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Acquisitions (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 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 and nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014 were as follows: Net Income (Loss) Attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and Transfers (to) from the Noncontrolling Interests
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
| 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Net income (loss) attributable to MDC Partners Inc. | $ | (8,604 | ) |  | $ | (4,922 | ) |  | $ | (11,135 | ) |  | $ | 2,702 |
Transfers to (from) the noncontrolling interest: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Increase (decrease) in MDC Partners Inc. paid-in capital for purchase of equity interests in excess of Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests and Noncontrolling Interests | (7,247 | ) |  | 109 |  |  | (40,446 | ) |  | (6,129 | )
Net transfers to (from) noncontrolling interests | $ | (7,247 | ) |  | $ | 109 |  |  | $ | (40,446 | ) |  | $ | (6,129 | )
Change from net income (loss) attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and transfers to noncontrolling interests | $ | (15,851 | ) |  | $ | (4,813 | ) |  | $ | (51,581 | ) |  | $ | (3,427 | )

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