THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

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Awareness Campaign

This award honors the most creative and effective campaign, original content or initiative, with the primary objective being driving awareness for a specific social good cause or causes.
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#BatardDonneur
As a newly launched magazine, it was essential to introduce and raise awareness about Batard to the…
30 Years of Hope: RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline
On July 25th, 1994, RAINN took the first call on the National Sexual Assault Hotline. Much has chan…
Abortion Always
The Supreme Court followed the dangerous pattern of local and state extremists across the country b…
Big Tobacco’s ‘Fantasyland’
‘Fantasyland' is a 360-degree anti-tobacco campaign launched by the California Tobacco Prevention P…
Breakthrough T1D
Breakthrough T1D, formerly known as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), has pioneered…
Closing The Sex Hormones Awareness Gap
The core idea behind Mira’s 'Sex Hormones Awareness' campaign was to address a critical gap in wome…
DBS Sparks Web Series: Creating Impact Beyond Banking
SPARKS, an industry-first online web-series, follows a group of young bankers navigating work and t…
Driving While Black
Since 2017, over 600 Black people have been killed during routine traffic stops by police in Americ…
Fearless
For the past twenty years, Autism Speaks has been more than just a voice—it has been a reliable all…
Happy Xmas (Cancer's Over)
The EMMY winning Happy Xmas (Cancer's Over) and the Christmas 4 The Kids album was created to build…
Hippocrites: A Broken Oath In Reproductive Health
The overarching goal of the Hippocrites campaign is to bring awareness to multiple sides of the rep…
It's Time to Play Better
96% of women have had to play in a men’s football kit at some point in their career.  This stati…
One More Hour by Hinge
Hinge is on a mission to create a less lonely world, and it has only become more poignant in a tech…
Parkinson’s Awareness Month – #ABCsOfPD
Every 6 minutes someone in the US is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD). That’s 90,000 new peo…
Piece of Me
KPN, the Netherlands’ leading telecoms brand, has a longstanding commitment to social impact. In 20…
Secure Our Socials Campaign
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and partners have documented how government officials and private individu…
Social60
The Wayside Chapel is a charity and parish mission of the Uniting Church in Australia in the Potts …
Sport Your Period™ campaign
The Sport Your Period™ initiative aims to reward period advocacy and normalize the topic of periods…
The Saturday Squad: Never Too Old to Make a Difference
Our Better World (OBW) is the digital storytelling platform of the Singapore International Foundati…
The Sound of the Stonewall Uprising
The Sounds of the Stonewall Uprising aims to capture the essence of what was seen and heard during …
Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust - County Specific Campaign
The Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) is a state grantmaking trust working to prev…
Tobacco Stops With Me - Apartments
Tobacco Stops With Me (TSWM) is a program of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust aimed at reduci…
Which World Will You Leave Them?
Brand Awareness & Community Engagement As a nonprofit, brand awareness and community engageme…