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

From the 7th Annual Shorty Impact Awards Best Use of Storytelling

This award honors the the most compelling and shareable social good campaigns, projects and initiatives using effective storytelling to reach a certain goal or objective.

See previous winners and honorees here. The Shorty Impact Awards were formerly known as Shorty Social Good Awards.

Winner

Storytelling
winner
Dream Village: A refuge for India's former sex workers
Our Better World (OBW) is the digital storytelling initiative of the Singapore International Founda…

Finalists

Storytelling
finalist
gold honor
Juneteenth Education Campaign
With Juneteenth recognized as a national holiday, the creative agency Iron Light teamed up with Hea…
Storytelling
finalist
silver honor
The Other Side
For any outsider looking in, Asian Americans seem like a successful group of people that has succes…
Storytelling
finalist
bronze honor
Immigrant Made
Our zine arrives in the midst of a nationwide effort by conservatives to stamp out and erase the co…
Storytelling
finalist
ALIMA US: We Are The Solution
We Are The Solution was a 2022 brand awareness campaign by ALIMA, the Alliance for International Me…
Storytelling
finalist
Future of Work
The pandemic upended expectations and plans for entry-level and early career workers, leaving an en…
Storytelling
finalist
Global Movie Day | 3rd Annual (2022)
The third annual Global Movie Day was held on Saturday, February 12, 2022. This year's objectives f…
Storytelling
finalist
Good Ideas Deserve to be Found (Facebook/Meta)
Hidden Gems: Support of local & sustainable businesses Meta (previously Facebook) wanted to shin…
Storytelling
finalist
audience honor
MTV's Siesta Key - Power to Decide
In the season 4 finale of Siesta Key, cast member Madisson shared her experience of losing her baby…
Storytelling
finalist
Made Ready to Drive Forward with Citizens
Military service is a bond like no other. Yet, despite their different journeys and the tremendo…
Storytelling
finalist
Reawakened Foods Initiative
The world has lost 75 percent of plant genetic diversity since the 1900s. Farmers worldwide have…
Storytelling
finalist
TAAF's "AAPI Heritage Heroes"
Only 3 percent of top grossing films made since 2007 featured AAPIs in leading roles. When AAPIs ar…

Nominees

Storytelling
finalist
ALIMA US: We Are The Solution
We Are The Solution was a 2022 brand awareness campaign by ALIMA, the Alliance for International Me…
Storytelling
Chevron's 2021 Corporate Sustainability Report Launch Campaign
The 2020 Corporate Sustainability Report (released in May 2021) was designed to highlight how the p…
Storytelling
winner
Dream Village: A refuge for India's former sex workers
Our Better World (OBW) is the digital storytelling initiative of the Singapore International Founda…
Storytelling
finalist
Future of Work
The pandemic upended expectations and plans for entry-level and early career workers, leaving an en…
Storytelling
finalist
Global Movie Day | 3rd Annual (2022)
The third annual Global Movie Day was held on Saturday, February 12, 2022. This year's objectives f…
Storytelling
finalist
Good Ideas Deserve to be Found (Facebook/Meta)
Hidden Gems: Support of local & sustainable businesses Meta (previously Facebook) wanted to shin…
Storytelling
finalist
bronze honor
Immigrant Made
Our zine arrives in the midst of a nationwide effort by conservatives to stamp out and erase the co…
Storytelling
finalist
gold honor
Juneteenth Education Campaign
With Juneteenth recognized as a national holiday, the creative agency Iron Light teamed up with Hea…
Storytelling
MTV's Following: Bretman Rock
During season two of "MTV’s Following: Bretman Rock," Bretman and his loved ones show viewers the u…
Storytelling
finalist
audience honor
MTV's Siesta Key - Power to Decide
In the season 4 finale of Siesta Key, cast member Madisson shared her experience of losing her baby…
Storytelling
finalist
Made Ready to Drive Forward with Citizens
Military service is a bond like no other. Yet, despite their different journeys and the tremendo…
Storytelling
finalist
Reawakened Foods Initiative
The world has lost 75 percent of plant genetic diversity since the 1900s. Farmers worldwide have…
Storytelling
finalist
TAAF's "AAPI Heritage Heroes"
Only 3 percent of top grossing films made since 2007 featured AAPIs in leading roles. When AAPIs ar…
Storytelling
finalist
silver honor
The Other Side
For any outsider looking in, Asian Americans seem like a successful group of people that has succes…
Storytelling
Tidewater/Getty Pipeline Project
Last fall, Chevron partnered with the National Park Service and the Musconetcong Watershed Associa…
Storytelling
Traditional Healers partner with FHI 360 to provide HIV Services
Through photos, examples and voices, this piece tells the story of how FHI 360 works with tradition…