Are you familiar with SoundCloud? Familiar with hosting Podcasts? DSound.Audio is an awesome app built upon the Steem Blockchain, that is just like SoundCloud but it is decentralized and creators can earn STEEM from up votes on their content.
DSound is the brain child of Pedro 
The aim of this analysis is to monitor the monthly activity from 
This analysis will be carried out on a monthly basis so that trends can be established and growth measured.
The Data
The data from the blockchain is limited. When it comes to sharing audio for creators, metrics such as play duration and number of listeners are of critical importance if you are trying to grow your channel. However this data is not collected on the blockchain and not part of this analysis
Using PowerBI, I have connected to the SteemSQL database (paid subscription service held and managed by 
The Analysis
March Votes Analysis
In March 2018 DSound voted 2323 times for 249 Authors. The average vote payout was SBD $14 and the total approx. payout given by DSound was SBD $32.59K We can also see from above that the average % voting weight used by
In Feb 2018 DSound voted 532 times for 2733 Authors. The average vote payout was SBD $21 and the total approx. payout given by DSound was SBD $56.82K. The average voting weight use in Feb was 9.38% and the average number of votes given per day was 97.5.
March Voting Time Series
Popular Steemains in terms of Upvotes from @DSound
DSound Tag Post Analysis
In March 9.9K posts were made by 2175 authors receiving 26K comments and 224K votes. The payout value of this posts is SBD $43.29K.
This is down from 13K posts made in February by 3054 authors.
The average post payout in March for #dsound posts was $4.35 – this is higher than the overall post payout average on the Steemit blockchain
We see above that DSound have given out approx. SBD $32.59. That equates to 72.5% of the total rewards for this category/tag/app
These 9.9K posts received 26K comments from 4826 authors. The comments received 9220K votes and received rewards of SBD $598.72
We can see from the number of posts per day by date that over the month the trend was down.
Audio Creators
Below shows which accounts have posted the most to DSound in the month of March
And the list below shows those that engage with the posts via comments
Conclusion
DSound is an awesome project, receiving 9.9K posts in the month of March and voting for 2,323 of them. This means that almost 1 in 5 posts made will be voted on by
In terms of activity, DSound received less posts in March, in fact March was down 23% on February and March was also a longer month.
72.5% of the payout in this category comes from
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The SQL Queries
The SQL query used to collect data for votes made by
SELECT *
FROM Txvotes (NOLOCK)
WHERE [voter] in ('dsound')
AND CONVERT(DATE,timestamp) BETWEEN '2018-02-01' AND '2018-02-28'
The query used to collect data for posts made to the category/tag Dsound on steemit was:
SELECT
author,
json_metadata,
permlink,
total_payout_value,
pending_payout_value,
net_votes,
created,
children,
Category,
Depth
FROM comments (NOLOCK)
where CONVERT(DATE,created) BETWEEN '2018-03-01' AND '2018-03-31'
and contains (json_metadata, 'dsound')
The Current vote worth for Dsound has been taken from https://steemworld.org/@dsound at 6st April 2018.
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