Al Jazeera has won a record nine Shorty awards during a virtual rollout of winners that concluded on Friday night. The jury conferred three Winner prizes and one Gold second place to brands that demonstrated excellence in digital innovation.
The English and Arabic teams for Al Jazeera’s Digital Division also transferred five jury finalist nods into Audience Honor awards, beating out competition from a wide variety of finalists.
A jury Winner prize was awarded for Best Instructional Video to Start Here, the current affairs explainer series that brings viewers deeper into the big news stories of the day. The team also won a separate Audience Honor for this category, garnering more audience votes than finalists from other brands. Start Here also won a third award – an Audience Honor – in the best use of Facebook Video category.