Mobile Usage
Here are stats from the last 30 days of access to RunSignUp direct or via widgets: Desktop – 51%Phone – 38%Tablet – 11% So basically 51-49 desktop lead, but my money is on Mobile! Speaking of money, people still find it more…
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September 25, 2026
Share Event Showcases Across Any Event Website
Race directors and organizations that put on multiple races can now build an event showcase once and feature it on every race website they manage. Event List configurations now share automatically across all races, events, and websites on the same payment account....Read More about Share Event Showcases Across Any Event Website
September 23, 2026
Section Backgrounds for Multi-Column Website Sections
RunSignup’s Website Builder now lets you apply one background across an entire multi-column section. Place a single image or color behind all your columns to build bold, cohesive layouts for course highlights, sponsor spotlights, and race day features. Click the settings icon...Read More about Section Backgrounds for Multi-Column Website Sections
September 22, 2026
New Email Divider Settings
RunSignup’s Email Builder now includes divider settings. Use them to separate sections, frame registration details, and guide participants through every email you send. Click the settings icon on any divider to choose: Divider settings are available across all your RunSignup emails: Email...September 21, 2026
RunSignUp Product Updates — Week of September 14–20, 2026
This week we shipped 61 releases, adding 26,193 lines of code and removing 4,137 lines as we continue to improve and simplify the platform. This was a full week for the RunSignUp platform, with fresh options for building race websites, real progress...Read More about RunSignUp Product Updates — Week of September 14–20, 2026
September 20, 2026
Founder’s Corner – Thoughts on AI Safety for RunSignup and Events
AI Safety has been in the news a lot the past couple of weeks. Multiple instances of Agent Swarms collaborating in ways that try to cheat and hide their work. The worry is AI is getting better at an exponential rate, solving...Read More about Founder’s Corner – Thoughts on AI Safety for RunSignup and Events
Recent Blogs
Security Update – MySQL Database Upgrade
Our cloud provider, Amazon AWS, provided an automated update to our MySQL database service last night. This was to provide a fix to the security report issued by Oracle on Oct. 16. We are happy to report that our highly available configuration allowed our failover…
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Affiliate Discounts
RunSignup’s Affiliate Program was designed for partners like RunningintheUSA.com who have race calendars. It allows them to easily grab all of the races on RunSignup and list them automatically on their website. We have a tracking code so we know the source of the runner coming…
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Credit Card Discounts
The Fifth Third River Bank Run went live earlier this week with a couple of unique discount offers. Since Fifth Third is one of the top 20 banks in the US with millions of customers, they wanted to offer their customers something special. Namely…
Read MoreSecurity
We are somewhat hesitant to talk about security since we do not want to invite unwanted attention. However, with regular reports of security issues popping up (for example here and here), and now the report of the JP Morgan Chase race security breach, we figured it…
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Pride and Motivation
Alan Jones and Roger Bradshaw, the founders of RunScore and The Race Director (the two leading scoring platforms that are used by timers at about 60-80% of races in the US), recently did a survey of their timers. They collected 62 responses from RunScore users and 109…
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Importing Old Event Participant Data
You can now import participant data from previous years. This allows race directors to have easier access to all of their data in one place, and also enables some of the nice year over year reporting that RunSignup offers. Importing old data…
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Case Study: Gallagher Fitness Resources and ActiveSalem.Com
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignup users. This Case Study on Gallagher Fitness Resources and ActiveSalem.com focuses on implementing a RunSignup Race Calendar, providing resources to…
Read MoreBoilermaker – RunSignup Press Release
October 3, 2014 – Moorestown, NJ and Utica, NY – The Boilermaker Road Race has selected RunSignup, the leading innovator of online tools for Races & Running Clubs, as the official Registration partner for the 2015 Boilermaker Road Race to be held…
Read MoreAvailability Update – October 2014
We had a 5 minute outage early this morning for 5 minutes at 12:53AM Eastern time. We were doing a deployment and it triggered errors. That error was corrected as quickly as possible. We apologize for the outage. This deployment we did…
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