Shamanth M. Rao — 🚀 20-40% ROAS increase for mobile apps in 60 days | AI-fueled UGC & video ad creative production 📹 | 3x Exits | $100m+ ad spend | Meta, Google, TikTok partner
🚀 20-40% ROAS increase for mobile apps in 60 days | AI-fueled UGC & video ad creative production 📹 | 3x Exits | $100m+ ad spend | Meta, Google, TikTok partner
Shamanth M. Rao ranks #528 of 18,566 LinkedIn creators in Marketing & Advertising, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 13.6K followers and published 63 posts in the last 60 days at a 0.1% average engagement rate.
- 13.6K followers
- 63 posts / 60d
- 0.1% avg engagement
- 84 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Shamanth claims he can boost your ROAS by 40%, yet his own engagement rate sits at 0.11%. RocketShip HQ isn’t an agency; it’s a vanity project where the only thing actually launching is a career-long commitment to being ignored.
About Shamanth
I help mobile app companies–including gaming companies like Applovin, East Side Games, Jam City and Scopely, and apps like Bumble, Lingokids, Mojo and FitMind(among others) –acquire new users and achieve profitable, scalable growth in a Generative-AI world. Offering both managed user acquisition services and done-for-you creative production for teams running their own ads, our clients have continued to not only grow after Apple’s privacy changes, and many have seen their ROAS improve by an avg. of 20-40%. The secret to our clients’ success is the combination of our deep expertise from having produced 10k+ ads and managed over $100M in ad spend, and our ability to rapidly produce UGC and video ads at volume that can be used to dial in exactly what works, and discard what does not. 📹 HOW WE DO IT📹 Leveraging a combination of both human and AI creators, we’re able to rapidly produce UGC & video ads that are based on rock solid strategy and research. By testing 50+ (or more) variants a month even at small budgets with our signature rapid testing and iteration process, we’re able to rapidly isolate key elements of winning UGC. This is essential, with our data showing that the tiniest changes can lead to outsized performance. 💻AI VIDEO YOU ASK?💻 Yes, AI video. Now not just AI video, we use both human and AI creators. With the advent of AI we’ve been able to rapidly scale and test in a way we could not before. While many in the industry worry that AI Creative appears robotic and doesn't invoke emotion, we’ve found it depends on the inputs you give and the strategy behind your ads. 📈 RESULTS CREATED📈 -70% ROAS uplift and 69% CPI improvement for Adventure Communist, an idle-clicking game. -Tested 100+ creatives for Games2Win, drove 350K+ installs, and 100% increase in ROAS. -Unlocked month on month growth for hampr, a hyperlocal laundry app while improving cost per purchaser by 55%. 🏎GET STARTED🏎 Reach out here on LinkedIn to get a free consultation on leverage AI-fueled creative production to supercharge your growth. Email us at: hi@rocketshiphq.com
Highlights
- Top 1% Creator — 63 posts in 30 days
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #211 of 5851 creators
- Top 10% in Marketing & Advertising — Ranked #81 of 1092 creators
- Top 10% Audience — 13,646 followers
Recent posts
Our client had one “untouchable” ad nobody could beat. We did it in 2 months. We were working with an established kids’ app, and for a long time, one creative had been their clear winner. They kept testing new concepts but nothing would consistently beat it. So instead of trying to come up with one genius idea, we changed the testing system. We built: • 20 new concepts • 80 creative variants • Weekly testing cycles where every batch informed the next Within 2 months, multiple creatives started beating the old winner. The results: • +66% thumbstop rate • +48% CTR • +31% install rate • 3
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Everyone can generate 100 ad concepts with AI now. Not everyone knows which 5 are worth testing. AI didn’t remove the creative bottleneck. It moved it. You can generate hooks, scripts, images, videos, variations, and entire briefs in minutes. But... • Which ideas are worth pursuing? • Which concepts are different? • Which performance signals matter? We’ve built agents that can help with a lot of this. They can analyze ads, find patterns, draft concepts, generate scripts, and surface anomalies. But they don’t decide for you. Someone still has to make the bet. If your strategy is weak,
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I analyzed 77 Grammarly ads and 400 App Store reviews. And found a big disconnect between the messaging and the users. 1/ Audience. The ads lean heavily toward professional use cases. But the reviews show a broader audience: students, non-native English speakers, creative writers, and everyday users. 2/ Format. Most of the UGC follows the same structure: creator talking to camera, then product demo. So even when the copy is different, the ads can still look and feel similar in-feed. 3/ Emotion. The ads mostly sell professional anxiety turning into confidence or relief. But customers als
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Last updated 2026-08-01