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 August 26, 2010 - 04:30 AM PST
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Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending August 22, 2010

LOS ANGELES -- 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 August 22, 2010 include:

Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*

RANK

TITLE

STUDIO

WEEKS IN RELEASE

1

The Last Song

Disney (NYSE:DIS)

1

2

Dexter: The Fourth Season

Showtime (NYSE:CBS, NYSE: CBSA)

1

3

Date Night

FOX (NASDAQ: NWS)

2

4

Furry Vengeance

Summit Entertainment

1

5

Death at a Funeral

Sony (NYSE:SNE)

2

6

Kick-Ass

Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF)

3

7

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

FOX (NASDAQ: NWS)

3

8

Clash of the Titans

Warner Bros. (NYSE:TWX)

4

9

One Tree Hill: Complete Seventh Season

Warner Bros: (NYSE:TWX)

1

10

Letters to God

UNM

2

*Week ended August 21, 2010



Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs

RANK

TITLE

STUDIO

WEEKS IN RELEASE

1

Date Night

FOX (NASDAQ: NWS)

2

2

Death At A Funeral

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

2

3

The Last Song

Touchstone (NYSE:DIS)

1

4

The Bounty Hunter

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

6

5

Clash Of The Titans

Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)

4

6

Furry Vengeance

Summit Entertainment

1

7

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

FOX (NASDAQ: NWS)

3

8

Kick-Ass

Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF)

3

9

Cop Out

New Line (NYSE:TWX)

5

10

Repo Men

Universal (NYSE:GE)

4




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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.com

abialek@rogersandcowan.com



SOURCE Rentrak Corporation

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