The ALDUB Craze Continues

ALDUB Enthralls Eat Bulaga and Fans All Over The craze of ALDUB has gone global, as the amazing love team of Maine “YayaDub” Mendoza and Alden Richards has crossed the boundary of Philippines and drawn the attention of millions of global viewers. The case is serious when one entertainment show manages to attract more than 4 million Twitter account holders and forces them to shower an average of 1.5M tweets in a single hashtag per day.

KALYESERYE Craze Continues The segment featuring Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza on Eat Bulaga has become more than six months old, but its ability to generate and maintain craze among the viewers is increasing with time. However, the rumor that suggests Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza are real life couple has helped the show to become more popular among viewers, but no one of them has confirmed about their relationship yet.

How it All Started at Eat Bulaga The longest running and top-rating TV show Eat Bulaga featured both of them in the year 2015. Alden Richards first joined the show as a host on the segment “That’s My Bae” while the Dubsmash Queen Maine Mendoza portrayed Yaya Dub in the Problem Solving portion of “Juan for All, All for one”. One accidental glimpse of each other on split-screen marked the birth of “Kalyeserye”, the first ever soap opera parody in Philippine television, where the two individuals hold exclusive interaction through split screen frame. The segment is aired live and shoots at urban to suburb streets anywhere in the country. The ALDUB tandem, Alden Richards in Broadway Centrum while Maine Mendoza at the barangay, communicated through handwritten texts, audio samples, or any popular songs in the show that made it highly entertaining.

Viewers’ Interest in their Relationship makes the Show Popular There is no doubt that millions of viewers across the Philippines and around the world enjoy the show, but most of them either believe that Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza are real life couple or they love to see them maintaining as same relationship status as they depict on screen. However, we might not have been able to discover their inner desire yet, but according to Joey Reyes, the director of their first movie together My Bebe Love, the incredible chemistry between Alden and Maine is one of the top reasons behind the success of the love team. The director also hinted there is no doubt that this accidental pairing has high marketing value, but a couple cannot act in that way if they have no good understanding. “They are good friends indeed,” the director added.

Fans with Contradictory View It has been witnessed that some fans of the ALDUB believe that they're just an on-screen couple and they are not bothered about whether the couple maintains the same status in real life or not. When asked about the love team Al Dub and its craze among the viewers, a fan replied, “The couple is doing great on the screen and the viewers like to see them in such role for years”. The fan also added that she is not sure if the couple is in real life relationship. No matter what millions of fans of the popular show are thinking about the relationship status of Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza, the show has already achieved incredible popularity mainly because of their sparkling chemistry.

What Alden and Maine Achieved If we assess that what Alden and Maine have got from this love team alone, which is believed to be the stage of success for the couple and ignore that what the maker has achieved from it for a while, then we will find that ALDUB phenomenon has immensely benefited both of them. Their team up has made the couple as the most in-demand celebrities in the entertainment industry of the country. The popularity of ALDUB has reached a new high, as one can see their poster and portraits almost everywhere including buses, trains, subways, and billboards all across the Philippines. In addition, both have become country’s brand ambassador for top global brands like Coca-Cola and McDonalds.

ALDUB Revolutionized Philippines TV Industry There is no doubt that both of them should be credited for revolutionizing the television industry in the country through an unusual combination of traditional soap opera and a thrilling game show. Since Kalyeserye hit the screen, which exclusively features the team-up ALDUB, Eat Bulaga's TRP rating is increasing at unbelievable speed, and the show started to draw 8.3 million viewers every day, which is a record itself. According to an advertising expert, the ALDUB has revolutionized the concept of TV programming, and that is why the program become a nation-wide hit. It seems that the ALDUB phenomenon is the biggest break for Alden and Maine. They have become top celebrities in the Philippines and hugely popular in many nations across the world. Moreover, the raining complements across the social networking sites and packed emails prove their craze and love precisely.