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ONTRK launches TV airing detection to help composers find their missing royalties
ONTRK, a royalty tool for TV and library composers, has opened TV airing detection to all composers and publishers. TRQK shut down in August and left its users with no way to see where their music was airing. ONTRK is the new and improved option: it detects the airings and matches every one against what the composer's PRO actually paid.
Most composers have no idea how their PRO works out what to pay them. A check shows up, big or small, and they can't tell if anything is missing. They just trust the PRO got it right.
ONTRK changes that. It finds their music on TV, matches every airing to their PRO statement, and shows them the payments they never received. Then it drafts the letter to the PRO, with the airings attached.
TV monitoring is provided by BMAT on major channels, with more countries and stations added as ONTRK grows. Uses as short as two seconds are detected, so stings, bumpers and short cutdowns are caught.
"Every composer I know has a cue they're sure aired and never saw on a statement," said Marc Aaron Jacobs, founder of ONTRK. "ONTRK puts what aired next to what paid, so you can find your missing royalties and send one letter to follow up."
Fact sheet
- What it is
- A royalty tool for TV and library composers and small publishers.
- What it does
- Detects TV airings of a composer's music, matches each one against their PRO statements, flags the airings that were never paid, and drafts the inquiry letter to the PRO.
- TV monitoring
- Provided by BMAT on major TV channels, with more countries and stations added over time. Channel list
- Statements
- Reads royalty statements from twelve societies, including ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, PRS, SOCAN, GEMA, SACEM and The MLC. Statements are read in the browser and the file is never uploaded.
- Pricing
- The statement analyzer is free with no account. TV monitoring starts at $15 a month for 25 tracks and goes up to 1,000 tracks.
- Available
- In any browser at ontrk.app, and on iPhone.
- Launched
- Statements in September 2026. TV detection in November 2026.
- Company
- ONTRK is a Tonal Chaos company, part of Tonal Chaos, Inc., which also runs Tonal Chaos Trailers and DropCue.
- Press contact
- hello@ontrk.app
About the founder
Marc Aaron Jacobs is a composer and the founder of Tonal Chaos, Inc., which runs Tonal Chaos Trailers, DropCue and ONTRK. Full bio · LinkedIn
About ONTRK
ONTRK tells composers what aired and what paid. It detects TV airings of their music, matches them against their PRO statements, and drafts the inquiry letter for any airing that went unpaid. ONTRK is a Tonal Chaos company. Learn more at ontrk.app.
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