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 09 Dec 2024

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12/09/2024

Average data

Episodes: 195

Frequency: every 243 days

Duration: 00:48:36

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. pepe&chema (2 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Tortoise Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. Simplecast (11 shows)

5. PRX (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
4	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
5	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
7	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
8	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
10	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
11	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
12	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
13	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
14	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
15	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
16	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
17	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	432	Acast	53
18	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
19	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
23	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
25	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
26	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
27	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
28	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
29	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
30	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door	Society & Culture	96	Spotify for Podcasters	28
31	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
32	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
33	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
34	Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	63
35	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
36	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
37	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
38	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
39	Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2004	Omny Studio	43
40	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
41	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	431	RedCircle	59
42	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
43	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
44	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
47	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
48	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
49	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
50	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
51	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	174	Unknown	83
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
53	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
54	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
55	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
56	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
57	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
58	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
59	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
60	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	270	Megaphone	32
61	Escape From Zaqistan	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	59
62	NATAL	You Had Me at Black, The Woodshaw	Society & Culture	38	Simplecast	63
63	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
64	Generation Barney	Connecticut Public	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	74
65	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
66	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
67	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
68	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
69	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
72	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
73	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Society & Culture	27	PRX	59
74	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
75	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	59
76	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
77	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
78	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
79	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
80	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
81	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
82	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
83	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
84	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	568	Spreaker	74
85	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
86	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
87	پادکست داستانی ترپند /TarPand	Tarpand	Society & Culture	57	Acast	79
88	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
89	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	207	Megaphone	32
90	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
91	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
92	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
93	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
94	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
95	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
96	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
97	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
98	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	497	RedCircle	43
99	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
100	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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