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Influence can do more than capture attention. It can challenge assumptions, bring people together, and inspire meaningful change.

At the Shorty Impact Awards, we celebrate the people and organizations using their platforms to make a difference. From humanizing homelessness through documentary storytelling to creating space for conversations across divides, this year’s honorees show how digital media can entertain, educate, and move culture forward.

Join us in celebrating the 2026 Creators …

New York, September 29, 2026 — The Shorty Impact Awards today announced the finalists for its 11th annual program, recognizing brands, agencies, nonprofits, creators, and organizations behind purpose-driven work addressing some of today’s most pressing challenges.

This year’s program is centered on an increasingly urgent question: What Matters? The finalists represent work turning that question into action to tackle complex challenges through creativity, strategy, and ideas.

As audiences navigate a …

Case Teardown is a weekly look at award-winning campaigns and the thinking behind them. Each week, we go beyond the case study to unpack the tension, creative choices, and people that made the work work.

Don't Choose Extinction

Silver Honor in Environment & Sustainability, 8th Annual Shorty Impact Awards

Campaigns often have a built-in expiration date. A launch creates a spike, media coverage follows, social engagement climbs, and then the …

Case Teardown is a weekly look at award-winning campaigns and the thinking behind them. Each week, we go beyond the case study to unpack the tension, creative choices, and people that made the work work.

Vagina Privacy Network

Winner in Gender Equality and Social Justice, 10th Annual Shorty Impact Awards

For nonprofits, attention is getting harder to turn into action. The Vagina Privacy Network found a way to make a …

Media relations has been operated on a relatively straightforward equation: find the right journalist, pitch the right story, earn the right coverage.

That equation is changing.

AI search is reshaping how people discover information, evaluate brands, and find answers. Instead of scrolling through a list of links, audiences increasingly encounter synthesized answers that pull information from multiple sources. For communications teams, that creates a new challenge: How do you make …