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 03 Sep 2024

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09/03/2024

Average data

Episodes: 157

Frequency: every 252 days

Duration: 00:46:40

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. CBC (3 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. Wondery (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (14 shows)

3. Simplecast (14 shows)

4. Acast (13 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
2	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
3	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
6	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
8	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
9	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
10	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
11	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
12	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
13	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
14	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
15	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
16	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
17	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
18	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
20	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
21	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
22	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
23	Violence Week	Emily Reeves & The Silver Podcast Network	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	63
24	Blind Landing	Ari Saperstein	Society & Culture	29	Megaphone	79
25	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
26	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
27	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
28	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
29	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
30	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
31	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
33	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
34	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
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	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
41	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
42	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
43	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
44	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
46	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
47	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	59
48	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
49	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
50	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
51	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
52	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
53	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
54	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
55	The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome	Brazen	Society & Culture	21	PRX	79
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
57	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
58	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
59	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
60	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
61	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
62	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
63	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
64	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
65	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
66	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
67	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
68	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
69	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
70	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
71	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
72	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
73	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
74	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
75	Elon Musk Thinking	Astronaut Man	News	204	Spreaker	43
76	If This Hall Could Talk	WQXR, Carnegie Hall	Society & Culture	9	Simplecast	69
77	Biography Flash: Andrew Huberman (unofficial)	Inception Point Ai	Leisure	64	Spreaker	59
78	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
79	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
80	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
81	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
82	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
83	Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People	Guy Kawasaki	Society & Culture	269	Simplecast	63
84	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
85	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
86	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	565	Spreaker	60
87	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
88	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
89	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
90	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
91	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
92	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
93	Canary: The Washington Post Investigates	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	12	The Washington Post	59
94	Damages	Critical Frequency	Society & Culture	71	Megaphone	63
95	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
96	Privateer Station: War In Ukraine	Privateer	Society & Culture	491	Spreaker	53
97	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
98	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
99	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
100	When We Were Wizards	Traction Media	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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