Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending November 8, 2009

Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending November 8, 2009

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ:RENT) , today announced the top ten DVD sales and rentals for the prior week based on estimated consumer spending.

According to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services, the top ten selling DVDs and the top ten most-rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week ending November 8, 2009 include:

   Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*                                                                      WEEKS   RANK TITLE                                           STUDIO     IN RELEASE    1    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra                   Paramount          1   2    Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs                   FOX             2   3    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen           Paramount          3   4    Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure               Disney           2   5    The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3                       Sony            1   6    The Proposal                                  Touchstone         4   7    Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs/         The Scrat Pack                                  FOX             2   8    Aliens in the Attic                              FOX             1   9    Twilight                                        Summit          34   10   Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Complete         Season One                                     Warner           1    *Week ended November 7, 2009    Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs                                                                      WEEKS   RANK TITLE                                           STUDIO     IN RELEASE    1    G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra                   Paramount          1   2    The Taking Of Pelham 123                         Sony            1   3    The Proposal                                  Touchstone         4   4    Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen           Paramount          3   5    Orphan                                          Warner           2   6    Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs                   FOX             2   7    Aliens In The Attic                              FOX             1   8    I Love You, Beth Cooper                          FOX             1   9    Land Of The Lost                              Universal          4   10   Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past                     New Line          7   

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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 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 or Amanda Bartz of Rentrak Corporation,
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