Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 01 Jan 2025

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01/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 158

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:47:34

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. Wavland (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. APM Reports (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Omny Studio (13 shows)

3. Acast (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
3	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
8	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
9	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
10	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
11	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	315	Megaphone	42
13	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
14	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	445	Megaphone	32
16	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
17	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
18	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
19	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
20	Backed Up	Cincinnati Public Radio / 91.7 WVXU	Society & Culture	8	Unknown	59
21	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
24	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
25	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	38
26	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
27	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
29	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
30	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
31	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
32	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	461	RedCircle	59
33	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
34	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
35	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
36	Generation Barney	Connecticut Public	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	74
37	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	444	Acast	53
38	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
39	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
40	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
41	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
42	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
43	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
44	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
45	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
48	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
49	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
50	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	32
51	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	272	Spreaker	69
52	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
53	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
55	Order 9066	APM Reports & The Smithsonian	Society & Culture	14	American Public Media	63
56	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
57	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
58	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
59	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
60	Split Screen: There Goes My Childhood	CBC	TV & Film	31	Triton Digital	58
61	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
62	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
64	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	710	Megaphone	53
65	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
66	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
67	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
68	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	356	Simplecast	78
69	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
70	Extraordinary Evidence \| ESP Is Real	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	587	Spreaker	74
73	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
74	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
75	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
76	Tampa Bay Developer	Garrett Greco	Society & Culture	138	Spotify for Podcasters	33
77	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
78	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	68
79	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
80	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
81	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
82	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
84	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
85	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
86	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	678	Acast	69
87	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
88	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
89	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	32
91	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
92	Little Devils	TRZ Media	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	53
93	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
94	King's Last March	APM Reports	Society & Culture	9	American Public Media	63
95	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
96	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
97	10 Mujeres	Wondery \| Dudas Media	Society & Culture	11	ART19	89
98	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
99	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
100	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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