion for suicide prevention, the Defense Suicide Prevention Offi…
Public Health
Take Down Gun Violence
Take Down Gun Violence:On average, there is more than one mass shooting a day in the United States.…
Public Health
“Rise Above Cancer” (WWE & Susan G. Komen)
The partnership between WWE and Susan G. Komen launched in 2012 with the successful "Rise Above Can…