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High Vibe PR is an award winning boutique, AI-native PR agency with three areas of focus: frontier tech, where scientific breakthrough meets real-world deployment, with a focus on AI and defense; consumer tech, covering AI-powered apps and the products and trends shaping how people live; and gaming and entertainment, covering the studios, platforms, infrastructure, and creators shaping culture. It was founded by Kalie Moore, previously an early team member at BITKRAFT Ventures. Senior-led accounts with no handoffs: the person who pitches you is the person who knows your market. High Vibe PR is the winner of US Agency Awards 2026 PR Agency of the Year; 2026 Bulldog PR Awards Gold recognition for both Agency That Gets Results and Best Boutique Agency; and a PR Net Next Gen Awards honour in February 2026 for pioneering AI-driven PR.
| Best for | A comprehensive communication strategy and a PR plan that includes both tier one and emerging media (newsletters, substacks, podcasts) across frontier tech, consumer tech, and gaming and entertainment, with generative engine optimization built in from day one. Available as a long-term retainer or scoped to a single moment such as a funding announcement, game launch, or platform and IP deal. |
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| Region | Global · USA, Europe, Asia |
| Client fit | Boutique by design: senior-led accounts and a deliberately small roster. Fits AI and defense companies; AI-powered consumer apps and products; venture firms; game studios running B2B and B2C campaigns; UGC platforms, creators, and studios building natively for Roblox, UEFN, and beyond; and gaming infrastructure companies spanning hosting, distribution, and direct-to-consumer monetization. |
| Public pricing | Most work runs on long-term retainers, with scoped project engagements sized to a single milestone rather than a twelve-month contract. Rates range from 10k-25k USD depending on scope. |
| Profile status | Qualified and reviewed |
Why High Vibe PR qualified
High Vibe positions itself as an AI-native PR agency across three areas of focus, with a stated operating model of senior-led accounts and no handoffs. Its stated method is to start from the client’s business goals rather than a target outlet list, then build the media plan to match, mapping each placement to where buyers actually are, from top-tier media and leading newsletters through to Product Hunt and AI search.
Frontier tech and AI proof includes the full launch of Acti, an agentic keyboard that turns a keystroke into action inside any text field, built on a TechCrunch exclusive that seeded more than 30 pickups, Product of the Day and Week on Product Hunt, the most-clicked slot in Superhuman, and a GEO footprint built from zero. The agency guided founder Simon Davis from GOAT Gaming into his pivot to wearemighty, an AI studio building real-time creative infrastructure, framing it as a natural next act rather than a reset, and secured coverage in Fortune, Forbes and top 1% podcasts. For StoReel, it leveraged a funding announcement into a broader story that introduced AI micro-drama to Western media as a category, landing a Forbes feature, a Business Insider pitch-deck exclusive, a Variety exclusive on the launch of Canvas, and a speaking slot at Web Summit. Stendr shows the same pattern on the defense side: rather than simply announcing capital, the agency placed the $5.4M raise inside the narrative of European defense sovereignty and AI-native security, earning 22 placements across tech, defense, and venture press. The work continues between funding beats, with a founding-engineer hire out of Palantir on up and coming broadcast platform ETN. Stendr is also a returning relationship, since co-founder Aleksander Leonard Larsen worked with the team previously at Sky Mavis during a four year engagement.
Gaming and entertainment is the deepest-evidenced area. High Vibe PR is the comms partner for Overwolf for over five-years positioning the company as the leading horizontal UGC platform, sustaining more than 1000 pieces of coverage per year and supporting award wins including Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in Gaming, five Drum Awards, and two Adweek Tech Awards. For CurseForge, Hogwarts Legacy became the first Warner Bros. title with official mod support, landing IGN, GameSpot, and PC Gamer across 187 pieces of coverage, while an ARK: Survival Ascended premium Power Rangers mod was framed as a mainstream entertainment moment across 40 pieces. Other named work includes Wonder Works, where the SpongeBob Tower Defense 2.0 launch went to Variety as an exclusive framed as a Paramount partnership story before carrying across IMDb, Yahoo Tech, and others; Look North World, with Hasbro bringing classic board games to Fortnite and Bandai Namco launching Gundam in Fortnite, plus founder thought leadership in Fox, CNET, Digiday, and the Game Economist Podcast; Blueberry, whose Roblox stage debut with aespa landed Billboard, NME, and Beebom before a CEO appointment carried into Forbes, GamesBeat, and the Business of Creators podcast; 9 Lives Interactive, whose Nyan Heroes campaign coined the term “agility shooter,” landed IGN and GameRant, drove 1M playtest hours, and helped the game reach Top 3 on the Epic Games Store. Venture work includes BITKRAFT Ventures, where a $275M fund close was covered in more than 39 outlets including Axios, TechCrunch, Forbes, and VentureBeat, and Play Ventures, where the firm’s returns were put front and centre and the narrative expanded beyond gaming into playable apps.
The agency’s wedge is that tier-one media still matters but is no longer the only thing that matters: buyers read Substacks and niche newsletters and ask an LLM before making purchasing decisions, and gamers are described as just as likely to buy on a ChatGPT recommendation as on an IGN review. This is treated as operational rather than positional. Generative engine optimization sits as one of five named service lines alongside narrative and positioning, media relations, founder-direct content, and awards, and covers coining a category the client can own inside the LLMs, earning citations in the sources ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI pull from, and tracking and scoring results on the agency’s own AI-visibility platform. Founder Kalie Moore launched that platform, PRCoverage, in 2025, described as the first tool that tracks which earned coverage LLMs actually cite. The clearest published outcome is Highrise, which the agency reports now ranks first on Google for most target terms and outranks Roblox on brand-adjacent searches, with new content driving 352,944 search impressions and 62,011 appearances inside Google’s AI answers, roughly 56% of the platform’s entire AI presence.
Founder credentials include a decade at the intersection of tech, gaming, and culture; building BITKRAFT Ventures’ voice from the ground up as an early team member at the $1B AUM firm; running crisis comms on the largest crypto hack in the world; building and selling an agency; co-hosting the Naavik Podcast; and being named to AdAge Women to Watch Europe. She is also an angel investor and LP.
Current reputation evidence includes US Agency Awards 2026 PR Agency of the Year; 2026 Bulldog PR Awards Gold recognition for both Agency That Gets Results and Best Boutique Agency; and a PR Net Next Gen Awards honour in February 2026 for pioneering AI-driven PR. The agency also treats speaking slots as earned media, pitching panels and prepping founders, with client placements at Fortune Brainstorm AI, Web Summit Lisbon, SXSW Austin, FT Digital Assets Summit London, and Token2049 Singapore.
Awards, published coverage, and conference agendas are independently verifiable. Campaign volume and impression figures, including coverage counts, estimated views, and search and AI-answer impressions, remain agency-reported and receive lower confidence than independent confirmation.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths: Direct senior involvement with no account handoffs; breadth across frontier tech, consumer tech, and gaming and entertainment; an AI-native operating model; generative engine optimization backed by a proprietary AI-visibility platform rather than positioning alone; flexible engagement shapes, either always-on retainer or a scope built around a single moment; and current independent recognition topped by a 2026 agency-of-the-year win.
Trade-offs: Selective capacity by design; no published pricing; and gaming and entertainment carries substantially more named case-study proof than consumer tech, where the agency’s published work is thinnest.
Best-fit buyer
An AI or defense company; an AI-powered consumer app or product team; a venture firm; or a game studio, UGC platform, or gaming infrastructure company that wants senior attention, an AI-native operating model, and coverage LLMs cite. Suits buyers who prefer a small senior team over a large-team scale play, and who can work with either an always-on retainer or a scope built around one moment.
Sources and review status
- US Agency Awards 2026
- 2026 Bulldog PR Awards
- The PR Net Next Gen Awards
Last reviewed: September 23, 2026. This profile appears in Best Gaming PR Agencies in 2026 and Best AI PR Agencies in 2026. If you have newer evidence, request a correction.