Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending August 23, 2009
August 27 2009 - 8:55AM
PR Newswire (US)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 /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 August 23, 2009 include: Rentrak Top
10 Selling DVDs* RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE ---- -----
------ ---------------- 1 Hannah Montana: The Movie Disney 1 -
------------------------- ------ - 2 The Last House on the Left
Universal 1 - ------------------------- --------- - 3 17 Again New
Line 2 - -------- -------- - 4 I Love You, Man DreamWorks 2 -
--------------- ---------- - Dexter - The Complete Third 5 Season
Paramount 1 - --------------------------- --------- - 6 The
Simpsons - Season 12 FOX 1 - ------------------------- --- - 7 Fast
& Furious Universal 4 - -------------- --------- - 8 Race to
Witch Mountain Disney 3 - ---------------------- ------ - Pete's
Dragon (High-Flying 9 Edition) Disney 1 -
-------------------------- ------ - 10 Coraline Universal 5 --
-------- --------- - *Week ended August 22, 2009 Rentrak Top 10
Renting DVDs RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE ---- ----- ------
---------------- 1 I Love You, Man DreamWorks 2 - ---------------
---------- - 2 The Last House On The Left Universal 1 -
-------------------------- --------- - 3 17 Again New Line 2 -
-------- -------- - 4 The Soloist DreamWorks 3 - -----------
---------- - 5 Obsessed Sony 3 - -------- ---- - 6 Race To Witch
Mountain Disney 3 - ---------------------- ------ - 7 Fast &
Furious Universal 4 - -------------- --------- - 8 Knowing Summit 7
- ------- ------ - 9 Hannah Montana: The Movie Disney 1 -
------------------------- ------ - 10 Gran Torino Warner 11 --
----------- ------ -- Rentrak Corporation 2009 -Content in Rentrak
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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
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http://www.rentrak.com/. Contacts: Sallie Olmsted/Amanda Bartz
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