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 Video Series NEW!

From the 8th Annual Shorty Awards Best Web Series

Its ratings might not be powered by Nielsen, but whenever they post a new episode, thousands watch. Furthermore, these shows are constantly connecting with their fans through Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr, YouTube, Facebook and even on-air. These web series’ truly show that they would be nothing without their fans.

Winner

Web Series
winner
Good Mythical Morning
Good Mythical Morning is currently the most-watched daily show online with an average of 100 millio…

Finalists

Web Series
finalist
Braless with Laci Green
YouTube star Laci began as a sexpert blogger, offering frank advice to teens and young people on he…
Web Series
finalist
Decoded with Franchesca Ramsey
Decoded with Franchesca Ramsey is a YouTube-based MTV News show that tackles race in pop culture, e…
Web Series
finalist
Honest Trailers
Since 2012, Honest Trailers has been slamming the worst and the best of film and television under t…
Web Series
finalist
Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures
Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures is a partnership with Jim Henson Co., New Form Digital, and…
Web Series
finalist
You Do You
BuzzFeed’s first scripted narrative web series is here. You Do You was released online in 2015 thro…

Nominees

Web Series
finalist
Braless with Laci Green
YouTube star Laci began as a sexpert blogger, offering frank advice to teens and young people on he…
Web Series
Cyanide & Happiness
Based on the webcomic of the same name, Cyanide and Happiness is the animated counterpart, still ta…
Web Series
finalist
Decoded with Franchesca Ramsey
Decoded with Franchesca Ramsey is a YouTube-based MTV News show that tackles race in pop culture, e…
Web Series
winner
Good Mythical Morning
Good Mythical Morning is currently the most-watched daily show online with an average of 100 millio…
Web Series
finalist
Honest Trailers
Since 2012, Honest Trailers has been slamming the worst and the best of film and television under t…
Web Series
Just Between Us
Allison and Gaby are the writers/creators of the comedy channel just between us. It's part sketch s…
Web Series
finalist
Oscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures
Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures is a partnership with Jim Henson Co., New Form Digital, and…
Web Series
SnapperHero
With each episode only 100–200 seconds long, Snapchat’s first original scripted programming, Snappe…
Web Series
The Hotwives of Las Vegas
Off their successful Real Housewives parody The Hotwives of Orlando, Hulu returned with The Hotwive…
Web Series
The Katering Show
A fake Australian reality show meets a Food Network parody, The Katering Show follows “food intoler…
Web Series
Whine About It
To Matt Bellassai of BuzzFeed and BuzzFeed BFF, literally everything is the worst. Except Beyonce a…
Web Series
finalist
You Do You
BuzzFeed’s first scripted narrative web series is here. You Do You was released online in 2015 thro…