Jessica Vaughn joined Ari Herstand on The New Music Business Podcast to talk all things sync, why indie musicians succeed the most in sync, AI music, music supervision, and more!
This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari is joined by Jessica Vaughn, Head of Sync at Venice Music and President of Head Bitch Music.
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Jessica Vaughn is the Head of Sync at Venice Music, and President of Head Bitch Music. Jessica joined Venice in September of 2021, being chosen to build the department from the ground up. In this role, she runs their four-person, fully queer sync team globally, created all of their protocols (catalog management, pitching, legal, licensing, and administration), and has increased the size of their catalog from 300 titles to nearly 4,000 titles. During her time at Venice, Jessica has landed placements in Super Bowl LVII, NFL, ESPN, The CW, Netflix, Hulu, CBS, MTV, Vh1, BET, Disney+, Peacock, Fujifilm, Comcast, PBS, New Balance, Xbox, Fortnite, NBA 2K, and more, all within a year and a half. She is an ardent supporter of artists, and holds regular “office hours” at Venice to provide information and resources to all of her clients.
In 2018, she started Head Bitch Music, a loving tribute to the many times she was called a “bitch” by other men in the room, where she writes custom music for brands. Along with her husband Ryan, she runs the Head Bitch Music label imprint, putting out between 5 and 20 releases a week with mainly queer and women artists. She also continues to write music under more than 25 different monikers, each with their own identity and their own extension of her humanity, allowing her to not be cast in any single box.