Forty staff, including the marketing vice-president, Paul Levine, and the finance vice-president, Bob Fellar, will be laid off, just days after one of AdBrite's venture backers, Sequoia Capital, warned its companies to take steps to produce a positive cashflow as soon as possible.
Despite the cuts, AdBrite reaffirmed its belief that performance-based online advertising is in a far better position than most, with October set to be a record month for the company.