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 04 Dec 2024

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12/04/2024

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 245 days

Duration: 00:47:53

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. CBC (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (12 shows)

5. PRX (7 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	5	ART19	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
4	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
9	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
10	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
11	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
12	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
13	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
14	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	217	Megaphone	38
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
16	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
17	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
18	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	438	Acast	53
20	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
21	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	50	Omny Studio	48
22	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
23	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
24	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
27	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
28	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
30	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
31	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
32	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
33	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	447	RedCircle	59
34	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
35	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
36	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	59
37	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
38	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
39	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
40	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
41	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
42	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
43	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
44	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
45	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
46	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
48	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
49	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
50	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
51	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
52	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
55	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
56	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
57	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
58	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
59	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
60	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
61	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
62	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
63	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
64	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
65	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
66	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
67	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
70	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
71	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
72	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
73	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
74	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
75	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
76	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
77	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Society & Culture	27	PRX	59
78	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	573	Spreaker	74
79	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
80	Escape From Zaqistan	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	59
81	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
82	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	209	Megaphone	32
83	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
84	Outlawed	Beverly Gray & Jonas Swartz	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	63
85	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	663	Acast	69
86	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
87	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
88	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
89	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	528	Spreaker	43
90	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	274	Megaphone	32
91	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
92	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
93	Generation Barney	Connecticut Public	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	74
94	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
95	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
96	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
97	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
98	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
99	UNAFRAID	Eddie Penney	Society & Culture	33	Spreaker	49
100	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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