Consumers Union’s New Consumer Media Unit Could Expand Beyond Consumerist; No Paid Ads Allowed

Consumers Union’s new non-profit subsidiary Consumer Media LLC launches on Jan. 1 with newly acquired Consumerist.com as its only property but the announcement release stressed that it’s the first. Does this mean more acquisitions are on the way? “The short answer is we don’t know,” Ken Weine, VP-communications, told us. “We may down the road acquire or create new items.” Consumer Media is viewed as a way to expand the nonprofit’s consumer advocacy mission and to take advantage of a growth spurt in recent years...