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 9th Annual Shorty Awards Gaming

It used to be that you could share your video gaming skills only with the number of friends who fit on your couch, but YouTube and various live streaming platforms allow players to share their abilities, and their personalities, with the entire world. The world has responded, making social gaming one of the hottest trends on the web. Our nominees are those gamers whose innovations and talent brought them the most attention this year.

If you're a video game maker or marketer looking for recognition for your use of social media to promote games enter the the Best in Games Shorty Award.

Nominees

Aphmau
Cat-loving celebrity gamer and live streamer Jess “Aphmau” is a Minecraft-centric broadcaster, with…
Extra Credits
Popular weekly YouTube channel/webseries Extra Credits analyzes all things gaming. Created by Danie…
FGTeeV
From family activity to YouTube sensation with 2.7M+ subscribers and over 3 billion channel views, …
finalist
Funhaus
With a @FunhausTeam made up of “beards and video games,” a pack of dudes (and one girl) play games,…
finalist
IHasCupquake
Uploading her artistic and gaming web videos at her husband’s encouragement, designer and gamer Tif…
finalist
KYRSP33DY
With “Gaming videos that will make you laugh” on his speedyw03 YouTube page, and “More gaming video…
winner
Markiplier
One of the the world’s top influencers of “teens, tweens and young adults ahead of Taylor Swift,” M…
finalist
MatPat
Creator and producer of YouTube channels The Game Theorists, The Film Theorists, and GTLive, among …
NoahJ456
A master of mods, gamer and content creator NoahJ456 broadcasts playthroughs from the mainstream to…
The Diamond Minecart
Gamer, Guinness World Records holder and 2015 #1 ranked YouTuber, Daniel Middleton (aka @DanTDM) ha…
The Syndicate Project
The first streamer to hit the 1M follower mark on Twitch, Tom Cassell’s Syndicate is currently the …
finalist
YOGSCAST Hannah
The “flippin’ heck” British gamer with a love of cats and tomb-raiding, Yogscast content creator Ha…