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.
2024 Endurance Events Grow 8%
The race / endurance market is back to growth! Events grew an average of 8% from 2023 and represent a record year for the endurance community. Total revenue grew by 12%. We do a monthly comparison of all events that were on…
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2024 Timer Survey NOW OPEN!
It is that time of year! The 2024 Timer Survey is now open for timers to help provide insight into the timing segment of the endurance industry. Now in its 6th year, RunSignup’s annual timer survey remains the only industry research specifically…
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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.
2024 Year in Review
TLDR: We had another record year. Our customers can feel confident that they are working with a long term, durable, employee owned business that will continue providing more and more technology to make their events better and better. Thank you to all…
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RunSignup Q3 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, Q1 and Q2 2024. RunSignup Q3 Numbers It was another solid quarter for our company, with…
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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…
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 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.
2024 Top 100 Largest Races
We assembled a preliminary list of the 2024 top 100 largest races that were timed. We have been accumulating this list for a couple of years (see 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023). A few notes: 2024 Top 100 Largest Races List Large…
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Fee Transparency Coming to All States
The FTC announced a bipartisan rule calling for fee transparency this week. It will take some time for it to be passed as a law, but it seems highly likely to become standard. RunSignup has already implemented features to ensure our customers…
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2024 Turkey Trots Break Records (Again)
The biggest US running day of the year impressed in 2024, with 1,109,909 people participating in 936 races across the country and raising more than $3.6 million dollars for charities. Those record-shattering numbers represent an increase of 21% – more than 189,000…
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Building a Professional Race Budget with Budget Builder
Guest Post by Panos Gonos, Founder of Race Directors HQ. Building a budget for your race may not be the most glamorous (nor the most fun) part of race directing. However, like with any other venture, having a reliable financial plan can…
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Reminder – Let’s Do This is Not Affiliated with RunSignup
In spite of requests, Let’s Do This (LDT) insists on scraping our list of races and publishing them on their website. They are a competitive registration platform to RunSignup, and seem to have several strategies that are likely not leading to success,…
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Requesting Nominations for 2025 Alan Jones Timer of the Year Award
RunSignup is now requesting nominations for the 2025 Alan Jones Timer of the Year Award. In recognition of the remarkable efforts of race timers, this award honors those who have make a substantial and continued impact on the endurance race industry. Named…
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2024 Turkey Trots: The Early Numbers
The biggest US running day of the year is coming up! In 2023, Thanksgiving Day races broke RunSignup records, with 920,761 participants across 833 races. Now, with about a month until Thanksgiving 2024, we took a look at the numbers to see…
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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…
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Founder’s Corner – Eventbrite Forgets Three Leg Stools Can Be Unbalanced
Part of Bob’s continued ramblings. 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…
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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…
Read MoreJuly 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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