The Village Ukraine

What The Village Ukraine does

The Village Ukraine (Віледж Україна) is a Ukrainian urban lifestyle and city news media platform operating from Kyiv. The website (village.com.ua) publishes daily editorial content across multiple categories including News (Новини), City (Місто), Business (Бізнес), Food (Їжа), Style (Стиль), Culture (Культура), Life (Життя), Children (Діти), and Podcasts (Простими словами), with primary focus on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. The platform serves Ukrainian urban residents seeking hyperlocal information on city events, restaurants, cultural activities, and lifestyle topics that national media typically does not cover.

Name

The Village Ukraine

Legal name

Віледж Україна

Website

https://the-village.com.ua

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

The Village Ukraine is a Kyiv-based urban lifestyle and city news media platform serving Ukrainian urban residents with hyperlocal editorial content across news, food, culture, and lifestyle categories, monetizing through native advertising and sponsored content partnerships with major brands.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online News & Lifestyle Media

akta.pro primary industry

News & Content Aggregation Portals (BPAMAAAI)

Keywords

• Online news media
• City lifestyle portal
• Local journalism
• Native advertising
• Digital publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Kyiv

HQ country

Ukraine

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Digital Advertising: The website displays sponsored and promotional content marked as 'ПРОМО', indicating advertising revenue from brand partnerships. Promotional content includes articles about brands such as METRO (oysters guide), Vivino (wine app in Silpo), Helsi (healthcare app), SOVA (fashion collection), Bad Boy (American wines BBQ event), and various real estate/business promotions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Village Ukraine operates a free online city news and lifestyle portal (village.com.ua) targeting Ukrainian urban audiences, primarily in Kyiv. The site publishes editorial content across categories including news, city life, business, food, style/shopping, culture, life, children, and podcasts. It monetizes through sponsored and promotional content (marked as ПРОМО) placed alongside editorial articles, featuring brand partners such as METRO, Silpo, Helsi, and SOVA.

Product overview

The Village Україна is a unified city news portal that aggregates and publishes local news, city events, people, places, and cultural content. The platform operates through a single website with multiple editorial sections including Новини (News), Місто (City), Бізнес (Business), Їжа (Food), Стиль (Style/Shopping), Культура (Culture), Життя (Life), Діти (Children), and Простими словами (Podcasts). The product functions as a single integrated editorial platform rather than a modular product suite.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Village Україна (Online News Portal) Free online city news and lifestyle portal providing local Ukrainian urban content across categories including news, business, food, style/shopping, culture, life, children, and podcasts. Includes an English-language version.

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Eater: Major digital media brand covering restaurant, food, and dining culture across cities. Comparable as a category benchmark for The Village Ukraine's food/restaurant coverage model and the native-ad playbook around food and beverage advertisers.

Direct peers

• LIGA.net: One of Ukraine's largest online business and general news portals. Comparable as a major Ukrainian-language digital news publisher with advertising-supported revenue and similar audience reach among Ukrainian urban professionals.
• Ukrainska Pravda: Leading independent Ukrainian online news outlet founded in 2000. Comparable as a flagship Ukrainian-language digital news brand competing for the same urban, news-engaged audience and national advertiser budgets.
• AIN.UA: Ukrainian online media covering tech, business, and lifestyle for urban readers. Comparable as a digitally native Ukrainian media brand monetized through advertising and sponsored content targeting the same urban professional demographic.
• Time Out Kyiv: International city-guide brand covering Kyiv with restaurant, event, and lifestyle content. Comparable as a direct competitor in the 'what to do in Kyiv' hyperlocal lifestyle category that The Village Ukraine also serves.
• The Village Russia: The original Russian edition of The Village brand, founded in 2010 in Moscow. Direct peer sharing the same editorial concept, category structure, native-advertising model, and visual identity; The Village Ukraine is a franchise adaptation of this format.

Regional players

• Depo.ua: Ukrainian regional news network with city-focused editions across the country. Comparable as a digital media brand using city-level coverage and native-style sponsored content to monetize regional Ukrainian audiences.

Emerging players

• The Page: Ukrainian online news outlet covering politics, business, and lifestyle with an urban professional audience. Comparable as an advertising-supported digital news brand competing for Ukrainian urban readers and brand budgets.
• DTF: Ukrainian digital media platform originally focused on gaming and now expanding into broader lifestyle and entertainment coverage. Comparable as a digitally native, audience-engagement-driven Ukrainian media brand competing for urban content audiences and brand partnerships.
• Lystopad Magazine: Independent Ukrainian magazine and digital platform covering culture, urbanism, and contemporary art. Comparable as a Ukrainian lifestyle/culture media outlet targeting urban creative-class audiences with editorial-brand collaborations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/thevillageua
• Facebookfacebook.com/VillageUkraine
• Instagraminstagram.com/thevillageua
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-village-ukraine

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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