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IXL’s latest cutbacks underscore the growing pains—and in many cases outright contractions—being suffered by interactive marketing firms nationwide.

Atlanta-based iXL is consolidating its Massachusetts operations at its Wakefield, Mass., office, said iXL representative Bill Getch. IXL employs 315 in its combined Wakefield and Cambridge, Mass., locations; sources said up to half of those people were told they were being let go.

Getch declined to confirm any layoffs as a result of that consolidation and declined to comment on reports of sizeable layoffs at iXL’s 115-person San Francisco office.



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