Share an album before publishing it

In short

While you edit, the album link can open a coming-soon page. Runners leave their bib number or a selfie, with or without an account, and the photos stay hidden. When you publish, everyone who shows up in the photos gets an email with a link to them.

It is the best way to keep the excitement of race day: people subscribe while they are still talking about the race, and they hear from you the moment the photos are out.

Turn it on

1. Open the album while it is still unpublished.
2. In the Share before publishing card, press Turn on.
3. Press Copy or Share link and send it to the race groups, the organizers or your social networks. View page shows what runners see.

What runners see

The page shows the album cover, its name and yours, and a short form: their bib number, a selfie or both, plus their email if they do not have an account. The selfie is kept only for the alert and deleted after 60 days or when the alert is removed. The form only asks for what you turned on when you created the album, faces, bibs or both, and any of them is enough to find a runner.

When you publish

Publish as usual. Once the photos are analyzed, we compare them with every alert and email the runners who show up. Nobody is notified before you publish.

If the album belongs to an event, the alert also covers the albums of that event published later, including those of other photographers.

The coming-soon page ends when you publish: from then on the link opens the album as usual.

Good to know

• The card shows how many people are waiting for their photos.
• Albums with a password cannot be shared before publishing.
• To share it, the album needs face or bib search turned on.
• Turning it off makes the link private again. Alerts already created stay active.
• Alerts expire after 60 days.