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What’s stopping marketers from embracing people-based marketing?

A new study commissioned by LiveIntent and conducted by Forrester Consulting entitled Kickstart Your AdTech / Martech Convergence has revealed what’s getting in the way of marketers converging their advertising and marketing technology and going full people-based: themselves.

According to the study, 42 percent of marketers say the biggest hurdle is that their organizations operate in silos, meaning that the people that manage each technology and the corresponding data are isolated within the company.

This video explains why this isn’t as easy of a fix as some might think, and reveals the most logical starting point for quickly beginning and accelerating this evolution.

Download the full report from Forrester here.

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