entertainment & advergaming & services founded 1999 headquarters ottawa ontario canada key people mike burns ceo andy wing ceo jeff doiron founding partner dave ozipko founding partner products digital engagement immersive web experience custom application development video audio production number of employees 150 2013 website www.fuelyouth.com fuel industries is an ottawa ontario based online interactive and marketing agency . founded in 1999 by mike burns jeff doiron dave ozipko and brian nesbitt fuel industries employs over 150 people and has offices in los angeles and seattle . fuel industries has won a number of awards including digital entertainment & media excellence awards for advergame of the year as well as numerous digital marketing awards and flash in the can awards . fuel entertainment is a division of fuel industries specializing in the development of fuel s own entertainment properties such as sparkcityworld.com a gaming portal and virtual world for preteen girls and sideway new york a graffiti themed video game released on the playstation network . 1 mike burns had the idea for the girl themed virtual world on his twin girls birthday as it said in the newspaper . fuel industries revenues doubled in 2006 from the previous year and has continued to grow into a custom production shop and creative studio . andrew wing was appointed the co ceo of the company in 2011 to lead alongside mike burns . 2 in 2015 fuel announced the creation of its playground division an internal lab focusing on emerging technologies and innovation . 3 recognition and awards edit fuel industries has received numerous awards for both its work in advergaming and branded entertainment . in 2012 fuel won best in branded entertainment at the digi awards for its work with mcdonald s europe on its virtual world happy studio . 4 in 2008 fuel won gold at the london international awards for its work on sexy subaru with tribal ddb 5 as well as several fwa awards and three shortlists for flash in the can awards . 6 in 2007 fuel won best game best canadian studio and best convergence at flash in the can . 7 the same year fuel became a webby awards honoree 8 for its work on the american dad vs. family guy kung fu advergame . in 2006 ceo mike burns was a recipient of the ottawa business journal s forty under 40 award recognizing him as one of silicon valley north s most noteworthy up and coming entrepreneurs . 9 in 2012 mike burns and ryan valley director of sales re located to the los angeles office . on may 28 2013 the alamogordo city commission in the state of new mexico granted fuel industries six months of access to a landfill rumored to contain atari video games . the purpose is to film a documentary about the burial and to excavate the dump site . 10 on april 26 2014 hundreds of atari e.t. the extraterrestrial game cartridges were unearthed mixed in with trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe . 11 atari game over won best documentary at the 2015 streamy awards 12 references edit http ca.ign.com games sideway new york ps3 88780 fuel injects new vision names co ceos fuel hits the playground with new technology division http www.nextmediaevents.com digis winners press release.php 1 2 the fitc awards webby honorees recipient profile mike burns forty under 40 goldsmith alex 30 may 2013 . alamogordo approves atari excavation . krqe . lin television corporation . archived from the original on 1 june 2013 . retrieved 31 may 2013 . http www.cbc.ca news world atari s e t the extraterrestrial cartridges found in landfill 1.2623006 5th annual winners & nominees the streamy awards . retrieved 2016 08 16 . external links edit fuel youth engagement official site gaming division retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fuel industries & oldid 734825968 categories 1999 establishments in ontarioadvertising agencies of canadacompanies based in ottawainternet companies of canadamarketing companies established in 1999video game companies of canadahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 16 august 2016 at 23 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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