Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending March 14, 2010

Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending March 14, 2010

LOS ANGELES, March 18 /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 March 14, 2010 include:

Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*

RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE
1 Old Dogs Disney 1
2 Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH
by Sapphire Lionsgate 1
3 The Boondock Saints II: All Saints
Day Sony 1
4 2012 Sony 2
5 Planet 51 Sony 1
6 Up in the Air Paramount 1
7 Where the Wild Things Are Warner Bros. 2
8 Barbie in A Mermaid Tale Universal 1
9 The Hurt Locker Summit Ent. 9
10 Hannah Montana: Miley Says
Goodbye? Disney 1

*Week ended March 13, 2010

Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs

RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE
1 2012 Sony 2
2 Up In The Air Paramount 1
3 Precious: Based On The Novel "Push"
By Sapphire Lionsgate 1
4 Law Abiding Citizen Overture Films 4
5 The Time Traveler's Wife New Line 5
6 Couples Retreat Universal 5
7 Old Dogs Walt Disney 1
8 Planet 51 Sony 1
9 The Hurt Locker Summit Ent. 9
10 The Hangover Warner Bros. 13

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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 (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, home entertainment, on-demand and linear television, broadband and mobile, Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices worldwide in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom. For more information on any of Rentrak's services, please visit www.rentrak.com.

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

Source: Rentrak Corporation

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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