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Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending May 11, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
LOS ANGELES, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Home Video and
Retail Essentials, a business unit of Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT),
today announced the top DVD sales and rentals for the period of May 5 through
May 11, 2008 according to the company's innovative tracking service featuring
retail point-of-sale and rental data tracking and market intelligence.
The ten top selling DVDs and the top ten most rented motion pictures, per
data collected for the week ending May 11, 2008 include:
Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*
RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE
1 P.S. I Love You WAR 1
2 First Sunday SNY 1
3 27 Dresses FOX 2
4 The Golden Compass NL 2
5 Over Her Dead Body NL 1
6 Juno FOX 4
7 Cloverfield PAR 3
8 Alvin and the Chipmunks FOX 6
9 Charlie Wilson's War UNI 3
10 Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem FOX 4
*Week ended May 10, 2008
Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs
RANK TITLE STUDIO WEEKS IN RELEASE
1 P.S. I Love You WAR 1
2 27 Dresses FOX 2
3 First Sunday SNY 1
4 The Golden Compass NL 2
5 Juno FOX 4
6 Cloverfield PAR 3
7 Over Her Dead Body NL 1
8 Charlie Wilson's War UNI 3
9 In the Name Of The King FOX 4
10 I Am Legend WAR 8
About Retail Essentials(R)
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 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(R)
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 brick-and-mortar, 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,
advertising and manufacturing industries. The company's Entertainment
Essentials(R) 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 Rental's corporate Web site at http://www.rentrak.com.
Contacts: Sallie Olmsted/Amanda Bartz
Rentrak Corporation
310-854-8124/8151
SOURCE Rentrak Corporation
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