Our annual 2025 Race Trends Report is here, breaking down the participation numbers and industry trends from 2025 to help race directors and timers make better predictions and more successful decisions in 2026. The headline from this year continued, but slowing growth,…
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We’re very pleased to announce that Matthew Smeltzer, founder of Competitive Timing, is the winner of the 2026 Alan Jones Timer of the Year Award! We presented this honor at this week’s Timer Education Summit in Tampa, Florida, and we couldn’t be…
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This is a guest blog from Tina Muir, the founder of Racing for Sustainability. Putting on a race means balancing countless moving parts — budgets, logistics, participant experience, community impact, all while trying to do the right thing for the cities we…
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We assembled a preliminary list of the 2025 Top 100 Largest Races in the US that were timed. We have been compiling this list for a couple of years (see 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024). A few notes: 2025 Top 100…
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There has been wide speculation on the growth of endurance events since Covid. RunSignup keeps track of Year over Year comparisons of the same events (eg. events that happened in both 2024 and 2025 on our platform). This gives us the ability…
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One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2025 Year in Review, 2025 RunSignup Product Review, 2025 GiveSignup Product Recap, 2025 TicketSignup Product Recap, 2025 Infrastructure Report, 2026 Company Strategy, 2026 RunSignup Roadmap, 2026 AI Product Roadmap, 2026 GiveSignup Roadmap, 2026 TicketSignup Roadmap. These will come out incrementally between November and early…
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Eventbrite entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by Bending Spoons for about $500 Million, or $4.50 per share. This is obviously a big decrease from when they went public in 2018 at $37 a share and a loss of $Billions in…
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Thanksgiving Day, the biggest running day in the US, saw records shattered in 2025. In all, 1,330,726 people registered for 1,056 races across the country and raising more than $3.1 million dollars for charities. That represents a participation increase of 20% (220,817…
Read MoreWe track Eventbrite closely. They are the “Big Dogs” of event technology, so maybe we can learn something. More importantly, it helps us benchmark how we are doing in comparison. Eventbrite’s decline has been one of the sources of our growth as…
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The biggest running day of the year returns in just four weeks! In 2024, Thanksgiving Day races broke RunSignup records (again), with 1,109,909 participants across 936 races. As we approach the big day, we’re taking an early look at how the numbers…
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