Rentrak Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending February 7, 2010

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11  /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 February 7, 2010 include:

  Rentrak Top 10 Selling DVDs*




   RANK TITLE                                 STUDIO    WEEKS IN RELEASE
   ---- -----                                 ------    ----------------
     1  Zombieland                             Sony                     1
    --- ----------                             ----                   ---
     2  Michael Jackson's This Is It           Sony                     2
    --- ----------------------------           ----                   ---
     3  Love Happens                        Universal                   1
    --- ------------                        ---------                 ---
     4  Amelia                                 FOX                      1
    --- ------                                 ---                    ---
     5  Surrogates                          Touchstone                  2
    --- ----------                          ----------                ---
     6  Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs      Sony                     5
    --- ---------------------------------      ----                   ---
     7  Saw VI                              Lionsgate                   2
    --- ------                              ---------                 ---
         Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By
     8   Myself                             Lionsgate                   4
    --- ---------------------------------   ---------                 ---
     9  The Hangover                       Warner Bros.                 8
    --- ------------                       ------------               ---
    10  Planet Hulk                         Lionsgate                   1
    --- -----------                         ---------                 ---

  *Week ended February 6, 2010

  Rentrak Top 10 Renting DVDs




   RANK TITLE                    STUDIO   WEEKS IN RELEASE
   ---- -----                    ------   ----------------
     1  Zombieland                Sony                    1
    --- ----------                ----                  ---
     2  Love Happens           Universal                  1
    --- ------------           ---------                ---
     3  Surrogates             Touchstone                 2
    --- ----------             ----------               ---
     4  Gamer                  Lionsgate                  3
    --- -----                  ---------                ---
     5  The Hangover             Warner                   8
    --- ------------             ------                 ---
     6  Amelia                    FOX                     1
    --- ------                    ---                   ---
     7  District 9                Sony                    7
    --- ----------                ----                  ---
     8  The Invention Of Lying   Warner                   3
    --- ----------------------   ------                 ---
     9  Whip It                   FOX                     2
    --- -------                   ---                   ---
    10  Julie & Julia             Sony                    9
    --- -------------             ----                  ---





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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 (NASDAQ:RENT) 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, on-demand and linear television, broadband and mobile, Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices worldwide in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom. For more information on any of Rentrak's services, please visit http://www.rentrak.com/.

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


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CONTACT:  Sallie Olmsted, [phone], or Amanda Bartz,

[phone], both of Rentrak Corporation



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