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 9th Annual Shorty Awards Best in News & Media

This award recognizes the most effective use of social media to disseminate news and information. Submissions for both coverage of specific news events and for overall performance will be accepted.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

News & Media
winner
Olympics News Lab at Google
During the Olympics, a few stories are recycled over and again. But, according to the 300 million d…

Finalists

News & Media
finalist
AJ+
AJ+ is Al Jazeera's digital-only offshoot that creates news for the connected generation. In a big …
News & Media
finalist
CNN Heroes: Real-Time Messenger Vote and Multi-Platform Campaign
CNN's vision is to be the worldwide leader in mobile and video news storytelling. Continuously loo…
News & Media
finalist
Standing Strong at Standing Rock
As one of the first national media organizations to have video journalists on the ground in North D…
News & Media
finalist
audience honor
The New Yorker on Social Media
We put the power of our social platforms—and our reporting—behind the year's most consequential sto…
News & Media
finalist
The Washington Post: Election 2016
The Washington Post is widely recognized for our world-class journalism. Our objective in 2016 was …

Nominees

News & Media
@thisisfusion
Create a unique visual language for our Instagram account and grow our audience
News & Media
ABC News Social Media
ABC News' main objective on social media is to reach as many users as possible and give them the …
News & Media
finalist
AJ+
AJ+ is Al Jazeera's digital-only offshoot that creates news for the connected generation. In a big …
News & Media
BFF Trump
The 2016 Election. Trump was everywhere - on the news, on buildings, sidewalks and steak packaging …
News & Media
Best in News and Media - ATTN:
ATTN: is an issues-driven media company. Our mission is to deliver engaging content to a mobile-fir…
News & Media
finalist
CNN Heroes: Real-Time Messenger Vote and Multi-Platform Campaign
CNN's vision is to be the worldwide leader in mobile and video news storytelling. Continuously loo…
News & Media
NBC News: Decision 2016
For NBC News' election day coverage on social platforms, we had several objectives: Provide a servi…
News & Media
winner
Olympics News Lab at Google
During the Olympics, a few stories are recycled over and again. But, according to the 300 million d…
News & Media
SEMANA Magazine
From the first day, the philosophy of the magazine was to create a research unit that uncovered wha…
News & Media
finalist
Standing Strong at Standing Rock
As one of the first national media organizations to have video journalists on the ground in North D…
News & Media
finalist
audience honor
The New Yorker on Social Media
We put the power of our social platforms—and our reporting—behind the year's most consequential sto…
News & Media
finalist
The Washington Post: Election 2016
The Washington Post is widely recognized for our world-class journalism. Our objective in 2016 was …
News & Media
The Young Turks
The Young Turks is the flagship show of TYT Network and is the largest online news show in the worl…