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Acquisitions (Table) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2012
Business Combinations [Abstract] |
Schedule of Net Income Loss Attributable to Parent and Transfers to and from Noncontrolling Interest [Table Text Block] | Net Income (Loss) Attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and Transfers (to) from the Noncontrolling Interest
|  | Three Months Ended June 30, |  |  | Six Months Ended June 30, |
|  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
Net income (loss) attributable to MDC Partners Inc. |  | $ | (20,114 | ) |  | $ | 1,323 |  |  | $ | (46,395 | ) |  | $ | (7,360 | )
Transfers to the noncontrolling interest: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Increase (decrease) in MDC Partners Inc. paid-in capital for purchase of equity interests in excess of Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests |  |  | (1,977 | ) |  |  | 504 |  |  |  | (3,240 | ) |  |  | 504 |
Decrease in MDC Partners Inc. paid-in capital from issuance of equity interest |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (1,147 | ) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (1,147 | )
Net transfers to (from) noncontrolling interest |  | $ | (1,977 | ) |  | $ | (643 | ) |  | $ | (3,240 | ) |  | $ | (643 | )
Change from net income (loss) attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and transfers to noncontrolling interest |  | $ | (22,091 | ) |  | $ | 680 |  |  | $ | (49,635 | ) |  | $ | (8,003 | )

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