Rentrak Selected as a Finalist for TechAmerica's Oregon Technology Awards

Rentrak Selected as a Finalist for TechAmerica's Oregon Technology Awards

--Revolutionary StationView Essentials System Selected as a "Cool Product of the Year" Finalist --

PORTLAND, Ore., March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RENTRAK CORPORATION (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising, television and entertainment industries, today announced the company's leading census-based television ratings measurement service, StationView Essentials, was selected as a finalist for TechAmerica's Oregon Technology Awards in the "Cool Product of the Year" category. This accolade is presented to the company that has developed, and/or introduced a cool product that has had a significant and demonstrable success in the past 12 months and has created significant new opportunities for the company.

"Rentrak is proud to be named a finalist in TechAmerica's Oregon Technology Awards for our StationView Essentials service which is revolutionizing audience measurement across local television markets, and deeply impacting the level of insight available to TV stations, networks, advertisers and agencies nationwide. Rentrak is the only company able to deliver a technology that allows TV stations to understand what's happening with their audiences in all 210 U.S. television markets, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year in great detail," said Steve Walsh, Senior Vice President of Local Market Television at Rentrak.

"I am very proud of my talented and dedicated technology teams for the design and development of StationView Essentials and several other similar products that have revolutionized TV and on-demand audience measurement," said Amir Yazdani, Executive Vice President, IT & Chief Information Officer.

Rentrak's StationView Essentials provides daily measurement of all TV programing nationally and at a granular level for TV stations in all 210 media markets nationwide. The service incorporates information from over 19 million televisions and is the only fully integrated system of detailed satellite, telco and cable TV viewing data commercially available. Having signed its first client in January 2010, StationView Essentials now currently serves more than 150 stations from more than 30 station groups in more than 70 DMAs across the nation.

All of this year's Technology Awards will be presented at the Oregon Technology Awards ceremony to be held at the Portland Art Museum on May 9, 2012.

About Rentrak Corporation

Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT) is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable companies in the entertainment industry. With a reach across numerous platforms including box office, multi-screen television, and home video, Rentrak has developed more efficient metrics to be used as database currencies for the evaluation and selling of media. Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional U.S. and international offices. For more information on Rentrak, please visit www.rentrak.com.

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Rachel Whaley of RAW Photography Shoots Project Runway All Stars for Finale

Rachel Whaley of RAW Photography Shoots Project Runway All Stars for Finale

LOS ANGELES, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Project Runway All Stars© photographed by RAW Photography is pleased to announce the publication of its five page spread featuring their finalists.

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Photographed by the accomplished young photographer Rachel Whaley, this dynamic layout features the Project All Star Runway designers Mondo, Michael, Mila, Anthony, Austin and April all pushing themselves to the limit to become the Project Runway All Stars winner.

Rachel has staged a spectacular layout featuring the best of the Project Runway All Stars fabulous fashions on some of America's most beautiful models in stunning settings that highlight the couture creations that have brought the finalists to this final level of competition.

With the Project Runway All Stars airing its finale this week, the pressure mounts as celebrity judge's fashion designers Georgina Chapman and Isaac Mizrahi push the designers to their creative limits. Creators of the program Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig originated of the famous fashion label Marchesa.

Rachel Whaley photographed the Project Runway All Stars for Palm Springs Life to reflect the elegance of the finalist's designs, exhibiting the best of the best in this high pressure competition watched by millions of My Lifetime and A&E Networkviewers weekly.

Hosted by Angela Lindvall and mentored by Joanna Coles, the winner receives the most lucrative prizing ever in "Project Runway" history. Prizes include an exclusive designer's boutique in select Neiman Marcus stores and on Neiman Marcus.com, $100,000 dollars in technology and office space to help grow their business from HP and Intel, $100,000 cash from L'Oreal Paris, a feature spread in Marie Claire, for which he or she will serve as a guest editor for one year, and a sewing and embroidery studio provided by Brother International so the pressure is high.

"This spectacular photographic layout of the Project Runway All Stars was one of the most challenging of my career," said Rachel Whaley. With feature articles in Digital Pro Magazine, Palm Springs Life, and trained by the Art Center of Pasadena, Whaley's work has brought her acclaim and recognition at an early age.

"I feel blessed that designers like Lloyd Kline and Michael Costello have given me the opportunity to photograph their fashions," and Social Media has made her a star in here own right. Rachel and her company RAW Photography have hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and Twitter and her spectacular ability to see through the eye of the camera has lifted her high resolution fashion photography to new heights.

With fashion and product work worldwide Rachel has become one of the most sought after photographers in the business.

For further information contact:
Rachel Whaley, RAW Photography
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949-584-6239
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