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 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
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
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
winner
JFK Moonshot
  2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the greatest technological feat of the 20th century—the Ap…
Nonprofit
KHN/NPR #BilloftheMonth Investigative Series
When publishing partners KHN and NPR first began promoting the “Bill of the Month” series, we were …
Nonprofit
finalist
Missed.Strokes
Over the past decade, there has been a 44% increase in the number of young Americans who have been …
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
finalist
Safer ≠ Safe
While smoking rates declined, a new threat to youth health and welfare arose: vaping. And this thre…
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
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…
Nonprofit
Vote.org Gets Out the Vote
In 2018, Vote.org, the nation’s leading non-partisan, nonprofit organization increasing voter turno…