Pinoy Big Brother opens audition online via Kumu

The reality show “Pinoy Big Brother” (PBB) opened its auditions online for the new season this year in partnership with Kumu.

“Kuya” or Big Brother announced the opening of application in “ASAP Natin To” last Sunday.

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This season would call “PBB Connect” as the reality show will be shown on the Kumu app.

“kUMUnect na with Kuya! We’re officially announcing that Pinoy Big Brother @pbbabscbn is now on kumu! Mag audition na and become the new batch of housemates!” Kumu announced on Facebook.

“No need to leave your house and fall in line ng super haba, dahil may chance ka mapili to be housemate while you’re safe at home gamit ang kumu klip,” it added.

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The Pinoy Big Brother audition will start today, October 19. Those who wanted to be housemates just needed to download the Kumu app and post a one-minute video telling something about themselves.

Applicants must put it on their timeline with name, age, and location and with the hashtag #PBBkumuaudition.

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Pinoy Big Brother opens audition online with Kumu

If an applicant passed the next level of the audition, the official PBB Kumu account, @pbbabscbn, will send a message to his or her Kumu inbox.

Pinoy Big Brother, more popularly known by its abbreviated title PBB, is the Philippine version of the Big Brother reality game show franchise. The word Pinoy in the title is a colloquial term for the Filipino people.

The show first aired on August 21, 2005, on ABS-CBN, Studio 23 (now S+A), and its international channel, TFC, in various countries worldwide.

The uncut 24/7 version of the series can also be seen on the internet through paid-online streaming video subscription via TFCNow and through cable network SkyCable.

Other essential elements of the Big Brother franchise are present, such as weekly and daily challenges, the confession room, and the voice known only as “Big Brother,” sometimes referred to as “Kuya” (Tagalog for an elder male sibling). Pinoy Big Brother uses their tagline “Teleserye ng Totoong Buhay” or the “Real Life Soap Opera.”

Meanwhile, Kumu is a live streaming app based in the Philippines and was founded by Roland Ros and Rexy Josh Dorado.