Shorty Awards

The Shorty Awards

Shorty Awards Logo
Awarded for "The best producers of short content"
Country United States
Presented by Sawhorse Media
First awarded February 11, 2009
Official website shortyawards.com

The Shorty Awards, also known as the Shortys, is an annual awards event, recognizing the people and organizations producing real-time short form content across Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Instagram, Vine, and the rest of the social Web. The awards are organized by the co-founders of the Brooklyn-based startup company Sawhorse Media.[1] Greg Galant is CEO and Co-founder and Lee Semel is CTO and Co-founder of Sawhorse Media.[2] Since their creation in 2008, the awards have expanded beyond Twitter to recognize content creation on other social networking sites, including YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, and Facebook.

Twitter users nominate six finalists in each award category, and a panel of expert and celebrity judges choose winners. An awards ceremony is held each spring and streamed live on the official website. Each award recognizes the entire body of work of the content creator, rather than an individual tweet or post. A 2012 Forbes magazine article about the awards commented: "The Shortys recognize that social media is about more than who can get the most followers ... we are creating millions of pieces of new writing that will define our generation. ... These writings ... are creating our history of record."[3]

First Annual Shorty Awards


The awards were created in 2008 by tech entrepreneurs Greg Galant, Adam Varga, and Lee Semel of Sawhorse Media.[4][5] They invited Twitter account holders to nominate the best twitterers in general categories such as humor, news, food, and design.[6] Winners were chosen by more than 30,000 twitterers during the voting period.[4] The founders of Twitter first heard about the awards after the contest had gotten underway, and expressed support for it.[4]

The first Shorty Awards ceremony was held on February 11, 2009, at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, New York. Approximately 300 people attended the event.[7] The event was hosted by CNN anchor Rick Sanchez and featured in-person guest appearances by prominent Twitter users MC Hammer and Gary Vaynerchuk and a video appearance by Shaquille O'Neal.[8][9] The awards, which were voted on by Twitter users, were distributed in 26 categories.[4] At the ceremony, the true identity of advertising category winner @PeggyOlson was revealed to be Carri Bugbee, owner of the public relations company Big Deal PR in Portland, Oregon.[10]

First Annual Winners by category

Category Winner
Best in Advertising[11] Peggy Olson, @PeggyOlson[12]
Best in Apps[13] brightkit, @brightkit
Best Brand[14] Action Wipes, @MarthaVan
Best in Business[15] Paw Luxury, @PawLuxury
Best in Design[16] Yiying Lu, @yiyinglu
Best in Education[17] RubyLearning, @RubyLearning
Best in Entertainment[18] Flashlight Worthy Books, @FLWBooks
Best in Finance[19] StockTwits, @StockTwits
Best in Food[20] Foodimentary, @foodimentary
Best in Green[21] Green Moms Carnival, @greenmoms
Best in Health[22] Debra Wendler, @ADHDParenting
Best in Humor[23] Charles Trippy, @charlestrippy
Best in Music[24] Hunter Burgan, @tranquilmammoth
Best in News[25] BNO News, @BreakingNewsOn
Best in Nonprofits[26] Athletes for a Cure, @athletes4acure
Best Personal[27] Arleen Boyd, @AlohaArleen
Best in Photography[28] Kyle Reese, @Twipphoto
Best in Politics[29] Justin Hart, @justin_hart
Best in Science[30] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, @MarsPhoenix
Best in Social Media[31] Dan Zarrella, @danzarrella
Best in Sports[32] Jackie, @girlwithnoname
Best in Startups[33] Hanniversary, @hanniversary
Best in Tech[34] Twitter Tips, @Twitter_Tips
Best in Travel[35] Cruise Source, @cruisesource
Best in Video Games[36] Justin McElroy, @justinmcelroy
Best in Weird[37] Martin Sargent, @martinsargent

Second Annual Shorty Awards

Voting for the second Shorty Awards opened on January 5, 2010, in 26 official categories. A Real-Time Photo of the Year category was added to the list of official categories for the first time, recognizing the best photo posted to services such as Twitpic, Yfrog, or Facebook.[38][39]

The second Shorty Awards competition introduced a panel of judges called the Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences whose members were Craig Newmark, David Pogue, Kurt Andersen, Caterina Fake, Joi Ito, Frank Moss, Alberto Ibargüen, Sreenath Sreenivasan, MC Hammer, Alyssa Milano and Jimmy Wales. After public nominations determined the finalists, the Academy decided on the winners.

Winners were announced at a ceremony held in the Times Center in The New York Times building in Manhattan, and were streamed online. The ceremony was hosted by CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, who presented awards in the official categories as well as the newly added Real-Time Photo of the Year and a special humanitarian award.[40]

Second Annual Winners by category

Special Awards

Real-Time Photo of the Year: Janis Krums, @jkrums for "Plane on the Hudson"

Third Annual Shorty Awards

The nomination period for the third annual Shorty Awards opened in January, 2011, and ran through February 11, 2011, except for new categories that had extended nomination deadlines.[41] There were 30 official categories, and five special categories. In addition to Real-Time Photo of the Year, for the first time the awards accepted nominations for Foursquare Mayor of the Year, Foursquare Location of the Year, Microblog of the Year on Tumblr, and a Connecting People award. The awards also introduced new Shorty Industry Awards to recognize the best uses of social media by brands and agencies. A Marketing Jury within the Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences judges the Shorty Industry Awards and determines the winners from among the paid entries.[42] Winners were announced at a ceremony on March 28, 2011, hosted by Aasif Mandvi in the Times Center.[43][44] Other Shorty Awards presenters were scheduled to include Kiefer Sutherland, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Stephen Wallem, Miss USA Rima Fakih, and Miss Teen USA Kamie Crawford.[44]

Third Annual Winners by category

Special Awards

Connecting People: Shannon Miller, @shannonmmiller

Fourth Annual Shorty Awards

The Fourth Annual Shorty Awards were hosted by The Daily Show's Samantha Bee and Jason Jones. They were held in The Times Center in NYC on March 26, 2012.

Fourth Annual Winners by category

Special awards

FifthAnnual Shorty Awards

The Fifth Annual Shorty Awards were hosted by Felicia Day and held on April 8th, 2013 in The Times Center in NYC.

Fifth Annual Winners by category

Sixth Annual Shorty Awards

The 6th Annual Shorty Awards took place on April 7th, 2014 at the New York Times Center and was hosted by comedian Natasha Leggero. The competition brought together even more social media stars as the voting platform grew immensely. 2.4 million tweeted nominations were made across categories to honor the top users on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Instagram, YouTube and more.

Sixth Annual Winners by category

Seventh Annual Shorty Awards

The Seventh Annual Shorty Awards was hosted by comedian Rachel Dratch and took place on April 20, 2015 at The Times Center in NYC. The Real-Time Academy, the judging body of the Shortys, tripled in size for the 7th annual Awards and included additions such as Alton Brown, Mamrie Hart, Nikki Glaser, OK Go, Shiza Shahid, The Fine Bros, Debbie Sterling, Dan Savage, Deena Varshavskaya, Palmer Luckey, and more. Panic! at the Disco was the musical guest at the ceremony. On-stage presenters included Kevin Jonas, Bill Nye, Bella Thorne, Wyclef Jean, Emily Kinney, Tyler Oakley, and more.

Seventh Annual Winners by category

Arts and entertainment

Creative and design

News and media

Tech and innovation

Global issues

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  53. "Pope Francis Introduction by Roberto Luigi was nominated for a Shorty Award". shortyawards.com.
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