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Acquisitions (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2016
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, 2016 and 2015 were as follows: Net Loss Attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and Transfers (to) from the Noncontrolling Interests
| Three Months Ended March 31,
| 2016 |  | 2015
Net loss attributable to MDC Partners Inc. | $ | (23,293 | ) |  | $ | (32,091 | )
Transfers to (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 | )
Net transfers to (from) noncontrolling interests | $ | — |  |  | $ | (2,917 | )
Change from net loss attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and transfers to noncontrolling interests | $ | (23,293 | ) |  | $ | (35,008 | )

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