DropCue is the music pitching platform for composers and sync professionals. Share playlists with branded links, track who listened per-recipient, and follow up at the right time. Starting at $5 per month with annual billing.
Start free trial →Upload your tracks, organize them into a playlist with named sections, and share with a single branded link. No file transfers, no Dropbox folders, no confusion about which version is current. The recipient clicks the link, streams the music in the browser, and sees your brand and contact info at the top of the page.
Every shared playlist shows per-recipient analytics: who opened the link, which tracks they played, how long they listened, and whether they came back. Know exactly who to follow up with. This is the data sync pitching has been missing for two decades and the reason working composers move from email plus Dropbox to a purpose-built pitching platform.
A typical sync pitch playlist is 8 to 14 tracks organized into 2 to 4 named sections matching the supervisor brief. For a thriller film: a "Hybrid Tension" section, a "Dramatic Underscore" section, and an "Aerial / Resolution" section. Sections give the supervisor a navigable structure rather than 12 tracks in a flat list. Drag and drop to reorder. Add or remove sections as the brief shifts.
If a supervisor opened the link Tuesday, played 6 of 12 tracks, and came back Thursday to replay 2 of them, the optimal follow-up window is Thursday afternoon or Friday morning while the music is fresh. The follow-up references the specific cues they engaged with. If a supervisor has not opened the link a week later, the follow-up is shorter and lower-pressure. Analytics turn follow-up from a guessing exercise into a measurable workflow.
Most working composers do both. They use a pitching platform to send self-managed pitches to direct supervisor contacts, and they sign with sync agencies to access supervisor relationships they cannot reach directly. The pitching platform handles the catalog, the branding, the analytics, and the timestamped feedback regardless of which path a pitch takes. Agencies value composers who arrive with their music organized in a professional pitching platform because it lowers the friction of submitting that catalog to their own supervisor relationships.
A music pitching platform is a purpose-built tool for composers, libraries, and agencies sending music to industry decision-makers (music supervisors, A&R, sync agents, ad agencies). The defining capability is converting "send a folder of tracks" into "send a curated playlist with per-recipient analytics and follow-up timing intelligence." Modern platforms in 2026 include DropCue, the legacy industry standard, Reelcrafter, Bridge, and Byta. They differ in pricing, depth of analytics, branded-link capabilities, and whether they support timestamped feedback alongside outbound pitching.
Email plus Dropbox is what working composers used before purpose-built pitching platforms existed. The workflow was: composer assembles 12 tracks in a Dropbox folder, emails the supervisor a link, hopes for a reply, waits 7 to 14 days, sends a follow-up email asking "did you have a chance to listen." Music pitching platforms replace this with: composer creates a curated playlist with branded share link, sends it via the platform, and sees in real time who opened the link, which tracks they played, how long they listened, and whether they came back. Follow-up happens on the right day based on engagement signal, not on an arbitrary calendar.
A typical sync pitch playlist in 2026 is 8 to 14 tracks organized into 2 to 4 named sections matching the supervisor brief. For a thriller film brief: a "Hybrid Tension" section with 4 tracks, a "Dramatic Underscore" section with 3 tracks, an "Aerial / Resolution" section with 3 tracks. Each track is the 30-second to 60-second edit (not the full 3-minute cut) because supervisors evaluate quickly. The playlist has a branded URL, a sender bio, contact info, and metadata for BPM and key on each cue. The DropCue pitch playlist averages 15 minutes to build from an existing catalog because the playlist sections are draggable and the metadata is already populated.
Follow-up timing is informed by analytics. If a supervisor opened the link Tuesday, played 6 of the 12 tracks, and came back Thursday to replay 2 of them, the optimal follow-up window is Thursday afternoon to Friday morning while the music is fresh. The follow-up references the specific cues they engaged with: "Glad track 3 caught you — it scores well for the action sequence template. Track 7 is the instrumental version if that helps." If a supervisor has not opened the link a week later, the follow-up is shorter and lower-pressure. Analytics turn follow-up from a guessing exercise into a measurable workflow.
DropCue starts at $5 per month with annual billing and includes a full pitching workflow (playlist creation, branded links, per-recipient analytics, timestamped feedback, music inbox). The legacy industry standard charges $29.99 per month plus add-on fees of $10 or more for analytics. Reelcrafter is $20 to $50 per month. Bridge and Byta are $15 to $50 per month depending on tier. For working composers and small libraries, the DropCue $5 to $20 per month range covers a complete pitching workflow without add-on fees. For sync agencies coordinating multiple senders, the flat-rate plans scale better than per-seat pricing.
Most working composers do both. They use a pitching platform to send self-managed pitches to direct supervisor contacts, and they sign with sync agencies to access supervisor relationships they cannot reach directly. The pitching platform handles the catalog, the branding, the analytics, and the timestamped feedback regardless of which path a pitch takes. Agencies value composers who arrive with their music organized in a professional pitching platform because it lowers the friction of submitting that catalog to their own supervisor relationships. The platform and the agency are layered relationships, not substitutes.