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 07 Oct 2024

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10/07/2024

Average data

Episodes: 150

Frequency: every 250 days

Duration: 00:47:33

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
2	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
4	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	411	Megaphone	63
6	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
7	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
8	What Makes Us Stronger	Women For Women International	Society & Culture	15	Omny Studio	79
9	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
11	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
12	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
13	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
14	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
15	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
16	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
17	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	439	Acast	53
18	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
19	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
21	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
22	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
23	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
24	Let the Kids Dance!	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	73
25	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
26	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
27	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
28	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
29	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
30	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
31	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
32	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
33	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
35	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
36	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	450	RedCircle	59
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
38	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
39	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Society & Culture	27	PRX	59
40	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
41	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
42	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
43	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
44	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
45	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
46	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
47	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
48	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
49	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	179	Unknown	83
50	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
51	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
52	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
53	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
54	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	59
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
56	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
57	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
58	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	53
59	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
60	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
61	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
62	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
64	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
65	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
66	Shadow of Hope	Pleasant Run Productions	Society & Culture	10	Acast	69
67	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
68	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
69	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
70	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
71	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
72	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	51	Omny Studio	48
73	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
74	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
75	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
76	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	273	PRX	43
77	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
78	Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle	The Christian Post	Society & Culture	39	Transistor	83
79	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
80	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
81	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
82	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
83	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
84	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
85	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
86	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	665	Acast	69
87	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
88	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
89	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
90	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	575	Spreaker	74
91	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
92	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
93	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	275	Megaphone	32
94	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
95	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
96	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
97	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
98	HOMELAND	HOMELAND	Society & Culture	10	PRX	79
99	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
100	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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