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 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…