Back, after building our own ₹15 Cr brand · Taking 4 new brands this quarter
● Growth partner for D2C brands · Est. 2020

We spent ₹5 Cr of our clients’ own money on Meta.

Then we scaled our own brand to ₹15 Cr ARR at 5x ROAS. Now we’re bringing that playbook to yours: creative, media, influencer and RTO, run by operators who’ve already paid the tuition.

45 minutes with a founder, not an account manager. You keep the teardown either way.

UNLOCK MEDIA
Statement of own money spent · 3 years
Meta ad spend (ours)₹5,00,00,000+
Creatives tested[ 1,000+ ]
Blended ROAS5.0x
Customers acquired1,00,000+
Organic followers built30,000
Agency invoices paid₹0
ARR REACHED₹15 Cr
PAID IN FULL
₹5Cr+
Own money spent on Meta
₹15Cr
ARR built in 3 years
5x
ROAS at scale
30K
Organic Instagram, from zero
2020
Running campaigns since
Creative StrategyMedia BuyingUGC AdsIn-house ShootsInfluencer MarketingRTO StrategySocial GrowthContent Marketing
01 Why we’re different

Most agencies learn on your money.

We learned on ours. Every bad creative, every wasted campaign, every COD order that came back as RTO came out of our own pocket. That’s ₹5 Cr worth of lessons you don’t have to pay for again.

Question
Typical agency
Unlock Media
Who’s run the P&L?
Nobody
We have. For 3 years.
Whose money did they learn on?
Clients’
Ours. ₹5 Cr+.
Do they care about RTO?
“Not our KPI”
It’s the first thing we fix
Creative & media
Separate teams, blaming each other
One team, one number
Success metric
ROAS screenshot
Contribution margin
Who you talk to
Account manager
A founder
02 What we unlock

Every stuck brand has a lock.

Growth rarely stalls for ten reasons. It stalls for one. We find yours, break it, then build the engine around it.

L/01

The Creative Lock

“Our ads stopped working.”

Creative fatigue is the #1 reason accounts plateau. We build a weekly creative engine: hooks, angles, UGC and in-house shoots, so you never run out of winners.

  • Creative strategy
  • UGC ads
  • In-house shoots
  • Hook testing
L/02

The Scale Lock

“ROAS dies when we raise budget.”

Account structure, testing frameworks and scaling rules from ₹5 Cr of our own Meta spend. Built to grow spend without bleeding margin.

  • Meta media buying
  • Account structure
  • Scaling playbooks
L/03

The RTO Leak

“We sell a lot. We keep very little.”

In India, a 5x ROAS means nothing if a third of your COD orders come back. We fix RTO at the source: targeting, offer, confirmation flows and pincode strategy.

  • RTO strategy
  • COD → prepaid
  • Order confirmation
  • Pincode filtering
L/04

The Trust Lock

“People see us. They don’t believe us.”

Influencer marketing is where we started in 2020. Creators who build trust, and whose content becomes your best-performing ads.

  • Influencer marketing
  • Creator whitelisting
  • Seeding
L/05

The Attention Lock

“Our Instagram is a catalogue.”

We grew Mantraa to 30K followers through content, not giveaways. Social that builds a brand and feeds the paid engine with proven ideas.

  • Content marketing
  • Social growth
  • Reels strategy
Not sure which one?

Most brands have two.

We’ll tell you which ones in 45 minutes. Free.

Find my lock →
03 The case study we paid for

Mantraa.in: ₹0 to ₹15 Cr ARR on our own balance sheet.

Spirituality is one of the hardest categories in Indian D2C: low trust, heavy COD, high RTO. We scaled it anyway, with no agency, no external funding cushion, and every rupee our own.

₹15Cr
Annual run-rate
5x
ROAS on Meta
₹5Cr+
Meta spend, all ours
1L+
Customers served
30K
Organic Instagram
50+
Products, 6 categories
  1. No screenshots

    The real ad account, on screen

    Every agency has a 12x ROAS screenshot. We open our live Meta account and walk you through the spend, the structure and the creatives that actually scaled.

  2. No cherry-picking

    Three years of numbers

    Revenue, ROAS, RTO and growth, month by month. The good months and the ones that taught us something.

  3. Still running

    A live lab, not an old case study

    We still run Mantraa today. Every playbook we bring to your brand has been tested on our own money first.

● Mantraa.in: the full walkthroughReal account · Real numbers

Watch us open our own ad account. ₹5 Cr of spend, unedited.

Meta Ads ManagerShopify revenueRTO dataInstagram growthWinning creatives

[ Loom video coming soon ]

“When it’s your own money, you stop admiring ROAS screenshots and start reading the bank statement.”

04 Before Mantraa

100+ brands. 1,000+ creators. Since 2020.

Unlock Media started as an influencer marketing agency, running creator campaigns for some of India’s fastest-growing apps and consumer brands. Then we built a brand ourselves. Now we sit on both sides of the table.

100+Brands served
1,000+Creators in our network
9,478+Pieces of content delivered
2020Year we started
MamaearthCoinDCXSnapchatupGradUnacademyKukuFMRENÉESwiss BeautyTrellTrillerMX TakaTakLYCRAAdaniCordelia CruisesM3MKnowledgeHutTikiFSASXuppiKendiee
Trell · App + CommerceInfluencer

Trell’s 1st Birthday Sale

50+ creators went live together to announce the Trell Shop sale, then posted fresh offer creatives every other day. Every piece was scripted and edited by our team.

50+creators
1,000+content pieces
15days
CoinDCX · FintechYouTube

DCX Learn launch

YouTube integrations showing viewers how to start investing in crypto from ₹10. These were part of a 1,500+ creator push that drove a million+ downloads.

1,500+creators in the push
1M+downloads
Snapchat · PlatformAlways-on

Snapchat Spotlight

A monthly stream of 7–15 second native videos to grow Spotlight with creators who know the format.

5+creators
75+videos / month
Triller × RENÉE · BeautyChallenge

The Glamguru challenge

Creators built makeup looks with RENÉE products, and viewers recreated them. We also ran a 5-day sponsored Cordelia Cruises trip for Triller.

40+videos / month
3brand collabs
● Sound familiar?

A week with five agencies.

  1. MondayPerformance agency

    “ROAS dropped. We need fresh creatives.”

  2. TuesdayUGC studio

    “We’ll need a proper brief before we shoot.”

  3. WednesdayBarter agency

    “40 collabs went live. Sales impact? Hard to say.”

  4. ThursdayInfluencer agency

    “Creator rates went up this month.”

  5. FridayCreative strategist

    “The ads team isn’t testing my angles.”

  6. Saturday, 11pmYou

    Five reports. One spreadsheet. Nobody owns the number.

At Unlock Media, they’re one team, with one number to answer to: your margin.

05 The math

Five agencies, or one partner.

To grow a D2C brand today you need ads, UGC, barter collabs, creative strategy and influencers. Most founders end up hiring a different vendor for each, and then playing referee.

The usual way5 vendors
Performance ads agencyMeta + Google management
₹1,00,000
UGC ads studio~10 ads / month
₹1,00,000
Barter collab agency~40 collabs / month
₹1,00,000
Creative strategistHooks, angles, briefs
₹1,00,000
Influencer agencyRetainer + markup on creators
Varies
Total+ GST · 5 invoices · 5 weekly calls
₹4L+/mo
  • Five teams, none of them owns the result
  • Ads team blames creative, creative blames targeting
  • Nobody is looking at RTO or margin
  • You become the project manager
Unlock Media1 partner
₹3.5L/month + GST

All of it. One team, run by people who’ve built a ₹15 Cr D2C brand.

  • Performance ads on Meta, with our scaling playbook
  • 10 UGC ads every month
  • 40 barter collabs every month
  • Creative strategy: hooks, angles, scripts, weekly testing
  • Influencer marketing: sourcing, negotiation, management
  • RTO strategy: the margin leak agencies ignore
  • D2C operator brain on every call, not an account manager
Book an Unlock Call →

Paid creator fees are billed at actuals with zero markup. In-house shoots are quoted separately.

06 How we work

Partner, not a vendor.

We run your growth like we ran our own: weekly, with numbers, and with one team accountable for the result.

Week 0 · Free

The Unlock Call

45 minutes on your ad account, creatives, funnel and RTO. You leave with the lock, in writing.

Week 1–2

The Plan

A 90-day growth plan with targets on contribution margin, not vanity ROAS. Everything scoped on paper.

Week 2–4

The Engine

First shoot, first creative batch, restructured account and RTO fixes live inside 30 days.

Ongoing

The Rhythm

Weekly creative drops, weekly numbers call, monthly strategy reset. Same founders on every call.

07 Is this you?

We’re picky. On purpose.

We take a handful of brands at a time, because we run them like our own.

We’re a fit if you…

  • Are a D2C brand doing ₹[10]L+ a month and want the next 3–5x
  • Have a product people re-order and recommend
  • Want one team to own creative + media + influencer
  • Care about profit, not just top-line revenue
  • Will move fast: shoots, approvals, decisions

We’re not a fit if you…

  • Want a vendor to “just run ads”
  • Haven’t found product-market fit yet
  • Measure success on likes and reach alone
  • Need approvals from five people for one reel
  • Are looking for the cheapest quote
[ Founder photo,
ideally on set at a shoot ]
08 A note from the founders

“We paused the agency to build a brand of our own. That was the best education we could have bought.”

At Unlock Media we ran creator campaigns for 100+ brands, from Mamaearth to CoinDCX. At Mantraa, we found out what happens after the campaign: the RTO, the creative that dies on day four, the budget you can’t scale without breaking ROAS.

We still run Mantraa. We’ve reopened Unlock Media to do for other founders what we wished someone had done for us: sit on your side of the table and treat your growth like it’s our own P&L. Because every day, ours is.

[Founder names]
Founders, Unlock Media & Mantraa.in
09 Straight answers

Before you ask.

Are you still running Mantraa?

Yes, and that’s the point. Mantraa is our live lab. New creative formats, scaling structures and RTO fixes get tested on our own money first. You get what survived, not what sounded good in a pitch deck.

What’s included in ₹3.5L a month?

Meta performance ads, 10 UGC ads, 40 barter collabs, creative strategy and influencer marketing management, plus RTO strategy, all run by one team. Paid creator fees for influencer campaigns are billed at actuals, with no markup. Prices are plus GST. In-house shoots aren’t included and are quoted separately, per shoot.

What does “growth partner” mean? Isn’t this just an agency?

An agency delivers tasks. A partner owns an outcome. We sign up to a number, usually revenue at a target contribution margin, and run creative, media and influencer as one system to hit it.

Do you work with categories other than spirituality?

Yes. Our influencer work since 2020 spans apps, beauty and D2C. What carries over is the playbook: creative volume, disciplined scaling and RTO control. Those work in any Indian D2C category.

How fast will I see results?

RTO and account-structure fixes often show up within 2–3 weeks. A creative engine compounds over 60–90 days. We’ll tell you which you’re likely to see first on the Unlock Call.

I already have an agency.

Keep them and take the Unlock Call anyway. It’s free and you keep the teardown. If your agency can fix what we find, great. If not, you know where we are.

Is there a lock-in?

[Decide: e.g. 3-month minimum, then month-to-month.]

The Unlock Call · 45 min · Free

What’s locking your growth?

Bring your ad account. We’ll bring ₹5 Cr worth of lessons. You’ll leave knowing exactly where the money’s leaking: creative, media, or RTO.

Book your Unlock Call →
  • Ad account teardown
  • RTO & funnel check
  • 90-day plan, yours to keep