THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

Campaign

Awareness Campaign Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign Diverse-Owned Businesses Campaign Fundraising Campaign Global Campaign Integrated Campaign Local Campaign Multi-Platform Campaign Multicultural Campaign On a Shoestring Campaign Pro Bono Campaign Social Movement Campaign

Content & Design

Audio & Music Brand Voice NEW! Branded Content Branded Series Documentary Short Email & Newsletter NEW! Feature Film Gamification NEW! Images Interactive Content Long Form Video Medium Length Video NEW! Micro-site or Blog Podcast Research Reports Short Form Video Video Series

Cause

Animal Rights & Welfare Arts & Culture Conservation & Preservation Disability Awareness Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Emergency Relief Environment & Sustainability Fight Poverty Gender Equality Human Rights Immigration & Refugees Learning & Development LGBTQ+ Mental Health Multi-Cause Initiative Other Causes NEW! Public Health Public Safety Racial Equality Responsible Consumption & Production Responsible Technology NEW! Social Justice Youth & Family

Industry

Automotive Business to Business Consumer Brands Education Entertainment Fashion & Beauty Financial Services Food & Beverage Government & Politics Healthcare & Pharma Hospitality & Travel Lifestyle & Wellness News & Media Non-Profit Other Industry NEW! Retail & E-Commerce Sports Technology

Partnerships

Brand Partnership NEW! Corporate-Community Influencer, Creator & Celebrity Nonprofit Partnership Other Partnerships NEW!

Platforms & Technology

Extended Reality Gaming Generative AI Instagram LinkedIn Other Platforms TikTok YouTube

Special Project

Special Project

Strategy & Engagement

Call to Action Community Engagement Contest or Challenges Data & Insights Earned Media Event & Experiential Guerrilla Marketing Integration with Traditional Media NEW! Paid Media PSA Single Post Storytelling Use of Viral Content NEW! User Generated Content

From the 15th Annual Shorty Awards True Crime & Documentary Podcast

This award honors the most effective and creative true crime or documentary podcast. Includes single episode, series and mini-series.

Winner

True Crime & Documentary Podcast
winner
Mother Country Radicals, an original podcast from Crooked Media and Audacy
Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents radicals and counterculture outlaws leading a revolut…

Finalists

True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
gold honor
Run Bambi Run
"Run Bambi Run” is a narrative nonfiction Apple Original Podcast about a female police officer who …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
silver honor
Project UNABOM
"The Unabomber was right." Host Eric Benson had heard that provocative, disturbing sentiment in con…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
silver honor
The Deck
Audiochuck creates podcasts and presents stories each week not just to entertain, but to try to mak…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
bronze honor
Missed Fortune
For most of history, the hoarding and stashing of gold and jewels happened only in times of insecur…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
Father Wants Us Dead
The List family murders is a chapter of Westfield, N.J. history that many may want to forget. But a…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
Justice for Shireen
On May 11, 2022, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh - a Palestinian and U.S. citizen - was sho…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
There's No Place Like Home
2021 began with a rumble that became a roar heard across the country: Australian women would no lon…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
audience honor
Tom Rinaldi Presents: Wesley
In the more than 150-year history of Major League Baseball, only one player has ever been murdered …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
What the Hack with Adam Levin
What the Hack with Adam Levin is a weekly true cybercrime podcast featuring interviews with people …

Nominees

True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Betrayal
Betrayal opens as a series about a fairytale marriage gone wrong and develops into a journey about …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Catching a Killer: Legendary Mindhunter on Idaho Student Murders
Surviving The Survivor has re-defined the wildly popular true crime genre by bringing together the …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Mind of a Monster
Hosted by criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward, Mind of a Monster brings listeners exclusive acc…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty - 48 Hours & CBS News
In the “My Life of Crime” podcast "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty takes listeners through i…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Sword and Scale
Sword and Scale is an internet radio show and website covering the dark underworld of crime and the…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
The Perfect Scam Podcast
Fraud is a billion-dollar industry affecting people of all ages, across all walks of life. Transnat…