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An Example of Best Practices Applied Most running, walking, and cycling events serve a fundraising function for important services to support our communities like the Autism Society of Central Virginia’s 5K Challenge. ASCV has multiple ways its raises funds to support its growing programs, and reports that their 5K challenge is its largest annual fundraiser. […]
One of the magical features of our free photo platform is the automated tagging of people based on image processing of bib numbers. For each photo that is uploaded, we automatically send it to a scanning service and it returns the bib numbers. We add nice little touches like filtering for bibs less than 1000 […]
We have released a feature that allows races to approve participant photo uploads before they show as public in participant photo albums. To turn this feature on, navigate to Photos>>Setup on your race dashboard Turn on Allow participants to upload photos Turn on Require Approval For Photo Uploads Click Save Photo Settings Registered participants will […]
The photo above is a white board drawing of the new Photo 2.0 architecture and flow of information. It is OK if you don’t understand it – the important thing to know is it allows us to add a bunch of cool photo features and continue to expand. We released the beginnings of the Photos […]
As those that attended our Symposium last week found out, we released Photos 2.0. The really exciting part about this is it enables participants to upload their own photos. Perfect for Virtual Races and Challenges. Participants get their own photo album and page where they can see their photos and upload more photos: There is […]
We have a plan to overhaul our Free Photo Platform over the next 6 months. Some of the changes will be cosmetic and some on the infrastructure side so we can make the photos more available, more searchable and part of more applications. We released the first phase yesterday, which were mostly cosmetic changes in […]
Jamie Orr, founder of Run The East, a Greenville, North Carolina based race timing and event management service provider recently completed RunSignup’s RaceDay Certification program. We noticed he was making full use of the various RaceDay Suite of Technology that RunSignup offers. So, we checked in with him to get some insights that we could […]
The Endurance Industry’s Next Generation Scoring Solution We’ve just launched our new RaceDay Scoring software solution for the endurance event industry. After twenty-two months of development and user testing, the RaceDay Scoring production release is now available for timers to score events across the country. Our RaceDay Scoring is the race industry’s next generation in […]
RunSignUp’s RaceDay Photos platform is now being delivered in RaceJoy’s race day mobile app. Participants can now have quick access to their race day photos in addition to RaceJoy’s live tracking and cheer sending. A free and open platform, RunSignUp’s RaceDay Photos enables race organizers, photographers or timers with the ability to easily manage their […]
Starting today, photo views are now being tracked on a per location basis with the new RunSignUp Analytics engine.
Quick! Â Add Photos to your Race! They generate 6 times more interest (page views) than Results: Photos: 41 Views per participant Results: 7 Views per participant The Scott Coffee Race was the race that RunSignUp was originally inspired by. This year we were able to keep track of photo and sponsor views with the new […]
We use Google Vision to automatically tag photos in our Race Day Photo platform. We are collecting more data on what works best and what does not. We’ve had one race have bad tagging results with Google Vision reading the “7” as a “1” in many photos. For example, a bib would be tagged as […]
Just a couple of interesting stats. Races have loaded over 38,000 Sponsors into our Sponsor Management System. Best Damn Race in New Orleans recently uploaded over 15,000 photos for their race. 64% of those photos were tagged with our Google Vision software. Not all of these tags were correct, and not all photos had tags […]
We have added the capability to have your custom RaceURL link directly to your RaceDay Photo page on your RunSignUp Race Website: In this example, https://runsignup.com/coffee/photos goes directly to the Photos page.
Moorestown, NJ – RunSignUp announces the release of RaceDay Photos, the free race photo platform effective immediately. The system has been in beta since the summer, with hundreds of thousands of photos uploaded by hundreds of races. Suggestions made by beta-testing customers have helped shape the product. “Having a free, simple platform for race day […]
RaceDay Photos now has public tagging options to enable crowdsourced tagging of bibs. There are two options that can be enabled – Add tags to any photo, or Add tags only to those photos that have no tags in them. Note we do not allow public de-tagging to prevent accidental removal of tags. These can […]
We now show the counts of tagged/untagged photos as they are uploaded and auto-tagged or manually tagged. You can now view the count on the initial page load of the Advanced Mode editor:
If you accidentally remove your bib tags from your photos, we now have a tool that will recover 2,000 photos per location. It is under the Bib Management: When clicked it will recover the bib numbers and display this message:
We have released an optimization to photo uploads to make sure that a photo is only uploaded once. This solves the situation of where a batch was uploaded and maybe some did not complete, or there were photos added and it was just easier to pick a folder and upload the whole thing. This is […]
We are now using Google Vision to detect inappropriate content that is uploaded to the RaceDay Photo Platform. We are hoping this prevents misuse of the platform. This is the same system Google uses for their Safe Search capability. The API is pretty cool. Here is an example of what the API returns: For now, […]
We have added an easy link from the list of common bib numbers that brings up all of the photos with that bib number. This makes it simple to exclude photos that were tagged with incomplete bib numbers. For example, the bib number 3 may be legitimate for this race, but it may be a […]
We are seeing great early adoption of the RaceDay Photos Platform with tens of thousands of photos uploaded during this beta phase. We released a “collage” of new photo features at the end of last week. Here is the run down: Social Sharing We have added Social Sharing to photos. Simply click the Facebook icon […]
Next up in our Endurance Event Education Webinar Series: RaceDay Photos with RunSignUp founder Bob Bickel. Date: Wednesday, September 28th Time: 2:00pm EST (11:00am PST) The new, free RaceDay Photo Platform makes photos affordable for races of all sizes. Topics of the Webinar will include: Upload any number of photos, from any number of locations […]
RaceDay Photos is now tightly integrated with SmugMug. This makes it simple for photographers who regularly use SmugMug to easily import their photos into RaceDay Photos and make them available as part of the integrated RaceDay Results and Race Website. This is an overview of the RaceDay Photo architecture and capabilities. Not all capabilities are available […]
You can now clear watermarks on photos you have uploaded in case you make a mistake or change sponsors.
You can now tag photos by bib number or by the name of the runner (as long as you upload bib numbers for all runners). This makes it simpler for doing edits. Note that right now we only allow bib tagging on the Race Director Dashboard, however this capability will soon be extended to allow […]
Note: This feature has been updated with Photos 2.0. Learn more: https://runsignup.blog/2021/01/15/photos-2-0/ We have added several tools to help manage the automatic bib tagging that we do with Google Vision (since it is not quite as smart as a human, but a lot faster and cheaper). This is done on a per photo location basis […]
You can now set a Sponsor log as the watermark on your race photos. Simply choose to apply a sponsor watermark in either the lower left or right corners of your race photos as shown on the right. You can set this up easily in the Photos Setup page and selecting the appropriate Sponsor from […]
We did a sample of photos at the Scott Coffee Race to test the Google Vision rates of reads (accomplished within several minutes of uploading photos). Check out a couple of the sample Google Vision got right on these screenshots – impressive. 100 Photos 119 Correct Tags 16 Incorrect Tags 32 Additional Tags that a human […]
As part of the RaceDay Go Platform, RaceDay Photos (see previous Sneak Preview and Architecture blogs) has been released in Beta for general use. RaceDay Photos is a comprehensive, open platform to provide races with cutting edge technology to create a better race day experience for their participants: The Beta Platform is being provided for free […]
We announced The RaceDay Go Platform this week at the RunSignUp Symposium. This is a major strategic direction with a comprehensive platform for creating a complete race day experience. RunSignUp is embarking on a strategic mission by taking the following actions: Creating a new brand separate from RunSignUp to allow for open use of technology components by races, […]
We are still working on the Photo Project, hoping to release a public Beta that any race can use by July 18 at the RunSignUp Symposium. We’d like to thank Race Day Events and Focal Flame for letting us use their data and beautiful photography in this example! Here is a video walk thru: When […]
Our Instagram Feed was updated to use the new Instagram API. There are no changes needed for races that already use the feed.
A couple of years ago Rich Friedman, Stephen Sigwart and I (Bob Bickel) spun off a technology company called RedLine13 from RunSignUp. We felt we had developed a couple of cool pieces of technology that a broader community would be interested in – Load Testing and a ZipCode API. In the old days it would […]
We have begun developing our new Photo Platform for RunSignUp. There are two key pieces of new architecture that we are using as we build out this new platform, and they are cool for tech geeks. As mentioned in the 2016 Roadmap, we are developing an open platform for photos for race websites. We anticipate integrations […]
We have added a way to simply put either your Instagram #Hashtag feed or User feed photos right on your free RunSignUp Race Website. As shown on the right is shows the latest 12 photos and allows visitors to click on them and open them in Instagram individually. We do caching of these images for […]
I just got back from visiting my daughter in Tanzania. Â She is over there for a year teaching English in a remote Massai village with the Orkeeswa School. Â She started a running club after school. Â The club participated in the Half Marathon and 5K at the Kilimanjaro Marathon in February. Â On June 9, they held […]
I’m the co-race director for the Scott Coffee Moorestown Rotary 8K. We hired a young photographer just out of college for $200 to come take shots at our race this year and then posted the pictures on our Facebook page the day after the race. The traffic has been amazing and it has generated a […]
One of the cool things you can do with Sites is create a photo gallery.  You can see examples of this at https://riversiderun.sites.runsignup.com/ and at http://rotary8k.sites.runsignup.com/sponsors/. It is amazingly simple to do.  I created this short video:
