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Acquisitions (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
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 March 31, |
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
Net loss attributable to MDC Partners Inc. |  | $ | (43,158 | ) |  | $ | (26,281 | )
Transfers to the noncontrolling interest: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Decrease in MDC Partners Inc. paid-in capital for purchase of equity interests in excess of Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests |  |  | — |  |  |  | (1,263 | )
Decrease in MDC Partners Inc. paid-in capital for purchase of equity interests in excess of noncontrolling interests |  |  | (1,059 | ) |  |  | — |
Net transfers from noncontrolling interest |  | $ | (1,059 | ) |  | $ | (1,263 | )
Change from net loss attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and transfers to noncontrolling interest |  | $ | (44,217 | ) |  | $ | (27,544 | )

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