DUBAI, 1 January 2008 — Impact BBDO Middle East advertising agency topped the industry ranking in 2007 based on the Gunn Report.

Hailed as the industry benchmark of how good an agency network is doing creatively, The Gunn Report ranks agency networks globally according to their respective awards won at regional, national, and global award shows during the year.

BBDO Worldwide won The Gunn Report for 2007 for the second year in a row and fifth time in the nine-year history of the award.

“Leading the report’s ranking becomes the aim of all global networks,” said Alain Khouri, chairman & CEO of the Impact BBDO Group in a statement yesterday.

“Doing so more than once and for a second consecutive year is an even greater accomplishment. BBDO Worldwide has topped The Gunn Report like no other global agency network, it said.