Did you know you can get a link to your Broadcast?

Share this link to get more eyeballs on your content. When people visit it, they'll see your Broadcast on its own page.

To get your Broadcast's link, click into it from the Broadcasts page to open its reports. Then, click the Open button at the top right of any report.

Your Broadcast will load. Copy its link from the address bar and share it!

Public vs. archive links

Your Broadcast's link can be either a public link or an archive link.

A public link uses a ck.page domain like yourname.ck.page by default:

NOTE: You can have your Broadcasts' public links use a custom domain like yourname.com instead. To do this, follow the steps here to add a custom domain to your ConvertKit account. Then, go to your Creator Profile settings to set up your Broadcasts' public links to use the custom domain.

Your Broadcast's link will be a public link if you've published your Broadcast to the web. This makes your Broadcast publicly available online and discoverable in the search results.

You can also customize the public link's slug (the last part of the URL that points to your Broadcast. For example, yourname.ck.page/posts/your-url-slug-goes-here) before or after publishing your Broadcast.

In contrast, an archive link uses the ckarchive.com domain. You can't customize any part of the link:

Your Broadcast's link will be an archive link if you haven't published your Broadcast to the web. Your Broadcast will not be publicly available online or discoverable in the search results, but people who have its link can still view it.

This table summarizes how both types of Broadcast links work:

	Public link	Archive link
Is your Broadcast publicly available online?	✔️	❌
Can you customize the link?	✔️	❌
Can you use the link to add a "View in browser" link before publishing your Broadcast?	✔️ (but doing this may be more troublesome)	✔️
Use this link...	If you want your Broadcast to be publicly available online	If you want to share your Broadcast with others privately If you want a more convenient method of adding "View in browser" links to your Broadcast

Adding a "View in browser" link to your Broadcasts

You can use either your Broadcast's public link or archive link to add a "View in browser" link to it.

This link lets subscribers read your Broadcast in their browser if their email client isn't displaying it properly. But adding the link can be a little more troublesome if you publish your Broadcast to the web.

The steps for adding a "View in browser" link differ depending on whether you're publishing your Broadcast to the web.

If you're publishing your Broadcast to the web

While writing your Broadcast in the Broadcast editor, click the Continue → button at the bottom right to go to the Publish page.

Select the Publish to web option, and then click Advanced options at the bottom.

A drop-down menu will appear. Use the Slug setting to fill out your preferred URL slug for the Broadcast.

Note down the full Broadcast public link (in our case, it's https://conversationkitchen.ck.page/posts/paddle-boarding). Then, click the Back button at the bottom left to go back to the Draft page.

Type your "View in browser" link text into your Broadcast wherever you want the link to appear. Link this text to your Broadcast's public link.

Once you publish the Broadcast to the web, the "View in browser" link will link to the Broadcast's own public link!

NOTE: The "View in browser" link will not work in preview emails—it will work only after you've published your Broadcast.

If you aren't publishing your Broadcast to the web

While writing your Broadcast in the Broadcast editor, type your "View in browser" link text into it wherever you want the link to appear.

Then, add the {{ archive_url }} shortcode to that text as a link.

❗❗ IMPORTANT: The {{ archive_url }} shortcode doesn't work for Broadcasts published to the web. Link to these Broadcasts using their public links instead.

Once you send the Broadcast, we'll automatically replace the {{ archive_url }} shortcode with your Broadcast's archive link!

NOTE: The "View in browser" link will not work in preview emails—it will work only after you've sent the Broadcast. That's because your Broadcast's archive page is created only after your Broadcast has been sent.

Getting links to Sequence emails

Sequences can't be published to the web. Neither do they have a built-in archive feature. So, you can't get links to individual Sequence emails.

As a workaround, copy your Sequence email's content into a Broadcast. Then, get that Broadcast's public or archive link, depending on whether you publish it to the web.