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The Running Industry Association provides some of the industry's leading research in order to support and educate specialty run retailers and brands. Open to members as an additional member benefit, the RIA curates high quality, actionable market research so that your business can thrive.

By the Numbers - April 2024

This month, we share data from Sports Marketing Surveys on socks unit sales c...

April 25, 2024 | RIA

Insole Sales Ratios Growth Trend

Data aggregated by Sports Marketing Surveys shows nearly a doubling of the in...

January 29, 2024 | RIA

Specialty Run Market Report: 2023 Year-to-Date Quarter 3

2023 is looking like another banner year for run specialty across all catego...

December 14, 2023 | RIA

RIA Retailer Survey Results Part 3

In this third installment from our recent retailer survey, we did a deep dive...

October 13, 2023 | RIA

RIA Retailer Survey Results Part 2

Part two of our recent member survey asked our retailers to tell us about who...

September 11, 2023 | RIA

RIA Retailer Survey Results Part 1

In the first of a three-part series detailing RIA member’s thoughts on the bu...

August 12, 2023 | Terry Schalow

Running Consumer Insights from Sportstyle Magazine

Sportstyle magazine, sportstylemag.com, shared insights from a running consum...

June 13, 2023 | RIA

Sports Marketing Surveys - 2022 Year-end Data

April 01, 2023 | Sports Marketing Surveys

UQ 2022 Year-end review of Datapoints

2022 Year-end review of UQ datapoints

January 22, 2023 | Upper Quadrant

Sports Marketing Surveys – November 2022

2022 has been a bit of a roller coaster ride for the run specialty channel. R...

November 14, 2022 | Sports Marketing Surveys