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← News Tech · Stack comparison · June 2026

The Australian marketing stack, full comparison.

By Adam Ducquet · 15 June 2026 · 2 min read

Side-by-side comparison of marketing stacks across our three specialist verticals. Where B2C, healthcare, industrial B2B stacks converge + diverge. The tooling decisions that depend on vertical specialism.

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Managing Director - Head of Strategy · 121 Group · Senior strategist

Common across all three verticals

  • BigQuery + Looker for portfolio reporting (where applicable)
  • Vertex AI for analytics pipelines + anomaly detection
  • Gemini 2.0 for content drafting
  • Imagen 3 for brand-trained ad creative variants
  • Cloudflare for DNS + CDN + edge
  • Xero for invoicing + accounting
  • Notion for editorial calendars + brand voice docs

consumer stack additions

  • Shopify or WooCommerce
  • Klaviyo for email automation (20 active programmes)
  • Recharge / Loop / Bold for subscription apps where applicable
  • Meta CAPI server-side from Shopify customer events
  • Pinterest Catalogue feed (interiors, gift, lifestyle, beauty, F&B)
  • B2B for WooCommerce / Shopify B2B for hybrid B2C+wholesale brands

Healthcare stack additions

  • WordPress multi-site CMS for multi-clinic networks (22% of trailing-12mo revenue runs on WordPress)
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud for portfolio cadence
  • HotDoc / Best Practice / Cliniko booking platform integration
  • Multi-location GBP at scale (60+ clinics across Partnered Health alone)
  • AHPRA review pipeline as production workflow stage
  • SEEK + Indeed + LinkedIn Recruiter for GP / clinician supply

Industrial B2B stack additions

  • LinkedIn Campaign Manager + Sales Navigator + Recruiter
  • HubSpot for B2B sales pipeline + nurture
  • SEEK + Indeed + Facebook Groups for FIFO + trades recruitment
  • WooCommerce or Webflow for procurement-ready websites
  • InDesign / Adobe Suite for capability statement design
  • Industry-event presence support (AMEC, Mining Club, AusIMM)

Where the stacks diverge meaningfully

  1. CMS architecture. B2C = Shopify or WooCommerce. Healthcare = WordPress multi-site. Industrial B2B = WordPress or Webflow.
  2. Email automation platform. B2C = Klaviyo. B2B = HubSpot. Healthcare = Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
  3. Paid media flagship channel. B2C = Meta. Industrial = LinkedIn. Healthcare = Google + Meta with AHPRA discipline.
  4. Compliance pipeline. B2C = Australian Consumer Law claim review. Healthcare = AHPRA. Industrial = procurement-claim review.

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Adam Ducquet
Adam Ducquet
Founder and Managing Director, 121 Group. Twenty years building measurable growth programmes for Australian brands, and the senior strategist on every account.
About Adam · LinkedIn · Published 15/06/2026