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The Digital Download Essentials service gives NBC Universal access to valuable reporting about what television content our customers are purchasing via the Internet. With the addition of this service, we have the data needed to make strategic business choices across multiple platforms.
-Michael Bonner
Senior Vice President,
NBC Universal Digital Distribution

It's hard to imagine a world without the Internet. What was, merely a generation ago, an unknown concept to most, has quickly become one of the world's most commonly and widely utilized mediums for communication and the exchange of information. Today, Internet usage continues to increase across various demographics, with online video, in particular, seeing an especially steady rise in viewership in recent years. As consumers of every age embrace new media and explore alternative ways to access entertainment and media content, Rentrak is there, providing the industry with the services necessary to help content providers and advertisers alike seize the multiple opportunities presented by this relatively new medium.

Rentrak's Digital Download Essentials is the industry's only reporting and auditing service tailored for clients who offer the majority of their online video

The Digital Download
Essentials Advantage

  • Verify royalty income through comparisons to daily transactional data
  • Save time with consolidated data feeds from multiple licensees in one standardized output
  • Industry-standard data feed specification ensure accurate and timely reporting across all licensees (domestic and international)
  • Compare specific digital content performance against multiple channels of distribution including rental, retail, VOD and EST
products on a pay-per-transaction basis. Always accessible and easy to navigate, this secure Web-based system provides studios and television networks with a single integrated solution capable of collecting, verifying, consolidating and reporting a variety of electronic sell-through (EST) and Internet-based video on demand transactions including royalty calculations. With Digital Download Essentials, content providers receive independent third-party verification and reporting of their Internet rental and sales activity from around the globe, all of which is delivered in a manner consistent with their own internal sales, marketing and billing system requirements.
  • Features:
  • Third-party auditing, mystery shopping, price tracking, black-out period compliance and brand-space verification services
  • Web-interface language translator allows global employees to navigate the site in their native tongue
  • Compares worldwide content performance in local markets' currency or converts international transactions to U.S. dollars

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