Recent Blogs


Challenge Events Setup How-To for Timers

As events continue to introduce challenge events as either an add-on or alternative to traditional events, timers are quickly becoming the go-to person for setting up the events on RunSignup’s Challenge Platform. The recorded webinar below, provided by Matt Avery, gives step-by-step…

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Hybrid Races Become Standard with Pfizer News

The world received encouraging news when Pfizer and BioNTech announced early results of 90%+ effectiveness on their vaccine trials: Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the…

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No Worries on Sendgrid API Keys

Some of our customers may have inadvertently gotten an email from Sendgrid about updating API keys. There is no need to do anything as RunSignup | GiveSignup manage all of this in the background for our customers, and the 25 Million emails they…

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Eventbrite Q3 2020 Earnings

We have been following Eventbrite since they are a similar company serving events and having a similar business model of charging for their services only with processing fees since they went public. We are also likely to begin to compete with them…

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USA Triathlon Ticket Socket Partnership

We have gotten some questions about USATriathlon promoting Ticket Socket. Two points. We remain completely committed to the triathlon community. We sold over $1,000,000 of USATriathlon memberships on our platform in 2019, and it is an important part of our business. We…

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Welcome, Joel!

We’re excited to welcome Joel to the RunSignup team! Joel is an experienced developer and is joining the RunSignup development team to build new features that help nonprofits raise more. Joel has spent a majority of his career in the financial industry…

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Welcome Allison C!

We are excited to welcome Allison Carigan to the RunSignup team! She is joining our customer support team and will be helping to expand our support team bandwidth. She is already helping users with RunSignup questions on info@runsignup.com. No stranger to RunSignup, Allison…

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Ending Support for Google Tag Manager

We are going to be ending support for Google Tag Manager the second week of November, 2020 (next week) to allow time for customers to migrate to our purpose built integrations for the wide variety of ad tracking tools we already support….

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October 2020 COVID Numbers Update

We began monthly updates in July after doing weekly updates that ended in Week 18, and are shifting to monthly (August) and Quarterly (Q3) updates. The monthly update is meant to give stats that are useful to the endurance and nonprofit communities we serve. Quick…

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