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Acquisitions (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Business Combinations [Abstract] |
Schedule of Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent and Transfers to and from Noncontrolling Interest | Changes in the Company’s ownership interests in our less than 100% owned subsidiaries during the three months ended March 31, were as follows: Net Income (Loss) Attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and Transfers (to) from the Noncontrolling Interest
| Three Months Ended March 31,
| 2015 |  | 2014
Net loss attributable to MDC Partners Inc. | $ | (32,091 | ) |  | $ | (8,846 | )
Transfers from the noncontrolling Interest: |  |  |
Decrease in MDC Partners Inc. paid in capital for purchase of equity interests in excess of Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests and Noncontrolling Interests | (2,917 | ) |  | (4,798 | )
Net transfers from noncontrolling interest | $ | (2,917 | ) |  | $ | (4,798 | )
Change from net loss attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and transfers to non controlling interest | $ | (35,008 | ) |  | $ | (13,644 | )

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