The 14th Annual Shorty Awards

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. The current season is now closed.

Campaign

Global Campaign Integrated Campaign Local Campaign Mobile Campaign Multi-Platform Campaign Social Good Campaign

Single Platform

Clubhouse NEW! Discord NEW! Emerging Platform Facebook Facebook Messenger Instagram LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit Snapchat TikTok Triller NEW! Tumblr NEW! Twitch NEW! Twitter WeChat Weibo WhatsApp YouTube

Overall Presence

Clubhouse Presence NEW! Discord Presence NEW! Emerging Platform Presence NEW! Facebook Messenger Presence NEW! Facebook Presence Instagram Presence LinkedIn Presence NEW! Multi-Platform Presence NEW! Pinterest Presence NEW! Reddit Presence NEW! Snapchat Presence TikTok Presence Triller Presence NEW! Tumblr Presence NEW! Twitch Presence NEW! Twitter Presence WeChat Presence NEW! Weibo Presence NEW! WhatsApp Presence NEW! YouTube Presence

Influencer & Celebrity Brand Partnership

Emerging Platform Partnership NEW! Facebook Partnership Instagram Partnership Multi-Platform Partnership Snapchat Partnership TikTok Partnership Twitter Patnership YouTube Partnership

Design

Animation Art Direction Brand Identity Brand Redesign Graphic Art Images UX/UI Visual Effects NEW!

Video

360 Video Augmented Reality Comedy Video Instructional Video Live Event Coverage Live Video Long Form Video Medium-Length Video Short Form Video Stories NEW! Vertical Video NEW! Video Ad Virtual Reality

Industry

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

Content and Media

Audio Clips NEW! Blogs NEW! Branded Content Branded Podcast Branded Series Clapback NEW! Contest or Promotion Data Visualization Emojis Filter/Lens GIFs Hashtag Meme Native Advertising Newsletters NEW! Podcast Podcast Mini Series Polls & Surveys Single Post or Activation NEW! Stickers NEW! User-Generated Content Voice NEW!

Strategy & Engagement

Artificial Intelligence Call to Action Chatbots Community Management Creative Use of Technology Customer Service Employee Engagement NEW! Fundraising NEW! Gamification Geo-Targeting NEW! Globalization NEW! Humor Insights & Trends NEW! Integration with Live Television Large Media Buying Strategy LGBTQ Community Engagement Localization Media Buying Strategy on a Shoe-String Micro-Influencer Strategy Mid-Range Media Buying Strategy Multicultural Community Engagement Music & Dance Organic Promotion Paid & Amplification NEW! Physical and Digital Convergence Public Service Announcement Real Time Media Buy Real Time Response Shopping NEW! Storytelling Takeovers NEW!

Virtual

Digital Pivot Immersive Online Event/Activation Remote Production

Non-Profit

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

See previous winners and honorees here.
Non-Profit
"In an instant" - Refugee Phone Takeover
We wanted to cut through the noise on Refugee Day and create a real sense of connection and empathy…
Non-Profit
CATWALK by Catmosphere
In the context of world-leading cat conservation charity, Panthera, working to secure a future for …
Non-Profit
Delta Variant Force
Despite the introduction of three effective vaccines, COVID-19 continued to ravage much of the Unit…
Non-Profit
God’s Love We Deliver w/ Jane Krakowski
Since 1985, God’s Love has cooked and home-delivered delicious, nutritious meals to New Yorkers liv…
Non-Profit
How to build an inclusive economy
Skoll Foundation came to Freethink to raise awareness around the racial inequities and disparities …
Non-Profit
Let's Change Energy for Good
Today, over 800 million people live without access to electricity, and hundreds of millions live wi…
Non-Profit
THE BIG LITTLE PROJECT
The BIG little Project was designed to bring community awareness to Cooking With Kids (CWK). For 25…
Non-Profit
TeamSeas - MrBeast & Mark Rober
#TeamSeas is a global campaign to raise $30M to remove 30M pounds of plastic and trash from our oce…
Non-Profit
Thanks to our Final Responders
The ICCFA Educational Foundation is a 501(c)(3) entity, and part of the International Cemetery, Cre…
Non-Profit
The Other Side
In 2021, in the face of Asian hate, Digitas teamed up with Ascend to launch a campaign that would s…
Non-Profit
Together, We Can Help #StopSuicide
Many have experienced fear, anxiety, and uncertainty due to the pandemic, leading people to become …
Non-Profit
Urban Outraged
In a world where humans wear the skin of other living, feeling beings for fashion, PETA’s objective…
Non-Profit
VFW #StillServing
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is a nonprofit veterans service organization with a membership c…
Non-Profit
gOD-Talk: A Black Millennials and Faith Special Edition Dinner Conversation--Dallas, TX
According to the 2020 Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Research Center, American millennials—p…