Rentrak Announces Top Ten Digital Movie Purchases and Rentals for Week Ending Sept. 29, 2013

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Oct 17, 2013, 09:00 ET

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rentrak (NASDAQ: RENT), the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the top ten digital movie purchases and rentals based on consumer transaction rate. The report includes Internet Video on Demand (iVOD) and Electronic Sell-Through (EST), for both Standard-Definition and Digital HD movie purchases and rentals.

According to the company's Digital Download Essentials^® Industry Service, the top ten purchased and rented movies, per data collected from Sept. 23 – 29, 2013, include:

Rentrak Top Ten Digital Movie Purchases and Rentals*:

RANK	TITLE	STUDIO
1	World War Z	Paramount (NYSE: VIA & VIA.B)
2	Iron Man 3	Disney (NYSE: DIS)
3	Hangover Part III, The	Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)
4	Now You See Me	Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF)
5	This Is The End	Sony (NYSE: SNE)
6	After Earth (2013)	Sony (NYSE: SNE)
7	Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)	Paramount (NYSE: VIA & VIA.B)
8	Croods, The	FOX
9	Kings of Summer, The	FOX
10	Great Gatsby, The	Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX)

Source: Rentrak Digital Download Essentials^®Industry Service
*Excludes NBC Universal and Independent Studio Content at this time.

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About Digital Download Essentials^®Rentrak's Digital Download Essentials processes daily, census-level iVOD and EST content in more than 160 countries on behalf of many major studios and television networks and is the industry's only reporting and auditing service providing content performance intelligence on purchased and rented movie and television content downloaded via the Internet. Rentrak's Digital Download Essentials Industry service also provides title-level industry intelligence regarding the Internet Video on Demand (iVOD) and Electronic Sell-Through (EST) business, for both Standard-Definition and Digital HD movie purchases and rentals. For more information, visit: https://digitaldownload.rentrak.com/

About Rentrak
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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