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 4th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best Documentary Short

This award honors the most creative and effective use of a short, documentary-style film to bring awareness to a social good campaign, initiative or project.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Documentary Short
winner
Waste of Film
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention there were an estimated 1.4 Million sui…

Finalists

Documentary Short
finalist
A Piece Of Me
Female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that involves altering or injuring the female genitalia…
Documentary Short
finalist
Behind the Lens: Living with a Rare Blood Cancer
Every year, millions of patients, families and caregivers are impacted by cancer in the U.S. Some c…
Documentary Short
finalist
Blue Habits: Trinidad
As a non-profit dedicated to ocean conservation for 50 years, Oceanic Society has come to realize t…
Documentary Short
finalist
Love Calls Back
Coming out to family and friends is one of the most nerve-wracking moments in the lives of LGBTQ+ p…
Documentary Short
finalist
WORLD'S WATER CRISIS IS TOTALLY SOLVABLE
You haven't even left for work yet, and you've already used more water than some villagers in rural…

Nominees

Documentary Short
ALABAMA'S SEWAGE CRISIS
This video presents a growing public health crisis wherein hookworm, a disease thought only to affe…
Documentary Short
Generation Zika: Three Years Later
Three years ago, thousands of pregnant women were infected with the mosquito-borne virus, Zika. The…
Documentary Short
Hotel Silverado: A Family Affair
Chevrolet’s role was to work with the American Cancer Society (ACS) to identify a recipient and cre…
Documentary Short
LEBANON: TINY COUNTRY, BIG TRASH PROBLEM
It piles up in landfills, it’s dumped in the ocean, it's burned. Lebanon is drowning in trash and d…
Documentary Short
The Pardon: Jason Spyres
Jason Spyres got arrested for selling cannabis in Illinois. He understood that he broke the law, bu…
Documentary Short
The Reef
For Revolutio Creative's Apple commissioned #shotoniphone branded documentary, the studio was able …
Documentary Short
When Neurodiversity Works
Companies today are looking to get increasingly complicated applications to market faster, with few…