Jacobson’s management, Sports Interactive has grown from a fledgling start-up employing five people to one of the best-known names in UK game development with a staff of over 250 and a network of roughly 1,300 researchers across the globe. The studio won a GameIndustry.biz award for Best Place to Work in 2021. To date, the studio has sold in excess of 15 million games, has been responsible for six of the top 10 fastest-selling PC games of all time in the UK (five of which are from the Football Manager series) and has enjoyed more than 200 weeks at No. 1 in the PC charts. Sports Interactive also has been responsible for five of the top 20 best-selling PC games of all time in the UK. The Football Manager catalogue has continued to grow, including versions for both iOS and Android devices, along with console versions for both Nintendo Switch and Xbox being launched in recent years. The company also previously developed Football Manager Online and Football Manager Live, a large online multiplayer version, in association with Korean company, KTH. Charitable endeavours Outside Sports Interactive, Jacobson is heavily involved with the War Child charity, working as part of its entertainment committee. This committee is responsible for music-based fundraising initiatives which include record releases (including the Heroes album, the Young Soul Rebels single) and live events which have, to date, included gigs featuring Kasabian, La Roux, Al Murray, Jason Manford, Madness, Plan B, The Killers and Coldplay (the latter pair's gig also involved an encore featuring Gary Barlow and Bono). War Child also receive a donation for each copy of Football Manager sold, raising more than £700,000 to date, and in 2011, Jacobson went on a trip with the charity to the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2008, Jacobson was one of the co-founders of GamesAid, a broker for charitable activity on behalf of the games industry (and sponsor of the Paddington Academy). He is also currently working on a charitable project in Mozambique, giving local villages business opportunities whilst also helping the environment by planting fruit trees which thrive in the area. He recently became involved with the Nordoff-Robbins music therapy charity, where he is part of a committee that organises the annual Football Extravaganza dinner, the most recent of which raised more than £400,000 for the charity. He also recently became a vice-president for the charity Special Effect, which