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 8th Annual Shorty Awards Best Online Community

This award honors the management of an online community to effectively engage with, collaborate with and grow it's participants.

Finalists

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Doctor Who
2015 marked the 9th season of Doctor Who, which has a long and storied history in pop culture since…
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silver honor
#AirbnbSundance
Whether our community were attending the Sundance Film Festival or not, we wanted to make sure they…
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silver honor
Best Online Community - American Horror Story: Hotel
Seeking to increase engagement and capitalize on the show's hotel theme, FX teamed created a series…
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Good Tweeting, great eating!
We strive to provide a community for take-out obsessed foodies across the country. We're continuous…
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silver honor
Planet of Triumphs
In the past, Planet Fitness marketing has focused on talking about how we're not a gym – we're not …
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bronze honor
@CBC's "VALENTINES FOR CANADA"
The main goal of our @CBC Social Media channels is to foster conversations with Canadians from coas…
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bronze honor
Bowser Takes Over the Mario Party 10 Virtual Launch Party
-Excite fans for Mario Party 10 (MP10)-Amplify awareness outside of NOA's core audience-Encourage f…
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bronze honor
Furious 7
Universal Pictures' Furious 7 opened in theaters on April 3, 2015 with high expectations. The seven…
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bronze honor
Jane the Virgin x Wattpad
To support the second season launch of The CW's critically acclaimed, award winning series, Jane T…
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bronze honor
Microsoft Brand Social
More than 1.2 billion people use Microsoft products worldwide. But in our modern marketing world, c…
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bronze honor
Orphan Black
Season 3 of Orphan Black explored themes of sisterhood, identity, science and sexuality. We focused…
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bronze honor
Taking Stoked to the Next Level: GoPro
GoPro was founded on the power of the stoke and our objectives for 2015 were to increase our Instag…
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AJ+
AJ+ is Al Jazeera's digital-only offshoot, launched in September 2014 to build a new kind of media …
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BBC America on Snapchat
The BBC America audience lives on the smart edge of pop culture. Our audience are early adopters of…
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Comcast Redesigns Customer Help & Support Community
Comcast's Community has 4 key goals. They are: Minimize customer effort required to find answers wi…
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Community for Yahoo
The Assignment: Take a show that in spite of an enthusiastic fan base, has changed networks, platfo…
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HeForShe.org
After a year of awareness campaigns, UN Women's HeForShe campaign wanted to turn global interest in…
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Scream Queens Virtual Rush
In a television landscape filled with more options than ever before, we aimed to make Scream Queens…
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Whistle Sports
Named as one of Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in 2015, Whistle Sports is creating…

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