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Rentrak Announces Top DVD & Blu-ray Sales And Rentals For Week Ending February 17, 2013

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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RENTRAK CORPORATION (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services which are based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending February 17, 2013.

RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY SALES*

RANK

TITLE

STUDIO

WEEKS IN RELEASE

1

Skyfall

FOX (NASDAQ: NWS)

1

2

Hotel Transylvania

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

3

3

The Man With the Iron Fists

Universal (NYSE GE)

1

4

Peter Pan

Disney (NYSE: DIS)

2

5

Flight

Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)

2

6

Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey - Season 3

PBS

3

7

Here Comes the Boom

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

2

8

Silent Hill: Revelation

Universal (NYSE: GE)

1

9

Alex Cross

Summit Entertainment

2

10

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Summit Entertainment

1

*Week ended February 16, 2013

RENTRAK TOP-10 DVD & BLU-RAY RENTALS

RANK

TITLE

STUDIO

WEEKS IN RELEASE

1

Flight (2012)

Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)

2

2

Here Comes The Boom

Sony (NYSE:S NE)

2

3

Taken 2**

FOX (NASDAQ: NWS)

5

4

Hotel Transylvania

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

3

5

Alex Cross

Summit Entertainment

2

6

Seven Psychopaths

Sony (NYSE: SNE)

3

7

Ted (2012)**

Universal (NYSE: GE)

10

8

Pitch Perfect**

Universal (NYSE: GE)

9

9

Paranormal Activity 4

Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B)

3

10

The Bourne Legacy**

Universal (NYSE: GE)

10

**Titles have delayed availability in certain rental outlets

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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 rental point-of-sale (POS) tracking system, which calculates title-level performance via rental transactions on over 65,000 DVD and video game properties in the brick-and-mortar, by-mail/online subscription and kiosk channels across North America. Rentrak is the world's largest processor of rental data, measuring in excess of one billion transactions each year from more than 5,000 storefronts, over 40,000 kiosks and over 24 million by-mail/online disc rental subscribers 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 (NASDAQ: RENT) is the entertainment and marketing industries' premier provider of worldwide consumer viewership information, precisely measuring actual viewing behavior of movies and TV everywhere. Using our proprietary intelligence and technology, combined with advanced demographics, only Rentrak is the census currency for VOD and Movies.  Rentrak provides the stable and robust audience measurement services that movie, television and advertising professionals across the globe have come to rely on to better deliver their business goals and more precisely target advertising across numerous platforms including box office, multiscreen television and home video. For more information on Rentrak, please visit www.rentrak.com

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