Case Study: Large DVD Rental Company optimizes movie title stock with AbsolutData AI and ML

Large DVD Rental Company - Customer Case Study

Large DVD Rental Company, a leading self-service DVD rental provider with kiosks across North America, worked with AbsolutData to improve how it stocked movie titles at each location. The company needed a better way to choose the right mix of titles, quantities, and DVD/Blu-Ray formats for every kiosk while staying within budget and responding quickly to new releases and local demand.

AbsolutData used AI and machine learning to analyze kiosk, transaction, title, profitability, stock-out, demographic, web/app, and third-party sentiment data, then applied models such as Gradient Boosted Machines, Random Forests, and K Nearest Neighbors to forecast title performance by location. Over four weeks, the solution helped the customer generate title-level assortment recommendations for each kiosk, reducing guesswork and enabling more data-driven purchasing decisions for new releases, though the case study does not cite a specific numeric lift.