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 Nov 2024

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11/01/2024

Average data

Episodes: 177

Frequency: every 252 days

Duration: 00:48:04

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (8 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. Wavland (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (17 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
2	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
3	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
4	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
8	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
14	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
15	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
16	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
17	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
20	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
24	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
25	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
26	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
27	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
28	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
29	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
30	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
33	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
34	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
35	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
37	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
38	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
39	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	53
40	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
41	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
42	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
43	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
44	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
45	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
46	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
47	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
48	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
49	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
50	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
51	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
52	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
53	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
55	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
56	Extraordinary Evidence \| ESP Is Real	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
57	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
58	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
59	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
60	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
61	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
62	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	32
63	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
64	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
65	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
66	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
67	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
68	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
69	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
70	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	555	Spreaker	74
71	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
72	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	697	Megaphone	53
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
75	The Dennis Postema Show	Dennis M. Postema	Society & Culture	26	RedCircle	63
76	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
77	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
78	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
79	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
80	The Courage Contagion	Joelle Benson	Society & Culture	12	Unknown	63
81	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
82	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	542	Spreaker	60
83	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
84	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
85	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
86	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
87	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
88	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
89	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
90	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
91	Magic in the United States	Magic in the United States	Society & Culture	32	PRX	59
92	HOMELAND	HOMELAND	Society & Culture	10	PRX	79
93	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
94	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
95	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	48
96	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
97	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	481	Omny Studio	68
98	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
99	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
100	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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