Rentrak Announces Top Ten Digital Movie Purchases & Rentals for Week Ending March 9, 2014

Rentrak Announces Top Ten Digital Movie Purchases & Rentals for Week Ending March 9, 2014

PORTLAND, Ore., March 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the top ten digital movie purchases and rentals based on consumer transaction rate. The report includes Internet Video on Demand (iVOD) and electronic sell-through (EST), for both Standard-Definition and Digital HD movie purchases and rentals.

According to the company's Digital Download Essentials(®) Industry Service, the top ten purchased and rented movies, per data collected from March 3-9, 2014, are below.

Rentrak Top Ten Digital Movie Purchases and Rentals*:


RANK TITLE STUDIO
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1 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF)
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2 12 Years A Slave Fox
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3 Gravity Warner (NYSE: TWX)
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4 Frozen (2013) Disney (NYSE: DIS)
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5 Thor - The Dark World (2013) Disney (NYSE: DIS)
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6 Captain Phillips Sony (NYSE: SNE)
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7 Blue Jasmine Sony (NYSE: SNE)
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8 Nebraska Paramount (NYSE: VIA & VIA.B)
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9 Bad Grandpa (2013) Paramount (NYSE: VIA & VIA.B)
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10 Ender's Game Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF)
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*Excludes NBC Universal and Independent Studio Content at this time.

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About Digital Download Essentials(®)
Rentrak's Digital Download Essentials is the industry's only service that collects, verifies, consolidates and reports on all content digitally downloaded and streamed via the Internet including electronic sell-through (EST), Internet Video on Demand (iVOD) and subscription-based (sVOD) streaming transactions. Digital Download Essentials lets clients know the exact performance of their digital content across multiple providers allowing them to make effective and informed decisions regarding their Internet-based movie and television content. Learn more.

About Rentrak
Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT) is the entertainment and marketing industries' premier provider of worldwide consumer viewership information, precisely measuring actual viewing behavior of movies and TV everywhere. Using our proprietary intelligence and technology, combined with advanced demographics, only Rentrak is the census currency for VOD and movies. Rentrak provides the stable and robust audience measurement services that movie, television and advertising professionals across the globe have come to rely on to better deliver their business goals and more precisely target advertising across numerous platforms including box office, multiscreen television and home video. For more information on Rentrak, please visit www.rentrak.com.

Contact:
Antoine Ibrahim
(646) 722-1561
aibrahim@rentrak.com

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