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 08 Sep 2024

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09/08/2024

Average data

Episodes: 156

Frequency: every 250 days

Duration: 00:48:18

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (24 shows)

2. Acast (14 shows)

3. Simplecast (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. PRX (4 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
6	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
8	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
9	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
10	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
11	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
12	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
14	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
15	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
16	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
17	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
18	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
19	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
20	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
21	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
22	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
23	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
24	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
26	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
27	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
28	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
29	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
30	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
31	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
32	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
33	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
35	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	456	RedCircle	59
36	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
37	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
38	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
39	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
40	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
41	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
42	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
43	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
44	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
48	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
49	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
50	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	59
51	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
52	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
53	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
54	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
55	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
56	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
57	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
58	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
60	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
61	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
62	人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材	厭世姬＆邊角料	Society & Culture	216	Firstory	43
63	Kate and Kathleen - A podcast about humans and horses	Kathleen Beckham and KATE SANDEL	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	52
64	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	494	Omny Studio	68
65	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
66	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
67	Violence Week	Emily Reeves & The Silver Podcast Network	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	63
68	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	89
69	Boom Town: A Uranium Story	Alec Cowan	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	N/A
70	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
71	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
72	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
73	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
74	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
75	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
76	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
77	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
78	Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People	Guy Kawasaki	Society & Culture	269	Simplecast	63
79	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
80	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
81	Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	58
82	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
83	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
84	Blind Landing	Ari Saperstein	Society & Culture	29	Megaphone	79
85	CORRECT with Ryan Hamilton	Ryan Hamilton	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	48
86	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
87	Elon Musk Thinking	Astronaut Man	News	204	Spreaker	43
88	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
89	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
90	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
91	Chicano Squad	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
92	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
93	Recovering Debs	Mary Lambeth Moore	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	54
94	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
96	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
97	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
98	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
99	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
100	The Private Record	Matt D’Elia x UIU	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	73

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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