THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

By Campaign

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

By Cause

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

By Industry

Automotive Business to Business Education Entertainment Fashion and Beauty Financial Services Food & Beverage Government & Politics Healthcare & Pharma Hospitality & Travel Lifestyle & Wellness News & Media Nonprofit Restaurants Retail & E-Commerce Sports Technology

By Platform

Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Other Platforms NEW! TikTok Twitter YouTube

Original Content

Branded Content Branded Series Documentary Short Extended Reality NEW! Gaming NEW! Images NEW! Interactive Content NEW! Live Streaming Long Form Video Micro-site or Blog NEW! Podcast Short Form Video Video Video Series

Partnerships

Corporate-Community Influencer & Celebrity Media Partnership Nonprofit Partnership

Special Project

Special Project

Strategy & Engagement

Call to Action Community Engagement Contest or Challenges Creative Use of Technology CTV/OTT NEW! Data & Insights NEW! Employee Engagement Event & Experiential NEW! Fundraising Strategy Generative AI NEW! Micro-Influencer Strategy Paid Media PSA Real Time Response Single Post Social Commerce NEW! Storytelling User Generated Content

From the 3rd Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best Pro Bono Campaign

This award honors the most creative and effective social good campaign with services offered to a brand, organization, or nonprofit for free.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Pro Bono
winner
Suburban Horror Story
To help with StreetGrace's mission to end sex trafficking, we created Suburban Horror Story: turnin…

Finalists

Pro Bono
finalist
#AskFirst
We created the #AskFirst campaign because we wanted to raise awareness about "Revenge Porn" (privat…
Pro Bono
finalist
Hospital of Love
For years, Barretos Cancer Hospital carried on its name a disease that scares and repels. In 2016, …
Pro Bono
finalist
Price on Our Lives
We created a wearable $1.05 price tag to symbolize the price politicians put on student lives by a…
Pro Bono
finalist
Pure Imagination Project
An unfortunate truth is that many believe Alzheimer's is just memory loss when, in fact, it's a fa…
Pro Bono
finalist
Teachers Have Better Work Stories
The United States is facing a teacher recruitment crisis, and it is expected to get worse as future…

Nominees

Pro Bono
finalist
#AskFirst
We created the #AskFirst campaign because we wanted to raise awareness about "Revenge Porn" (privat…
Pro Bono
Ad Council's Buzzed Driving Prevention: Know Your Warning Signs
Our objective was to create a new public service communications campaign that aims to prevent Mille…
Pro Bono
Birds are Cool. Let's Save Them.
The Audubon Society is an influential non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of bird…
Pro Bono
Empathy Craves Imagination
The objective of our campaign was to use a series of short video vignettes to shed light on a numbe…
Pro Bono
Gift of Adoption Pro Bono Influencer Program: Raising Awareness for a Cause
Gift of Adoption wanted to make a splash during November 2017's National Adoption Awareness Month w…
Pro Bono
finalist
Hospital of Love
For years, Barretos Cancer Hospital carried on its name a disease that scares and repels. In 2016, …
Pro Bono
Intrusive Thoughts Inc.
After 20 years of suffering in silence with undiagnosed OCD, Aaron Harvey turned to the internet fo…
Pro Bono
finalist
Price on Our Lives
We created a wearable $1.05 price tag to symbolize the price politicians put on student lives by a…
Pro Bono
finalist
Pure Imagination Project
An unfortunate truth is that many believe Alzheimer's is just memory loss when, in fact, it's a fa…
Pro Bono
winner
Suburban Horror Story
To help with StreetGrace's mission to end sex trafficking, we created Suburban Horror Story: turnin…
Pro Bono
finalist
Teachers Have Better Work Stories
The United States is facing a teacher recruitment crisis, and it is expected to get worse as future…
Pro Bono
The Deadly Food Allergies Campaign
The Deadly Food Allergies campaign was a pro-bono effort that sought to raise awareness of the seve…
Pro Bono
Touchdowns Against Cancer
Each September thousands of high school football teams, featuring over one-million student athletes…
Pro Bono
Your Voice Lives On
There were approximately 1,081 fatalities caused by public shootings in the United States last year…