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!

From the 3rd Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Public Service Announcement

This award honors the most creative and effective public service announcement run across any platform.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

PSA
winner
Uber Moms
In Canada, over a third of road fatalities involve alcohol, more than in any other developed nation…

Finalists

PSA
finalist
gold honor
Seize the Awkward
Suicide is the second leading cause of death amongst young adults and for every youth suicide, it i…
PSA
finalist
"Rad Dads"
In partnership between The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children…
PSA
finalist
Save The Food - Phase Two
The problem of food waste is as easy to solve, as it is to overlook. While food plays a key role in…
PSA
finalist
Saved By The Scan
To build public awareness of lung cancer – the number 1 cancer killer of men & women – we launched …
PSA
finalist
The Bail Project
Our goal was to illustrate the human cost of unaffordable cash bail. We have an unjust bail system …

Nominees

PSA
finalist
"Rad Dads"
In partnership between The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children…
PSA
2018 AMC Networks Black History Month PSA Campaign
For the fifth anniversary of its powerhouse and award-winning Black History Month PSA campaign, AMC…
PSA
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…
PSA
Jack's PSA: Save One Life
The objective of this PSA is simple: save one life. 15-year-old Jack Chai had a bone marrow transpl…
PSA
Keep America Beautiful Rebrand: "Let's Talk About America"
Since 1953, Keep America Beautiful (KAB) has pledged to make the country a cleaner, greener, more b…
PSA
Music is For life
Espouse the power of music making throughout the lifetime; to encourage more people to start and fe…
PSA
Pure Imagination Project
An unfortunate truth is that many believe Alzheimer's is just memory loss when, in fact, it's a fa…
PSA
finalist
Save The Food - Phase Two
The problem of food waste is as easy to solve, as it is to overlook. While food plays a key role in…
PSA
finalist
Saved By The Scan
To build public awareness of lung cancer – the number 1 cancer killer of men & women – we launched …
PSA
finalist
gold honor
Seize the Awkward
Suicide is the second leading cause of death amongst young adults and for every youth suicide, it i…
PSA
Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Assault Reveal an Important Truth
In the fall of 2017, the #MeToo campaign took social media by storm, empowering survivors of sexual…
PSA
THC / TSA / PSA
Organa Brands set out to create an innovative PSA with a "viral quality" that would educate Califor…
PSA
Teachers Have Better Work Stories
The United States is facing a teacher recruitment crisis, and it is expected to get worse as future…
PSA
TeenDrive365 In School
When a teenager hits the road for the first time, he or she enters what the National Safety Council…
PSA
finalist
The Bail Project
Our goal was to illustrate the human cost of unaffordable cash bail. We have an unjust bail system …
PSA
winner
Uber Moms
In Canada, over a third of road fatalities involve alcohol, more than in any other developed nation…
PSA
Whatever It Takes
MS Awareness week, March 11 -17, 2018, is the kick-off of the National MS Society's year-round effo…
PSA
“CMT Artists of the Year” Night of Healing
Each year, CMT hosts its annual "Artists of the Year" event to honor the top country acts of the ye…
PSA
“Over The Dose” - Combating Recreational Opioids
In 2016, over 40,000 Americans died from overdosing on opioids. Over 40% of those overdose deaths i…