Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending August 16, 2009

Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending August 16, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 /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 August 16, 2009 include:

   Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*     RANK     TITLE                   STUDIO      WEEKS IN RELEASE   ----     -----                   ------      ----------------   1        17 Again                New Line           1   -        --------                --------           -   2        I Love You, Man         DreamWorks         1   -        ---------------         ----------         -   3        Race To Witch Mountain  Disney             2   -        ----------------------  ------             -   4        Fast & Furious          Universal          3   -        --------------          ---------          -   5        Obsessed                Sony               2   -        --------                ----               -   6        Watchmen                Warner             4   -        --------                ------             -   7        Coraline                Universal          4   -        --------                ---------          -   8        The Soloist             DreamWorks         2   -        -----------             ----------         -   9        Gran Torino             Warner            10   -        -----------             ------            --   10       Twilight                Summit            22   --       --------                ------            --    *Week ended August 15, 2009    Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs     RANK     TITLE                   STUDIO      WEEKS IN RELEASE   ----     -----                   ------      ----------------   1        I Love You, Man         DreamWorks         1   -        ---------------         ----------         -   2        17 Again                New Line           1   -        --------                --------           -   3        Obsessed                Sony               2   -        --------                ----               -   4        The Soloist             DreamWorks         2   -        -----------             ----------         -   5        Race To Witch Mountain  Disney             2   -        ----------------------  ------             -   6        Fast & Furious          Universal          3   -        --------------          ---------          -   7        Knowing                 Summit             6   -        -------                 ------             -   8        Watchmen                Warner             4   -        --------                ------             -   9        Gran Torino             Warner            10   -        -----------             ------            --   10       Push                    Summit             6   --       ----                    ------             -   

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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 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 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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