Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending July 12, 2009
July 16 2009 - 12:03PM
PR Newswire (US)
LOS ANGELES, July 16 /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 12, 2009 include: Rentrak Top 10
Selling DVDs* RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE 1 Knowing Summit 1
2 Push Summit 1 3 The Unborn Universal 1 4 Gran Torino Warner 5 5
Princess Protection Program Disney 2 6 Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to
Jail Lionsgate 4 7 12 Rounds FOX 2 8 Confessions of a Shopaholic
Touchstone 3 9 Twilight Summit 17 10 Jonas Brothers - The Concert
Disney Experience 2 *Week ended July 11, 2009 Rentrak Top 10
Renting DVDs RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE 1 Knowing Summit 1
2 Push Summit 1 3 The Unborn Universal 1 4 Gran Torino Warner 5 5
Confessions Of A Shopaholic Touchstone 3 6 12 Rounds FOX 2 7 Taken
FOX 9 8 Paul Blart: Mall Cop Sony 8 9 The Curious Case Of Benjamin
Button Paramount 10 10 The Code First Look 3 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 DATASOURCE: 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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