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Learn more about Jessica Vaughn:
Venice Music - www.venicemusic.co/
Head Bitch Music - www.headbitchmusic.com/

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.

Based in Los Angeles, Jessica is not only an accomplished music industry executive, but an active and successful musician and songwriter in her own right. Before breaking into the business side of the industry in 2019, Jessica was signed to Crush Management at 16-years-old as an artist, and at 18 was signed to Sony/ATV and Geffen/Interscope as a recording artist in the same year, under the name, Charlotte Sometimes.

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.

05:19 - Welcome
06:19 - What is your current day-to-day?
20:01 - The process of getting a song synced
23:00 - Representing the master rights of artists
31:00 - The current state of the sync industry
35:15 - How does an artist find music supervisors who are open to working with artists direct?
45:42 - AI music and sync
51:00 - On music libraries

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