For 10 years, the Shorty Impact Awards have celebrated the brands, agencies, nonprofits, creators, and changemakers who meet moments of crisis with creativity, courage, and clarity of purpose.

This year, we invite you to help shape the next chapter.

History Shows Us: Crisis Creates Opportunity

Outsized progress in history shares one origin story - someone stared into the abyss…and saw the inflection point in crisis:

• The Great Depression → Social …

Everyone is lying about AI, hybrid work is a scam, and your next ‘job’ won’t even be a job.

Jamie McLaughlin has spent 20 years placing talent at the world’s biggest brands and agencies, and he’s never seen the hiring market this dysfunctional.

In this episode, we expose:

• The AI bluff: why “AI expert” is the résumé equivalent of putting “proficient in breathing” (and how hiring managers are falling for …

What if you could stop chasing culture... and start seeing the shifts before they happen?

No, 'just be more authentic' is not the answer. (We wish 🥹).

Armando Turco (President of Mojo Supermarket, the minds behind TikTok and Lululemon's most culturally-connected campaigns) has a better approach.

After leaving agencies for brands like Oatly and Vox, only to return to one groundbreaking indie shop, he's cracked the code on …

What if the worst time is actually the best time to move?

That’s the mindset of Christian Muche, founder of POSSIBLE, one of the most disruptive event experiences in marketing and tech.

In our podcast, Christian reveals how he built a must-attend event by doing the opposite of what everyone else was doing:

• Launch in chaos: why financial crises and pandemics are the perfect moments to innovate
• "Read …

Duolingo, e.l.f., Netflix, 72andSunny, Whalar and More Are Up for a Shorty

New York, April 16, 2025 - The Shorty Awards, the premier awards program honoring the most innovative work across digital and social media, announced the finalists for its 17th annual season today.

With "Break the Rules" as this year’s theme, the entries showed a clear shift in how brands, agencies and creators approached digital storytelling. New voices, platform-native …