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Acquisitions (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 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 and six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 were as follows: Net Income (Loss) Attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and Transfers (to) from the Noncontrolling Interests
| Three Months Ended June 30, |  | Six Months Ended June 30,
| 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Net income (loss) attributable to MDC Partners Inc. | $ | 1,173 |  |  | $ | 29,560 |  |  | $ | (22,120 | ) |  | $ | (2,531 | )
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 | (19,174 | ) |  | (30,282 | ) |  | (19,174 | ) |  | (33,199 | )
Net transfers from noncontrolling interests | $ | (19,174 | ) |  | $ | (30,282 | ) |  | $ | (19,174 | ) |  | $ | (33,199 | )
Change from net income (loss) attributable to MDC Partners Inc. and transfers to noncontrolling interests | $ | (18,001 | ) |  | $ | (722 | ) |  | $ | (41,294 | ) |  | $ | (35,730 | )

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