Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending October 4, 2009
October 08 2009 - 7:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 /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
October 4, 2009 include: Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs* WEEKS IN RANK
TITLE STUDIO RELEASE 1 Monsters Vs. Aliens DreamWorks 1 2 Ginormous
Double Pack: Monsters vs. Aliens/ B.O.B.'s Big Break in Monster 3D
DreamWorks 1 3 The Wizard of Oz: (70th Anniversary Edition) Warner
1 4 X-Men Origins: Wolverine FOX 3 5 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past New
Line 2 6 Hannah Montana: The Movie Disney 7 7 Observe and Report
Warner 2 8 Grey's Anatomy - The Complete Fifth Season Disney 3 9
The Office - Season Five Universal 4 10 How I Met Your Mother -
Season 4 FOX 1 * Week ended October 3, 2009 Rentrak Top 10 Renting
DVDs WEEKS IN RANK TITLE STUDIO RELEASE 1 Ghosts Of Girlfriends
Past New Line 2 2 Monsters Vs. Aliens DreamWorks 1 3 X-Men Origins:
Wolverine FOX 3 4 Management Image 1 5 Observe And Report Warner 2
6 The Brothers Bloom Summit Ent. 1 7 State Of Play Universal 5 8
Lies And Illusions Anchor Bay Ent. 1 9 Away We Go Focus Features 1
10 Crank 2: High Voltage Lionsgate 5 © Rentrak Corporation 2009 -
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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
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