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 4th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best Nonprofit Organization

This award honors efforts of nonprofit organizations to make the world a better place.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Nonprofit
winner
JFK Moonshot
  2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the greatest technological feat of the 20th century—the Ap…

Finalists

Nonprofit
finalist
gold honor
Dear Refugees
For World Refugee Day 2019, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) partnered with Big Spaceship t…
Nonprofit
finalist
Generation Lockdown
In 95% of public schools in the United States, lockdown drills are as common as math and science. S…
Nonprofit
finalist
Missed.Strokes
Over the past decade, there has been a 44% increase in the number of young Americans who have been …
Nonprofit
finalist
Safer ≠ Safe
While smoking rates declined, a new threat to youth health and welfare arose: vaping. And this thre…
Nonprofit
finalist
The Wage Gap: A Scary Truth
On average in the US, women earn about 80 cents for every dollar men make and women of color make e…

Nominees

Nonprofit
#BalanceForBetter - Gender Equality in Saudi Arabia
With advancements in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the implementation of Vision 2030 - a series o…
Nonprofit
A Day With The Play That Goes Wrong
What do you do with more than 2 million seats that go unsold on Broadway every year? Beginning i…
Nonprofit
Alzheimer's Association - Science Hub
When the Alzheimer's Association was founded in 1980, there was an urgent need to create a communit…
Nonprofit
Child Victim's Act
Adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse have a one-year, one-time only chance to hold their abuse…
Nonprofit
Getting to the heart of our mission
Since its founding in 2005, The Humane League has focused on effectively ending the worst abuses in…
Nonprofit
Goutful - American Kidney Fund
The American Kidney Fund’s (AKF) Goutful campaign debunks popular misconceptions about gout and sup…
Nonprofit
Helping A Son Retrace His Father’s D-Day Journey
Objective: Use a “snapshot experience” of one Road Scholar (RS) program participant to connect w…
Nonprofit
KHN/NPR #BilloftheMonth Investigative Series
When publishing partners KHN and NPR first began promoting the “Bill of the Month” series, we were …
Nonprofit
PetSmart Charities Donor Appreciation -- Sponsored by You
“Where do my charitable donations really go? Am I really helping make a difference?” For 25 yea…
Nonprofit
Providing Hope & Health in East Africa
Partners for Care, a compassion-driven, nonprofit organization, exists to serve, equip, empower and…
Nonprofit
Roo High School, where no [sex ed] question is off-limits
In the US only 24 states mandate sex education. And only 13 of those states require it to be “medic…
Nonprofit
Science Literacy Books for Science and Health Education and for Social and Economic Justice
The purpose of this non-proift publishing initiative is to bring science and health education, and …
Nonprofit
TGR EDU: Explore
TGR EDU: Explore seeks to equip students with problem-solving and decision-making skills with real-…
Nonprofit
Take Back the Prom
Prom is supposed to be a magical, memorable experience that every young person can celebrate. But f…
Nonprofit
Vote.org Gets Out the Vote
In 2018, Vote.org, the nation’s leading non-partisan, nonprofit organization increasing voter turno…