Race Director & Timer Symposium Videos

We “Live Streamed” our Symposium last week. It was our first attempt at this, so we had some technical glitches and some content that could be better and some content that is not there. On the other hand, we captured a lot…

Read More

Private Races now hidden on Google Search

We have now hidden races marked as “Private” from being searchable on Google and other search engines. They had previously only been hidden on on the RunSignUp search as well as from calendar widgets and affiliates.

Read More

Symposium Keynote: Jim Marino

We’re excited about all the Race Directors and Timers heading into Philadelphia soon for our 3rd Annual Race Director/Timer Symposium…but we might be the most excited to hear from someone who is already here. Meet Jim Marino, Philadelphian. Jim first became involved with the…

Read More

RunningUSA Conference Marketing Lessons

We were out in Denver this week for the RunningUSA Next Evolution Conference – focused on alternative races like color runs and obstacles races. There were a number of traditional races there like Pittsburgh Marathon, Colfax Marathon, Big Sur Marathon, etc. The…

Read More

DOB Change Report

Since users can change their Date of Birth in their profiles, Race Directors can now generate a report showing all changes. There are two reasons why someone may do this: You can access the report under Reports > Participants > Summary:

Read More

Registration and Your Runners

Working for a registration company is an interesting business: most of the time, runners only know we exist when something goes wrong. In general, when I’m asked to explain RunSignUp, the response I get is “there’s a whole company for that?“ Yes….

Read More

YouTube Music Licensing

Following up on our earlier post about licensing music for events, a number of timers and race directors use our Video Results. When they upload their video to YouTube, there is a chance that there is music in the background. In the past YouTube…

Read More

Do Runners Carry Their Phones While Running?

According to the soon to be released Running USA’s 2016 National Runner Survey, the answer is YES! This year’s study reports that 60% of runners carry their phones while running. This number continues to rise each year and shows the growing influence that technology…

Read More

Refund Policy Page on Race Websites

We have automatically added a new Menu item and page to race websites that make clear the refund policy for each race. this helps reduce confusion over refund policies. We do this based on the settings you have for refunds. For example,…

Read More