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 Campaign by Diverse-Owned Businesses Global Campaign Integrated Campaign Launch Campaign Local Campaign Multi-Platform Campaign Rebrand Campaign Regional Campaign Social Good Campaign

Content and Media

Blog & Micro-blog Brand Voice Branded Content Branded Series Contest or Promotion Copywriting NEW! Data Visualization Email & Newsletter Filter/Lens Hashtag Meme, GIF, & Emojis Micro-Site Single Post or Activation User-Generated Content

Design

Animation Art Direction Brand Identity Brand Redesign Generative AI NEW! Graphic Art Images Sound & Music UX/UI Visual Effects Website/App NEW!

Industry

Auto Beauty Business to Business Consumer Brand Education Entertainment Family and Parenting Financial Services Fitness, Health, & Wellness Food & Beverage Gaming Government & Politics Hospitality Insurance NEW! 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

Instagram Partnership Multi-Platform Partnership Other Platform Partnership TikTok Partnership X Partnership YouTube Partnership

Metaverse

Artificial Intelligence Extended Reality Immersive Interactive Content NFTs

Overall Presence

Facebook Presence Instagram Presence LinkedIn Presence Multi-Platform Presence Other Platform Presence TikTok Presence X Presence YouTube Presence

Podcast

Art & Culture Podcast Branded Podcast Comedy Podcast Health & Wellness Podcast NEW! Lifestyle & Entertainment Podcast NEW! News & Politics Podcast Other Podcast Genres Podcast Mini Series Science & Technology Podcast Sports Podcast True Crime & Documentary Podcast

Single Platform

Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Other Platform TikTok X (formerly Twitter) YouTube

Strategy & Engagement

Brand Partnership Call to Action Community Management Creative Use of Technology CTV/OTT NEW! Customer Experience Earned Media Employee Engagement Event & Experiential Gamification Humor Innovative Media Buying Strategy Insights & Trends Integration with Live Television LGBTQ Community Engagement Micro-Influencer Strategy Multicultural Community Engagement Music & Dance On a Shoestring Organic Promotion Paid & Amplification Physical and Digital Convergence Public Service Announcement Real Time Response SEO & SEM Social Commerce Storytelling

Video

Comedy Video Dance Video Documentary NEW! Featurette or Behind The Scenes Video Instructional Video Live Event Coverage Live Video Long Form Video Medium-Length Video Music Video NEW! Product Feature Video Short Form Video Stories Unboxing Video Vertical Video Video Ad Video Series

From the 12th Annual Shorty Awards Best in Non-Profit

This award honors the most effective and creative use of social media by non-profit. For non-profit pricing, please email [email protected].

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Non-Profit
winner
#NoBuildChallenge
The depletion of the earth's natural resources is a major problem which humanity must fight against…

Finalists

Non-Profit
finalist
gold honor
You Can't Imagine the Reward
Most parents looking to adopt a child will usually opt for younger children as opposed to teenagers…
Non-Profit
finalist
silver honor
audience honor
Claire | The Documentary
“Claire taught us to not run from the terrifying parts of life and to live a life that you are prou…
Non-Profit
finalist
bronze honor
JFK Moonshot
2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the greatest technological feat of the 20th century—the Apollo …
Non-Profit
finalist
bronze honor
Marine in 15
The Royal Marines undergo one of the toughest selection processes imaginable. Of the thousands that…
Non-Profit
finalist
bronze honor
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital & The Game Theorists, Giving Tuesday Livestream
Giving Tuesday, the day after Cyber Monday, has become a critical opportunity for nonprofits to rea…
Non-Profit
finalist
bronze honor
The Ash Globe
For the first time ever in Sydney, it snowed at Christmas...ash.  As it rained down on cities ac…

Nominees

Non-Profit
#VaccinesWork
Vaccine hesitancy – the reluctance to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines – has increasi…
Non-Profit
Beat Cancer Like A Boss
Inspired by ACS ambassador, Simone I. Smith’s cancer story, the message was simple: Beat Cancer Lik…
Non-Profit
Beyond Bananas
The American Kidney Fund’s (AKF) Beyond Bananas™ campaign increases the understanding chronic kidne…
Non-Profit
Forward for 50
In 2019, the Los Angeles LGBT Center became the first LGBT organization in the world to celebrate i…
Non-Profit
Free innocent people from prison
Our goal is to use Instagram’s visual platform to document the stories of people who were incarcera…
Non-Profit
Kiss Blood Cancer Goodbye Challenge
Blood Cancer Awareness Month in September provides an opportunity to remind the public about the ur…
Non-Profit
Missed.Strokes
Over the past decade, there has been a 44% increase in the number of young Americans who have been …
Non-Profit
Nad & Tad
Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in males ages 15-34, yet most guys this age aren’t awar…
Non-Profit
PAINT (RED) SAVE LIVES: The First Global Street Art Campaign To End AIDS
AIDS is a preventable and treatable disease, yet it kills more young people than any other disease,…
Non-Profit
Stop Plastic Pollution – Tug and WWF International
WWF is the world’s leading environmental charity. While national offices run their own social media…
Non-Profit
Together Planting a Forest
One Tree Planted is an environmental non-profit organisation focused on making it easy for individu…
Non-Profit
Women Driving Auto Retail video contest
There has never been a more opportune time for women to enter the automotive retail industry and bu…