A Mailchimp campaign archive gives readers a place to browse previous newsletters. Before adding its link to your website, check which audience it belongs to and whether the emails shown make sense outside their original inbox context.
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Distinguish an email page from the archive
A campaign page is the browser-based copy of a sent email. An audience’s archive is a shareable page linking to its 20 most recent emails; classic automations and Automation Flow emails are excluded from that archive. Campaign pages and archive scope.
Illustrative example: an IT consultancy wants prospective subscribers to understand its monthly newsletter before joining. An individual issue can demonstrate the style; an archive can show the range of recent topics. Choose the destination around the reader’s next decision instead of adding several unexplained links to the same small section of your website.
Review each issue as someone who never received the original message. Does an expired offer look current? Does the text assume the reader attended a private meeting? Keep the distinction between general newsletter material and information intended only for a particular customer clear during editorial review, before publication becomes a cleanup exercise.
Find the correct audience’s archive link
Mailchimp’s current finding instructions use Forms, then Settings, then Edit beside All system forms. Select the audience and choose Campaign archive page in Forms and response emails. Copy its URL and open it in a browser. Finding the archive URL.
Record the selected audience and the page address in the team’s publishing notes. If several audiences exist, ask the newsletter owner to confirm the intended one. A page displaying recognisable branding may still belong to the wrong publication. Inspect the listed issues and their destinations rather than relying only on the page heading.
Share a single issue when that is more useful
For a sent regular, RSS or plain-text campaign, open Campaigns, choose the campaign, then use its Edit menu and View email. Copy the resulting browser URL. Finding a sent campaign page.
Use descriptive link text on your website, such as the issue’s actual subject, so readers know what will open. Check that the page works for a signed-out visitor on a phone. These are suggested checks, not reported Mailchimp account tests. Keep the published link in a short inventory so later changes can be reviewed deliberately.
Choose which issues should appear
To limit the archive, place the intended emails in a folder and select that folder using Only show campaigns in a specific folder in the archive-page settings. The archive then shows its 20 most recent emails. The send dates and subject lines displayed in the archive cannot be edited. Filtering the archive.
For the consultancy, agree what makes an issue suitable for prospective readers: a useful topic, working resource links and context that stands on its own. Keep the selection process simple enough for someone covering an absence. Record why a particular issue was excluded so a later administrator does not add it back without understanding the reason.
Review public content before removing anything
Mailchimp offers conditional merge tags to hide or replace text on campaign pages. Removing the browser-view link can make emails harder to read for people with display problems. Deleting an email removes its reports and breaks archive links, while leaving copies in recipients’ inboxes. Content controls and deletion consequences.
For a routine editorial change, first identify which page, message or link is actually wrong. Do not delete a useful historical issue merely because it has moved down the list. If something should never have been public, have the account owner review the specific content and the available controls before deciding how to handle it.
Check the route from archive to signup
Our Mailchimp signup forms guide covers the subscription journey. Inspect the newsletter promise and the audience receiving new signups. Someone reading an old issue should be able to understand what joining now means.
Our Mailchimp tags and segments guide covers audience organisation. Keep that internal structure separate from the public editorial selection. Nominate a person to check archive destinations after campaign or website changes, and record the actual outcome rather than treating a saved setting as proof that the reader journey works.
Sources reviewed 20 October 2026 against official vendor documentation. Examples and suggested rehearsal checks are illustrative, not reported product tests.
