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 Sep 2024

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09/01/2024

Average data

Episodes: 148

Frequency: every 259 days

Duration: 00:47:07

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (12 shows)

5. PRX (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
2	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
3	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
6	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
7	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
10	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
11	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
12	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
13	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
14	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
15	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
16	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
17	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
18	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
19	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
20	Violence Week	Emily Reeves & The Silver Podcast Network	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	63
21	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
25	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
27	Blind Landing	Ari Saperstein	Society & Culture	29	Megaphone	79
28	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
29	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
30	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
31	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
32	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
33	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	58
37	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
38	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
39	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
40	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
41	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
45	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
48	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
49	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
50	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
51	The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome	Brazen	Society & Culture	21	PRX	79
52	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
53	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
54	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
56	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
57	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
58	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
59	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
60	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
61	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
62	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
63	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
64	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
65	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
66	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
67	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
68	If This Hall Could Talk	WQXR, Carnegie Hall	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	69
69	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
70	Elon Musk Thinking	Astronaut Man	News	197	Spreaker	43
71	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
72	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
73	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
74	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
75	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
76	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
77	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
78	Biography Flash: Andrew Huberman (unofficial)	Inception Point Ai	Leisure	64	Spreaker	59
79	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	479	Omny Studio	68
80	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
81	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
82	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
83	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
84	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
85	When We Were Wizards	Traction Media	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
86	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
87	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
88	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
89	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
90	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
91	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
92	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
93	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
94	Eerie Travels	Mark Muncy and Erika Lance	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	53
95	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
96	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
97	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
98	Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People	Guy Kawasaki	Society & Culture	269	Simplecast	63
99	Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez	Sonoro \| Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	43
100	Recovering Debs	Mary Lambeth Moore	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	54

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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