All Audiobook Database Bee (AB DBee) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
AB DBee (ABDBee.com) is the Audiobook Database Bee for audio stories across the world. This website tries to capture fascinating information, including the publicly available metadata and links for all the audio stories in various languages.
YouTube and other platforms are pretty good as video streaming websites. But when it comes to audio stories, the audiance finds it very tough to discover a new story, especially if it is created by any less known channel. Often an excellent masterpiece gets buried under the wave of channels with millions of subscribers. AB DBee aims to provide a structured, searchable platform and a user-generated rating system so that quality may override quantity. At the end of the day, AB DBee thinks – humans should decide which audio story they want to listen, instead of some artificial intelligence and algorithm feeding suggestions.
Yes, certainly! Please let me know your talent and strengths. We will be happy to work with you. But please note, as there is no profit generation system for AB DBee, we do not make any profit or pay anything to anyone. Looking at the cost of maintaining this database, we will soon announce options for donations from audiobook enthusiasts.
AB DBee is an independent platform, letting end users rate, criticize audiobooks published over thousands of YouTube channels. AB DBee is in no way connected to or part of, or endorsed by YouTube.
AB DBee is an independent platform, letting end users rate, criticize audiobooks published over thousands of YouTube channels. AB DBee is in no way connected to or part of or endorsed by Vimeo, Amazon, YouTube Music, Storytel, or any other big brands.
AB DBee is a database for audiobooks published in various languages across the countries. Suppose you see your channel videos on our website. In that case, you might be one of the most popular audio story creators on the YouTube platform. At this moment, it does not store any of the audiobook contents. It aggregates and showcases the metadata for the audio stories and provides a direct link to the original audio books. If your YouTube channel settings allow your video to be embedded in other websites. Please note that allowing video embedding is YouTube’s default setting. That boosts your video view and still lets you earn the revenue from YouTube advertisements like you usually do. YouTube DOES NOT share any of the advertisement revenues with us for the videos from your channel.
The following are a few of the dozens of benefits the creators may get from AB DBee.
- A human-driven five-point rating system to get honest feedback from the audience, instead of the traditional binary feedback (like and dislike)
- Straight forward text reviews from the audiences
- Reviews and ratings from our in-network critics
- A platform to request donations from your fans and earn $ to buy more tools and goodies to create better content
- A platform to earn points while your fans interact more with your content over the AB DBee platform. The points can be converted to physical gifts while criteria met.
- Showcase your content to more people
- Additional views are legally generated from the visitor of the AB DBee website.
- No impact on the YouTube revenue generated from the YouTube advertisement over your content, whereas extra views generate extra revenue and more boost to your video’s reach
- Do-follow link to your video to boost your video’s SEO (search engine optimization)
- A platform to create a bio for your channel’s stars – authors, actors, musicians, designers, directors
- A platform to showcase your channel or publishing house
- A network to quickly get connected with the artists for your upcoming content – authors, actors, musicians, designers, directors
- A place to discuss and learn more about creating audio stories and publishing audiobooks
Please send us a note letting us know why you think AB DBee is not benefitting your channel and what is making you feel about restricting your content from us.
AB DBee welcomes its viewers encouraging them to provide a five-point rating system. You can rate any audio stories over the AB DBee website by giving star ratings between one to five, where five denotes the best and one indicates the worst.
No. You have to log in using your Google/Gmail/Facebook account to rate any audio story.
Our policy allows users to use only a single profile to rate a single audio story. Anyone violating that may get banned from the AB DBee website.
We are working. Surprize will come soon.
The following are a few of the dozens of benefits the viewers may get from AB DBee.
- A human-driven five-point rating system to get honest feedback from the audience, instead of the traditional binary feedback (like and dislike)
- Users can provide detailed text reviews for the audio stories they want
- Users can get connected with some of the stars from their favorite audio channels and stories
- Users can choose the stories base on the categories and/or artists. Users do not have to rely on artificial intelligence-driven algorithms to suggest any new audiobook.
- Users may optionally donate $ to the stars or channels to buy more tools and goodies to create better content.
- Users can help channels to earn points while users interact (rates, provides text reviews) more with audiobooks over the AB DBee platform. The points can be converted to physical gifts while criteria met.
- Finding the perfectly matched audio story to users’ taste is now a lot easier. No hiding of masterpiece stories with significantly less number of views.
- A platform to read the bio of your favorite channel’s stars (and yes, you can rate them too!) – authors, actors, musicians, designers, directors
- A platform to read about your favorite channel or publishing house. And yes, you can rate them too!
- A network to quickly get connected with other audiences and artists
- A place to discuss and learn more about different audio stories and books
Yes. This is the best part! You can create your own “Top 10 Bengali Horror Stories” or “My best Sherlock Holmes stories.”
Primarily English, Hindi, and Bengali. We are working on enriching our database and rating system to support audio stories from various other languages.
The AB DBee website does not host any of the stories or videos, or audio stories. We solely rely on the content creator’s video or audio story and link that content here by embedding. In case of any copyright issue with the content, please use the platform’s (example YouTube platform’s steps to claim copyright) policies to resolve or report.
There are thousands of audio story channels over YouTube. AB DBee tried to aggregate the most famous and talked ones first. AB DBee volunteers are updating the database based on the requests from various content creators across the world. Whereas AB DBee maintains nominal criteria to get your channel/contents listed in the AB DBee database. Click here to know more.
The requirements to get featured in the AB DBee database are very simple.
- You should have produced at least 10 unique audio stories on YouTube.
- Your channel must be at least 6 months old.
- Your subscriber count must be more than 500.
Suppose your channel meets the three of the above criteria. In that case, you can apply to AB DBee to get your channel featured and contents included in our database regularly.
AB DBee strictly follows the ethical rules and regulations of embedding content. So, there will not be anything negative impacts. In fact, there will be a positive influence on your channel views and rankings if your channel and contents become part of the AB DBee database and rating system.
Zero. AB DBee is free.
Zero. AB DBee is free.