For Beam Me Up book interviews, media engagements and podcasts, please use the following links and contact email for James Grant HayAbout the Author James Grant Hay is an Australian television advertising entrepreneur, writer and film producer. He studied broadcast spectrum management at Swinburne University of Technology and majored in internet protocol television and subsea cables. He began his early career in cinema advertising and later product placement in film, commercialising the use of advertising on-demand in TV programs and smart TV apps. He is the founder of the Connected TV Marketing Association (CTVMA), a global smart TV trade organisation.About the Book Beam Me Up, The Future of Smart TV, describes the next 5 years in the evolution of smart television, from linear broadcasting to streaming services on demand.Beginning with the first U.S. television patent to the modern operating system filed by Apple Computer Inc., Google and Samsung Electronics, Beam Me Up shares with readers the exciting future of business on smart TV.From generation binge to serial streamers, gamers and influencers to the creator economy and the ad-supported streaming wars during the pandemic, Beam Me Up explores the extraordinary rise of smart TV in the home.With first hand accounts and forecasts by leading industry insiders, Beam Me Up reveals startling business insights, trends and statistics into the new world of streaming economics and the growth of smart TV devices in the home.Beam Me Up is a digital roadmap about the future of smart TV commerce and is essential reading for anyone interested in the new economy of streaming television.Book Tour · June 2026 Sydney • London • New YorkHardcover launch events — details to be announced shortly.
