United24Media: How a War-Focused Media Organization Reached 155 Million Impressions from Zero Without Paid Traffic

in Google Discover in one year

155 million impressions

year over year

9.3+ million unique users

from Discover

17+ million clicks

in organic search

30+ million impressions

United24 Media is a Ukrainian international news and analytical media organization covering Ukraine, the war, sanctions, and military operations. The project launched in September 2023 with a domain that had no traffic, no history, and no algorithmic trust from Google.

Goals

    • Starting from zero, get into Google search results in less than a year.
    • Stable organic visibility, rather than one-off traffic spikes around news events.
    • Appear regularly in Google Discover and Google News.
    • Build trust in a new source covering war and security topics, where Google is particularly cautious.
    • International audience (the US, UK, and Canada), rather than only local traffic.
    • Traffic that is predictable and repeatable, rather than dependent on random news events.

       

      Collaboration format: full SEO support from launch

What We Did

  • Built an SEO strategy for a media organization from scratch
  • Launched a topic and content brief system based on real search demand
  • Restructured content structure, tags, and internal linking
  • Strengthened E-E-A-T for war and security topics
  • Got the media organization into Google News
  • Images as a separate growth channel
  • Prepared the website for key Google updates without traffic declines

Result

Compared with 2024, organic search grew by more than 3× in clicks and impressions, while the average position improved by more than 6 positions.

In 2025, Google Discover evolved from an experimental channel into a major reach driver for United24Media, generating 155 million impressions and 17.1 million clicks.

Compared with 2024, this represents multiple-fold growth, inevitably accompanied by a decline in CTR as the audience expanded. Google has “learned” which content can scale. There are topics and formats that Discover regularly picks up.

Google News has become a stable channel with regular spikes and active algorithmic testing of the publication.

A significant share of the traffic comes from the US, the UK, Canada, and other English-speaking countries.

United24Media is a Ukrainian project launched from scratch in 2023 that grew into an international media organization with millions of users reached over just a few years.

Starting with no traffic or domain history, United24Media gradually built a stable presence across Google Search, News, and Discover and developed an international audience. This growth resulted from systematic work on content, content presentation, and source credibility — rather than one-off news events or short-term spikes.