TV5’s Bilang Pilipino reaches out to young Filipinos

MANILA, Philippines - Bilang Pilipino, TV5’s election coverage campaign, reaches out to thousands of young Filipinos via Bilang Pilipino Campus Series and its data driven, dynamic and informative website bilangpilipino.com.

Since today’s generation of voters are always mobile, one of the main highlights of TV5’s Bilang Pilipino election campaign is bilangpilipino.com — a go-to site for voters who want to know significant facts about the candidates which will not only assist them in making a wise and informed decision but will also give them a platform to be highly engaged in the 2016 national elections.

With just a click away, bilangpilipino.com provides netizens plethora of election content from credible sources such as The Philippine STAR, Business World, News5, Interaksyon and News5 Everywhere. The website also contains detailed profile and background of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates called Candidata that highlights their personal information, political experience, advocacies, issues, accomplishments, net worth, family tree and even their benefactors.

The website also has a feature called Hometown Votes, which contains data of how each city or province participated in the previous elections to see if the political landscape has changed or not in your hometown.

With TV5’s thrust to inform, engage and empower the Filipino voters, providing credible and quality content is not limited with the website but it expands through Bilang Pilipino Campus Series that reaches out to the young voters by teaching them how to make an enlightened decision this coming elections.

The campus tour kicked off last Nov. 28 at the Emilio Aguinaldo College (EAC) and was spearheaded by award-winning anchor, host of Politics for Beginners and Dean of Far Eastern University (FEU) Institute of Law Atty. Mel Sta. Maria and TV5 news correspondent Renzo Ongkiko. The two Kapatid personalities shared with the young voters their knowledge and expertise on legal aspects of the elections and the peculiar setting of Philippine politics. The activity was well attended by highly-involved students and faculty members of EAC who were very grateful for TV5’s visit to their campus.

For details, visit http://bilangpilipino.com/ or follow TV5’s Bilang Pilipino on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BilangPilipino and Twitter https://twitter.com/BilangPilipino.