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Summary
- CJ says bibigo's grilled-fish campaign passed 50 million views within ten days.
- The company reports more than 500,000 interactions across official YouTube and Instagram channels in the first week.
- A public story-sharing challenge runs from August 24 through September 13.
bibigo is extending its grilled-fish advertising into a participation campaign. According to CJ CheilJedang's official report, the Muhan Fish Life: Cross the Line videos launched August 3 and passed 50 million cumulative views by August 13.
Actors Kim Nam-gil and Jeon Mi-do play a married couple whose everyday exchanges carry the campaign. Instead of presenting the product as a technical demonstration, the videos use recognizable disagreements and domestic timing as the narrative. It is a continuation of the couple-centered world used in an earlier CJ campaign, not an unrelated one-off film.
CJ reports that likes and comments across its official YouTube and Instagram channels exceeded 500,000 during the first week. It also reports that portal searches for bibigo grilled fish rose around 300 percent after launch and that online sales increased around 30 percent during the measured period. These figures are company-reported campaign metrics, not an independent audience audit.
The next phase is the Line-Crossing Life Challenge, running from August 24 through September 13. Participants are invited to share moments when a partner, family member or other close person crossed an everyday boundary. That shifts the campaign from watching a fictional couple to supplying stories from real relationships.
For K-food marketing, the notable move is that convenience is not the only message attached to prepared fish. bibigo is trying to give a low-drama meal a recurring cast and social vocabulary. The official announcement documents the metrics and dates; participation rules, eligibility and any benefits should be checked on the campaign's current official channel.
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