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 NEW! Data Visualization Email & Newsletter Filter/Lens Hashtag Meme, GIF, & Emojis Micro-Site Single Post or Activation User-Generated Content

Design

Animation Art Direction Brand Identity Brand Redesign Generative AI NEW! Graphic Art Images Sound & Music UX/UI Visual Effects Website/App NEW!

Industry

Auto Beauty Business to Business Consumer Brand Education Entertainment Family and Parenting Financial Services Fitness, Health, & Wellness Food & Beverage Gaming Government & Politics Hospitality Insurance NEW! 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

Metaverse

Artificial Intelligence Extended Reality Immersive Interactive Content NFTs

Overall Presence

Facebook Presence Instagram Presence LinkedIn Presence Multi-Platform Presence Other Platform Presence TikTok Presence X Presence YouTube Presence

Podcast

Art & Culture Podcast Branded Podcast Comedy Podcast Health & Wellness Podcast NEW! Lifestyle & Entertainment Podcast NEW! News & Politics Podcast Other Podcast Genres Podcast Mini Series Science & Technology Podcast Sports Podcast True Crime & Documentary Podcast

Single Platform

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

Strategy & Engagement

Brand Partnership Call to Action Community Management Creative Use of Technology CTV/OTT NEW! Customer Experience Earned Media Employee Engagement Event & Experiential Gamification Humor Innovative Media Buying Strategy Insights & Trends Integration with Live Television 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 Dance Video Documentary NEW! Featurette or Behind The Scenes Video Instructional Video Live Event Coverage Live Video Long Form Video Medium-Length Video Music Video NEW! Product Feature Video Short Form Video Stories Unboxing Video Vertical Video Video Ad Video Series

From the 5th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best in Civic Engagement

This award honors a program, project, or initiative that encourages the public to engage in any aspect of the political process.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Civic Engagement
winner
Our Power
March For Our Lives is a national youth-led movement to end gun violence in America.  The primar…

Finalists

Civic Engagement
finalist
gold honor
Executive Command by iCivics.org and Filament Games
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor founded iCivics in 2009 with one mission: to reim…
Civic Engagement
finalist
gold honor
Univision's Cuenta Conmigo
Univision's year-long, Cuenta Conmigo (Count on Me) campaign raised awareness about the importance …
Civic Engagement
finalist
silver honor
The System: Who Rigged It, and How We Fix It with Robert Reich
Inequality Media’s vision is a United States where active participation by informed citizens restor…
Civic Engagement
finalist
As Restaurants Closed Due to COVID-19, Restaurant Workers Fought for Aid
Few sectors of the economy were harder hit by the COVID-19 crisis than America’s restaurants. A hea…
Civic Engagement
finalist
Consumer Reports #PutPeopleFirst Pandemic Campaign
Consumer Reports’s mission is to help consumers make informed choices and to protect consumers thro…
Civic Engagement
finalist
Nurses on the COVID19 Frontlines Took to Social Media and Demanded Protection
As Covid-19 became a national emergency, America’s nurses were the first to encounter challenges as…

Nominees

Civic Engagement
Empowering the African American community in #Election2020
Black Futures Lab was created by Alicia Garza, one of the founding members of the international Bla…