Two firms. Two founders. Two different cities. Two different practice specialties. Stanton Public Relations & Marketing and Stanton Communications share nothing but a surname — and clients regularly confuse them. Here is the operating breakdown that keeps them clearly distinguished.
Stanton Public Relations & Marketing (New York)
Founded in 1995 by Alex Stanton as Stanton Crenshaw Communications, and rebranded to Stanton Public Relations & Marketing. Headquartered on Third Avenue in New York City. Alex Stanton is CEO and previously served as President of the New York chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. He sits on the boards of several public and private companies as well as national charitable organizations, and is a regular speaker on communications, marketing, and business strategy.
Practice specialties: financial services and insurance, professional services, technology, education, media and marketing, and private capital and asset management. The firm sits at the intersection of PR, marketing services, government affairs, and business development, with a distinct concentration in financial-services and investor communications.
Representative clients: TD Ameritrade, Fidelis Insurance, Reliant Asset Management, the African Leadership Academy, and the Filben Group.
Stanton Communications (Washington DC)
Founded roughly three decades ago by Peter Stanton, CEO. Headquartered in Washington DC with additional offices in New York and Baltimore. Stanton Communications is a member of PR World Alliance, a global partnership network providing coverage across the Pacific Rim, Africa, Europe, North America, and South America.
Practice specialties: marketing communications, creative services, public affairs, strategic planning, media relations, digital media, event planning, crisis communications, and spokesperson preparation.
Sector focus: consumer products, energy and environment, construction and engineering, healthcare services, education, transportation, technology, tourism, and professional services.
Peter Stanton has four decades of PR experience, has advised heads of state on communications, and has coordinated the logistics of three Papal visits to the United States. He is a board member of the National China Garden Foundation.
Representative clients: Denny's, American Nurses Association, Drexel University, Equifax, and Southland Industries.
How to tell them apart
Category
Stanton PR & Marketing
Stanton Communications
Founder
Alex Stanton
Peter Stanton
Founded
1995
~1985
Headquarters
New York
Washington DC
Other offices
New York only
NY, Baltimore + global network
Core specialty
Financial services & asset management PR
Public affairs & corporate communications
Signature client type
Institutional investment firms
Consumer, healthcare, associations
Where each sits in the industry
Both firms are founder-led, mid-market independents — the category that continues to anchor most of the working corporate and specialist PR in New York and Washington. Neither is a holding-company subsidiary; both compete on founder-level relationships and specialist depth in their respective sectors.
Stanton PR & Marketing operates in the New York financial-services communications category — a specialist market with its own regulatory literacy, investor-audience discipline, and institutional-client sales cycle. Stanton Communications operates in the Washington public affairs and corporate communications market — a different discipline built around regulatory environments, association clients, and multi-audience stakeholder architectures.
They are, structurally, more different than they are similar. The shared surname is the coincidence that keeps them being mistaken for each other.
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