Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending July 19, 2009

Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending July 19, 2009

LOS ANGELES, July 23 /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 July 19, 2009 include:

   Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*     RANK  TITLE                                   STUDIO  WEEKS IN RELEASE    ----  -----                                   ------  ----------------     1   The Haunting in Connecticut             Lionsgate      1     -   ---------------------------             ---------      -     2   Knowing                                  Summit        2     -   -------                                  ------        -     3   Push                                     Summit        2     -   ----                                     ------        -     4   Gran Torino                              Warner        6     -   -----------                              ------        -     5   The Unborn                              Universal      2     -   ----------                              ---------      -     6   Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail        Lionsgate      5     -   --------------------------------        ---------      -     7   Harry Potter and the Order of the          Phoenix                                 Warner       84     -   ---------------------------------     -------------   --     8   Princess Protection Program              Disney        3     -   ---------------------------              ------        -     9   Twilight                                 Summit       18     -   --------                                 ------       --    10   Confessions of a Shopaholic            Touchstone      4    --   ---------------------------            ----------      -     *Week ended July 18, 2009    Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs     RANK  TITLE                               STUDIO      WEEKS IN RELEASE    ----  -----                               ------      ----------------     1    Knowing                             Summit            2     -    -------                             ------            -     2    The Haunting In Connecticut        Lionsgate          1     -    ---------------------------        ---------          -     3    Push                                Summit            2     -    ----                                ------            -     4    The Unborn                         Universal          2     -    ----------                         ---------          -     5    Confessions Of A Shopaholic       Touchstone          4     -    ---------------------------       ----------          -     6    Gran Torino                         Warner            6     -    -----------                         ------            -     7    12 Rounds                             FOX             3     -    ---------                             ---             -     8    Taken                                 FOX            10     -    -----                                 ---            --     9    The Curious Case Of Benjamin       Paramount           Button                                              11     -    ----------------------------     ---------------     --    10    Paul Blart: Mall Cop                 Sony             9    --    --------------------                 ----             -    About Retail Essentials  

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

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 brickandmortar, 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 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 of Rentrak Corporation

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

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