Steem-Stats 18-03: DTube

Hello,

when contributing to a project, in this case the Steem blockchain and its platforms, it is vital to know how your plattform is doing.

So I have taken an extended look at the data provided with the Steem blockchain.

Regarding the collected data, all the posts on Steemit that used the "dtube"-tag were extracted via SQL.

Of course, this inevitably unsharpens the results to a certain amount. Every post on D.Tube carries the "dtube"-tag. However, it is possible that posts not posted on D.Tube still carry a "dtube"-Tag. With more than 177,000 contributions per month in some cases, however, this statistical error is unlikely to have a major impact.

Info: All graphics open a new tab when you click on them, so you can easily hold several graphics next to each other to draw comparisons.

DTube is the second oldest platform on the blockchain and also the candidate with the highest hopes to bring sucess to Steem.

So let's beginn by taking alook at the development of the video-posts on D.Tube:

With approx. 31,000 videos posted in the first month after opening, one can probably say that we saw a near perfect start of a plattform. 1,000 videos per day is not a bad performance.

After a 10% increase in September 2017, October and November were realativly weak months. That can be neglected today because with the following December and January, it looked as if the sky was the limit.

However, this rush lasted only two months. Already in February there was a very strong decline, which continued in March 2018.

Whether the uploaders have already lost interest again or whether there are other reasons for this weakness cannot yet be clearly determined. The coming April data should be very exciting.

The graphic concerning the user on D.Tube shows an almost identical course.

Compared to the strong month of January, the number of users almost halved again around March. So it's not like the uploaders only uploaded fewer videos. The data clearly indicates that almost 50% of all January users did not return to the platform in March.

This trend seemed to have had an even stronger impact on the distributed earnings.

In February, approx. 312,000 SDBs were distributed to all uploaded videos on the plattform, only to see a staggering decline March by almost 2/3 of this amount. Number of users declined almost by half; revenue declined approx. 66%.

Let's take a look at how the revenues from the contributions were distributed among the users. I have picked January 2018 as an example only.

Of course, completely different figures are achieved here, than for the services we have looked at so far. For the community however, only the value of how much of the total revenue is distributed to the masses of non-Top 30 users is important. In the month of January, more than 65% of the 312,000 SDBs in total, went to these users. For the good of the community, the number of the Top-30-Users should therefore be as low as possible.

Following a graphic illustrating only the Top-30-Percentage, over the course of the last months. As already mentioned, lower is better.

The trend over the entire term is clearly trending downwards, which is a good sign for the majority of D.Tube users. With the March value of only 32% for the top 30 users, D.Tube distributes revenues quite evenly, compared to the other platforms, we watched.

The account D.Tube has a 25% share in all earnings of all videos. It goes without saying that D.Tube is a very powerful account when it comes to voting power. So let's take a look at how the account handled its votes.

D.Tube's votes started slowly in the first month and really picked up in numbers since December 2017.

In the declining months of February and March, the votes did not decrease as much as the decline in video posts and users seen above. So thats a good sign.

For the community it is not only the absolute number of votes. For them it is also important that this power is distributed as widely or as evenly as possible. We remember that these plattform accounts were intentionally made powerfull by receiving so-called delegations. Powered up with a 2 million steem-power delegation , these accounts are supposed to strengthen their community.

So let's take a look to how many different users these votes have been distributed to.

The red line shows the number of users. In August 2017, the 80 votes were distributed among 60 different users. Although the absolute number of votes is very small, the distribution to different users is almost perfect.

Unfortunately, this good usage only lasted until November 2017. After that, we see a very strong concentration on only a few users. The value of distribution, among the users is declining almost every month.

This negative trend is getting stronger every month. The 2,119 votes of March 2018 are focused on 28% of these users.

So let's have a look at the lucky ones:

The graph shows the cumulative upvotes an account has reached multiplied by the voting power of the D.Tube account at the time this post was written. A 100% upvote is currently worth 495,- SDB.

This means that the account "allasyummyfood" received upvotes worth 7,425 SDBs in November 2017 alone. Apart from the absolute number, the first account received over 100% more Upvotes, than the 2nd place in the hit list.

Also in December this account was the lonely number one. Still over 50% ahead of the runner-up.

In January, the extraordinary "pushing" of this account is slowing down. Instead of the approx. 7.500,- in November and the 6.600,- SDBs in December, there were only 2.100,- SDBs in January.

The focus is now, with over 3.500,- SDB, on an arrived "YouTube"-account with the name "davidpakman". The motivation behind this should be quite obvious. A successful YouTube channel may attract more video makers to D.Tube.

In February 2018, the "promotion" then moves to the "syndicateframes" account.

The support for the former favourites "davidpackman" and "allasyummyfood" was further reduced. Of course every normal account would be happy about such a "reduction" of still more than 2.300,- SDBs per month.

In March 2018, "allasyummyfood" was no longer among the top 20 of these pushed accounts. If you look at the account and its videos itself, it looks as if there were absolutely no more upvotes in March. As if the account has fallen from grace. But of course, that's just speculation.

Fact is that the carousel of darlings continues to turn. The coming april data will show if the downward trend in posts, users and earnings will continue. So that remains to be seen.

Okay.