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Accrued Expenses (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
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Entity Information [Line Items] |
Schedule of Accrued Liabilities | Accrued expenses consisted of the following:
| December 31, 2014
| (in thousands)
Advertising and marketing | $ | 45,475 |
Employee costs | 26,921 |
Tax sharing liability (see Note 8) | 17,093 |
Customer service costs | 13,564 |
Contract exit costs (a) | 11,629 |
Customer incentive costs | 11,545 |
Professional fees | 7,723 |
Airline rebates | 6,644 |
Customer refunds | 5,767 |
Technology costs | 4,727 |
Other | 7,666 |
Total accrued expenses | $ | 158,754 |
(a) | In connection with the early termination of an agreement with Trilegiant Corporation (now Affinion Group) in 2007, we accrued termination payments for the period from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2016. At December 31, 2014, the liability’s carrying value of $11.7 million was included in our Consolidated Balance Sheet, $11.6 million of which was included in Accrued expenses and $0.1 million of which was included in Other non-current liabilities at December 31, 2014.

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