Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals...

Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales
and Rentals for Week Ending October 19, 2008

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 /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 October 19, 2008 include:
Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs* WEEKS IN
RANK TITLE STUDIO RELEASE
1 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull PAR 1
2 Iron Man PAR 3
3 Sleeping Beauty (50th Anniversary Platinum Edition) DIS 2
4 You Don't Mess With The Zohan SNY 2
5 The Happening FOX 2
6 Indiana Jones - The Complete Adventure Collection PAR 1
7 Sex and the City - The Movie NLH 4
8 Forgetting Sarah Marshall UNI 3
9 The Nightmare Before Christmas (Collector's Edition) DIS 8
10 The Simpsons - Season 11 FOX 2

*Week ended October 18, 2008

Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs WEEKS IN
RANK TITLE STUDIO RELEASE
1 Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull PAR 1
2 The Happening FOX 2
3 You Don't Mess With The Zohan SNY 2
4 Iron Man PAR 3
5 Forgetting Sarah Marshall UNI 3
6 Leatherheads UNI 4
7 Baby Mama UNI 6
8 War, Inc. FLS 1
9 88 Minutes SNY 5
10 Made Of Honor SNY 5

About Retail Essentials(R)
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(R)
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(R) 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

SOURCE Rentrak Corporation

Sallie Olmsted, +1-310-854-8124, or Amanda Bartz, +1-310-854-8151, both of
Rentrak Corporation