Acts will compete against each other in order to gain the audience support to win the prize money and the title of Pilipinas Got Talent.

Auditions are held in key cities such as Manila, Baguio, Batangas, Cebu, Davao and Cagayan de Oro.

To date, there have been six winners: Jovit Baldivino, Marcelito Pomoy, the Maasinhon Trio, Roel Manlangit, the Power Duo, and Kristel de Catalina.

Since the second season, in addition to the major auditions, there have been mini-auditions held in various provinces and cities throughout the Philippines and judged by the Pilipinas Got Talent staff.

The season ended last June 12 and 13, 2010 at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Metro Manila where the twelve acts competed for the prize.

The major auditions for the second season were held in Dagupan, Batangas, Naga, Cebu, Davao and Metro Manila.

Falsetto singer Marcelito Pomoy from Cavite was crowned as the winner of the second season, winning the ₱4,000,000.00 (about £29,000, €32,650, US$46,250) grand prize.

Major auditions are held in Baguio, Manila, Batangas, Cebu, Bacolod, Tacloban, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, and General Santos.

In this season, Luis Manzano and Billy Crawford became a judge substitute for a while of Aiai Delas Alas and Kris Aquino, respectively.

The Judges' Cull was held in ABS-CBN Studios in Quezon City where 24 acts from Luzon and Mindanao made it to the semi-finals.

This is the season which marks the introduction of semifinal round where the top 12 acts who won the quarterfinals will compete for the six slots in the grand finals.

[15] Therefore, numerous teasers are being released prior to the change of the lineup and two weeks leading to the premiere, actress Angel Locsin, actor Robin Padilla, and comedian Vice Ganda will be joining the judging panel.

The Grand Finale, so called "The Greatest Showdown", was held on April 28 and 29, 2018 at the Bren Z. Guiao Convention Center & Sports Complex at San Fernando, Pampanga, where 32 year-old spiral pole dancer Kristel de Catalina became the second non-singing act to win the show.

Kristel de Catalina hailed as PGT season 6 grand winner, winning ₱4,000,000.00 (about £28,100, €31,900, US$38,700) cash and a vacation package from 2GO Travel.

The season was re-aired last March 2020 as part of ABS-CBN's programming changes due to the enhanced community quarantines imposed in Luzon, until the network was shut down.

[19] This is also the first time that the program will not air on the main ABS-CBN terrestrial channel after the network was issued a cease and desist order from the National Telecommunications Commission on May 5, 2020, due to the lapse of its broadcast franchise.

On October 15, 2024, a teaser appeared on Kapamilya Online Live teasing the return of the show for its seventh season after a six-year hiatus.

Instead, he made suggestions on other celebrities who can host the show like Robi Domingo, Donny Pangilinan, Edward Barber, Enchong Dee, Bianca Gonzalez and Melai Cantiveros.

In season 3, Luis Manzano and Billy Crawford served as guest judges, temporary replacing Ai-Ai delas Alas and Kris Aquino as respectively during the auditions.

Introduced on the fifth season, the Golden Buzzer has the ability to send a contestant or act to proceed immediately to the semi-finals, skipping the Judges' Cull phase.

[40][41] In the sixth season of the show, Robin Padilla drew flak from the netizens for "forcing" a South Korean contestant to speak in Tagalog.

[42] In an episode aired on January 13, 2018, Kim Ji-wan, a South Korean who has been living in the Philippines for ten years, asked Robin Padilla to help him with his card trick.

Mag-Tagalog ka kasi magmumukha kaming katawa-tawa kung mag-i-English kami dito para sa'yo.

)[43] Viewers quickly turned to social media sites, stating that Padilla's attitude towards the Korean contestant was rude and racist.

[44] In the sixth season of the show, the Playgirls, a four-member girl group, washed a car while gyrating and twerking in their underwear.

Padilla then added: "Gusto niyo ba 'yun na mga kalalakihan ay humahanga sa inyo?"

The Playgirls themselves criticized Locsin on their own Facebook pages after the incident, pointing out her bikini costume when she played Darna back in 2005.

During the second week of live semifinals aired on April 1, 2018, Kristel de Catalina, a single mom, performed a spiral pole dance act that received a standing ovation from the judges and the audience.

It was at this point when Robin Padilla suddenly spoke to the microphone, exclaiming, "Pero kailangan mo pa rin ng lalaki!"

[52] Padilla was once again under fire by netizens for his sexist and misogynistic comment made after Kristel de Catalina's grand final performance on April 28, 2018.