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9th Annual Shorty Awards Categories

Voting for Influencers, Brands and Organizations is now open until February 16th!
We are now accepting entries for the 9th Annual Shorty Awards. The Regular deadline to enter your Brand or Organization is February 9th, 2017.

Influencers

Honoring the most notable and viral Influencers from 2016. See below for official categories.

Brands & Organizations

The Shorty Awards honor the talented agencies, brands, and industry leaders behind the best and most innovative work on social media channels, campaigns, websites and applications.

From the 6th Annual Shorty Awards UK

The UK was one of the most popular countries in previous Shorty Awards. Nominate the most influential person in the #UK.

Winner

Ryan McHenry is a 26-year-old from Glasgow, Scotland, in 2013 he created the popular vine series 'Ryan Gosling won't eat his Cereal' which went viral around the world and for the last six months he has been fighting cancer. When he's not beating cancer or feeding Gosling, Ryan writes and directs films. Once he completes chemotherapy, he shall be...

Finalists

UK

I am a humble rofl-minstrel from the ghetto of Wolverhampton, where I started being a writer at the age of 16. I have been writing the fuck out of shit since. I wrote a funny book about feminism and my vagina, How To Be A Woman, that's being made into a film, and I write the sit-com Raised By Wolves. Not the US one with that famous guy in. The B...

UK

Empire of the Kop

Empire of The Kop is an independent social-blog for Liverpool fans by Liverpool fans worldwide. What makes this blog different from any other blog is that there are no editors, we value the opinion of all true Reds out there and anyone can have their say about our great club. EOTK was founded in 2008.

UK

Little Mix is a British four-piece girl group formed in 2011, consisting of members Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall. They were formed exclusively for the eighth series of The X Factor in 2011, and became the first group to win the competition. Following their victory, they signed with Simon Cowell's record labe...

UK

From Wikipedia: Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool. Liverpool FC is one of the most successful clubs in England and has won more European trophies than any other English team with five European Cups, three UEFA Cups and three UEFA Super Cups. The club has also won 18 League titles, seven FA Cups...

UK

From Wikipedia: One Direction is an English pop boy band based in London, consisting of Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. They signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after finishing third in the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to intern...

UK

Stats Britain is a Twitter account which takes a satirical look at all of the things that makes Britain Britain and presenting it in the form of statistics.

About the Shorty Awards

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media.

Millions of people participate in The Shortys to recognize individuals and organizations producing great content on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, Vine and the rest of the social web.

The 9th Annual Shorty Awards will be held in April 2017 in NYC and streamed to the public.