Rentrak's Retail Essentials® is the entertainment industry's leading intelligence application for timely, applicable data regarding weekly consumer sales activity and spending on standard DVD, Blu-ray Disc, UMD, console, PC and portable video games. Our decades of experience servicing all sides of the entertainment industry combined with our ever-evolving software intelligence have allowed Rentrak to extend our tracking, analysis and reporting functions to a broad range of businesses for the most comprehensive insight available.
The Retail Essentials Advantage
- Together with the Promotional Monitor ad-tracking service provides an unparalleled perspective into the home entertainment retail environment
- Provides retailers with detailed consumer behavior insight for improved product selection, budgeting, market share, inventory management and media planning
- Enables retailers to drive their bottom line with the industry's fastest access to in-depth market intelligence data
Just 72 hours after the close of each business week, Retail Essentials delivers U.S. and Canadian home entertainment sell-through data broken down by title, format, category, genre, TV market and more. Through a secure, browser-based application, users can access weekly and historical market-level sales data, as well as detailed data on individual titles. No other service provides faster, more uniform access to this in-depth market intelligence and no other service provides a weekly estimation of national consumer home entertainment spending. Retail Essentials is simply the retail and entertainment industry's most accurate and reliable source of retail movie sales.
- Features:
- Transactions tracked and delivered in near real-time
- Home entertainment sell-through-data broken down by title format, category, genre, TV market and more
- Weekly and historical market-level sales data
- Detailed data on individual titles


