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 Oct 2024

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10/12/2024

Average data

Episodes: 157

Frequency: every 242 days

Duration: 00:47:50

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. Wavland (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Acast (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (12 shows)

5. PRX (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
2	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
3	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
4	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
6	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
7	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
8	Chess Piece: The Elián González Story	My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	83
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
10	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
11	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
12	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
13	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
14	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
16	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
17	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
18	What Makes Us Stronger	Women For Women International	Society & Culture	15	Omny Studio	79
19	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
20	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
22	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
24	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
25	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
26	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
27	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
28	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
29	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
30	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
31	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
32	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
33	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
34	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
36	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
37	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
38	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
39	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
40	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
41	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
42	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
43	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
44	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	69
45	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
46	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
47	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
48	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
50	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	Dispatches from the Divide	BYUradio	Society & Culture	178	Unknown	83
53	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
54	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	582	Spreaker	74
55	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
56	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
57	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
58	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
59	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
60	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
61	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
62	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
63	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	32
64	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse	Society & Culture	251	Buzzsprout	42
65	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
66	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
67	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
68	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	59
69	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
70	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
71	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
72	HOMELAND	HOMELAND	Society & Culture	10	PRX	79
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
75	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
76	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
77	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
78	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
79	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
80	To See Each Other	To See Each Other	Society & Culture	15	ART19	79
81	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
82	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
83	Ripple	American Public Media	Society & Culture	11	American Public Media	63
84	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
85	Let the Kids Dance!	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	73
86	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
87	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
88	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Society & Culture	27	PRX	59
89	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
90	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
91	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
92	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
93	Song of Philadelphia	Julien Suaudeau	Society & Culture	14	Libsyn	63
94	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
95	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
96	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
97	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
98	Relatos del lado oscuro	José Ramón Cantalapiedra	Religion & Spirituality	565	Spreaker	60
99	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
100	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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