9th Annual Shorty Awards | |
---|---|
Date | April 23, 2017 |
Location | The Times Center, New York City |
Hosted by | Tony Hale |
The 9th Annual Shorty Awards , honoring the best in social media, took place on April 23, 2017, at The Times Center, New York City. The ceremony was hosted by actor and comedian Tony Hale. There was a musical performance by Lizzo.
Nominations were announced on January 17, 2017, with public voting closing on February 16, 2017. [1] Finalists were announced on March 2, 2017. [2] Winners are listed first and in boldface.
Best Actor | Best Actress |
Best Celebrity | Best Comedian
|
Best in Dance
| Best in Music |
Best TV Show |
Emoji of the Year
| GIF of the Year
|
Instagram of the Year
| Tumblr Blog of the Year
|
Vine of the Year
|
Animal
| Art
|
Author | Fashion
|
Food
| Health & Wellness
|
House & Home
| Instagrammer of the Year
|
Journalist
| Lifestyle
|
Meme/Parody Account
| Parenting
|
Sports |
Breakout Youtuber
| Muser of the Year
|
Snapchatter of the Year
| Viner of the Year
|
Younower of the Year
| Youtube Comedian
|
Youtube Ensemble
| Youtube Guru
|
Youtube Musician
| Youtuber of the Year |
Activism
| Gaming
|
LGBTQ+ Youtube Channel
| Periscoper of the Year
|
Podcast
| STEM |
Twitch Streamer of the Year
| Vlogger of the Year
|
Web Series
| Weird
|
Stana Katic is a Canadian-American actress and producer. She played Kate Beckett on the ABC television romantic crime series Castle (2009–2016) and Agent Emily Byrne in the thriller series Absentia (2017–2020).
The Halberg Awards are a set of awards, given annually since 1949, recognising New Zealand's top sporting achievements. They are named for New Zealand former middle-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist Sir Murray Halberg. The initial award was handed out in 1949, and continued until 1960 under the auspices of the NZ Sportsman magazine. Since 1963, the awards have been organised by the Halberg Disability Sport Foundation, and the number of award categories has grown to eight.
The YouTube Streamy Awards, also known as the Streamy Awards or Streamys, are presented annually by Dick Clark Productions and Tubefilter to recognize excellence in online video, including directing, acting, producing, and writing. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented takes place in Los Angeles, California. They were the first ever awards show dedicated entirely to web series.
The Shorty Awards, also known as the "Shortys", is an annual awards show recognizing the people and organizations that produce real-time short-form content across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch and the rest of the social web. The annual ceremony began in 2008 with awards for achievements on the Twitter platform. Since then, the awards have recognized content creation on other social networking sites, including Tumblr, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, YouNow, and Periscope.
Max and Harvey are an English singing duo who rose to prominence after posting singing videos on social media. In 2019, they competed in The X Factor: Celebrity and finished in second place.
Mikhail Viktorovich Zygar is a Russian journalist, writer and filmmaker, and the founding editor-in-chief of Russian news TV-channel, Dozhd (2010–2015), which halted operations on 3 March 2022. Under Zygar's leadership, Dozhd provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels by focusing on news content and giving a platform to opposition voices. The channel's coverage of politically sensitive issues, like the Moscow street protests in 2011 and 2012 as well as the conflict in Ukraine, has been dramatically different from the official coverage by Russia's national television stations. Zygar is also the author of the book All the Kremlin's Men (2017), the history of Putin's Russia, based on interviews with Russian politicians from Putin's inner circle.
The 8th Annual Shorty Awards, honoring the best in social media, took place on April 11, 2016, at The Times Center in New York City. The ceremony was hosted by YouTube comedian Mamrie Hart, who was accompanied by Flula Borg as the ceremony DJ. There was a musical performances from Nico & Vinz.
Brooklyn Victoria McKnight and Bailey Marné McKnight-Howard are American YouTubers and social media personalities. They are identical twin sisters. Brooklyn is two minutes older than Bailey.
Get Shorty is an American comedy-drama television series, based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. Created by Davey Holmes, it premiered on August 13, 2017, on Epix. It stars Chris O'Dowd, Ray Romano, Sean Bridgers, Carolyn Dodd, Lidia Porto, Goya Robles, Megan Stevenson, Lucy Walters, and Sarah Stiles. It has aired for three seasons, consisting of twenty-seven episodes. In December 2018, it was renewed for a third season, which began airing on October 6, 2019. Although no further seasons have been commissioned, Epix has not officially cancelled the show.
The 10th Annual Shorty Awards powered by DirecTV Now, honoring the best in social media, took place on April 15, 2018, at the PlayStation Theater, New York City. The ceremony was hosted by actress, singer, songwriter, Keke Palmer.
Collins Key is an American YouTuber, entertainer, actor, and magician. As of December 2020, his channel has amassed more than 21 million subscribers, generating more than 170 million views per month with over 5.4 billion total lifetime views. As a magician, he was a finalist on the eighth season of America's Got Talent, and later toured as part of Demi Lovato's Neon Lights tour.
The 4th Annual Shorty Awards featured Ricky Gervias and Tiffani Thiessen. 1.6 million tweeted nominations were made across all the categories to honor the top users on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Foursquare, YouTube and other internet platforms.
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. 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. Winners were announced at a ceremony on March 28, 2011, hosted by Aasif Mandvi in the Times Center. 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.
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.
The 11th Shorty Awards were held on May 5, 2019, in New York City at the PlayStation Theater. The ceremony was hosted by American actress and comedian Kathy Griffin, along with a music performance by Tank and the Bangas. The event was live streamed on YouTube and Twitter with presenters including Denzel Dion, Devin Lytle, Eva Gutowski, Freddie Ransome, Grace Helbig, Jay Shetty, Lauren Giraldo, Mamrie Hart, Meghan Currie, Miles McKenna, Molly Burke, Raymond Braun, Remi Cruz, Ryland Adams, Samir Mezrahi, Sean Evans, Shangela, and The Try Guys.
The 12th Shorty Awards were held on May 3, 2020 via an online live stream event. The event was originally scheduled to be held at 1515 Broadway Theater in New York City, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was held virtually. The digital show was hosted by American actor and comedian J. B. Smoove, and Fetty Wap provided a musical performance. The show was streamed on Periscope and YouTube with presenters including Lindsey Vonn, Bobby Berk and Jaime Camil.
Brandon George Rogers is an American YouTuber and comedian. He plays many characters in his eponymous YouTube channel, and voices Blitzo and co-wrote the adult animated web series Helluva Boss.