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 Email & Newsletter Filter/Lens Meme, GIF, & Emojis Micro-Site Single Post or Activation Use of Viral Content User-Generated Content

Design

Animation Art Direction Audio & Music Brand Identity Brand Redesign Generative AI Graphic Art Images Website/App

Industry

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

Overall Presence

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

Platforms & Technology

Artificial Intelligence Extended Reality Facebook Immersive Instagram Interactive Content LinkedIn Other Platform TikTok X (formerly Twitter) YouTube

Podcast

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

Strategy & Engagement

Brand Partnership Call to Action Community Management Creative Use of Technology CTV/OTT Data & Insights Earned Media Event & Experiential Gamification Humor Innovative Media Buying Strategy Integration with Traditional Media Internal Communications 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 Documentary Feature Film NEW! Featurette or Behind The Scenes Video Instructional Video Live Video Long Form Video Medium-Length Video Music Video Product Feature Video Short Form Video Unboxing Video Vertical Video Video Ad Video Series

From the 7th Annual Shorty Awards Most Creative Use of Technology

This award honors the most innovative integration of technology in a marketing campaign. Examples of technology integrations may include use of public APIs, facial recognition, data manipulation and augmented reality.

Click here to see the previous winner and nominees.

Winner

Most Creative Use of Technology
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Wake Up & Smell The Bacon
Americans have been waking up to the scent and sizzle of Oscar Mayer bacon for over 100 years. H…

Finalists

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silver honor
Sharknado 2/Philips
After the feeding frenzy of last year's Sharknado, Syfy approached marketing the sequel, Sharknado …
Most Creative Use of Technology
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#O2Possessed
O2 is a leading provider of mobile phones. But in 2014, O2 wanted to create awareness of the full r…
Most Creative Use of Technology
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American Red Cross & Bitly - Hope.ly
The American Red Cross wanted to reach a whole new generation of donors – a generation who spend mo…
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DOM - Domino’s Voice Ordering on the Domino’s Mobile App.
Domino's, in partnership with CP+B and Nuance, created and launched a voice controlled pizza orderi…
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Live From Space
National Geographic Channel and Mullen partnered to create this second screen experience as a digit…

Nominees

Most Creative Use of Technology
#Trashtag
For a week in October 2014, we partnered with Atlanta's Goat Farm Arts Center to transform a Dumpst…
Most Creative Use of Technology
AG Properties - Care Bears Share Your Care Tongal Project
In Cleveland, Ohio there is a happy studio called AG Properties where good ideas begin. There, a te…
Most Creative Use of Technology
Burt's Bees' "Brighten Your Calendar"
Burt's Bees did the unthinkable when it created an effective, all-natural line of beauty products t…
Most Creative Use of Technology
Coca-Cola Placelists
Coca-Cola has always used music as a means to connect with people, drive brand love and partner wit…
Most Creative Use of Technology
HBO, Veep Robocall
How to help the fictional Selina Meyer, played by the award-winning Julia Louis-Dreyfus, go from Ve…
Most Creative Use of Technology
Keurig #BrewTunes
In 2014, Keurig launched the Keurig 2.0 – a state-of-the-art brewer with even more flavors and opti…
Most Creative Use of Technology
Lidl Fan Cup / Play online. Shoot offline.
Brief:LIDL, the leading grocery retailer in Europe wanted to transfer their key message - exciting …
Most Creative Use of Technology
Mute the Mouth: An Above the Influence Game
For teens, confidence doesn't always come easy, especially when forces like peer pressure tend to s…
Most Creative Use of Technology
Nike Air Max Day
As Nike is one of ASOS' main suppliers and we wanted to do something in partnership with them to en…
Most Creative Use of Technology
Pic Nix by A&G Labs
It's not uncharted territory: you're on Instagram and you suddenly find yourself drowning in a doma…
Most Creative Use of Technology
Small Batch Beer Co. Integrated Campaign
Small Batch Beer Company had a vision to brew unique and creative beers using only a one-barrel sys…
Most Creative Use of Technology
Small Batch Beer Co. Website Redesign
All too often bar and restaurant websites are just static menus in digital form. Brew pubs list …
Most Creative Use of Technology
Social TV
Social TV uses Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology to recognize the show a user is watch…
Most Creative Use of Technology
TakePart Action Platform (TAP)
The TakePart Action Platform (TAP) programmatically matches socially-relevant content to a curated …
Most Creative Use of Technology
The Honorable Woman Two Screen App: Augmented Reality
With the political caper The Honorable Woman, SundanceTV knew it had a hit on its hand. Aside from …
Most Creative Use of Technology
The Priceless Engine - JT Campaign
MasterCard launched The Priceless Engine: a combination of people, process and more than 20 technol…
Most Creative Use of Technology
Unboxing of OnStar with 4G LTE
OnStar, a brand long known as the pioneer and leading provider of in-vehicle Telematics and Infotai…
Most Creative Use of Technology
Walking With Dinosaurs Augmented Reality App
Walking with Dinosaurs: Photo Adventure app for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices. Now y…