The 5th Annual Shorty Awards ceremony featured Felicia Day, James Urbaniak, Kristian Nairn, Hannibal Buress, Carrie Keagan, Chris Hardwick, David Karp and Coco Rocha. 2.4 million tweeted nominations were made across all the categories to honor the top users on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Foursquare, YouTube and other internet sites.

The 5th Annual Shorty Awards
DateApril 8, 2013 (2013-04-08)
LocationThe Times Center, New York City
Hosted byFelicia Day
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The ceremony took place on April 8, 2013 at the New York TimesCenter and was hosted by Actress Felicia Day. The show began with videos of Felicia Day exploring NYC's internet culture as well as Mayor Michael Bloomberg welcoming the audience with Internet-speak. During the night, Wolf Blitzer announced early poll results of what's trending during the Shorty Awards, and Jimmy Kimmel was given the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The audience was also shown an interview of the Mars Curiosity Rover, led by comedian and actor Seth Green, before accepting the Shorty Award for Foursquare Mayor of the Year.

Fifth Annual Influencer Winners by category

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Category Winner
Best Actress Selena Gomez, @selenagomez & Tara Strong, @tarastrong
Best Actor Misha Collins, @mishacollins
Best Band One Direction, @onedirection
Best Singer Greyson Chance, @greysonchance
Best Celebrity Justin Bieber, @justinbieber
Best in Celebrity Fashion Selena Gomez, @selenagomez & Sophia Abrahão, @sophiaabrahao
Best Charity Random Acts, @RandomActsOrg
Best Comedian Rafinha Bastos, @RafinhaBastos
Best Fake Account Charles_HRH, @Charles_HRH
Best Fansite Sherlockology, @Sherlockology & 0ne-directi0n-updates
Best in Food Rosanna Pansino, @RosannaPansino & Angela Davis, @TheKitchenista
Best in Gaming Monark, @Monark & Felix Kjellberg, @PewDiePie
Best GIF Maker T. Kyle MacMahon & Ryan Broderick
Best in Ireland Bry, @Bry & Niall Horan, @niallofficial
Best Non-Human Sarcastic Rover (Jason Filiatrault) @SarcasticRover
Best in Social Fitness Cassey Ho, @blogilates
Best Video Blogger PC Siqueira, @maspoxavida
Best Web Show Bravest Warriors, @BravestWarriors
Best YouTube Star Cauê Moura, @cauemoura
Keep Good Going Award Kathy Zucker, @kathyzucker
Foursquare Mayor of the Year NASA, @NASA
Quora of the Year Kenyatta Leal
Tumblr of the Year Texts from Hillary

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Fifth Annual Brand Winners by category

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Category Winner
Best Large Social Media Agency 360i, @360i
Best Location-Based Marketing VH1 Save The Music
Best Mid-Sized Social Media Agency Deep Focus, @deepfocus & Carrot Creative, @carrot & Suite Spot LLC
Best Overall Brand Presence on Tumblr The Daily Show Election Center, @TheDailyShow
Best Social Media Manager Andy Cohen, @BravoAndy
Best Social Media Presence of a CEO Ian Schafer, @ischafer
Best Use of Social Media for Video Games Benn Achilleas, @mrbennbenn & Martin Moore
Best Use of Facebook for Marketing PandaQuest: Be the Next Chengdu Pambassador
Best Use of Promoted Tweet, Trend, or Account Joe Pierce, Jordan Jacobson, Rachel Ford, Angelika Husmann, Jeanette Brown-Green & Jason Dolenga
Best Viral Campaign Old Spice Muscle Music

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Special Awards

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Category Winner
GIFStar Award Michelle Obama, @FLOTUS
Real-Time Photo of the Year Benjamin Lowy, @benlowy
Shorty Special Lifetime Achievement Award Jimmy Kimmel, @jimmykimmel

References

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  1. ^ a b "The Shorty Awards - Honoring the best of social media". 5th.shortyawards.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-09. Retrieved 2016-05-18.