[2] Until 2023, the business segment consisted Disney's streaming services, its advertising sales division and its linear television networks, along with broadcast, cable and international syndication.

Its focus was on strategic monetization of titles from Disney's three content groups: Studios, General Entertainment, and ESPN & Sports.

[3][4] On February 8, 2023, returning CEO Bob Iger began to re-organize all Disney divisions as part of the company's larger reorganization, which included the move of DMED's responsibilities into a new Disney Entertainment division overseeing all filmed and screen content and its networks and streaming venues, excluding ESPN and sports broadcasting operations.

In 1997, Disney and Sony Pictures formed a film distribution joint venture in Southeast Asia which covered five countries.

[14][17] On November 26, 2017, the film became the highest-grossing local-language release of all time in Russia, with a gross of 1.68 billion rubles ($28.8 million).

[17] In 2014, Walt Disney International appointed Luke Kang to head its Greater China unit.

[21] The original plan had the service spreading to other countries in Europe, including France, Spain, Italy and Germany in 2016.

[23] DisneyLife was launched in China in December 2017 through a partnership between Disney and Alibaba Digital Entertainment, only to have the Chinese government shut it down in August 2018 because of foreign content rules.

[35] The post-merger organization of the company was announced on December 13, 2018, with Lerner and Campbell remaining over the Latin American and EMEA regions.

The three regional heads and Janice Marinelli, president of global content sales and distribution, would report to Mayer.

The team included former several Fox executives, including Star Regional Media Networks' K Madhavan as head of Star India's regional language channels and Kurt Rieder as studio chief of Asian Pacific, with India's film operations reporting separately.

Disney's Malaysia and Singapore head Amit Malhotra would lead emerging markets and South Asia Pacific content sales, reporting to Shankar.

Chafic Najia, a Disney senior vice president, was promoted to the Middle East'x media cluster manager.

Disney's Australia and New Zealand manager Kylie Watson-Wheeler added media networks and direct-to-consumer to her responsibilities.

[43] Morrison answers directly to head of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production Sean Bailey.

This will be a general entertainment service, featuring content from ABC Signature, 20th Television, FX, Freeform, 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures.

Following the segment's financial losses in Q4 2022, Bob Iger was reinstated as Disney's CEO and announced that he would replace DMED with a new structure that gives decision-making and operational control back to the creative teams.