Portfolio

Sam Merikallio

Marketing Analytics & Content Strategy

9 years growing brands through paid media, content analytics, and data storytelling for premiere gaming and entertainment brands. The 4 projects below are self-directed, built from my passion for the entertainment industry, and highlight my ability to perform high-level data analytics and create engrossing narratives that will win over audiences and stakeholders alike.

Projects
Interactive Dashboard

Netflix Engagement Explorer

Every Netflix engagement report since 2023, turned into a genre-level content investment model: production share of runtime vs. viewership share, tracked over time, plus an efficiency trend showing where returns are flattening even as investment climbs.

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Interactive Dashboard

Tubi Top 200: Audience & Acquisition Strategy

200 titles from Tubi's live Most Popular rail, tagged and profiled into four audience segments with specific IP acquisition targets and a ranked buy list, the same shape of work a content valuation or acquisitions team produces.

200titles analyzed
4audience segments
34.5%largest segment
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Documentary

How Dating Shows Took Over Television

A self-produced 3-hour documentary analyzing 60 years of dating show programming, combining ratings data, academic research, and original interviews into a data-driven argument for why the genre exploded. Distributed through a short-form rollout across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram that drove 40,000+ viewers to the film.

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Notebook

Actionable Marketing Analytics EDA

An exploratory data analysis notebook turning raw marketing data into specific, actionable recommendations rather than just charts, the same instinct behind every other project here: analysis is only useful once it ends in a decision.

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