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 15 Sep 2024

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09/15/2024

Average data

Episodes: 157

Frequency: every 258 days

Duration: 00:48:21

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. CBC (3 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 (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. ART19 (6 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	939	Simplecast	38
4	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
5	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
6	The Legend of SwordQuest	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	48
7	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
8	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	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	306	Megaphone	42
12	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	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	435	Megaphone	32
16	Finally! A Show	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	73
17	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
18	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
19	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
20	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
21	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
22	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
23	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
25	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
26	On Our Watch	KQED	Society & Culture	28	Megaphone	59
27	Spiraled	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	53
28	Rescue	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	21	Megaphone	79
29	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
30	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
31	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
32	What Makes Us Stronger	Women For Women International	Society & Culture	15	Omny Studio	79
33	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
34	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	34	Omny Studio	63
35	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
37	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
38	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	426	RedCircle	59
39	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
40	Top of Mind with Julie Rose	BYUradio	Education	143	Unknown	78
41	Lights On with Carl Lentz	B-Side	Society & Culture	26	Podbean	52
42	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
43	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
44	Into the Mix	Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	59
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	The Youth Development Center	NHPR	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
47	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
48	HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador	Sonoro	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	59
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
51	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
52	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
53	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	59
54	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	48
55	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
56	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
57	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	206	Megaphone	32
58	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
59	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
60	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
61	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
62	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
63	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
65	In Trust	iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg	Society & Culture	16	Omny Studio	59
66	The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh	Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	69
67	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
68	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
69	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
70	Army of Normal Folks	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	486	Omny Studio	68
71	An Arm and a Leg	An Arm and a Leg	Society & Culture	171	Omny Studio	89
72	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
73	Inheriting	NPR	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	89
74	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
75	Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People	Guy Kawasaki	Society & Culture	269	Simplecast	63
76	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	644	Acast	69
77	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
78	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
79	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
80	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
81	Into America	MSNBC, Trymaine Lee	Society & Culture	253	Simplecast	63
82	The Only Thing That Lasts	Sarah Mock / Ambrook	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	43
83	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
84	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	342	Acast	64
85	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
86	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
87	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
89	Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman	Envision Podcast Productions	Society & Culture	310	RedCircle	68
90	10 Mujeres	Wondery \| Dudas Media	Society & Culture	11	ART19	89
91	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
92	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
93	Strangeology	Strangeology Podcast	Society & Culture	100	Spreaker	59
94	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	525	Spreaker	43
95	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
96	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	269	Megaphone	32
97	Green Tide Rising	Green Tide Rising, LLC \| Pod People	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	89
98	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
99	Canary: The Washington Post Investigates	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	12	The Washington Post	59
100	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

The podcast landscape in USA is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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