THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

From the 5th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best Video Series

This award honors the most creative and effective use of a video series such as a digital web series or docu-series to bring awareness to and achieve a social good campaign, initiative, or project.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Nominees

AARP Purpose Prize 2019-2020
You live. You learn. You give back. No one knows this better than people ages 50 and older, who hav…
Brainwashed By Toons
The goal of BRAINWASHED BY TOONS was to educate and inform viewers about how racial bias and sexism…
DBS Sparks Season 2: Everyday Heroes for a Better World
The world is facing complex developmental, social and environmental challenges, not to mention hard…
Expert Answers from the World Bank Group
“Expert Answers” is the World Bank Group’s flagship video series focused on the latest news and ana…
Girls Room
Young people are deeply impacted by on-screen images; what they see shapes their relationship with …
Holiday Heroes
Holiday Heroes celebrates individuals who are making a positive impact on their communities during …
In The Know: Next Gen
The objective of this series is to highlight Gen Z changemakers who are making amazing strides in t…
Love, Me | Video Series from This Free Life
For many LGBT folks, young adulthood can be tumultuous: hardship, growth, stress, belonging. Many y…
Need to Know by MTV News
Award-winning journalists Dometi Pongo and Yoonj Kim are the faces of Need To Know, MTV News’ flags…
OUTLOUD: Raising Voices
OUTLOUD: Raising Voices began as a live event concept to give a platform to up-and-coming LGBTQ+ mu…
Start Here
Al Jazeera Digital’s video explainer series Start Here was created to help people re-engage in impo…
Taking Refuge
The Olympic Channel's 2020 original series and social media campaign for Taking Refuge features the…
VH1's RuPaul’s Drag Race Out of the Closet S3
With the third season of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Out of the Closet, the objective was to build on the …
“With Love, Me” presented by Your Cancer Game Plan
Merck Oncology is committed to fighting cancer on all fronts and providing patients and caregivers …