13th Annual Shorty Awards Categories

The Shorty Awards honor the talented agencies, brands, and industry leaders behind the best and most innovative work on social media and digital channels, campaigns, websites and applications.

By Campaign
By Design
By Industry
By Overall Presence
Campaign by Platform
Content and Media
Influencer & Celebrity Brand Partnership
Strategy & Engagement
Video by Platform
Video Content
Virtual
Websites & Apps

From the 5th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best use of TikTok

This award honors the best brands, organizations or institutions that use TikTok to effectively promote a social good program, project, initiative or goal. Describe how TikTok´s capabilities were best utilized to enhance your message, spread awareness and garner support for your cause.

Winner

TikTok
winner
This is Quitting
We are truth®. We’ve been fighting against youth smoking since 2001. But seemingly overnight, a new enemy took young people by storm: vaping.   With the public health community caught off guard by vaping, there were few resources to help young people quit. So we created our own text-to-quit program: This is Quitting (TiQ).  It quickly became…

Finalists

TikTok
finalist
Busting Myths and Casting Spells to tackle COVID-19
The British Red Cross is there for people in a crisis, whoever and wherever they are – that includes all age groups. Once the sheer scale and impact of the global pandemic became clearer, we knew young people’s mental health would be affected – for example, feeling alarmed or unsure of how to cope with living through such a huge global change. It …
TikTok
finalist
T-Mobile #TossYourCap TikTok Challenge
2020 is a year unlike any other.  And the Class of 2020 is unlike any other.  Because of this, T-Mobile wanted to give graduates the opportunity to celebrate this important milestone through an experience tailored to this year's graduating class - creating the ultimate cap toss moment virtually on TikTok. T-Mobile also committed $200,000 to …
TikTok
finalist
Waste-Ed
We're inspiring people to give a sh*t! We use our voice to spread optimism and empowerment, to call out the greenwashers and to celebrate inclusivity in every eco-forward step. We’re sowing the seeds of sustainability by creating and sharing inspiring, purpose-driven and solution-oriented stories and promoting brands that are helping to make a dif…

Nominees

About the Shorty Awards

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media.

Millions of people participate in The Shortys to recognize individuals and organizations producing great content on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, TikTok, Snapchat, and the rest of the social web.

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