Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending November 29, 2009
December 03 2009 - 7:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 /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
November 29, 2009 include: Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs* RANK TITLE
STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE ---- ----- ------ ---------------- 1 Santa
Buddies Disney 1 --- ------------- ------ --- 2 Four Christmases
New Line 1 --- ---------------- -------- --- 3 Angels & Demons
Sony 1 --- --------------- ---- --- 4 Star Trek Paramount 2 ---
--------- --------- --- 5 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Disney 1
--- ------------------------------- ------ --- 6 Up Disney 3 ---
--- ------ --- 7 Funny People Universal 1 --- ------------
--------- --- 8 The Proposal Touchstone 7 --- ------------
---------- --- 9 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Paramount 6
--- ----------------------------------- --------- --- 10 Twilight
Summit 37 --- -------- ------ --- *Week ended November 28, 2009
Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE ----
----- ------ ---------------- 1 Four Christmases New Line 1 ---
---------------- -------- --- 2 Angels & Demons Sony 1 ---
--------------- ---- --- 3 Funny People Universal 1 ---
------------ --------- --- 4 Star Trek Paramount 2 --- ---------
--------- --- 5 The Ugly Truth Sony 3 --- -------------- ---- --- 6
My Sister's Keeper New Line 2 --- ------------------ -------- --- 7
The Taking Of Pelham 123 Sony 4 --- ------------------------ ----
--- 8 G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra Paramount 4 ---
--------------------------- --------- --- 9 The Proposal Touchstone
7 --- ------------ ---------- --- 10 Up Walt Disney 3 --- ---
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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
further information, please visit Rentrak's corporate website at
http://www.rentrak.com/. Contacts: Sallie Olmsted/Amanda Bartz
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