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 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

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

Finalists

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

Nominees

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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…
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Birds are Cool. Let's Save Them.
The Audubon Society is an influential non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of bird…
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Empathy Craves Imagination
The objective of our campaign was to use a series of short video vignettes to shed light on a numbe…
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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…
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Intrusive Thoughts Inc.
After 20 years of suffering in silence with undiagnosed OCD, Aaron Harvey turned to the internet fo…
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The Deadly Food Allergies Campaign
The Deadly Food Allergies campaign was a pro-bono effort that sought to raise awareness of the seve…
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Touchdowns Against Cancer
Each September thousands of high school football teams, featuring over one-million student athletes…
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Your Voice Lives On
There were approximately 1,081 fatalities caused by public shootings in the United States last year…