Broadcast cards: seeing what you sent land

What this is

Every message you send to your network through Broadcast doesn't just leave your outbox and disappear. It reappears on your own Feed as a card, the same way an industry article or a network signal would, so you have a running record that the message actually went out, and so you can watch the network's response build without leaving the page you already check every day.

This is a one-way mirror, not a live meeting. Verinode does not tell you which member opened your broadcast, only how many have. That is the same privacy boundary that holds everywhere else in HQ: you see network aggregates, never a single member's private activity.

Where to find it

Open Feed from the HQ sidebar, at hq.verinode.ai/feed. It's the same feed shell used across the platform: a single column of full-height cards you scroll through one at a time, with a progress bar running down the right edge of the column.

At the top of the feed, two controls scope what you see:

• Filter pills: All, Decisions, Content, Events. Broadcast cards are a Content item, so they show up under both All and Content.
• Time-scope dropdown, in the top right of the filter row. It defaults to 30 days and also offers Today, This week, and All time, each with a count in parentheses next to it (e.g., "30 days (12)").

How a broadcast becomes a card

1. 1You compose and send a broadcast to your network (see Broadcasting to your network for how that screen works).
2. 2The broadcast is stored with a live counter that starts at zero.
3. 3It's fanned out to every active member, who sees it as a card on their own feed and in their notification bell.
4. 4The same broadcast reappears on your Feed as an article-style card, sorted in with everything else by when you sent it.
5. 5Each time a member opens it on their side for the first time, the counter ticks up by one. Verinode counts unique members, not raw opens, so a member re-reading the same broadcast twice doesn't inflate the number.

What the card shows

Source line. Small text in the top-left reads "Network broadcast," followed by a dot and how long ago you sent it (minutes, hours, days, or weeks, e.g., "· 3d").

Type badge. Top right, a small Steel Blue pill reads Article. That's the same badge every article-style item in the feed carries, industry news, vendor announcements, and your own broadcasts alike.

Headline. Your broadcast's subject line, shown in full as the card's title.

Body excerpt. The first part of what you wrote, up to 240 characters, with an ellipsis if it was cut off. If you sent a subject-only broadcast with no body, this area is simply blank.

Read count. The card's data carries a plain-English line summarizing engagement so far ("2 operators read so far," or "1 operator read so far" for a single reader). The exact live number, and how it's trending, is easiest to read in full on the Report Library's broadcast history, where opening any past broadcast shows the running count and a day-by-day trend since you sent it.

The three actions

Every broadcast card carries the same three buttons as any article card in the feed:

• Read, the primary button. Marks the card acknowledged. It fades out of the feed shortly after you tap it.
• Add to reading list, the middle button. Queues the broadcast on your reading list instead of dismissing it outright.
• Ignore, the third button. Dismisses the card without opening it.

None of these three actions change the broadcast itself or its read count, which is driven entirely by your members opening it on their side, not by anything you do with your own copy of the card.

Empty states

If you haven't sent a broadcast in the current time scope, no broadcast card appears, the feed simply carries on with whatever decisions, network events, and industry content are current. There's no dedicated empty message just for broadcasts, they're one thread woven into the single feed.

Two empty states you might hit around it:

• Nothing in the whole feed. You'll see "All caught up," with the line "Verinode IQ is continuously analyzing your data and scanning industry sources. New decisions, insights, and updates will appear here as they surface," and beneath it, "Check back soon. Your next briefing is building."
• Nothing under the current filter. If you've selected Content (or another filter) and nothing qualifies in the current time scope, you'll see "No items match this filter" centered in the column. Switching back to All or widening the time scope usually brings items back.

Why this matters

A broadcast that vanishes into an outbox is easy to forget you sent, and easy to assume landed even if nobody read it. Putting it back in front of you as a card, with a running count of who's opened it, closes that loop: you sent something, and here's the network's response so far, not a guess.

Related articles

• Broadcasting to your network, for composing and sending a broadcast in the first place.
• Report Library, where the full broadcast history, read counts, and trend lines live outside the feed.
• HQ overview, for how Feed fits alongside Network, Benchmarks, and the rest of HQ.
• Network health, for the network-wide signals that share the feed with your broadcasts.