THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

By Campaign

Campaign by a Black-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a Latinx/Hispanic-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a LGBTQ+ Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a Native/Indigenous-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a Woman-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by an Asian-Owned Business NEW! Corporate Social Responsibility NEW! Fundraising Campaign NEW! Global Campaign Integrated Campaign Local Campaign NEW! Multi-Platform Campaign On a Shoestring Pro Bono Social Movement

By Cause

Activism Campaign NEW! Animal Rights & Welfare Arts & Culture Civic Engagement Clean Energy NEW! Clean Water & Sanitation NEW! Conservation & Preservation Disability Awareness Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Education Emergency Relief Environment Gender Equality Human Rights Humanitarian Aid Hunger & Food Insecurity Immigration & Refugees LGBTQ+ Mental Health Poverty Public Health Racial Equality Responsible Consumption & Production NEW! Social Justice Youth & Family

By Industry

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

By Platform

Emerging Platform Facebook Instagram LinkedIn TikTok Twitch Twitter YouTube

Content and Strategy

Branded Content NEW! Branded Series NEW! Call to Action Community Management Contest or Promotion Creative Use of Technology NEW! Email & Newsletters NEW! Employee Engagement Fundraising Humor Infographics NEW! Live Events Meme and GIFs NEW! Micro-Influencer Strategy NEW! Paid and Amplification Podcast PSA Real Time Response Single Post Storytelling User Generated Content Video

Partnerships

Corporate-Community Influencer & Celebrity Media Partnership Nonprofit Partnership

Special Project

Special Project NEW!

Video Content

Animations Documentary Short Live Streaming Long Form Video NEW! Short Form Video NEW! Video Series Virtual Reality

From the 4th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best Documentary Short

This award honors the most creative and effective use of a short, documentary-style film to bring awareness to a social good campaign, initiative or project.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Documentary Short
winner
Waste of Film
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention there were an estimated 1.4 Million sui…

Finalists

Documentary Short
finalist
A Piece Of Me
Female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that involves altering or injuring the female genitalia…
Documentary Short
finalist
Behind the Lens: Living with a Rare Blood Cancer
Every year, millions of patients, families and caregivers are impacted by cancer in the U.S. Some c…
Documentary Short
finalist
Blue Habits: Trinidad
As a non-profit dedicated to ocean conservation for 50 years, Oceanic Society has come to realize t…
Documentary Short
finalist
Love Calls Back
Coming out to family and friends is one of the most nerve-wracking moments in the lives of LGBTQ+ p…
Documentary Short
finalist
WORLD'S WATER CRISIS IS TOTALLY SOLVABLE
You haven't even left for work yet, and you've already used more water than some villagers in rural…

Nominees

Documentary Short
finalist
A Piece Of Me
Female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that involves altering or injuring the female genitalia…
Documentary Short
ALABAMA'S SEWAGE CRISIS
This video presents a growing public health crisis wherein hookworm, a disease thought only to affe…
Documentary Short
finalist
Behind the Lens: Living with a Rare Blood Cancer
Every year, millions of patients, families and caregivers are impacted by cancer in the U.S. Some c…
Documentary Short
finalist
Blue Habits: Trinidad
As a non-profit dedicated to ocean conservation for 50 years, Oceanic Society has come to realize t…
Documentary Short
Generation Zika: Three Years Later
Three years ago, thousands of pregnant women were infected with the mosquito-borne virus, Zika. The…
Documentary Short
Hotel Silverado: A Family Affair
Chevrolet’s role was to work with the American Cancer Society (ACS) to identify a recipient and cre…
Documentary Short
LEBANON: TINY COUNTRY, BIG TRASH PROBLEM
It piles up in landfills, it’s dumped in the ocean, it's burned. Lebanon is drowning in trash and d…
Documentary Short
finalist
Love Calls Back
Coming out to family and friends is one of the most nerve-wracking moments in the lives of LGBTQ+ p…
Documentary Short
The Pardon: Jason Spyres
Jason Spyres got arrested for selling cannabis in Illinois. He understood that he broke the law, bu…
Documentary Short
The Reef
For Revolutio Creative's Apple commissioned #shotoniphone branded documentary, the studio was able …
Documentary Short
finalist
WORLD'S WATER CRISIS IS TOTALLY SOLVABLE
You haven't even left for work yet, and you've already used more water than some villagers in rural…
Documentary Short
winner
Waste of Film
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention there were an estimated 1.4 Million sui…
Documentary Short
When Neurodiversity Works
Companies today are looking to get increasingly complicated applications to market faster, with few…