As an early proponent of crowdsourced journalism, some content was based on reader-submitted tips and complaints.

[1] In creating Consumerist, Denton established its slogan and initial focus on readers' complaints, "consumer-oriented news nuggets, funny pictures and shopping tips — all with the same snarky tone that characterizes Gawker properties like Wonkette and Defamer.

"[4] Gawker put the site up for sale in November 2008, at the same time it announced the closure of one of its other blogs, Valleywag.

Following the acquisition, Marco and Popken shared the title of Co-Executive Editor, and contributors Chris Walters and Carey Greenberg-Berger, who had been laid off by Gawker, were reinstated.

At the time it was acquired from Gawker, it had monthly traffic of approximately 10 million pageviews, and had similar levels as of 2014.

Past feature "moments" have included Moo and Oink grocery stores (Chicago, Illinois) and Mr. Appliance (Eugene, Oregon).

"[11] Consumerist ran an annual "Worst Company In America" contest with the winner determined by a series of reader polls.

The single-elimination tournament was similar in format to college basketball's March Madness being held simultaneously.

After recording this call, Ferrari both posted it to his blog and submitted it to Consumerist tip line.

[17] Manufacturers perform these reductions to reduce their own costs but do not pass any savings on to the customer.

On February 15, 2009, Consumerist broke the news of a terms of service clause that gave Facebook the right to "Do anything they want with your content.