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

Podcast Mini Series

This award recognizes the most creative and effective use of a podcast developed in a multi-episode mini series format.

See previous winners and honorees here.
Podcast Mini Series
Alligator Candy
In this true-crime series, ALLIGATOR CANDY follows the mysterious 1973 disappearance of writer and …
Podcast Mini Series
Art Bust: Scandalous Stories of the Art World
ART BUST: SCANDALOUS STORIES OF THE ART WORLD is an investigative podcast series in which U.K. auth…
Podcast Mini Series
Close to Death
Close to Death, hosted by comedian Utkarsh Ambudkar, profiles people who spend every day working wi…
Podcast Mini Series
Confronting: Columbine
It’s been more than 20 years since two teenagers killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Color…
Podcast Mini Series
Dexter New Blood: Wrap-Up with Scott Reynolds Podcast
In October 2020, SHOWTIME® announced that after almost a decade off air, Dexter, one of the biggest…
Podcast Mini Series
Do You Know Mordechai?
In the genre-bending podcast, DO YOU KNOW MORDECHAI? it was all going so well. Arya had finally fal…
Podcast Mini Series
Forced To Flee
"Forced To Flee" had two main objectives. First, we wanted to bring the major issues of forced disp…
Podcast Mini Series
Heinz - The Black Kitchen Podcast
Back in April 2021, Heinz, the LEE Initiative and Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice partnered…
Podcast Mini Series
Hindsight
Hindsight is a genre-bending, docudrama podcast by Al Jazeera. The series resurrects some of histor…
Podcast Mini Series
No Denying It: The UN Climate Action Podcast
Climate fatigue is real-- the stories of activists doing what they can, with whatever tools they ha…
Podcast Mini Series
Syria's Lost Generation
March 2021 marked the tenth anniversary of the Syrian War; presenting a small window of opportunity…
Podcast Mini Series
The Followers: House of Prayer
A daughter's call to police about memories of her mother's alleged crime triggers a year-long inves…
Podcast Mini Series
The Followers: Madness of Two
How did the perfect suburban mom get wrapped up with doomsday preppers and prophets? For months, th…
Podcast Mini Series
The Greatness with Kareem Maddox
Kareem Maddox is a professional 3x3 basketball player and a lifelong fan of the Olympics, and he's …
Podcast Mini Series
Where I Stay Podcast
Where I Stay was designed to change the way people think about homelessness by spotlighting the pli…