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Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending August 31, 2008

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4 /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 ten top selling DVDs and the top ten most rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week ending August 31, 2008 include:

    Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*
    RANK  TITLE                                      STUDIO     WEEKS IN
                                                                RELEASE
    1     The Little Mermaid -- Ariel's Beginning    DIS                   1
    2     What Happens in Vegas                      FOX                   1
    3     Heroes -- Season 2                         UNI                   1
    4     The Nightmare Before Christmas
           (Collector's Edition)                     DIS                   1
    5     Camp Rock                                  DIS                   2
    6     Street Kings                               FOX                   2
    7     Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus:
           Best of Both Worlds Concert               DIS                   2
    8     The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior     UNI                   2
    9     One Tree Hill -- The Complete
           Fifth Season                              WAR                   1
    10    Entourage -- The Complete Fourth Season    HBO                   1

    *Week ended August 30, 2008

    Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs
    RANK  TITLE                                      STUDIO     WEEKS IN
                                                                RELEASE
    1     What Happens In Vegas                      FOX                   1
    2     Street Kings                               FOX                   2
    3     21                                         SNY                   6
    4     Prom Night                                 SNY                   2
    5     The Scorpion King 2: Rise Of A Warrior     UNI                   2
    6     Nim's Island                               FOX                   4
    7     Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay  NLH                   5
    8     The Bank Job                               LNG                   7
    9     Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day             UNI                   2
    10    The Bucket List                            WAR                  12

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 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(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 acrossNorth 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 inPortland, Oregon, is an information management company serving clients in the media, entertainment, retail and advertising 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 Rentrak's corporate website at http://www.rentrak.com.


     Contacts:  Sallie Olmsted/Amanda Bartz
                Rentrak Corporation
                310-854-8124/8151

SOURCE Rentrak Corporation

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