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 Email & Newsletter Filter/Lens Meme, GIF, & Emojis Micro-Site Single Post or Activation Use of Viral Content User-Generated Content

Design

Animation Art Direction Audio & Music Brand Identity Brand Redesign Generative AI Graphic Art Images Website/App

Industry

Auto Beauty Business to Business Consumer Brand Education Entertainment Financial Services Fitness, Health, & Wellness Food & Beverage Gaming Government & Politics Hospitality Insurance 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

Overall Presence

Facebook Presence Instagram Presence LinkedIn Presence Multi-Platform Presence Other Platform Presence TikTok Presence X Presence YouTube Presence

Platforms & Technology

Artificial Intelligence Extended Reality Facebook Immersive Instagram Interactive Content LinkedIn Other Platform TikTok X (formerly Twitter) YouTube

Podcast

Art & Culture Podcast Branded Podcast Business Podcast NEW! Health & Wellness Podcast Lifestyle & Entertainment Podcast News & Politics Podcast Other Podcast Genres Podcast Mini Series Sports Podcast Technology and Education Podcast True Crime & Documentary Podcast

Strategy & Engagement

Brand Partnership Call to Action Community Management Creative Use of Technology CTV/OTT Data & Insights Earned Media Event & Experiential Gamification Humor Innovative Media Buying Strategy Integration with Traditional Media Internal Communications 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 Documentary Feature Film NEW! Featurette or Behind The Scenes Video Instructional Video Live Video Long Form Video Medium-Length Video Music Video Product Feature Video Short Form Video Unboxing Video Vertical Video Video Ad Video Series

From the 4th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards Best in Environment & Sustainability

This award honors a program, project, or initiative executed to promote, protect, and preserve our environment.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Winner

Environment & Sustainability
winner
Look Good. Do Good.
At Sperry, we see a cycle in our beloved waters that we can’t ignore. Eight million tons of plastic…

Finalists

Environment & Sustainability
finalist
gold honor
S'well's Million Bottle Project Inspires NYC Student Advocacy
S’well was founded in 2010 with the mission to rid the world of single-use plastic bottles by creat…
Environment & Sustainability
finalist
gold honor
The Makers of Vita Coco & Lonely Whale Launch an Alternative to Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles
According to market research group Euromonitor, one million single-use plastic bottles are sold eve…
Environment & Sustainability
finalist
silver honor
Little Choices Lead to Global Change with Hawaii’s “Reef-Safe Sunscreen” Initiative
When Hawaii's coral reefs suffered from unprecedented levels of coral bleaching, a study published …
Environment & Sustainability
finalist
silver honor
WWF - #NoBuildChallenge
The depletion of the earth's natural resources is a major problem which humanity must fight against…
Environment & Sustainability
finalist
bronze honor
United Airlines Carbon Cutback
United Airlines is the first US carrier to publicly commit to reducing greenhouse emissions, pledgi…

Nominees

Environment & Sustainability
"One Small Step"
NowThis is the #1 mobile news publisher in the world. We have a singular mission: to make news enga…
Environment & Sustainability
#NatureForAll
#NatureForAll is a global movement to inspire love of nature. At its core is a very simple idea: th…
Environment & Sustainability
1 Million Species at Risk of Extinction: Biodiversity Takes Social Media by Storm
To confront the widest possible range of decision-makers, at every level around the world, with …
Environment & Sustainability
Art Made out of Air Pollution
Air Pollution is an invisible Killer.  India has 14 out of 20 world’s most polluted cities.  India …
Environment & Sustainability
Conservation Station: Creating a More Resourceful World
Conservation Station: Creating a More Resourceful World aims to create a nationwide dialogue on the…
Environment & Sustainability
DBS Asia Hub 2 (DAH2) Solar Plant Installation – A Force for Good
Expanding infrastructure and upgrading technology to provide clean energy sources in all developing…
Environment & Sustainability
DBS Bank: Live more, Waste less
While Singapore ranks among the top 5 cleanest cities in the world, waste generation and waste mana…
Environment & Sustainability
DBS: Recycle More, Waste Less with Social Innovators
With more than 1.2 billion citizens, India generates >100000 metric tons of municipal solid waste p…
Environment & Sustainability
EMA Innovator of the Year Challenge
The Environmental Media Association (EMA) created the Future Innovator of the Year Challenge to acc…
Environment & Sustainability
FinalStraw: Saving the oceans one straw at a time
Americans use 500 million straws every day, we’re doing something about it. We’re creating reusable…
Environment & Sustainability
Fish Unknown
Relais & Châteaux, as an association of 580 of the world’s top restaurants and hotels, has been sup…
Environment & Sustainability
HEAVY METAL
From 2017 to 2018, the public health community cringed as current e-cigarette use—using JUULs or ot…
Environment & Sustainability
Lonely Whale Questions How You Hydrate
Lonely Whale develops creative campaigns that raise awareness of the world’s plastic pollution cris…
Environment & Sustainability
Loop
At the 2017 World Economic Forum, Tom Szaky of TerraCycle and executives of leading consumer goods …
Environment & Sustainability
Love Beauty and Planet: #smallactsoflove for the planet empowering millions to be change makers
Our team knew there was an issue: at today’s rate, it will take 2 planet earths to provide the reso…
Environment & Sustainability
PACIFIC PLASTIC MONSTER
Plastic: It’s cheap, it’s everywhere, and it never goes away. That water bottle you threw out decad…
Environment & Sustainability
Run for the Oceans - Together Against Marine Plastic Pollution
We firmly believe that through sport, we have the power to change lives. As ambitious as this goal …
Environment & Sustainability
Seeker's "The Swim"
Seeker, the #1 digital science brand in the U.S. [Nielsen Digital Content Ratings], partnered with …
Environment & Sustainability
Skip the Traffic during Super Bowl LIII – Try Transit
In 2019, the Super Bowl LIII brought over one million visitors to Atlanta, driving $185 million in …
Environment & Sustainability
Sustainable food production with Farm from a Box
Every person should have access to healthy, nutrient-rich food and every farmer should be able to p…
Environment & Sustainability
THE HUMAN COST OF SMARTPHONES
At the bottom of the multibillion-dollar smartphone industry, child miners labor in harrowing condi…
Environment & Sustainability
The Amazonian Tribe Defending their Land with Technology
“For thousands of years, we have protected our territory from invaders,” says Opi Nenquimo, one of …
Environment & Sustainability
The Hardest Worker
Background: In India, one tree was cut every hour over last 13 years in the capital city alone…
Environment & Sustainability
Transforming business for a circular economy with ocean-bound plastics – HP Inc.
HP Inc.’s mission is to grow its business, not its environmental footprint – and to inspire its cus…
Environment & Sustainability
Water Scarcity Debate in Cape Town, South Africa
Doha Debates teamed up with three local universities and South Africa’s most watched television cha…