THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

Special Project

Special Project

From the 6th Annual Shorty Awards Best Use of Animated GIFs

These fun, move-able images have made a comeback from the early days of the internet and have dominated Tumblr feeds. Now, organizations of all types are embracing this quirky image format. This award honors the Best Use of Animated GIFs by a media outlet, brand or agency. Click here to see last year's winner and finalists.

Nominees

#AdamLevineCollection
PEOPLE Magazine’s sexiest man alive, Adam Levine, launching his debut collection available exclusiv…
Bad Girls Club On-Air GIF Polls
Oxygen Digital prepared 4 animated GIFs that would live on http://vote.oxygen.com as well as Tumblr…
finalist
Bravo and GIPHY partnership for I Dream of NeNe: The Wedding
To support Bravo’s new series premiere, I Dream of NeNe: The Wedding, Bravo (and 360i agency) teame…
finalist
Converse Music Tumblr
Converse has always been a blank canvas for culture. So we set out to continue that tradition in so…
finalist
Eastbound & Down's Hall of F***in' Fame Baseball Card GIFs
In anticipation of Eastbound & Down’s final season curtain call, we created Kenny Powers’ Hall of F…
L'Oreal Paris Live Golden Globes Beauty Lab
The L’Oréal Paris Tumblr presence is intended to be one thing: a playground for all things beautifu…
Neutrogena - The Clear Truth Acne Hub
A new generation of teens is experiencing their first breakouts and is looking for guidance as they…
Penny Bags a Buck
Like so many young Americans, Penny, ClearPoint's somewhat hapless heroine, is down on her luck in …
Ruffles GIF Comic Book Series
In order to appeal to the nostalgic of twenty-something man-children and build awareness around Ruf…
winner
The Purge
Universal Pictures and Brigade partnered to create a unique social media campaign for The Purge, to…