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 14 Sep 2024

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09/14/2024

Average data

Episodes: 152

Frequency: every 261 days

Duration: 00:47:47

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. pepe&chema (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. Omny Studio (16 shows)

3. Acast (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. PRX (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	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
5	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
6	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	53
7	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
8	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
9	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
10	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
13	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
14	Weight For It	ohitsBigRon Studios	Society & Culture	25	PRX	84
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
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	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
19	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
20	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
21	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
22	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
23	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
24	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
27	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
28	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
30	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
31	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
32	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
33	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
34	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
35	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
36	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
37	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
38	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
40	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	64
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
42	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
43	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
44	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
45	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
46	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	48
47	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
48	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
49	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
50	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
51	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
54	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
55	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
56	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	10	Substack	59
57	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
58	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
60	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
61	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
64	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
65	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
66	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
67	HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador	Sonoro	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	59
68	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
69	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
70	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	479	Omny Studio	68
71	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	170	Omny Studio	89
72	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
73	The Only Thing That Lasts	Sarah Mock / Ambrook	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	43
74	Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People	Guy Kawasaki	Society & Culture	269	Simplecast	63
75	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
76	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	340	Acast	64
77	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
78	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
79	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
81	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
82	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Cellblocks to Mountaintops	Society & Culture	27	PRX	59
83	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
84	Boom Town: A Uranium Story	Alec Cowan	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	N/A
85	PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf - Photography Podcast	PhotoWork Foundation	Arts	125	Pinecast	42
86	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
87	Strangeology	Strangeology Podcast	Society & Culture	100	Spreaker	59
88	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
89	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
90	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
91	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
92	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
93	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
94	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
95	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	265	Megaphone	32
96	Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez	Sonoro \| Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	43
97	Canary: The Washington Post Investigates	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	12	The Washington Post	59
98	Everyone Knows That: The Search For Ulterior Motives	Lost Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	63
99	Searching for America with Robyn Curnow	Robyn Curnow, Bleav	Society & Culture	58	Simplecast	58
100	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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