Voice of McDonald's, a global singing competition

I found out that while VoM may not have been meant to be shown on TV, it was shown as a TV special on two different occasions in the Philippines. The first time was broadcasted by TV5 and the other time was broadcasted by Studio 23.

I'm pretty sure I've found the TV special from TV5! User bonbel09 has it uploaded in 16 parts on their youtube channel. 

The other TV special from Studio 23 could be the youtube playlist I've already found, it would be from the right time period, but it's not as conclusive as this one which has the TV5 logo branded onto the footage. 

Edit: Also just put it into a youtube playlist for easier browsing. 

I found a lot of new stuff today.

First is a new video about VoM, and strangely the second half is a repeat of the first but silenced:



Next, here's two videos from a Chinese site called youku:

video 1, video 2

The first video on youku really interests me because it seems like someone screen recording VoM, because you can see a mouse cursor click on the video, and the video sadly only shows the intro to this version of VoM. I really want to see more of this though. 

Then there's another video from a Chinese site called bilibili:

Here's the video on bilibili, and then in the description they also link the video on youtube as well. 

And last but not least, probably the coolest video I found today which is thanks to this article, and has some really cool pictures, is this video from one more Chinese website called weibo:

It's titled "2019 McDonald's Voice National Top 20" and I feel like I could rant about how cool this video is but I'll just let you see it for yourself.

Those are the only new videos I've found, but I've also found some more interesting information such as:

In 2008, "As champion, Pintor won $25,000 and a trip for two to the "American Idol" season seven finale in Los Angeles next month. In addition, Grammy Award-winning composer and producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins unexpectedly announced the invitation of the new McDonald's Voice champion to record a sample record at his Los Angeles-based Interscope Records music studio. The icing on the cake."

And then in more information regarding winners and their prizes, Chenee Capuyan who won in 2010 and I've quoted before winning $25,000, two VIP tickets to see Lady Gaga, and a new MacBook Laptop, also apparently won "a photo shoot with singer Elton John, and the opportunity to record a demo in a professional studio." 

The last two articles I have to share are particularly interesting because it's proof that VoM was broadcasted on TV at least one other time and then there's an exact location for where one of these competitions happened, which seems to be rare to find because we know that the global competitions were all finished at a McDonald's conference in Orlando, Florida, but a convention or arena is never publicly listed as far as I know. 

"The special party of the five semifinalists of ‘Voice of McDonald’s, dreaming of a next-generation superstar, and DJ KOO’s special party can be found on the cable TV channel Mnet ‘Blow Up ‐Special Edition’ at 10 pm on the 30th."

"McDonald's Korea (CEO Ray Frolley), a fast food franchise restaurant, held the 'Voice of McDonald', which selects the McDonald's version of 'American Idol' at Club ANSWER in Cheongdam-dong on Thursday, August 13th. of McDonald's)' was held in Korea, and winners were selected to represent Korea in the regional qualifiers in Asia/Pacific/Middle East/Africa."

From my recent searching, it seems like VoM is/was most popular in Asia so I think if anyone can find more footage of VoM it'll probably be from that region. Altogether though, how something like this competition from McDonald's has become so obscure is really interesting and strange. 

I've got lots of videos to sift through now, but I found two more videos with Wayne Brady as a host. They're of the same performance but one is from a VoM livestream and the other is recorded by an audience member. 





I also found two video entries that are pretty cool, unique, and standout among most other video entries that you can find:

I'm revisiting this forum today and have contacted more people, so fingers crossed that I hear back/find some cool stuff.

I'm finding some more archives of websites more than I'm finding footage, but some of this may lead to new contacts. For example, I used a translator to translate an image from Japanese to English and found out that Sony Music was involved in VoM:



I also found a few archives of the Japan VoM sites, one of which isn't fully archived but has a detailed listing of the official rules. Here are the other two archives: VoM Japan 1, VoM Japan 2