Supplemental Information

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Supplemental Information

13. Supplemental Information

Subsidiary Awards

Certain of the Company’s subsidiaries grant awards to their employees providing them with an equity interest in the respective subsidiary (the “profits interests awards”). The awards generally provide the employee the right, but not the obligation, to sell its profits interest in the subsidiary to the Company based on a performance-based formula and, in certain cases, receive a profit share distribution. The profits interests awards are settled in cash and the corresponding liability at fair value was $32,198 at September 30, 2022 (Level 3 fair value model), and included as a component of Accruals and other liabilities and Other liabilities on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Stock-based Compensation    

Total stock-based compensation recognized for the nine months ended September 30, 2022 was $33,410, primarily attributable to $26,288 recognized for stock-based compensation associated with grants of Class A Common Stock and $5,550 recognized for profits interest awards. In the nine months ended September 30, 2022, the Company granted approximately 5,728 share based awards.

Impairment and Other Losses

The Company recognized an impairment and other losses charge of $28,034 for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, primarily related to the impairment of goodwill totaling $23,139. The goodwill impairment was to write-down the carrying value in excess of the fair value at three reporting units, one in the Integrated Agencies Network, one in the Brand Performance Network and one within the All Other category. The expense was recorded within Impairment and other losses on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.

As of September 30, 2022, the Company assessed whether it was more likely than not that the carrying amount of its reporting units exceeded their fair value. As a result of this assessment, the Company completed a quantitative impairment test for certain reporting units that resulted in the impairment charge due to a combination of changes in fair value measures such as an increase in interest rates and decrease in market multiples of comparable public companies, as well as actual performance below previous financial forecasts. The Company uses a combination of the income approach, which incorporates the use of the discounted cash flow method, and the market approach, which incorporates the use of earnings and revenue multiples based on market data. The Company generally applies an equal weighting to the income and market approaches for the impairment test. The income approach and the market approach both require the exercise of significant judgment, including judgment about the amount and timing of expected future cash flows, assumed terminal value and appropriate discount rates.