The Voice Kids (Philippine TV series)

As for any The Voice franchise the first stage is the producers' auditions, which are not shown on television. In the Voice of the Philippines, ABS-CBN headed by their regional partners nationwide and abroad are tasked to conduct the "Unseen Auditions." At this stage, there will be different judges that will use the power of media to on-ground auditions where the team will travel in and out of the country to find the best of the best to participate in the next set of auditions, "The Blind Auditions."

The first televised stage is the blind auditions, where artists will be given a minimum of ninety seconds to sing their audition piece. The official coaches of the show will be sitting on a chair facing away from the stage and artist.[9] The coaches will only judge by the power, clarity, type and uniqueness of the artists singing capability. If they like what they hear and want to mentor the artist for the next stage, they will push a button on their chair that would turn the chair around to face the artists for the first time. This concept was created to avoid any due prejudice of their physical bearing and life-story. If a coach turns for an artist, that artist will be included in his/her team. If more than one coach turns around, the choice to pick a who will he/she be mentored goes to the artist. If no coach turns his/her chair the auditioning artist's journey ends. At the end, each of the coach will have a certain number of artists in his or her team (18 in the first two seasons and the fifth season, 24 in the third season).[10] who will be advancing to the next round.[11][12][13] In the fourth season, each coach can have an unlimited number of artists in their teams.

The second stage called "The Battles," is where a coach will build his team for "The Sing-offs". A coach will group his artists into groups of three. Per group, they will be given a single song to sing together. They are mentored and developed by their respective coach in the process. A vocal showdown will commence in the Battle stage where only the artist whom the coach deemed sung the song assigned better will advance to the next round.[14] Steals were added in the fourth season, where each coach can steal one losing artist from other teams.[15] The steals continues in the fifth season.

The third stage called "The Sing-offs," is a recently added round in the local franchise.[10] It is similar to "The Sing-offs" of The Voice Kids of the Netherlands where each coach will pick only a certain number of artists (2 in the first two seasons and 3 in the next three seasons) in order to advance to the semi-finals.[14]

After "the Sing-offs", the artists will go directly to the Live shows, which will also be the semifinal round. Only an elite group of finalists (4 in the first two seasons and 3 in the next three seasons) voted by the public will advance to the finals.[14]

The first open call auditions was held on November 23, 2013, at Metro Gaisano Pacific Mall in Mandaue, Cebu and was open to kids aged 8 to 14 years old.[25][26] It was followed by an audition held on December 1, 2013, at the Newport Mall in Resorts World Manila.[27] In 2014, auditions for the Visayas, Mindanao, and Metro Manila were held on January 11,[28] 18, and 25 respectively. A separate audition for Luzon was held on February 1.[29]

The auditions for the second season will be held on March 7, 2015, at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. Other auditions will be held at several key cities on a yet to be announced dates. For this season, the age of the auditionees were reduced to aged 7 to 13 from the previous season's aged 8 to 14.[24]

In an article Lea Salonga wrote in Philippine Daily Inquirer and was published on January 16, 2014, she said the blind auditions will be filmed by March.[30] On March 15, 2014, Sarah Geronimo, in an interview by Jocelyn Dimaculangan from the Philippine Entertainment Portal, revealed that the first day of Blind auditions was filmed on March 17, 2014.[31] The entire Blind auditions was filmed until March 20, 2014, at Studio 10 of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in Quezon City, Metro Manila.[1][10] The Battles and the Sing-offs were also filmed in Studio 10 from June 23 to 25, 2014.

The Live shows were held in Newport Performing Arts Theater, Resorts World Manila, Newport City, Pasay.[2]

On March 7, 2014, Salonga confirmed on his Twitter that Bamboo Mañalac will be part of the kids version of the show.[32] In an interview, Bamboo admitted that coaching kids in this version will be difficult, but see it as a challenging thing to do. He also said that, "With adults, you already know where they're headed as an artist. With kids, it's still a gray area. So I carefully listen to every child so I can give justice to their performance when I comment, whether I turn around or not."[14]

On December 18, 2022, Tandingan was revealed to be one of the coaches for the fifth season.

On December 18, 2022, Nievera was revealed to be one of the coaches for the fifth season.

On May 2, 2016, Sharon Cuneta confirmed through an interview on TV Patrol that she will be the new coach in the third season of The Voice Kids.[38]

In 2019, it was confirmed that Cuneta will not return for the fourth season.[39][40]

Sarah Geronimo served as one of the coaches in the show for two consecutive seasons.

On March 7, 2014, Salonga confirmed on her Twitter that Sarah Geronimo will be part of the kids version of the show.[32] In an interview by Nerisa Almo of the Philippine Entertainment Portal, Geronimo shared and described her experience in the Blind auditions of The Voice Kids. She said that there were times that kids will cry for not being chosen in the Blind auditions and they had to control their criticisms.[41]

On April 4, 2016, Geronimo confirmed that she will not be returning as a coach for the third season. In an interview by ABS-CBN News, Geronimo said that she wanted to return to ASAP, ABS-CBN's musical variety show, and that she felt that coaching in the show feels like a role-playing task. However, she further confirmed that she is open to return as a coach in the show's future seasons.[35][42] On May 2, 2016, Sharon Cuneta was confirmed to replace Geronimo in the third season of The Voice Kids.[38]

On June 2, 2019, Sarah Geronimo confirmed that she will be returning as a coach for the fourth season.[39]

On January 15, 2014, interview by Push, Lea Salonga confirmed herself that she will be part of the show.[43] She said that she was happy to join the kids version of The Voice of the Philippines. She also said, "I'm doing it, I can't say 'we' because I don't know. You'll have to ask Bamboo and Sarah (Geronimo) if they also said yes, but I said yes na. So we're just kind of fine tuning it. Kasi even in the franchises abroad like the Netherlands and Korea, they chose the same people who do the adults and kids. But there's just going to be three coaches. It's a shorter season. With the adults, it's the same as last year. And we're going to start ramping up. It's exciting and I've been getting texts form the staff who are auditioning people for this year, they're all like telling me, 'Maloloka ka, maloloka ka sa galing ng mga nag-o-audition. I think you'll find it even better than last year.' I feel like my cup runneth over! (laughs) So it's exciting to think about. I can't wait to start. It'll be fun. It will be a good time."[44]

From the accumulated data report gathered by Kantar Media in January to December 2014, the first season of the franchise was the most watched television program in the entire year with an average television viewership rating of 34.5%. It even beat the second season of the adult's version which only gained an average television viewership rating of 27.5% and ranked sixth out of twenty.[52] Meanwhile, from AGB Nielsen's data, the first season's July 26 episode was the sixth most watched episode in the entire year and tied with Got to Believe's March 6 episode with both programs earned a 31.8% rating.[53] In 2015, the second season of the franchise was the most watched television program in the entire year, having garnered an average television viewership rating of 41.7%.[54]

Television ratings for The Voice of the Philippines on ABS-CBN come from two major sources, namely from AGB Nielsen and Kantar Media. AGB Nielsen's survey ratings were gathered from Mega Manila households, while Kantar Media's survey ratings were gathered from all over the Philippines' urban and rural households.

Since the show's inception, it had received numerous nominations and awards from different award giving bodies.