Popular young actor Daniel Padilla is the Filipino male artist that tops Filipinos’ Facebook posts on local entertainment celebrities, according to big data analytics conducted by the campaign consultancy and management firm BluePrint.PH.
Based on its analysis of close to 10.9 million data points for the month of February 2021 representing all posts, comments, shares and emoticon reactions — like (👍), love (❤️), Haha (😆), sad () and angry (😡), posts by Filipino Facebook users about Daniel Padilla amounted to 3.9 million data points. These included 35,000 comments, 216,000 shares and some 3.6 million emoticon reactions to 765 stories posted across the social media site.
“We’ll run away together We’ll spend some time forever”
Katniel Fans went gaga over a photo post by the actor’s official fan page with captions “We’ll run away together We’ll spend some time forever”. The photo showed the couple enjoying a swim together at El Nido, Palawan. The post had the highest engagement score for the actor with 21 thousand, one thousand comments, 13 thousand shares and 70 thousand talking about points.
Actor Joshua Garcia followed Padilla in second place as top male celebrity topic for Facebook posts of Filipinos, as he accounted for 665 posts, 47,000 comments, 133,000 shares, and 1.2 million reactions for a total of 1.3 million data points.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Josh. I’m sorry, napagod ako”
Out of the 1.2 million reactions to posts about Garcia, 285,000 were “huhu” or sad () reactions., mainly due to the various stories posted across Facebook on a recently released music video where the actor appeared together with actress Julia Baretto. The most famous line that remains a top drawer for Garcia is “I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Josh. I’m sorry, napagod ako”, which was a part of the caption of the actor’s top trending story for February that quoted lines from Moira Dela Torre’s music video “Paubaya”.
This post from the arts and entertainment page Cinema Bravo generated 77,000 engagement score with 5,000 comments, 69,000 shares and 70,000 reactions.
Taking the third spot as the mpst talked about male celebrity in Facebook is Dingdong Dantes. Posts by Filipinos about the Kapuso actor generated 952,000 engagements out of 591 posts.
The Final Stop
Among the top Facebook post about Dingdong Dantes was an Instagram Valentine’s Day post by the actor that was shared to the public by his wife, actress Marian Rivera via her official Facebook page. This post generated 9,600 engagements, with 626 comments, 319 shares, and 92,000 emoticon reactions.
Other notable local male artists for the month of February were:
- Jack Roberto with 898.4 thousand data points
- Coco Martin with 759.8 thousand data points
- Vin Abrenica with 727.9 thousand data points
- John Lloyd Cruz with 677.8 thousand data points
- Miguel Tanfelix with 596.2 thousand data points
- Xian Lim with 574.7 thousand data points
- Piolo Pascual with 493.2 Thousand data points
