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Difference Between Collections, Saved Views, and Groups

What Collections, Saved Views, and Groups each do, and how to find each one's shareable link.

Written by Anne Buzzi

Collections, Saved Views, and Groups all help you organize content in Archive, but they do different things — and they’re easy to mix up. Here’s what each one is, when to use it, and how to grab its shareable link.


Collections

A Collection is a hand-picked set of individual posts you’ve added yourself — like a folder of content.

  • Where: Social Listening → Collections.

  • Share it: open the Collection and click Get a Public Link in the top-right corner. The link looks like app.archive.com/s/c/… and anyone can view it without an Archive login.


Saved Views

A Saved View is a saved snapshot of filters — not a fixed list of posts, but a rule (for example, “TikTok posts from creators with 100k+ followers”). It always reflects whatever content currently matches.

  • Where: click Save View in the filter bar of Content, Reports, Social Profiles, and other sections.

  • Share it: open the view, click the ⋮ (Options) menu, and choose Copy Public Link. The link looks like app.archive.com/s/v/… (or app.archive.com/s/f/… for a Collection-based view).


Groups

A Group is simply a folder for organizing your Saved Views in the sidebar — it doesn’t hold content itself.

  • Where: the left sidebar, under Groups. Click + to create one, then drag Saved Views into it.

🟡 Heads-up: “Collections” can mean three different things — the Collection entity above, the Collections filter inside Reports, and a Collections group in the sidebar that organizes Saved Views. If something isn’t behaving the way you expect, double-check which one you’re looking at.


Which Link Is Which?

  • app.archive.com/s/c/… → a Collection

  • app.archive.com/s/v/… → a Saved View

  • app.archive.com/s/f/… → a Collection-based Saved View

If you ever need to show our team what you’re looking at, the public link is the most reliable way to share it — it tells us exactly which set of content you mean.

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