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 Nov 2024

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11/03/2024

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:47:49

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. Wavland (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Acast (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	29	American Public Media	62
2	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	946	Simplecast	38
4	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	53	Omny Studio	48
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
6	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
7	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	315	Megaphone	42
9	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
10	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
11	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
13	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
14	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
15	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	444	Acast	53
16	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	220	Megaphone	38
17	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	445	Megaphone	32
19	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
20	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
21	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
22	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
23	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
24	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
25	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
26	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
27	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
28	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
29	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
30	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
32	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	463	RedCircle	59
33	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
34	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
35	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
36	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
37	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
38	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
39	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1209	Acast	59
40	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
41	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	59	PRX	74
43	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
44	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
45	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
46	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
47	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
48	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
49	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
50	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
51	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	48
52	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
53	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
54	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
55	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	273	Spreaker	69
56	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
57	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
58	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
59	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	24	Buzzsprout	42
60	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
61	Split Screen: There Goes My Childhood	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	58
62	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	53
63	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
64	Extraordinary Evidence \| ESP Is Real	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
65	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
66	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	588	Spreaker	74
67	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	32
68	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	173	Omny Studio	89
69	The Dennis Postema Show	Dennis M. Postema	Society & Culture	26	RedCircle	63
70	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
71	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
72	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	531	Spreaker	43
73	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	348	Acast	64
74	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	679	Acast	69
75	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	59
76	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
77	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
78	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	275	PRX	43
79	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
80	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	503	Omny Studio	68
81	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	711	Megaphone	53
82	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
83	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
84	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
85	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	356	Simplecast	78
86	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	32
87	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	68
88	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
89	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
90	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	206	Spreaker	68
91	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	413	Buzzsprout	83
92	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
93	So Your Parents Are Old	Vanessa Grigoriadis	Society & Culture	32	Spotify for Podcasters	48
94	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	569	Spreaker	60
95	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
96	HOMELAND	HOMELAND	Society & Culture	10	PRX	79
97	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	453	Acast	74
98	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
99	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	68
100	The Courage Contagion	Joelle Benson	Society & Culture	12	Unknown	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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