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YouTube channel named “Pilot Debrief” Earns ~$1.4 Million then Gets Demonetized for Switching Google Adsense payments to LLC

Paula Mooney
5 min readFeb 9, 2024

Can you get your YouTube earnings paid to an LLC or not, YouTube?

Pilot Debrief on YouTube

There is a YouTube channel that I’ve grown to love, called “Pilot Debrief.” It has gained a lot of attention for analyzing plane crashes and what went wrong.

Recently, a video about the sad fate of singer Aaliyah on the channel really went viral. In fact, many of his detailed videos go viral, leading to an estimated $1.4 million in earnings for the channel overall, according to ViewStats:

That’s why I was shocked to read an recent update from the Pilot Debrief channel on their YouTube community page, describing how YouTube demonetized the channel simply because he attempted to change his Google Adsense payouts (how we get paid from YouTube) from his personal name to his LLC’s name:

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Paula Mooney
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