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Acquisitions (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
Business Combinations [Abstract] |
Schedule of Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent and Transfers to and from Noncontrolling Interest [Table Text Block] | Changes in the Company’s ownership interests in our less than 100% owned subsidiaries during the three and nine months ended September 30 were as follows: Net Loss Attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and Transfers (to) from the Noncontrolling Interest
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30, |
|  | 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2013 |  | 2012 |
Net loss attributable to MDC Partners Inc. |  | $ | (21,200) |  | $ | (14,496) |  | $ | (54,542) |  | $ | (60,891) |
Transfers to the noncontrolling interest: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Increase in MDC Partners Inc. paid-in capital for purchase of equity interests in excess of Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests |  |  | — |  |  | 5,263 |  |  | — |  |  | 2,023 |
Increase in MDC Partners Inc. paid-in capital from issuance of equity interest |  |  | 1,531 |  |  | — |  |  | 11,347 |  |  | — |
Net transfers to noncontrolling interest |  | $ | 1,531 |  | $ | 5,263 |  | $ | 11,347 |  | $ | 2,023 |
Change from net loss attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and transfers to noncontrolling interest |  | $ | (19,669) |  | $ | (9,233) |  | $ | (43,195) |  | $ | (58,868) |

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