May Races Up 5% from 2023

In our continuing efforts to keep the endurance community up to date on trends, we mine our customer data for races on our platform in both years, and found races that occurred in May were up 5% from 2023. There were 446,121…

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Guest Post – Using AI for Customer Service of Events

Daniel Beasley shares how his company, Queu.ai, has helped a couple of RunSignup customers automate and improve customer service. Coastal Race Productions uses the Queu.ai Chatbot for Events to answer questions for their races like the Pink Ribbon Run (Give it a…

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Eventbrite Q1 2024 Review

Wall Street cheered the higher “Take Rate” and Revenue that Eventbrite generated for themselves in their Q1 2024 Report: However, we see some fundamental problems. Starting with the drop of 8% in their tickets sold in Q1 2024 vs. Q1 2023. RunSignup…

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Race Participation Grows 7% in April 2024

The good news for endurance events continues in April, with growth of 7% over April 2023. We track events that occurred in April and were on our platform in both April, 2023 and April 2024 and total the number of registrations. The…

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RunSignup Q1 2024 Update

The quick summary: Our employee owned company shares our high level numbers and thoughts on the market and technology advances on a quarterly and yearly basis – 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. RunSignup Quarterly Numbers It was another solid quarter for our company, with all…

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What’s Happening to Race Prices?

Ever since the COVID pandemic pricing for most things have been a bit in flux. And races are no different. In 2020 we saw artificially low race prices since essentially all events were virtual and overhead costs were much lower. 2023 was…

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Eventbrite Q4 2023 Earnings Recap

We say this sincerely – we wish Eventbrite was doing better. They are the only public company in the event ticket/registration space and are the segment leader. If they were growing it would show that events are back and bring an overall…

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RaceInsure is Here to Help Protect Race Directors

This is a partner post in conjunction with RaceInsure, a new insurance option by race director and insurance professional Scott Sutter. How often do you think race directors read the fine print of their race insurance policy? With the juggling act that…

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