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@forbesrussia: statistics and cleanliness index

Forbes Russia

Forbes — о бизнесе, экономике, финансах, карьере и стиле жизни. https://vk.com/forbes Регистрация в перечне РКН: https://knd.gov.ru/license?id=6763c2364de6c36845d54188&registryType=bloggersPermission Реклама: adsales@forbes.ru

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Grade A metrics look normal cleanliness index
data from 2026-09-17
Subscribers
235,523
Median views
9,075
ERR
3.9%
Posts sampled
40
Niche Business & startups
Post language Russian
Channel age 9 years

Data from 2026-09-17 — 22 days old.

Assessment summary

A low risk score and verification confirm the authenticity of this major media outlet's audience; however, advertising here is questionable due to low reach: with 235 thousand subscribers, a post gathers a median of only 9.1 thousand views. Due to a crowded feed with almost 40 posts per day, an ad message quickly loses reader attention.

In such conditions, relying on the overall subscriber count is meaningless — the real value is determined only by the first few thousand views during peak release.

What to pay attention to

Channel verified by Telegram

The channel has Telegram's official verification badge. It does not affect the cleanliness index.

What grade A means

Metrics look normal: no signals lowering the index were found, or they are weak.

Compared with similar channels

Compared with 54 Business & startups catalog channels whose metrics look normal. There are too few channels of a similar size, so the whole niche is used: 273 to 145,605 subscribers.

ERR (reach) lower than 51 of 54
@forbesrussia 3.9%
similar channels median 9.8%
Reactions per 100 views lower than 33 of 47
@forbesrussia 0.45
similar channels median 0.77

This is not a niche norm: only catalog channels are included. A high ERR is not always a plus: if the other metrics do not support it, the index goes down.

Dynamics and anomalies

Views by post

The latest 40 posts with views, from Sep 16 to Sep 17. The dashed line is the median (9,075).

06K12KSep 16: 7,825 viewsSep 16: 7,850 viewsSep 16: 9,039 viewsSep 16: 8,983 viewsSep 16: 9,195 viewsSep 16: 9,546 viewsSep 16: 11,108 viewsSep 16: 10,040 viewsSep 16: 9,391 viewsSep 16: 9,112 viewsSep 16: 9,676 viewsSep 16: 9,376 viewsSep 16: 10,216 viewsSep 16: 10,235 viewsSep 16: 9,607 viewsSep 16: 9,600 viewsSep 16: 10,090 viewsSep 16: 9,407 viewsSep 16: 11,924 viewsSep 16: 12,081 viewsSep 16: 10,893 viewsSep 16: 11,806 viewsSep 17: 9,386 viewsSep 17: 9,222 viewsSep 17: 7,554 viewsSep 17: 8,060 viewsSep 17: 7,621 viewsSep 17: 5,969 viewsSep 17: 9,031 viewsSep 17: 5,804 viewsSep 17: 5,660 viewsSep 17: 6,017 viewsSep 17: 5,527 viewsSep 17: 4,923 viewsSep 17: 5,825 viewsSep 17: 4,930 viewsSep 17: 4,712 viewsSep 17: 3,722 viewsSep 17: 3,001 viewsSep 17: 551 views Sep 16Sep 17
  • post views
  • 36 posts newer than one day and still gaining views
  • median 9,075

Maximum: 12,081 views. Data as of Sep 17.

What could not be calculated

View build-up not assessed: the channel posts often, and every post is newer than a week.

Cleanliness-index history

3 checks for this channel.

050100Jul 17: index 76, grade BJul 17Aug 17: index 82, grade AAug 17Sep 17: index 88, grade ASep 17

Advertising outlook

Advertising placement: questionable.

Only a small share of subscribers sees the posts.

About 5,933–9,624 people will see your post in the first 48 hours.

Reach of advertising posts

Too few advertising posts to compare: 0. 1 more are too fresh.

Without an ad label: 1 post.

Buy advertising

Telegram ads are sold on these marketplaces — they have channel catalogs, prices, and checkout.

We don't sell ads. This channel may not be listed there.

Where to buy advertising

Affiliate links: we get a commission. It never affects the channel's score.

Questions about @forbesrussia

What is the risk of subscriber or view fraud in the channel?

The risk is minimal: the score is 12 out of 100, and the channel itself has official Telegram verification. No fraud was detected, and subscriber and view dynamics are natural.

Why is placing an ad considered questionable?

Posts are seen by a small portion of the audience: the median is around 9,100 views per post with an audience of over 235 thousand subscribers. In addition, the feed updates very frequently (almost 39 posts per day), causing an individual post to instantly get lost in the stream.

How do readers interact with the content?

Comments on the channel are completely disabled, and reactions are left by less than 0.5% of those who read the post. Engagement is limited to passive news reading.

How the assessment was produced

Data source
Public Telegram data: posts, views, reactions, and channel metadata.
Date or snapshot
2026-09-17
Sample
The latest 40 public posts available at check time.
Calculation method
TG Inspector calculates metrics from the saved snapshot and combines independent signals into a deterministic 0–100 cleanliness index.
Factual result
The @forbesrussia assessment dated 2026-09-17 uses 40 recent public posts. At that snapshot the channel had 235,523 subscribers, median post views were 9,075, ERR was 3.9%, and the cleanliness index was 88/100.
Limitations
This is a probabilistic assessment based on public data: it describes metrics, not the owner's actions, and is not a real-time measurement.

Full methodology and interpretation rules

This automated assessment is probabilistic: it describes the channel's public metrics, not its owner's actions. The index and grade are calculated from public data and are not changed on request. Channel owners can request removal of the page — t.me/TGinspector_ru.