Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending October 4, 2009

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

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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

SOURCE Rentrak Corporation

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