RaceTrends
Each year, we mine our data to generate an overhead view of the endurance market. While specific facets of our technology and business model may impact some results, our large sample size (estimated to be around 40% of the US Market) makes it a robust source of information about the current health of the industry.
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Key Findings from 2023 RaceTrends
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2023 RaceTrends Takeaways
Top 100 Largest Races
There is no single aggregator of data for the running industry, making it challenging to understand what events are the largest. Each year (COVID years aside), we attempt to manually pull race data to ascertain the top 100 largest events across the industry. Corrections are always welcome.
Race Registration Market Analysis
Twice a year we look at internal and external reporting sources to try to evaluate the shifts and trends in the race registration market. Take a look at what we are seeing and make predictions about what is to come.
Founders Corner – Race Roster Reminds me of 2012
Grandma’s Marathon opened yesterday to a melt down. Race Roster is also doing so many of the things that old vendors did that motivated me to start RunSignup. Let me vent some… Scaling Grandmas registration crashing reminds me of an old registration…
Read MoreFounder’s Corner – Two Network Effects Motivating Wider Adoption of RunSignup
The term Network Effect became popular with, well – networks, and then with social networks. It is “the idea that when more people use a product or service, its value increases.” I was not sure if there would be a network effect…
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Registration Market Analysis September, 2024
We have been doing the US race registration market analysis every 6 months for many years. We include a ton of analytical data, and also include our analysis of happenings and directions in the market (of course that analysis is done from…
Read MoreRegistration Market Analysis March, 2024
We have been doing the US race registration market analysis every 6 months for many years. We include a ton of analytical data, and also include our analysis of happenings and directions in the market (of course that analysis is done from our perspective and is sometimes biting to competitors, but tries to be honest). This began because we as a business need to take a hard look at how we are doing against a competitive landscape and figured as long as we were doing the analysis, we would share it.
Read MoreRegistration Market Analysis September, 2023
We have been doing the US race registration market analysis every 6 months for many years. We include a ton of analytical data, and also include our analysis of happenings and directions in the market (of course that analysis is done from…
Read MoreRegistration Market Analysis March, 2023
We have been doing the US race registration market analysis every 6 months for many years. We include a ton of analytical data, and also include our analysis of happenings and directions in the market (of course that analysis is done from…
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Registration Market Analysis – September 2022
We have been doing the race registration market analysis every 6 months for many years. We include a ton of analytical data, and also include our analysis of happenings and directions in the market (of course that analysis is done from our…
Read MoreRegistration Market Analysis – March 2022
We have been doing the race registration market analysis every 6 months for many years. Last September we stated things were returning to normal, only to be interrupted by the Omicron wave which impacted numbers in December thru March. We will dive…
Read MoreRegistration Market Analysis
We have been doing race registration market analysis every 6 months for many years. We did special ones over the past year and a half due to COVID. Things are more back to normal now, so we will return to the previous…
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Race Registration Market Analysis – March 2021
We usually do a Race Registration Market Analysis twice a year – March and September. 2020 was an unusual year, but we did a special one in April, 2020 and September, 2020 to try to capture what was happening in the endurance market. We will share our data…
Read MoreRace Registration Market Analysis
We usually do a Race Registration Market Analysis twice a year – March and September. This is an unusual year, but we did a special one in April, 2020 to try to capture what was happening in the endurance market. We usually include a bunch of…
Read MoreRace Registration Market Analysis – April 2020
We usually do a Race Registration Market Analysis twice a year. We usually include a bunch of stats from different sources to compare the various registration platforms and track general industry trends. Usually, we publish the spring one in March. This year is obviously…
Read MoreRunSignup Quarterly Reports
To create a little transparency in the industry, RunSignup reports on it’s quarterly numbers each year (with more frequent reports during the height of COVID shutdowns). While every company and race may not reflect our internal trends, it’s a quick way to get the gist of current trends in the industry.
RunSignup Q2 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, 2023 and Q1 2024. RunSignup Quarterly Numbers It was another solid quarter for our company, with…
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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…
Read MoreRunSignup 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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2023 Year in Review
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2023 Year in Review, 2023 RunSignup Product Recap, 2023 GiveSignup Product Recap, 2023 TicketSignup Product Recap, 2023 Infrastructure Report, 2024 Company Strategy, 2024 RunSignup Roadmap, 2024 GiveSignup Roadmap, 2024 TicketSignup Roadmap. TLDR: We had a great year. Our customers can feel…
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RunSignup Q3 2023 Update
This was a very interesting quarter. We saw continued growth in our business. We saw “normal” returning to the endurance community, although with some final adjustments. Specifically, some of the growth we saw in the first two quarters of the year were…
Read MoreRunSignup Q2 2023 Update
Q2 2023 saw several very positive trends in our business: We share 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 Q1 2023. RunSignup Quarterly Numbers We continue to see…
Read MoreRunSignup Q1 2023 Update
Q1 2023 saw several trends in our business: We share 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, and 2022. RunSignup Quarterly Numbers We had a record quarter as we…
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2022 Year in Review
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Availability Report, Company Strategy, TicketSignup 2022 Product Recap, RunSignup 2022 Product Recap, and TicketSignup Product Roadmap. Also, here is our 2023 Roadmap Webinar. RunSignup helped our customers process $400 Million for their events in 2022. We have continued our…
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RunSignup Q3 2022 Update
Q3 2022 saw several trends in our business: We share 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, Q1 2022, Q2 2022. RunSignup Quarterly Numbers We had a record quarter as we…
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RunSignup Q2 2022 Update
Q2 2022 saw several trends: We share 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, Q1 2022. Endurance Community Still Recovering In addition to our widely used Yearly Trends, we have been…
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Q2 2021 GiveSignup | RunSignup Report
Q2 marks the quarter where our business and our customer’s business returned to growth. Vaccination rates going up, cases, hospitalizations and deaths going down dramatically caused states to open up. As we had been expecting, that is great news for live events….
Read MoreRunSignup Q1 2022 Update
As has been the case for the past 2 years, Q1 was impacted by Covid. We saw drops in the number of new and renewed event creation in December and January, with recoveries in February and March as case counts dropped. We…
Read MoreThanksgiving Reports
As the largest US Running Day of the year, Thanksgiving Day gives us insights into growth in the industry and the building of new running traditions. Each year we run the numbers to see what Thanksgiving can tell us…
More Industry News
Want to know what registration company was recently acquired or how a merger might impact the broader industry? Check out our regular updates on the biggest news in the endurance industry.
RaceClocker Integration with RunSignup
This is a guest blog from Cees van Dok, founder and creator of RaceClocker, a do-it-yourself tool for manual timing of sports races. RaceClocker has completed an integration allowing race directors to seamlessly import race data and start lists from RunSignup into…
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Bluetooth Timing for Smaller Events
Timing races has evolved dramatically over the years. From the early days of stopwatches to the adoption of Time Machines, and eventually the emergence of chip timing, the industry continually seeks ways to more efficiently and accurately time and score mass participation…
Read MoreFounder’s Corner – Eventbrite Forgets Three Leg Stools Can Be Unbalanced
Last week Eventbrite announced Q2 earnings, and put simply, they were a Train Wreck. That blog reviews the details of the mistakes that have decreased their ticket buyers by 16% in the past year. This has led to a sharp decline in…
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EnMotive Customer Migration Program
EnMotive has announced the end of their registration business. As with previous registration vendors who have had to cease operations, RunSignup is here to help those customers who previously used EnMotive. Here is the letter that customers are receiving and has been…
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July Endurance Growth 11% in 2024 Over 2023
Races that used RunSignup in both 2023 and 2024 saw an overall registration count increase of 11% while transaction volume from registrations grew 15%. These are both the best monthly numbers we have seen in 2024, and move the average for 2024…
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2024 Midyear RaceTrends Update
We release an annual RaceTrends Report each winter to provide a thorough assessment of the state of the endurance and fundraising events industry. Today, we have a brief update looking at 2024 midyear race trends to help event organizers better understand the current state…
Read MoreUpdate on Fee Transparency Law Implementation
We are beginning to roll out the new pricing displays on our products effective today, June 7, 2024. This is a follow up to a more detailed blog where we review the new “Taylor Swift” pricing transparency laws that are mandating the…
Read MoreMay 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…
Read MoreEventbrite 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…
Read MoreRace 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…
Read MoreRunSignup 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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