Our Clients, Our Partners
At Sayles & Winnikoff Communications, we take pride in collaborating with organizations that drive meaningful change. Whether in arts, entertainment, technology, or the nonprofit sector, our clients trust us to craft compelling narratives, amplify their message, and help them achieve their goals.
A Diverse Range of Clients, A Unified Purpose
We collaborate with clients across arts, media, technology, and social causes, tailoring our approach to meet their unique needs. Whether supporting nonprofits driving change or tech companies shaping the future, we adapt our strategies to maximize impact. No matter the industry, our commitment to your success remains unwavering.
Clients
Sayles & Winnikoff Communications are PR generalists with experience and expertise across a range of businesses and services
Press Clippings
Voices of Trust: What Our Clients Say
I have worked with Sayles & Winnikoff for more than 5 years now, as head of global brand development for Zoonicorn, LLC. It’s exciting and impressive to find a PR firm that melds so seamlessly with our brand/project. S&W is an indispensable part of the Zoonicorn core marketing team. Alan Winnikoff heads the public relations and social media, and with his team, I am always impressed with how much they tackle and accomplish. They look for new ways to be involved and add value, while continuing to keep up with existing work-flow. I highly recommend Sayles & Winnikoff, especially for smaller and medium-size brands who want to make a big statement anywhere in the world!
J’net Smith
Owner All Art Licensing Zoonicorn Brand Director/Master Agent Global Licensing
“The thing I most appreciate about the Sayles & Winnikoff team is the extent to which they put client service above all else. They are truly thoughtful in their efforts to ensure that I am well served, and this is so clear to me that I somehow feel compelled to look after them. As someone in a service-oriented profession, I greatly appreciate my relationship with Alan and his colleagues and how they ALWAYS think of how they can help me achieve my goals.”
Matthew D. Asbell
Partner and Member of Lippes Mathias' Intellectual Property Team
As an entrepreneur and founder of three diverse companies, we've worked with various marketing, PR, and advertising agencies to develop, promote, and further our brands. It's extremely hard to find quality, genuine commitment that not only delivers but also proactively pursues networked contacts that we can leverage for our business. Fortunately, we found Sales & Winnikoff in this manner through a licensed contract. It's rare to find a firm that handles branding, PR, and social media, has the reach and positioning to deliver, and possesses the ability to maintain. They truly become an extension of your business, driving your strategic initiatives forward with their large network and expertise. And, they are great people.
Pat Shirkey
President, Teddy Mountain LLC
Sayles & Winnikoff has been persistent and responsive in their work on our behalf. They put in the time to learn our people, our business and the nuance of our industry, and then brought national media contacts up to speed on our unique position and products. We had just engaged them early in 2020 to assist in the promotion of our newly completed hospitality center, when the global pandemic bore down on us. S&W helped us to pivot, proactively working with my team to build a calendar of virtual events and interactive activities that allowed our clients all around the world to connect meaningfully with our wines and our people. Their professional review of our website, social media planning and outward online and print media presence were helpful in polishing the face that we are presenting to the world. We have a more refined ability to tell our story clearly and connect with our customers with thanks to their talented team.
Nathan R. Carlson
Winemaker / General Manager
Sayles & Winnikoff Communications has added a professional dimension to the strategic planning, development and execution of the Broadcasting & Cable Annual Hall of Fame Awards. During their tenure the event has grown significantly both in stature and attendance, which is due in no small part to their contribution in the communications area raising both awareness and prestige at the highest levels of the television industry. We are pleased to be partnered with this committed group of media professionals and consider them to be an integral part of our team.
Bill McGorry
Former Chairman B&C Hall of Fame Awards
Sayles and Winnikoff provide a totally different service than simply communications. They are strategic partners for the launch and development of programming from the finance stage through distribution and trade and consumer outreach. Their three dimensional approach to the market along with thorough preparation and follow through makes them an indispensable element in the marketing mix.
Doug Schwalbe
Founder The Co-Production Compan
When FableVision has news we want to shout from the rooftops, Sayles & Winnikoff are always our first call. They are total pros, equal parts strategic, creative, and detail-oriented. Through careful preparation and a keen understanding of the industry, they have helped us tell our stories — from new division launches to unique brand initiatives — with an authentic approach that has led to some incredible coverage.
Sarah Ditkof
VP of Strategic Partnerships Fablevision Studios
We asked the team at Sayles & Winnikoff to do several impossible things – understand the quirky corporate structure that we’re still developing; work within those evolving boundaries; learn about an emerging field of scientific study; brainstorm how that field applies to business; develop a shifting, flexible strategy for promoting and publicizing our content and ideas within that newly defined applied business field; all while dealing with a petulant and very needy client lead (i.e. me). The fact that they were able to do all of that, and so much more, all of which exceeded our unreasonable expectations, and none of which involved murdering this petulant, needy man, is a testament to their skills, patience, client-focused attention and learning and, probably, their lack of sharp stabby objects. They are great.
Jeff Kreisler
Editor in Chief PeopleScience.com
Since my firm started business with Sayles and Winnikoff Communications, we have been quoted and featured in over 100 times in local, national, and international publications resulting from their efforts. Sayles & Winnikoff has been instrumental in doubling our revenue over the course of a year from the time we started our relationship with them in 2017.
Sayles and Winnikoff has given us the opportunity to rebrand our practice, emphasizing the niche we had already started to cultivate. Rebranding our firm from criminal defense to cannabis law is especially difficult when cannabis policy is constantly changing. At the time, there were already significant players in the field. Now, Margolin and Lawrence is exclusively a cannabis practice largely because of the work that Carina Sayles and Alan Winnikoff have done for us. Many of our competitors were not able to achieve the cultivation of a cannabis niche the way Sayles and Winnikof has helped us to create, giving us an advantage as we navigate cannabis law.
The public relations firm is able to set up radio, newspaper interviews on almost a moments notice. In addition to helping us attract business, their ability to create media opportunities in locales that we were entering for the first time has instilled confidence in new clients, who can have continued confidence in our representation.
Carina Sayles has gone above and beyond in helping me realize my dream in becoming an author.With the revenues increasing over the past year, I was able to put those funds towards hiring a co-author and turn my dream into a day job. She has helped seek out opportunities in finding an agent, publisher, and more
Allison Margolin
Margolin & Lawrence
Our non-profit staff of three is responsible for a variety of programs and accountable to numerous partners and stakeholders. S&W has become a valued extension of our staff. Together we develop and promote campaigns that effectively leverage resources and win recognition.
Leslie Collins
Executive Director
Working with Sayles & Winnikoff Communications has been a remarkable experience. I cannot stress enough how much we value and appreciate Alan and Carina. Their ability to work across the various partners in our collaborative “For Youth By Youth” digital storytelling initiative, and masterfully represent each of our voices, surpassed our expectations. They are an effective and efficient communications firm that includes strong expertise in digital media, and the children, youth and family markets; plus they have the experience necessary to react quickly to rapidly changing needs and requests. Sayles & Winnikoff Communications not only brought these qualities and characteristics, but they demonstrated enormous energy, detail, and innovation to our newly launched program, including getting us published in a variety of multi-media news outlets. Just as important as their professionalism, they are great people to work with and we look forward to finding ways to secure their services in the future.
Ed Greene
VP, Children, Youth & Media Literacy Initiatives Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network (HITN)
“During my tenure as Publicity Lead at Amazon Studios, we brought Sayles & Winnikoff in after an extensive vetting process, initially to handle primetime dramas but as our kids’ slate expanded, we utilized their expertise with educational kids content to promote our high profile original preschool series. Working closely with us as a vital extension of our team, we eventually utilized them for a wide variety of support. They identified partners for events and promotions, brainstormed and implemented events and stunts for both our kids and adult programming launches at major Los Angeles venues and also jumped in to organize and run the major press conference for our programming at Comic Con.
S&W also handled set coverage, secured high-profile press exclusives, reviews and features and coordinated content and posts with the Amazon social media team for both the kids series and prime time dramas, and submitted daily reports to share with our corporate office on their activities and results.”
Allie Lee
Former Market Manager Amazon Studios
