There are many interesting stats on SteemDB but I'd like to draw your attention to one particular link which I found really helpful.
Here, you can see the top 100 author payouts for each day. This info is only available for posts where the payment is finalized so the latest date is the 6th June. This is a really useful resource as it provides the readers a chance to review the most popular posts and it also gives some insight into the types of rewards top posts are making.
I have included the top 10 payouts for the 6th in the table below.
| Rank | Author | Title | Payout | Tag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |  | Why its good Steemit didnt have ICO and has no Ads - Based on Case of MyCellium | $1961.408 | Travel |
| #2 |  | Travel with me #64 : Adventure to the top of the Namuang WaterFall ! | $1423.63 | Bitcoin |
| #3 |  | Dog People VS Cat People - Which Team Are You On? | $960.482 | Life |
| #4 |  | E209 2017-06-02 Beyond Bitcoin - Peerplays, Intelliguy, ESteem, Virgrow and Gridcoin! | $940.765 | Beyondbitcoin |
| #5 |  | Steemit + Artists : A New Stage for Craft | $926.322 | Art |
| #6 |  | A Warning About Telephone Tech Support Scams And How They Tried To Target My Parents | $719.929 | Psychology |
| #7 |  | Here are 10 unMEAN sTWEETs on the issue: Is It Still Possible To Wake Up With Bad Mood, With Steem At $1000? | $706.571 | unmean-stweets |
| #8 |  | I am Lord Vader, Ask me Anything: Episode II | $701.762 | Funny |
| #9 |  | I AM SO GLAD THAT STEEMIT GOT ME INTO CRYPTO - THANK YOU | $587.634 | Crypto-news |
| #10 |  | The Way British News Channels are Covering the London Terrorist Attacks are 100x Better Than US Counterparts | $571.292 | Life |
What I like about the results is that the top payouts are being spread out over a range of different threads (from Psychology to Humour to Crypto-trading).
The data can be found on:
https://www.steemdb.com/posts/all/earnings/2017-06-13
Just change the date in the URL to go to a different period.
Thank you for reading.