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 16 Oct 2024

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10/16/2024

Average data

Episodes: 154

Frequency: every 246 days

Duration: 00:47:57

Top 5 authors

1. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. pepe&chema (2 shows)

4. Wavland (2 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (23 shows)

2. Acast (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (12 shows)

5. PRX (6 shows)

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

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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