United Features has syndicated many notable comic strips, including Peanuts, Garfield, Li'l Abner, Dilbert, Monty, Nancy, Over the Hedge, and Marmaduke.

[1] Authors syndicated by United Features in its early years included Frank A. Vanderlip, Octavus Roy Cohen, David Lloyd George, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Herbert Hoover, Sinclair Lewis, Benito Mussolini, Édouard Herriot, and Heywood Broun.

In March 1930, United Features acquired the Metropolitan Newspaper Service (ostensibly from the Bell Syndicate).

The World Feature Service acquisition brought over the comic strips The Captain and the Kids, Everyday Movies, Fritzi Ritz, Hawkshaw the Detective, Joe Jinks, and Little Mary Mixup.

[1] From this point, United Features became a successful distributor of newspaper comics,[4] for the first time distributing color Sunday strips.

In 1994, Jim Davis's company, Paws, Inc., purchased the rights to Garfield (including the strips from 1978 to 1993) from United Features.

[11][12] While United Media effectively ceased to exist,[13] Scripps still maintains copyrights and intellectual property rights.