Are you This good?
Automate 2025 Tradeshow Campaign
AWARENESS  //  TRADESHOW CAMPAIGN  //  VIDEO PRODUCTION
Client
Rain Engineering
Industry
Manufacturing + Automation
Scope
Strategy, Creative Direction, Messaging, Production Design, Video + Motion
Rain Engineering × Automate 2025
Automate 2025 is one of North America’s largest gatherings for automation and smart manufacturing. With more than 20,000 attendees coming to see the latest in robotics, smart systems, and digital transformation, Rain Engineering needed a presence that worked from any angle, at any moment, to draw attention to their MES implementation services.
Strategy, Creative Direction, Messaging, Production Design, Video + Motion
Automate 2025 brings together the brightest minds in robotics and smart manufacturing — the ideal stage for Rain Engineering to showcase how digital systems drive real-world performance. The campaign centered on bold, confident messaging and striking visuals designed to spark curiosity and start conversations. Every element — from the booth environment to the looping video content — was crafted to translate complex MES solutions into something instantly human, direct, and memorable.
MES is complex, but trade show messaging can not be.
Convey the value of complex MES solutions through simple, human-centered messaging that grabs attention and invites curiosity on a packed show floor.Manufacturing Execution Systems touch everything: factory floors, machines, data, schedules, people. On a busy show floor, messaging must be a quick read that stops someone mid-stride. This campaign wasn’t designed to teach MES. It was designed to invite a conversation about it.

The idea started with a question.
”Are You This Good?“

Direct, provocative with a little swagger, and incomplete by design. The answer doesn’t come immediately. It hangs, until the follow-up appears: Our Customers Are. It’s an invitation that says "You can be too." Visitors finish the thought themselves, then take the next step to understand what it means.

An 8-foot-tall, three-panel LED wall became the backbone of the booth.

Ninth Street Marketing led the strategy, content design, and video production, along with evaluating and testing a modular LED system suitable for tradeshow use. The setup was staged and tested locally to validate scale, spacing, and sightlines before Automate.The video runs just over a minute, and was designed so anyone walking up—at any moment—could engage immediately. Provocation transitions to proof. Proof leads to what makes Rain Engineering different. Then the cycle repeats. Short statements for quick read. Clear visuals, and nothing that lingers too long.

The message extended beyond the booth.

Team members walking the floor wore Are You This Good? shirts—turning people into moving prompts. Giveaway shirts leaned further into tone: Do Better / Suck Less. Bright. Direct. Provacative.

Experience on the floor. Credibility on the stage.

Rain Engineering’s CEO also spoke at Automate, reinforcing the booth presence with perspective on MES adoption and integration.

One message, multiple touchpoints

LinkedIn content supported the campaign before, during, and after the show. The same language. The same visual cues. The same posture. The digital campaign echoed the booth.

As a first-time exhibitor, Rain Engineering didn’t arrive quietly.

The booth stopped people mid-walk. The video held attention without demanding it. The message gave sales teams a natural opening instead of a pitch.

Just as important, the campaign created a foundation:

  • A booth strategy built around movement and flow
  • A modular video system ready to scale
  • Clear learnings that will make future shows faster, stronger, and more efficient to produce

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