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 12 Sep 2024

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09/12/2024

Average data

Episodes: 146

Frequency: every 258 days

Duration: 00:48:05

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. pepe&chema (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (26 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 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	4	ART19	63
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
4	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
5	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
7	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
10	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
11	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
12	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
14	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
15	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
16	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
17	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
18	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
19	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
20	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
21	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
22	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
23	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
24	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
25	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
26	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
27	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
28	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
29	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
30	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
32	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
33	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
34	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
35	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
36	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
37	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
38	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
39	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
41	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
42	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
45	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
46	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
47	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
48	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
49	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
50	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
51	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
52	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
54	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
55	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
56	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
57	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
58	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
59	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
60	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
61	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
62	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
63	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	479	Omny Studio	68
64	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
65	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
66	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	Boom Town: A Uranium Story	Alec Cowan	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	N/A
69	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
70	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
71	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
72	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
73	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	10	Substack	59
74	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
75	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
76	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
77	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
78	Everyone Knows That: The Search For Ulterior Motives	Lost Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	63
79	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
80	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
81	Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez	Sonoro \| Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	43
82	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Society & Culture	27	PRX	59
83	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
84	Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People	Guy Kawasaki	Society & Culture	269	Simplecast	63
85	Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	58
86	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
87	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
88	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
89	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
90	Blind Landing	Ari Saperstein	Society & Culture	29	Megaphone	79
91	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
92	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
93	The World's Hardest Puzzle	Stak	Society & Culture	18	Acast	69
94	Damages	Critical Frequency	Society & Culture	71	Megaphone	63
95	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
96	2 Girls Who Scare Easily	Andy & Katie	Society & Culture	40	Spotify for Podcasters	33
97	Collapse: Disaster in Surfside	Treefort Media & Miami Herald	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	69
98	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
99	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
100	Violence Week	Emily Reeves & The Silver Podcast Network	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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