Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending March 8, 2009

Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending March 8, 2009

LOS ANGELES, March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Retail and Home Video Essentials, business units of Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ:RENT) , today announced the Top 10 DVD sales and rentals for the prior week based on estimated consumer spending.

According to the company's proprietary tracking services, the top ten selling DVDs and the top ten most rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week ending March 8, 2009 include:

   Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*    RANK    TITLE                               STUDIO   WEEKS IN RELEASE     1     Beverly Hills Chihuahua             Disney           1     2     Australia                            FOX             1     3     Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa       DreamWorks         5     4     High School Musical 3: Senior Year  Disney           3     5     Body of Lies                        Warner           3     6     Air Bud (Special Edition)           Disney           1     7     Changeling                         Universal         3     8     Space Buddies                       Disney           5     9     The Haunting of Molly Hartley        FOX             2     10    Fireproof                            Sony            6     *Week ended March 7, 2009    Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs    RANK    TITLE                            STUDIO    WEEKS IN RELEASE     1     Australia                          FOX              1     2     Beverly Hills Chihuahua         Walt Disney         1     3     Body Of Lies                      Warner            3     4     Changeling                      Universal           3     5     In The Electric Mist              Image             1     6     Quarantine                         Sony             3     7     Nights In Rodanthe                Warner            4     8     The Haunting Of Molly Hartley      FOX              2     9     Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa     DreamWorks          5     10    Lakeview Terrace                   Sony             6     About Retail Essentials(R)  

Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles in the U.S. brick-and-mortar channel. No other service provides faster access to in-depth market data and weekly estimations of gross consumer spending. Rentrak delivers sell-through data broken down by DVD title, format, category, genre, TV market and more, within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients can access current, weekly, and historical title sales data to competitively benchmark industry performance.

About Home Video Essentials(R)

Home Video Essentials is Rentrak's exclusive point-of-sale (POS) tracking system, which measures title-level performance via rental transactions on over 65,000 DVD and video game properties in the brick-and-mortar, online, and kiosk channels across North America. Rentrak is the world's largest processor of rental data, tracking in excess of one billion transactions each year from more than 13,700 storefronts within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients are able to identify consumer trends, quantify performance, and benchmark findings against the broader business sector.

About Rentrak Corporation

Rentrak Corporation, based in Portland, Oregon, is an information management company serving clients in the media, entertainment, retail and advertising industries. The company's Entertainment Essentials(R) suite of services is redefining media measurement in the digital broadband era. Entertainment Essentials provides customers with near-real-time, actionable insight into performance of content distributed over a wide variety of modern media technologies. Available by license or subscription, each Entertainment Essentials application allows executives to analyze detailed industry-wide and title-specific data to make decisions that enhance the bottom line and provide competitive advantage. For further information, please visit Rentrak's corporate website at http://www.rentrak.com/.

   Contacts:   Sallie Olmsted/Amanda Bartz               Rentrak Corporation               310-854-8124/8151  

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CONTACT: Sallie Olmsted, +1-310-854-8124, or Amanda Bartz,
+1-310-854-8151, both for Rentrak Corporation

Web Site: http://www.rentrak.com/

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