Clubby is an immersive karaoke booth that IMERSIA installs at your company events: you step in as a small group, pick your track and sing, out of sight. Because let’s be honest: everyone loves karaoke. Right up to the moment of taking the microphone in front of the whole company, with the sales director in the front row. Then, oddly, volunteers become scarce. What if we kept the fun and removed the stage?
Why is karaoke such good team building?
Karaoke works as team building because it makes people laugh, brings them closer, and asks for no particular talent. What it has going for it:
- You let go: it’s hard to hold on to your manager posture while butchering an eighties hit.
- You do something together: an improvised duet, a chorus everyone joins, and the team bonds without noticing.
- Departments mix: finance sings with sales, the intern with the HR director. Music takes barriers down faster than any workshop.
- You build shared memories: the kind people bring up at the coffee machine for weeks.
The one real problem with classic karaoke? The stage. And that is exactly where everything changes.
Karaoke booth or karaoke on a stage: what’s the difference?
On a stage, one person sings facing the whole room; in the Clubby karaoke booth, you sing in twos or in a small group, with no audience. The result: it isn’t the same people who take part.
| What matters | Karaoke on a stage | The Clubby karaoke booth |
|---|---|---|
| Audience | The whole room is watching | Only the people inside |
| Pressure | High, especially for the shy | Almost none |
| Who joins in | Always the same volunteers | Everyone, when they feel like it |
| What you keep | A few blurry photos | The video of your turn |
The extroverts keep their moment of glory. Everyone else discovers they quite like singing after all. Nobody loses.
How does the Clubby karaoke booth work?
It comes down to four moves: you step in, choose your song, sing along with the lyrics on screen, and leave with your video. No technician to call, no microphone feedback: it runs on its own throughout your event. IMERSIA handles the set-up before your guests arrive and the take-down at the end of the night. You enjoy it.
In practice: over 80 million tracks in the catalogue, up to eight people per turn, and up to five playlists put together with you beforehand, covers included. The volume is set to suit your room: we measure about 60 dB outside the cabin, the level of a conversation. At the end of the session a QR code appears on screen and the video goes straight to the phone. The content is also sent by email and gathered in the event’s online gallery.
A bonus: Clubby isn’t only a karaoke booth. The cabin also brings together a wall of music, a photo booth and a video booth. To see every side of it, head to our photo booth hire page.
How do you make corporate karaoke work?
Corporate karaoke works with the right timing, the right playlist and one golden rule: never push anyone. What we’ve learned in the field:
- Pick the right moment: after dinner or at the end of the day, once the mood has settled. At nine in the morning, even Freddie Mercury would struggle.
- Mix the generations in the playlist: current hits, noughties anthems, timeless classics. Everyone should find their track.
- Send the leadership in first: nothing frees a team like a director who dares.
- Let people come to it: that is the whole advantage of a cabin. Nobody is picked out; everyone goes in when they feel ready.
Which company events does it suit?
The Clubby karaoke booth belongs at every moment that brings your teams together. It closes an off-site, lights up your company party and rounds out your team building days perfectly.
Ready to discover your colleagues’ hidden talents? Ask for your Clubby hire quote. For a private party, see our wedding and birthday offers.