iXL Enterprises is a failed international interactive agency that lasted from 1996 until 2002. The company was founded by Atlanta entrepreneur Bert Ellis, who also served as the company's chairman and CEO. At the company's height in 1999, which coincided with the height of the dot-com boom, iXL had around 1500 employees, a quarterly revenue of $33 million, and was publicly traded on the Nasdaq

NASDAQ

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 exchange, with ticker symbol "IIXL". After a series of acquisitions, it is now part of the Razorfish

Razorfish

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 agency, owned by Publicis Groupe.

iXL had its headquarters in Atlanta, with additional offices in Berlin

Berlin

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, Boston

Boston

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, Charlotte

CHARLOTTE

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, Chicago

Chicago

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, Denver, Hamburg

Hamburg

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, London

London

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, Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, Madrid

Madrid

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, New York City

New York City

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, Richmond

Richmond, Virginia

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, San Diego, San Francisco, Sao Paolo, Tokyo

Tokyo

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 and Washington, D.C.

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 The company also had smaller "satellite offices" in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, Dallas and Memphis, Tennessee

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. Many of these offices started out as local interactive agencies that were purchased by iXL, such as Micro Interactive, which became the New York office. It was part of what some in the industry called "The Fast Five," a group of "e-consultancies" that also included Razorfish, Scient

Scient

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, Viant

Viant

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 and USWeb/CKS.

Notable clients included GE, Delta Air Lines, Budget Rent-A-Car, Chase Bank, Merrill Lynch, The Home Depot, FedEx and WebMD.

In November 2001, iXL merged with former competitor Scient, with the two companies now operating under the Scient name. In July 2002 the joint company filed for bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

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. Assets from Scient were purchased by SBI Group

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 in 2003, and merged into Razorfish. That company was then acquired by aQuantive

AQuantive

aQuantive, Inc. was the parent company of a group of three digital marketing service and technology companies: Avenue A/Razorfish, Atlas Solutions, and DRIVE Performance Solutions....

in 2004, and merged into Avenue A | Razorfish. aQuantive was then purchased by Microsoft in 2007, and then subsequently sold to Publicis Groupe in 2009.