THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

By Campaign

Awareness Campaign NEW! Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign Diverse-Owned Businesses Campaign Fundraising Campaign Global Campaign Integrated Campaign Local Campaign Multi-Cultural Campaign NEW! Multi-Platform Campaign On a Shoestring Campaign Pro Bono Campaign Regional Campaign 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 Immigration & Refugees LGBTQ+ Mental Health Multi-Cause Initiative Public Health Public Safety NEW! Racial Equality Responsible Consumption & Production Social Justice Youth & Family

By Industry

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

By Platform

Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Other Platforms TikTok X (formerly Twitter) YouTube

Original Content

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

Partnerships

Corporate-Community Influencer, Creator & Celebrity Media Partnership Nonprofit Partnership

Special Project

Special Project

Strategy & Engagement

Call to Action Community Engagement Contest or Challenges Creative Use of Technology Data & Insights Earned Media NEW! Employee Engagement Event & Experiential Generative AI Guerrilla Marketing NEW! Paid Media PSA Real Time Response Single Post Sound & Music NEW! Storytelling User Generated Content

From the 4th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best in Environment & Sustainability

This award honors a program, project, or initiative executed to promote, protect, and preserve our environment.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Environment & Sustainability
winner
Look Good. Do Good.
At Sperry, we see a cycle in our beloved waters that we can’t ignore. Eight million tons of plastic…

Finalists

Environment & Sustainability
finalist
gold honor
S'well's Million Bottle Project Inspires NYC Student Advocacy
S’well was founded in 2010 with the mission to rid the world of single-use plastic bottles by creat…
Environment & Sustainability
finalist
gold honor
The Makers of Vita Coco & Lonely Whale Launch an Alternative to Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles
According to market research group Euromonitor, one million single-use plastic bottles are sold eve…
Environment & Sustainability
finalist
silver honor
Little Choices Lead to Global Change with Hawaii’s “Reef-Safe Sunscreen” Initiative
When Hawaii's coral reefs suffered from unprecedented levels of coral bleaching, a study published …
Environment & Sustainability
finalist
silver honor
WWF - #NoBuildChallenge
The depletion of the earth's natural resources is a major problem which humanity must fight against…
Environment & Sustainability
finalist
bronze honor
United Airlines Carbon Cutback
United Airlines is the first US carrier to publicly commit to reducing greenhouse emissions, pledgi…

Nominees

Environment & Sustainability
"One Small Step"
NowThis is the #1 mobile news publisher in the world. We have a singular mission: to make news enga…
Environment & Sustainability
#NatureForAll
#NatureForAll is a global movement to inspire love of nature. At its core is a very simple idea: th…
Environment & Sustainability
1 Million Species at Risk of Extinction: Biodiversity Takes Social Media by Storm
To confront the widest possible range of decision-makers, at every level around the world, with …
Environment & Sustainability
Art Made out of Air Pollution
Air Pollution is an invisible Killer.  India has 14 out of 20 world’s most polluted cities.  India …
Environment & Sustainability
Conservation Station: Creating a More Resourceful World
Conservation Station: Creating a More Resourceful World aims to create a nationwide dialogue on the…
Environment & Sustainability
DBS Asia Hub 2 (DAH2) Solar Plant Installation – A Force for Good
Expanding infrastructure and upgrading technology to provide clean energy sources in all developing…
Environment & Sustainability
DBS Bank: Live more, Waste less
While Singapore ranks among the top 5 cleanest cities in the world, waste generation and waste mana…
Environment & Sustainability
DBS: Recycle More, Waste Less with Social Innovators
With more than 1.2 billion citizens, India generates >100000 metric tons of municipal solid waste p…
Environment & Sustainability
EMA Innovator of the Year Challenge
The Environmental Media Association (EMA) created the Future Innovator of the Year Challenge to acc…
Environment & Sustainability
FinalStraw: Saving the oceans one straw at a time
Americans use 500 million straws every day, we’re doing something about it. We’re creating reusable…
Environment & Sustainability
Fish Unknown
Relais & Châteaux, as an association of 580 of the world’s top restaurants and hotels, has been sup…
Environment & Sustainability
HEAVY METAL
From 2017 to 2018, the public health community cringed as current e-cigarette use—using JUULs or ot…
Environment & Sustainability
Lonely Whale Questions How You Hydrate
Lonely Whale develops creative campaigns that raise awareness of the world’s plastic pollution cris…
Environment & Sustainability
Loop
At the 2017 World Economic Forum, Tom Szaky of TerraCycle and executives of leading consumer goods …
Environment & Sustainability
Love Beauty and Planet: #smallactsoflove for the planet empowering millions to be change makers
Our team knew there was an issue: at today’s rate, it will take 2 planet earths to provide the reso…
Environment & Sustainability
PACIFIC PLASTIC MONSTER
Plastic: It’s cheap, it’s everywhere, and it never goes away. That water bottle you threw out decad…
Environment & Sustainability
Run for the Oceans - Together Against Marine Plastic Pollution
We firmly believe that through sport, we have the power to change lives. As ambitious as this goal …
Environment & Sustainability
Seeker's "The Swim"
Seeker, the #1 digital science brand in the U.S. [Nielsen Digital Content Ratings], partnered with …
Environment & Sustainability
Skip the Traffic during Super Bowl LIII – Try Transit
In 2019, the Super Bowl LIII brought over one million visitors to Atlanta, driving $185 million in …
Environment & Sustainability
Sustainable food production with Farm from a Box
Every person should have access to healthy, nutrient-rich food and every farmer should be able to p…
Environment & Sustainability
THE HUMAN COST OF SMARTPHONES
At the bottom of the multibillion-dollar smartphone industry, child miners labor in harrowing condi…
Environment & Sustainability
The Amazonian Tribe Defending their Land with Technology
“For thousands of years, we have protected our territory from invaders,” says Opi Nenquimo, one of …
Environment & Sustainability
The Hardest Worker
Background: In India, one tree was cut every hour over last 13 years in the capital city alone…
Environment & Sustainability
Transforming business for a circular economy with ocean-bound plastics – HP Inc.
HP Inc.’s mission is to grow its business, not its environmental footprint – and to inspire its cus…
Environment & Sustainability
Water Scarcity Debate in Cape Town, South Africa
Doha Debates teamed up with three local universities and South Africa’s most watched television cha…