Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending September 5, 2010

Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending September 5, 2010

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 September 5, 2010, include:

Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*
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RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN
RELEASE
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married
1 Too? Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF) 1
2 Marmaduke Fox (NASDAQ:NWS) 1
3 Sons of Anarchy: Season 2 Fox (NASDAQ:NWS) 1
4 The Last Song Disney (NYSE:DIS) 3
5 Lost: The Complete Sixth Season Disney (NYSE:DIS) 2
6 House: Season Six Universal (NYSE:GE) 1
7 The Back-up Plan Sony (NYSE:SNE) 2
8 Date Night Fox (NASDAQ:NWS) 4

The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Warner Bros. (NYSE: )(NYSE:9)(NYSE:First)(NYSE:Season)(NYSE:TWX) 1

10 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fox (NASDAQ:NWS) 5

*Week ended September 4, 2010

Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs
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RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN
RELEASE
1 Date Night Fox (NASDAQ:NWS) 4
2 The Back-up Plan Sony (NYSE:SNE) 2
3 Death At A Funeral Sony (NYSE:SNE) 4
4 Marmaduke Fox (NASDAQ:NWS) 1

Touchstone (NYSE: )(NYSE:5)(NYSE:The)(NYSE:Last)(NYSE:Song)(NYSE:DIS) 3

6 Why Did I Get Married Too? Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF) 1
7 Furry Vengeance Summit Entertainment 3

Warner Bros. (NYSE: )(NYSE:8)(NYSE:Clash)(NYSE:Of)(NYSE:The)(NYSE:Titans)(NYSE:TWX) 6

9 Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Fox (NASDAQ:NWS) 5
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10 Cop Out New Line (NYSE:TWX) 7
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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 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, video on demand and linear television, broadband and mobile, Rentrak has developed more efficient metrics to be used as alternative currencies for the evaluation and selling of media. Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices worldwide. For more information on any of Rentrak's services, please visit www.rentrak.com.

Contacts: Rogers & Cowan for Rentrak Corporation
Sallie Olmsted Amanda Bialek
(310) 854-8124 (310) 854-8151
solmsted@rogersandcowan.comabialek@rogersandcowan.com

Source: Rentrak Corporation

CONTACT: Sallie Olmsted, +1-310-854-8124, solmsted@rogersandcowan.com,
or Amanda Bialek, +1-310-854-8151, abialek@rogersandcowan.com, both of Rogers
& Cowan, for Rentrak Corporation

Web Site: http://www.rentrak.com/

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