About Us: Ad Venture Interactive

Ad Venture Interactive is an interactive marketing and full-service advertising company encompassing three wholly owned subsidiaries: PlattForm Advertising, VentureDirect Worldwide and Beauty Schools Marketing Group. Together, these companies offer a variety of services to a number of distinct verticals, including education, franchise and business opportunities; self-improvement; home services; business-to-business; financial services; and several others.

With nearly $200 million in gross revenue, Ad Venture Interactive companies offer a spectrum of services provided by more than 400 industry professionals located in New York City and Lenexa, KS.

Services include:

  • Interactive Lead Generation
  • Online Marketing
  • Search Engine Marketing
  • List Services (Postal and Email)
  • Traditional Media Placement
  • Creative and Production Services
  • Direct Mail
  • Public Relations
  • Print Media Services
  • Insert Media

The company completed significant acquisitions in 2007. Those acquisitions included VentureDirect Worldwide, Beauty Schools Directory and BeautySchool.com. Michael Platt serves as Chief Executive Officer of Ad Venture Interactive, with Richard Baumer serving as CEO of VentureDirect Worldwide and Dave Admire serving as CEO of PlattForm Advertising and Beauty Schools Marketing Group.