Press

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2024

January 19, 2024

Mediacorp, Vibes by 8world (Singapore)

想暂时逃离日常生活压力?走入本地团体Whisperlodge打造的多房间装置,通过日常生活接触的事物开启感官,用ASMR(自主感觉经络反应)疗愈自我。

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January 12, 2024

TimeOut Singapore

The company will be presenting Wishful Thinking, which puts a slightly different spin on things. During this experience, you'll be guided through multiple rooms and installations to explore and immerse in a variety of textures and sounds.

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2022

September 13, 2022

Her World Singapore

My Weird, Wonderful Experience At Whisperlodge

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September 13, 2022

TimeOut Singapore

This live ASMR experience in an industrial building will blow your mind – if you let it

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September 7, 2022

TimeOut Singapore

At Whisperlodge, participants are led through an immersive 90-minute journey during which they are exposed to a lush medley of sensations – visual, auditory and touch – that aim to provide relaxation and intimacy.

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2021

May 19 2021

Sensory Immersive

Immersive World documentary, season 2, episode 3

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2020

May 29, 2020

State Of The Art podcast

The Art of ASMR: Melinda Lauw of Whisperlodge

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May 5, 2020

ArkDes

Pillow talk: ASMR and care

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February 24, 2020

NBC New York

ASMR Spa Brings Tingles to New York

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February 24, 2020

Vice

We Spent a Day at an ASMR Spa

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February 20, 2020

Rolling Stone

An Oral History of ASMR

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February 13, 2020

VML

Q&A with Melinda Lauw, co-creator and creative director, Whisperlodge

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January 29, 2020

Channel 8, Mediacorp (Singapore)

晨光|潮流解码:自发性知觉经络反应(ASMR)成年轻网路时代风潮

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2019

December 19, 2019

The Science of Happiness podcast

Episode 55: How to Get Your Senses Tingling

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December 7, 2019

The Amy Beecher Show

Episode 36: Whispering with Dr. Craig Richard and Melinda Lauw

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December 7, 2019

Immersion Nation podcast

Episode 19: Invisible but not hidden: Wellness and the transformation economy

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December 7, 2019

American Way, the American Airlines in-flight magazine

Whisperlodge brings a live ASMR experience to guests who want to feel the tingle

August 12, 2019

Event Marketer

ASMR is trending, but doing it well takes more than a light touch

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April 8, 2019

FBE React

Seniors Try An ASMR SPA for the First Time

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April 4, 2019

New York Times Magazine

How A.S.M.R. Became a Sensation

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March 14, 2019

Haunting

Adapting an ASMR Experience for the Deaf Community

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March 12, 2019

Vulture

Inside the Rise of the ASMR Commercial

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March 8, 2019

LA Weekly

14 Best Things To Do In L.A. this Week

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February 22, 2019

Telemundo 52 LA

Relajándose mediante los susurros

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February 21, 2019

We Like LA

Whisperlodge is an ASMR Video Performed in Real Life

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February 13, 2019

WBUR 90.0=9, Boston’s NPR News Station

From Super Bowl AD to YouTube Videos, ASMR Is Giving People Tingles

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January 28, 2019

B-Side (Singapore)

Melinda Lauw: To Make Art Your Body Responds To

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2018

November 18, 2018

The Straits Times (Singapore)

Heard of ASMR? Millions are watching people whisper to a camera

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October 18, 2018

YPulse

This Startup Is Selling Out Its Oddly Satisfying Events

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October 17, 2018

Al Jazeera News

Is there more to ASMR than brain tingles?

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October 23, 2018

Esquire Singapore

Episode 13: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)

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October 4, 2018

The Hindu (India)

Projects like Whisperlodge, which describes itself as the very first in-person immersive ASMR experience, want to ‘bring ASMR into the real world, up close and personal’.

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October 2, 2018

Politkya (Poland)

ASMR, czyli terapia szeptem

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September 10, 2018

Mashable

We went to an ASMR spa and it got real intimate real fast.

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September, 2018

Nippon TV (Japan)

Aired on Japan's longest running variety show "Sekai No Hate Made ItteQ"

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August 30, 2018

Newsweek

Inside the Whispery, Wonderful Golden Age of ASMR

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August 27, 2018

Now This

ASMR Spa Brings Soothing Experience To Life

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August 23, 2018

Netflix: Follow This original series

Part 1, Episode 1: The Internet Whisperers

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August 15, 2018

Reuters

Whisperlodge is immersive theater through live ASMR

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August 14, 2018

Fox 5 NY

Good Day New York visits Whisperlodge

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February 15, 2018

The New York Times

The Tingle Makers, Open for Business

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April 19, 2018

WCBS 880

The Sensory Pleasures Of ASMR At Whisperlodge

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February 7, 2018

The Minnesota Star Tribune

Scientists have found out why voices like Bob Ross' is so soothing

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2017

, 2017

Buzzfeed

We sent three Buzzfeed employees to see what the fuck is going on

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June 5, 2017

The Atlantic

Two artists are trying to translate relaxing YouTube videos into an in-person treatment—complete with tapping, whispering, and face-brushing

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November 23, 2017

Nylon

What it's like inside an ASMR spa

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December 17, 2017

Ud & Se (Denmark)

Those who whisper are enjoying

Page 78 of issue 418

November 16, 2017

Die Welt (Germany)

ASMR is like climbing back into the mother's womb, and when it's over, you experience the shock of birth again

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November 5, 2017

Ix Daily

I was at Whisperlodge, a 90-minute immersive performance slash spa that offers only one kind of treatment: ASMR.

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November 3, 2017

60 Second Docs

Massaging your mind with sound

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October 26, 2017

Insider Beauty

This is not your average spa experience

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October 11, 2017

WhispersRed ASMR

✨ ASMR Spa Treatments | My visit to Whisperlodge ✨

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October 9, 2017

No Proscenium

‘Whisperlodge’ Brings The Gentle Art of ASMR Alive (The NoPro Review)

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October 4, 2017

No Proscenium

Co-creators Andrew Hoepfner and Melinda Lauw talk to us about the show’s evolution, casting, essential oils, and the act of giving

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October 4, 2017

Pigeons & Planes

One of the oddest corners of the internet is making the leap to real life

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September 30, 2017

Today (Singapore)

S’porean sets up ASMR ‘audio spa’ whispering, crinkling objects to customers in US

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September 21, 2017

Haunting

Whisperlodge brings ASMR into the physical realm

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May 19, 2017

TimeOut San Francisco

An immersive whispering spa is opening on Governors Island for a weekend

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September 7, 2017

MarketWatch

Why people are paying to hear strangers whisper and get stroked by Q-tips

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August 2, 2017

A.V. Club

Very, very quietly enter this cult-like ASMR spa

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May 19, 2017

TimeOut New York

An immersive whispering spa is opening on Governors Island for a weekend

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2016

November 22, 2016

New York Magazine: The Cut

You can now get your ASMR fix in person

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December 23, 2016

The Scene

Turn your sound up—you haven’t heard Christmas carols like this before

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October 31, 2016

Circa News

How Whisperlodge is bringing the internet phenomenon of ASMR to real life

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October 14, 2016

No Proscenium

Episode 068: Zay talks to Andrew Hoepfner and Melinda Lauw of Whisperlodge, a recent experiment in live ASMR experiences in New York

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