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@zarub_official: statistics and cleanliness index

ZARUB - плати за рубежом

Виртуальные карты с возможностью привязки к Apple/Google Pay для покупок в магазинах и оплаты зарубежных сервисов @zarub_robot - приложение сервиса @zarub_help_bot - поддержка @zarub_manager - бизнес-сотрудничество

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Grade A+ metrics look normal cleanliness index
data from 2026-10-25
Subscribers
28,133
Median views
14,889
ERR
52.9%
Posts sampled
40
Niche Economy & Finance
Post language Russian
Channel age 1 year

Data from 2026-10-25 — 13 days old.

Assessment summary

ZARUB is a channel of a fintech service for virtual cards: the feed features guides on how to pay for foreign subscriptions and top up Steam, breakdowns of AI news, and promos for its own product; almost everything is a photo with a caption. A post is seen by roughly half of the base, and the share is higher than that of similar channels in the catalog.

But posting is infrequent — about six publications per month, so an announcement stays at the top of the feed for a long time, and monthly reach is made up of few posts. Ad posts get about the same as regular ones: a median of 15,350 versus 14,381 views.

About the channel

ZARUB is the channel of the eponymous virtual card service: people use these cards to pay for foreign subscriptions and purchases. The feed is in Russian, and the channel is 17 months old; almost all posts are photos with captions, and video is rare.

In the catalog, it sits alongside financial and near-tech channels: @pro_investing_channel, @cryptobuyon, and @colibri_bots. By subscribers, ZARUB is larger than @pro_investing_channel and @cryptobuyon but smaller than @colibri_bots; at the same time, the share of subscribers who see a post here is higher than at @colibri_bots and noticeably higher than at @pro_investing_channel. It differs from them in that it is run on behalf of the service itself, rather than as a review channel about crypto and investments.

What it publishes:

  • Payment guides: video walkthroughs on how to pay for Claude and Cursor from Russia using a combination of VPN and a virtual card.
  • AI news: breakdowns of new models — GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, Perplexity.
  • Games and Steam: Steam balance top-ups, release roundups, and a giveaway of copies of GTA 6.
  • The service itself: card updates with Apple Pay and Google Pay, a “$5 for a friend” promotion, and the launch of channels on YouTube and Instagram.

Posts go out mainly during the day (78%) and on weekdays (70%), with links to YouTube. The feed is unhurried: infrequent long posts with photos and a call to go to the bot; there are no forwards from other channels.

By subscribers, it ranks #7 of 9 channels in the Economy & Finance niche of the catalog.

What grade A+ means

The metrics agree with each other: views and reactions are distributed as usual, and almost no signals lower the index.

Compared with similar channels

Compared with 8 Economy & Finance catalog channels whose metrics look normal. There are too few channels of a similar size, so the whole niche is used: 3,731 to 980,991 subscribers.

ERR (reach) higher than 8 of 8
@zarub_official 52.9%
similar channels median 20.1%
Reactions per 100 views lower than 6 of 7
@zarub_official 0.35
similar channels median 0.88

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

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Views by post

The latest 40 posts with views, from May 14 to Oct 23. The dashed line is the median (14,889).

012K24KMay 14: 11,007 viewsMay 16: 15,647 viewsMay 20: 13,740 viewsMay 24: 16,740 viewsMay 31: 17,371 viewsJun 6: 13,110 viewsJun 9: 11,085 viewsJun 10: 11,199 viewsJun 11: 12,131 viewsJun 12: 13,777 viewsJun 17: 13,433 viewsJun 20: 15,312 viewsJun 22: 19,540 viewsJun 26: 23,883 viewsJun 30: 20,519 viewsJul 6: 17,922 viewsJul 11: 17,240 viewsJul 15: 15,827 viewsJul 19: 16,605 viewsJul 22: 17,841 viewsJul 29: 16,654 viewsAug 3: 15,350 viewsAug 6: 17,006 viewsAug 10: 18,913 viewsAug 19: 15,520 viewsAug 22: 16,877 viewsAug 29: 16,506 viewsSep 3: 16,024 viewsSep 9: 14,381 viewsSep 13: 14,467 viewsSep 20: 13,552 viewsSep 24: 13,438 viewsOct 3: 10,031 viewsOct 6: 9,161 viewsOct 7: 10,200 viewsOct 13: 8,247 viewsOct 15: 8,496 viewsOct 19: 6,181 viewsOct 20: 4,922 viewsOct 23: 3,192 views May 14Oct 23
  • post views
  • median 14,889

Maximum: 23,883 views. Data as of Oct 25.

What could not be calculated

View build-up not assessed: there were no posts newer than one day.

Cleanliness-index history

The channel's data has been collected once — the chart will appear after the next update.

Advertising outlook

Advertising placement: reasonable.

About 4,415–8,828 people will see your post in the first 48 hours.

Reach of advertising posts

Advertising posts have a median of 15,350 views versus 14,381 for regular posts — 7% higher.

Based on 5 advertising and 35 regular posts older than two days.

Without an ad label: 2 posts.

Buy advertising

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Where to buy advertising

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

Questions about @zarub_official

How clean is the channel?

The cleanliness index is 92 out of 100, grade A+, level “metrics within normal range.” The check found no signals that would lower the index.

How many people see @zarub_official posts?

The median is 14,889 views with 28,133 subscribers, which is an ERR of about 52.9%. A post is seen by roughly half of the subscriber base.

Can the channel be considered for advertising?

The feasibility of placement was assessed as justified. Ad posts get a median of 15,350 views versus 14,381 for regular ones.

How the assessment was produced

Data source
Public Telegram data: posts, views, reactions, and channel metadata.
Date or snapshot
2026-10-25
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 @zarub_official assessment dated 2026-10-25 uses 40 recent public posts. At that snapshot the channel had 28,133 subscribers, median post views were 14,889, ERR was 52.9%, and the cleanliness index was 92/100.
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/obsessed_with_ai.