Entertainment

The Allen Consulting Group's entertainment-related work has been involved in identifying the economic importance of the industry or a particular industry sector.

Governments are keen on understanding the scale of a particular industry for example, the scale of the electronic gambling industry in Australia for the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts and the economic contribution of the film industry on the Gold Coast. This Group is characterized by significant changes in technology (e.g. the rise of the Internet as a gambling and media distribution system) and consumer taste; and being subject to intense media and community scrutiny, significant government involvement in the form of regulation and taxation which has make the media and gambling sectors a challenge both for governments and the respective industries