Background: After the boom of mukbang videos in South Korea and its popularity spread tothe rest of the world, companies have started to use mukbang influencers tobuild a strong brand identity and to create a topic for debate.Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine womens’ outlook on mukbang videosand marketing in mukbang videos.Method: The study has a qualitative study method, where an abductive approach hasbeen chosen. Nineteen digital interview have been done to get answers to ourstudy.Conclusion: Together with the study’s empirical data and analysis, this study has been ableto clarify women’s attitude towards mukbang videos and mukbang influencerswith an insight into the differences in the generations. The result of the studyshowed that a majority of the respondents have a positive attitude towardsmukbang but that there were some critical aspects regarding the marketing ofthe products. The respondents answered that the reason for the criticism wasthat paid marketing is not seen as truthful review according to them.

Mukbang is a Korean word for ‘eating livestream’. As an emerging sub-genre of internet influencers, Mukbang influencers has become the marketing tool for some firms recently. In this paper, we will conduct a case study of small sized e-commerce firms in China’s food industry. We explore firms’ perspectives towards the emerging Mukbang phenomenon, aiming to find out which factors influence the adoption of Mukbang influencer marketing by small firms. Our research results illustrate that the main point of concern for companies is the lack of information about financial data such as the average return on investment, and also the lack of information on consumer preferences and consumer analysis. Opportunity, potential benefits, uncertainty, resources available and the characteristics of the firms (or to be more specific, the management team) are important factors that influence small firms’ marketing decisions to use or not internet influencer marketing.