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---- "....have not seen Kanal13 before. It was founded by Aziz Orujov in Azerbaijan. https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanal13 and he had problems with the authorities earlier https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/05/azerbaijan-released-wrongly-jailed-journalist"

𝗞𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗟𝟭𝟯 The first professional Internet TV of Azerbaijan - 2008 Первое профессиональное интернет-телевидение в Азербайджане - 2008 Azərbaycanın ilk peşəkar internet televiziyası - 2008 Source:
https://www.youtube.com/@Kanal13AZ/about
The channel "Kanal13" is monetized! Since Nov 6, 2012v, the channel has generated 2,020,765,228 views. Assuming all views were monetized from day 1* with an average RPM of $3.00, this channel has generated $6,062,295.68 over 3915 days. That's an average of $565,194.87 per year.

Additional on the Azerbaijan YouTube content creator:

The first professional Internet TV of Azerbaijan - 2008
Первое профессиональное интернет-телевидение в Азербайджане - 2008
Azərbaycanın ilk peşəkar internet televiziyası - 2008
Managing Staff/İdarə heyəti:
- Founder and Head of Baku Office/Təsisçi və Bakı ofisinin rəhbəri: 𝗔𝘇𝗶𝘇 𝗢𝗿𝘂𝗷𝗼𝘃
- Director/Direktor: 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗢𝗿𝘂𝗷𝗼𝘃
- Editor-in-Chief/Baş redaktor: 𝗘𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗳𝗼𝘃
"Kanal13 is one of the official channels of Nar Media Group." Nar is a brand for commercial activities of Azerfon, a mobile telecommunications company, located in Baku, Azerbaijan.

What is most interesting is that this YouTube channel is uploaded in the United States, according to YouTube's About page.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/@Kanal13AZ/about

Additionally, SocialBlade also verifies that the channel is based in the US.

Source: https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/kanal13az

It seems that YouTube content creators' channels are quite the money makers as regards the Ukraine/Russia war, most located / uploaded within the United Sates. Quite a good little cottage industry, which is so often promoted. YouTube takes 45% of the AdSense revenue and passed on the rest.

On the theme of monetized, United States based YouTube channels, this thread also mentioned the very interesting Combat Veteran Reacts. One learns:

The channel "Combat Veteran Reacts" is monetized! Since Mar 8, 2021, the channel has generated 116,641,354 views. Assuming all views were monetized from day 1* with an average RPM of $3.00, this channel has generated $349,924.06 over 871 days. That's an average of $146,638.67 per year.
"Combat Veteran Reacts gives my take on military themed movies, films, documentaries, video games, and more! We learn about tactics, strategy, history, and technology as we look with a critical eye at representations of conflict and war in media!" and "Location: United States"
Source: https://www.youtube.com/@CombatVeteranReacts/about
One notices Johns Hopkins University degree on the back wall, of this United States based YouTube content creator. Appears on his own website, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Discord, as well as one a second YouTube channel -- with "an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases" and a "merch" store --
https://www.youtube.com/@MilitaryHistoryGearReview/store
$19.9K - $317.9K ESTIMATED YEARLY EARNINGS
Source: https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/combatveteranreacts
And he seeks paid subscribers to his website -- https://www.combatvetnews.com/become-a-member
Inteesting too that the "become a member" buttons are live, while the "about" button is not activated.

It is interesting how many sources for the Ukraine-Russia war re-package for "content" -- meaning audio-visual presentation -- are uploaded from the United States, sell "merch" and many seek "donations" and clicks. The cottage industry grown up around the war will be in deep trouble when the war is over. Cash flows aplenty will dry up. Maybe YouTube's 45% of the income will dry up too?

Major General Smedley Butler seems to have foreseen today.