Composer & Founder
Marc Aaron Jacobs
Composer writing for advertising, theatrical trailers, and TV. Founder of DropCue. Music publisher behind Tonal Chaos Trailers and Outsider Music.
Why I built DropCue
I started building DropCue because I had been running my own music libraries. Tonal Chaos Trailers handles premium theatrical trailer music. Outsider Music handles TV and advertising. With both, I kept hitting the same problem. Sharing playlists professionally with music supervisors, sync agencies, and trailer houses was either expensive, clunky, or both.
The legacy tools the industry runs on charge $30 to $70 a month, hide critical features behind add-on fees, and force you to learn an interface that hasn't been redesigned in a decade. I wanted something that felt modern, included everything in one price, and respected my time.
DropCue is the platform I wanted to use myself. Every feature is in the plan price. Analytics, password protection, branded links, AI stem separation, music submission inbox, public portfolio pages, all included. Plans start at $5 a month.
What I do
Composer. I write music for major advertising campaigns, theatrical movie trailers, and television. The composing work is what got me started in this industry, and it's still core to how I think about every product decision in DropCue.
DropCue, Founder & Operator. Building DropCue end-to-end. Product, engineering, design, marketing, customer support. Currently used by music professionals across the US, UK, EU, and Australia.
Tonal Chaos Trailers, Owner. Premium trailer music library focused on big theatrical movie trailers, streaming TV promos, and major video game trailers. Genre focus: epic hybrid orchestral, cinematic action, sci-fi, and dramatic underscore.
Outsider Music, Co-Owner. Production music library focused on television shows and advertising commercials. Broadcast-ready cues across genres for episodic TV, reality TV, and ad campaigns. Co-owned with Greg Wiktorski.
Background and credentials
Marc has been writing music for picture since 2000, with over 26 years of professional composing experience across advertising, theatrical trailers, television, and game audio. Areas of active practice include working as a composer for national advertising campaigns, theatrical trailer composing for major studios, and TV scoring across episodic and reality formats. As founder of DropCue, Marc is responsible for product strategy, engineering, design, marketing, and customer support across a music sharing platform used by composers in the US, UK, EU, and Australia in 2026.
As owner of Tonal Chaos Trailers (founded 2018) and co-owner of Outsider Music, Marc operates both sides of the modern sync economy: the catalog side (representing premium trailer music and TV/advertising production music) and the platform side (running DropCue as the workflow tool that working composers use to pitch supervisors). This dual perspective shapes every DropCue product decision, particularly around the workflow features that solve real composer problems (per-recipient analytics, music submission inbox, timestamped feedback comments, AI tools) and the pricing that respects composer budgets ($5 to $12 per month versus $30 to $70 per month for legacy alternatives).
Areas of expertise
Music composition for advertising, trailers, and TV. Trailer music delivery and pitching. Sync licensing for TV and film. Music supervisor workflows. Sync agency operations. Production music library administration. Music metadata and cataloging. EPK design for working composers. Music sharing platform comparison. Royalty splits and PRO administration. Trailer house music delivery standards. Stem delivery for film and TV (typically 4 to 8 stems for sync, 8 to 16 for trailer music, delivered at 24-bit 48kHz). Sync placement fee structures (ranging from $500 to $50,000 per placement for indie productions, $100,000+ for theatrical trailers and AAA video game placements).
Where to find me
Email: marc@dropcue.app
DropCue: dropcue.app
Tonal Chaos Trailers: tonalchaostrailers.com